PostsMy Favorite Gluten-Free Pumpkin Recipes for Fall My Best Gluten-Free Pumpkin Recipes For Fall... The bittersweet, textured beauty of Autumn has always gripped my heartstrings, pulling me in deeper, connecting with some invisible part of me, so much more so than Spring. Much more so than summers flirtatious pleasures. And Winter, well. She is a dark and icy mistress. That relationship has always been complicated. So unlike my truly, madly deeply love of Fall. Bake on, my friends. Tis the season for pumpkin. xox Karina New Pumpkin Oat Muffins Were always tinkering here at Casa Allrich. So forgive me for changing up a classic, tried and true pumpkin muffin recipe . A recipe that did not- necessarily- need any tinkering at all. It was as scrumptious as it has always proved to be. Except. Well. I dont like xanthin gum anymore (never really did like it, honestly). And Ive been trying to avoid rice flours (if Im going to eat rice its going to be in a bowl with some delicious spicy curry on top). I have also been seeking a simpler gluten-free flour combo I can count on. In other words, versatile. And so, I fool around with ratios and flours and stuff. Because ya never know. Our latest favorite GF flour combo is proving to be an astonishingly simpleblend. All you need is a coffee grinder. And not even a fancy one (we use our little Krupps). The primary flour were using now is oat flour- from certified gluten-free oats , ground up fresh in our little coffee grinder. The second flour is cassava starcButternut Squash Soup with Coconut Milk Orange is the New Black. The darker and darker nights ahead creep toward us, soft and slow but deft on black cat paws. I wake to the dry scratch clatter of leaves spinning down the gravel stone driveway, riding the wind skedaddle style like a gaggle of arrowed geese. I yawn awake dreaming of soup, imagining my favorite wooden spoon stirring the humble beginnings of some jewel toned potage as the French like to call it. Or so Im told. I dont speak French. Im craving soup today like a mad woman, you see. Like some Shakespearean witch in the thick wild woods, I long to stir a little seasonal magic into a pot of silky, orange hued soul food. So this week I conjured cooked up a curried fall classic. Every year from October through December I make batches of this gorgeous, comforting soup. That just so happens to be gluten-free, dairy-free and vegan. The secret is- use ripe flavorful squash. Choose a butternut squash with firm golden-tan skin. The squash should make Gluten-Free Goddess Cranberry Bread Recipe Cape Cod and cranberries... The two go together like Beatles and Sunday.And I was imagining a tea bread that might work for gluten-free French toast. The sort of breakfast youd like to wake up to on Christmas morning. Something warm with melting butter and cozy cinnamon. Something festive. You know, special. Not your average grab-on-the-go with coffee nosh. A gluten-free bread worthy of a holiday. Like Thanksgiving. Or any given Sunday. Thats how it all started. When it dawned me. Cranberry bread. Why not? Its simple. And not too sweet. It flirts magically with maple syrup. So I started daydreaming about the tart little berry that is a bogs ruby jewel. And a gluten-free cranberry bread recipe was born. Karina xox Gluten-Free Cornbread Stuffing + Roasted Squash Its time once again. As the Wheel of the Year turns once more around the sun, we wind our collective clocks back, bidding Adios! to Daylight Savings, and twilight creeps one hour closer starting this Sunday. So I thought Id reprise two favorite Fall recipes before the weekend. Both are redolent with old fashioned autumnal goodness to cheer you onward. Warm and subtle spices. Maple. Apple. It doesnt get any comfy-cozier. First up is an easy, favorite side dish of mine- maple roasted acorn squash. Simple and divine. The second dish is one of my oldest tried and true recipes. It is from my very first Thanksgiving as a married woman, in fact. We wont discuss how long ago that was, Darling. But. I will admit it was back with Husband Number #1 (him being the first and all). I was anxious to do it up with style on my first Thanksgiving (as any blushing bride would be) and had the creative inspiration to use cornbread and apples as a stuffing instead of Gluten-Free Pumpkin Pancakes Pumpkin Pancakes? Yep. I havent made gluten-free pancakes in a long time. I am- typically- not