Gluten-Free Shepherd's Pie Two Ways

Cooking light- gluten-free shepherd's pie with lovely gravy, two ways.

A spring rain is rolling through Los Angeles, interrupting a fine, damp mist with sudden bursts of stinging wet drops. The skies are steel gray, gloomy and low. It's the kind of day that calls for comfort in the form of food. Something baked in a crock. Something hot and old fashioned. Something with mashed potatoes. Creamy buttercream gold mashed potatoes.

A savory pie, I said out loud, standing at the kitchen sink, listening to the staccato of rain drumming the mail truck parked just outside the window.

Don't tease me, said my husband, looking up from his latest screenplay.

I wouldn't joke about a thing like pie, I assured him. Seriously. No chance. I'm thinking a shepherd's pie. But not the usual shepherd's pie. No beef. No onion. No peas.

Please, he said. No peas.


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Gluten-Free Dinner Recipes and Comfort Food

Gluten-free main dishes, comfort food, and dinner ideas.

My collection of gluten-free dinner recipes- favorite main dish recipes from my humble Brown Sugar Turkey Meatloaf to slow-cooked Beef in Pomegranate Sauce. For an easy company-worthy entree, try my Agave Lime Salmon recipe.

Vegetarian or vegan? I didn't forget you, Babycakes. Vegetarian and vegan dinner recipe favorites are listed below for a green change of pace. The most popular gluten-free vegetarian recipe? My Sweet Potato and Black Bean Enchiladas.

Make tonight delicious!

Baked chicken Mediterranean with sweet peppers.

Chicken, Turkey and Pork Recipes

Alex's Favorite Baked Chicken Mediterranean
Balsamic Roasted Pepper Chicken
Brown Sugar Turkey Meatloaf

Chicken and Artichoke Enchilada Bake with Green Chiles (New Mexican Style)
Chicken and Spinach Rice Bake with Mozzarella
Chicken Tropicale with Peppers and Pineapple
Curried Apple Chicken Stir-Fry with Rice

Easy Baked Chicken Chili Rice Casserole
Garlic Chicken Lasagna
Jazzed Up Turkey Tetrazzini
Lime Chicken Tacos

Maple Apple Sausage
New Mexican Stew with Ground Turkey
Peanut Broccoli Chicken Stir-Fry
Pineapple Salsa Chicken Enchiladas

Pork Roast in Apricot Mushroom Sauce
Roasted Corn Chowder with Chicken & Cilantro
Rustic Chicken Soup for the Soul

Santa Fe Chicken Chili
Sour Cream Chicken Enchiladas
Stuffed Cabbage with Roasted Sweet Potato, Quinoa and Sausage
Stuffed Peppers with Ground Turkey

Turkey and Sweet Potato Enchiladas
Turkey Meatballs and Asian Style Stir-fry Noodles
Turkey Nachos

Mediterranean eggplant with beef, tomatoes and mint

Beef and Buffalo Recipes

A Meat Ragù You Can Mangia- Hearty Meat Sauce for Pasta
Beef and Mushroom Rice Bake with Cranberries
Beef and Mushroom Stuffed Acorn Squash

Beef and Potatoes au Chocolat
Beef in Pomegranate Sauce
Big Easy Soup with Beans and Andouille Sausage
Buffalo Sausage Stew

Buffalo Sausage Stuffed Peppers
Dijon Roasted Vegetables & Sausage
Irish Cottage Pie

Cranberry Buffalo Roast Stew
Good Karma Meatloaf Pie topped with Dill Mashed Potatoes
Karina's Beef Stew

Maple Meatloaf
Mediterranean Eggplant with Crumbled Beef, Tomato & Mint
Melted Peppers and Dags (yes, dags) on Rice

Roasted Hatch Chile Stew with Beef, Sweet Potatoes and Corn
Spaghetti and Meatballs
Sweet Potato Shepherd's Pie- A Rancher's Version with Black Angus Beef

Easy agave and lime salmon

Seafood

Agave Lime Salmon
Baked Cod with Roasted Sweet and Sour Vegetables
Easy Garlic Shrimp Pizza

Garlicky Shrimp and Spinach Bake with Mozzarella
Mediterranean Fish in Foil Packets with Rice

Pineapple Salmon Brown Rice Bake with Sour Cream and Green Chiles
Salmon and Spinach Goat Cheese Strata
Shrimp Fried Rice and Veggies

Tequilla Lime Salmon
Tuna and Artichoke Pasta with Pine Nuts

Vegetarian enchiladas, Greek style with spinach, feta and chick peas

Vegetarian Comfort Food

A Veggie Lover's Shepherd's Pie
African Coconut and Chick Pea Soup
An Easy Savory Winter Vegetable Ragout
Artichoke and Jalapeño Savory Pie with Jalapenos

Baked Brown Rice Risotto
Baked Frittata with Gold Potatoes and Sour Cream
Baked Mac & Cheese - Dairy-Free
Balsamic Roasted Veggie Smothered Baked Potato

Cider Roasted Vegetables
Crock Pot Curry
Enchiladas Griegos for Two with Spinach and Feta

Gluten-Free Pizza!

