grilled sandwich with lunchmeat with cucumber slices and olives on a graphic background

Gluten Free Italian Panini

My first gluten free Italian panini was life-changing! Tucked away on a side street of Florence, Italy, we discovered a quaint gluten free bakery. Inside, we were surrounded with tantalizing pastries, pizza, and paninis that looked just as good as they tasted. I spent a good bit of time picking the one gluten free Italian panini for lunch. As…

pear walnut salad recipe

Italian Pear Walnut Salad Recipe

“This is the most amazing salad I’ve ever had,” I recall saying as my sister and I dined at a tiny “hole in the wall” restaurant in Florence, Italy back in 2003. To this day, I still adore and make my own from the pear walnut salad recipe that she and I cobbled together after coming…

Mini pizzas with various toppings on the wooden board

Mini Gluten Free Pizza Recipe

Sometimes you just feel like pizza, right? Me too. After getting fed up waiting too long for it to be made or paying way too much, I came up with this simple mini gluten free pizza recipe. It’s simple enough… no fancy bells or whistles. No real culinary skills required to make it. But it…

Zucchini spaghetti in Pesto sauce

Zucchini Pasta

Are you looking for a convenient way to make some gluten-free pasta without all the processed gluten-free flour? How about making zucchini ‘pasta’?  Though I never heard of it until more recently, I’m in love! You can either purchase a spiralizer or just a simple veggie peeler you probably use for potatoes and cucumbers. Since I…

Ingredients for Salad arugula, radish, cucumber and spices. Top

Fig Arugula Salad – Sweet and Spicy

Seasonal salads are probably one of the best things you can eat and this is one of my absolute favorites – fig arugula salad! In late summer and into the early fall, you can discover this entire world of flavor that’s also incredibly healthy. Yellow cherry tomatoes bursting with flavor (but certainly less acid). Peppery…