a big breakfast person. A solo slice of golden gluten-free toast glistening with melting cashew butter and a big mug of hot coconut milk chai usually does it for me. So what possessed me to change my routine? Why did I suddenly have a deep growling desire for pancakes? In a word: pumpkin. My favorite cucurbit. I could wax ridiculously poetic about this humble gourd and what it brings to the grit and gummy landscape of gluten-free land. I could draw you a map of flavor that curves through a forest of cinnamon and nutmeg. I could don a teachers cardigan and chart the impact of pumpkins inherent cellular moisture on milled non-gluten grains. I could sport an orange baseball cap and pitch you a three act plot line where pumpkin is the hero rescuing the wan, deprived princess in the Kingdom of Celiac. But instead? Ill just share the recipe. Happy HaPumpkin Chocolate Chip Cookies Fabulous pumpkin cookies, gluten-free + delicious. My restless spirit has been wandering far and wide and away from dreams of butternut chili and sensiblecasseroles toward the tempting, sweeter things in life. As in cookies. Like the character Ana Pascal confesses in one of my favorite movies, Stranger Than Fiction , I decided that if I was going to help make the world a better place this week, Id do it with cookies. So todays post, Dear Reader, is brief and sweet. Just like the treat I baked this weekend when I began with the idea of a pumpkin cookie. I craved something different than my nutmeg icing drizzled Pumpkin Quinoa Cookies . I craved dark chocolate. And peanut butter. So I threw them in the bowl with pumpkin and coconut flour and, well. There was a happy ending to the story. Karina xo Gluten-Free Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Cookie Recipe Originally published October 2010. A secret ingredient or two makes these wheat-free cookies special. I addHow To Make Homemade Gluten-Free Mac and Cheese How to make tasty homemade mac and cheese, for real. One of the first recipes I shared here on Gluten-Free Goddess was our old school, homemade, family style baked mac and cheese recipe. I wont mention how long ago that was, or how old the recipe actually is, darling. Suffice it to say, I first learned to make it in eighth grade Home Ec class (does Home Economics class still exist? Do they even teach cooking in middle school any more?). Aside from these ponderings, and the unnerving sensation of years advancing, rolling, as Warren Zevon says, like a rockslide down a hill, Ive been craving this comforting, cheesy mac and cheese dish like mad lately. So I thought Id post our Gluten-Free Goddess version of it. Seems like old fashioned homemade comfort food is the medicine I need lately. Maybe you do, too? Cheesy forever, Karina xo Gluten-Free Pumpkin Cupcakes with Maple IcingDid someone say... cupcakes? And better yet, pumpkin cupcakes? My favorite, hands down. Warm spicy fall flavors in a sweet morsel of cakey confection topped with a creamy icing. Whats not to love? These tender gluten-free cupcake beauties have just the right balance of pumpkin and sweetness, ginger and cinnamon. Theyre not overly spicy. And as written, theyre dairy-free (the cream cheese we used to make the icing is vegan and it worked beautifully). Note that vegan or lactose free cream cheese is typically less stiff than dairy cream cheese. If you are using dairy based cream cheese, soften it first. Have a safe and beautiful weekend! Karina xoGluten-Free Goddess Pizza Crust PIZZA. YES. For years Ive missed pizza. Not because there isnt gluten-free pizza available. Its out there. You can find it if you look hard enough. Take a gander in the frozen food aisle of your favorite natural market. Snoop around in the dairy case, next to the gluten-free bagels. You might even hit pay dirt at your local pizza joint (if they understand the ins and outs of cross contamination). So yeah. There are some choices out there. Problem is, most gluten-free pizza sucks. Its usually heavy on the chewy aspect. Or dry as dirt. Like a cracker. With zero flavor. Yawningly meh. Certainly nothing to brag about. I mean, you wouldnt eat it if you didnt have to. You know what Im sayin? Its okay in a pinch. If youre famished and tired on a Friday night. But its not exactly inspiring. So last week I started experimenting. I tweaked and baked. And lo and behold. A tasty new gluten-free pizza crust was born. And this