Kicked Up Baked Mac n Cheese
Karina's Kicked Up Colcannon
Karina's Latkes with Homemade Applesauce

Maple Roasted Acorn Squash Stuffed with Cornbread Curried Apple Stuffing
Mediterranean Pasta Frittata with Goat Cheese

Pesto Zucchini Tomato Gratin
Purple Potato Quiche
Quinoa Mushroom Pilaf

Red Quinoa with Butternut Squash and Cranberries
Roasted Acorn Squash Risotto
Roasted Brussels Sprouts Medley with Butter Beans and Rice
Roasted Corn Chowder with Cilantro

Roasted Green Chile Bake with Cream Cheese

Roasted Vegetable Cheddar Quiche
Roasted Vegetable Lasagna
Roasted Vegetable Noodle Kugel
Roasted Vegetables and Brown Rice
Roasted Vegetables in a Nest
Roasted Vegetables on Broiled Polenta

Savory Vegetable Kugel
Savory Vegetable Pancakes
Scalloped Potatoes- Dairy-Free
Sexy Spring Pasta- with roasted asparagus
Spaghetti Squash New Mexican with Black Beans and Lime
Spinach and Cheddar Quesadilla

Stuffed Cabbage with Roasted Sweet Potato and Quinoa
Sweet Potato Black Bean Enchiladas
Sweet Potato Latkes with Ruby Applesauce

Two Artists Chili
Vegetarian Puttanesca
Vegetarian Shepherd's Pie

Gluten-Free Vegetarian Lasagna

Gluten-free lasagna - my favorite Italian comfort food.

This a hearty vegetarian lasagna recipe spiked with a touch of hot pepper heat and unexpected dots of sweetness from the golden raisins. And the best part? It tastes even better the next day. So plan ahead.

It is wild and windy here by the mesa. Spring has sprung. The skies are thick with sheets of rain, gray and pitted with bursts of hail that hammer our flat casita roof then disappear beyond the mesa as quickly as it came. Low churning clouds obscure the distant peaks of the Jemez. The young jack rabbits are hiding. Even the ravens are tucked away from sight today.

We have been kindling fires in the kiva to warm us. And I have been conjuring comfort. In the form of vegetarian lasagna.

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Vegetarian Enchiladas Griegos with Spinach + Feta

Rain clouds above the mesa, toward Abiquiu.

Today is our anniversary. It is raining here in the high desert. Cloud cover blankets the mesa in a soft dove gray that is flirting with lavender. We married in this weather twelve years ago, sprinting through Cape Cod wind and mist to reach the antique door of our local Justice of the Peace without getting wet, the four of us stepping over the threshold to become a family.

Me and my three men- my love and my two sons.

I look at the photographs taken by the Justice's husband, our single witness. We are so young, all of us. Arms linking. There is palpable tenderness.

The boys are now men. They stand taller than my five-foot-eight. My husband and I, well. We are wiser. And weathered. And we remain expectant. This has been a year of enormous change.

We have sold most of our belongings (except books and paintings) and moved west. From the eastern shore to the high desert. From what was predictable and safe to what is unknown. What is possible. What might be.

After thirteen years together we are still exploring, still traveling, still on our way to somewhere. We are painting less and writing more. We are listening to each other with deeper affection, having shed many old expectations. We have come through a lot this year, on many levels. And so have our sons. Their own lives have not stood still. They too have faced changes and embraced risk.

I look out the window of my studio and exhale. I say a silent prayer for twelve more years. And twelve more years.

And twelve more years.

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Vegetarian Green Chile Recipe

Fresh roasted Hatch green chiles.

Steve brought home two more bags of fresh roasted green chiles, still warm. Hot and spicy Hatch chiles are my favorite. The fragrance is smoky, sweet and spicy all at once. I wish Blogger provided smell-a-vision. I got cookin' and whipped up a vegetarian version of my New Mexico green chile.

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