i (heart) mushrooms

…especially these baby ‘bellas. I pan-fried them in their own juices, then added some vinegar-y shiraz and let ‘em go crazy. They went into a simple tomato sauce (courtesy of Alice Waters in The Art of Simple Food), along with

gluten-free fettucine with bacon, brussels sprouts, cranberries, and caramelized onion

I made this *excellent* pasta dish tonight that I discovered on serious eats, a really great blog with mostly-simple, almost-always-tasty-looking recipes. It was totally worth the midday trip to the grocery store, and the extra work I went to to

wicked good (gluten-free) lasagna

I made lasagna today, possibly for the first time ever, and definitely the first time ever gluten-free. It was delicious. Not perfect, but delicious. The recipe is an adaptation of a few Alice Waters recipes, and it definitely took me