Guess what?

Romio's Pizza in Totem Lake is now carrying our gluten free products!

Visit them on-line at : http://www.romiostotemlake.com

Remember, Romio's in Greenwood is still serving gluten free as well. Enjoy!

Happy New Year!!!

Holidays are here!

It's time to get your last minute orders in so that you can enjoy some gluten free goodies to enjoy with your holiday meals. Remember that we are closing early on the 24th at 3:00.

Also, a reminder! We are serving breakfast and lunch foods, including soups, until 2:00 p.m. every day now. Come visit!

Don't forget your cookies for Santa!

Enjoy some music, dancing and gluten free dessert!

CUBAN MUSIC CONCERT / DANCE PARTY

Please join us for a festive holiday party full of live Cuban music. The evening begins with a concert (Charanga Danzon) in the elegant living room of the Rainier Chapter House, followed by dancing to live music (Grupo Ashe) in the upstairs ballroom. Dessert buffet- including gluten free deserts from Da Vinci's, coffee and tea included in ticket price.

Who: Charanga Danzon and Grupo Ashe (Concert / Dance Party)

When: Friday, December 19, 2008, (7:30 p.m. / 9:30 p.m.)

Where: Rainier Chapter of the D.A.R.800 Roy Street (Capitol Hill), Seattle

Three types of tickets available: Concert+desserts, Dance+desserts,Concert+Dance+desserts. Hope to see you there! All ages welcome!

Tickets on sale now: http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/46715

Gluten Free Appetizers

I love making appetizers for parties but do not like labor intensive appetizers or for that fact anything laborious in the kitchen. So you will find my recipes simple but delicious. Let me know how these turned out for you and your company. In the future I will post pictures for you to drool over. Let me know what kinds of recipes you might like on here, I can convert any recipe.


Appetizers:

Savory Herb Cheese Puffs

1 cup water
1/2 cup unsalted butter
1 teas salt
3/4 cup rice flour
1/4 cup tapioca starch
3/4 cup Gruyere, Swiss or Jarlsberg cheese
1/2 teas pepper
1 tab of your favorite chopped fresh herbs

Preheat over to 400. Line a baking sheet or grease the baking sheet.
Bring water, butter and salt to boil in a 2 qt. size pan. Add the flour all at once and mix with a wooden spoon until it forms a mass, cook for about 1 more min and transfer to a kitchen aid or mixer of your choice with a paddle attachment, cool mixture for a couple of mins. Start mixer and add one egg at a time otherwise the eggs will be flung all over the kitchen, LOL!!! Mix until fully incorporated and add the rest of ingredients till combined. You can transfer dough to a piping bag with a tip or you can use a tablespoon to make round mounds about an inch apart on the cookie sheet. Bake for about 20 to 25 mins puffy golden brown. You can serve warm or at room temperature.


Polish Sausage Pastry Bites

2 cups rice flour
1/2 cup tapioca starch
1 teas xanthan gum
6 oz. cream cheese room temp
8 oz. butter room temp
1 egg
and a little milk to hold all of it together.
1 egg beaten for egg wash

Your favorite Polish Sausage

I just putt all ingredients into a mixer and mix till combined with a little bit of milk.

Chill dough for about 30 mins. Roll dough out with rice flour about 1/4 in thick into about 4 to 5 in strips. Wrap the dough around the sausage (the dough repairs well if it breaks) and place seem side down on cookie sheet that has been greased and use a pastry brush with extra egg and coat the pastry all over. Bake at 350 for about 25 mins. Take out and cool, cut up into bite size pieces and serve with your favorite sauce like honey dijon. (equal amounts dijon and honey and mix)

My Favorite Dip For Veggies

2 cups of gluten free mayonnaise
2 tab apple cider vinegar (I have tried other vinegars and the taste is different)
1 large bunch of cilantro washed
6 cloves of garlic
1/2 teas pepper

Put all ingredients into a food processor and blend till it looks a pretty green and then you can taste to see if it needs salt depending on the kind of mayonnaise you used. I usually make my own mayonnaise but we won't get into that right now, we need to save you time.

20 days 'til Santa comes!

Can you believe that the holiday season is already here? Are you ready?
Da Vinci's can help. We have a complete menu of goodies and appetizers that you can order as well as a class for the kiddies to enjoy some cookie making.

Mark your calendars! December 10!

This month is Cookie Exchange: Bring enough of your favorite Holiday cookies or small dessert wrapped in separate bags. Most likely there will be about 15 to 20 people. (Please let me know if you plan to attend so that I can let everyone know the right amount to bring. )

I have a special guest for all the little ones, my 7 1/2 yr old will teach your little ones how to make sugar cookies. Please bring you favorite cookie cutters and rolling pin. We will start at 7 p.m. with the children's cookies.

Holiday Menu- Order soon!!

Below is the menu for you to use to plan your holiday meals and parties. Please call us at 206-782-5735 to order, or e-mail us at wheatlessinseattle@yahoo.com. Orders need to be in by December 22 and we will be closing at 3:00 p.m. on the 24th.

Appetizers:

Spinach Artichoke Dip 12 oz.. 4.99

SFSweet Potato, Roasted Garlic and Caramelized Onion Dip 12 oz. 4.99 Vegan, SF

Pesto Cheesecake 6” 15.00 SF

Roasted Cauliflower and Toasted Sunflower Seed Dip 12 oz. 4.99 Vegan, SF

Crackers 8 oz. 3.99 Vegan

Breads:

Christmas Fruit and Cardamom Loaf 1 ½ # 7.95 DF

Challah 1 ½ # 7.95 DF

Sweet Potato, Rosemary and Pecan French Bread 1 ½ # 7.95 DF,SF

Lemon Thyme Dinner Rolls 6pk 5.95 DF

Breakfast Pastries:

Candied Ginger Scones 6 for 14.95

Gingerbread Loaf 5.95 DF, SF

Pumpkin Raisin Cinnamon Rolls with Orange Glaze 6 3 oz for 12.00DF

Kringle (flaky pastry with custard, raisins and almond paste) 1 ½ # 12.00

Doughs:

Gingersnap Cookie Dough 1 # 6.95 DF

Sugar Cookie Dough 1 # 6.95 DF

Pie Dough 2 shells 7.95 Vegan

Desserts:

Rum Eggnog Cheesecake 7” x 2” 18.00 10”x4” 48.00 SF

Gingersnap Marscapone Pumpkin Pie 9 “ 25.00

White Chocolate Cranberry Cake 10” 48.00

Rum Almond Bundt 10 “ 32.00 DF,SF

Don’t forget your French Bread and Bagels for your dips and spreads!

Recipes for Thanksgiving

Delicious Gluten Free Stuffing

8 cups dried GF bread cubes
1 cup butter or DF margerine
2 onions diced
6 stalks of celery diced
2 tab. dried sage
2 teas. dried savory
1 teas. dried thyme
2 eggs beaten
1 cup raisins soaked in hot water and then pureed in the blender or cusinart
salt and pepper to taste
enough chicken broth to cover dressing

Sautee onions and celery in butter until transparent. In a large bowl put all ingredients together and put just enough chicken broth to soak the stuffing because GF bread cubes soak up a lot of extra liquid. You can either stuff your turkey or cook directly in the oven.


Delicious Savory Gravy

Here's how I make my broth for gravy. I take all the parts from the turkey including the wings and put into a 8 to 10 qt. pan and add 2 whole onions, 4 stalks celery, 4 carrots, 2 tab. rubbed sage, 1 tab. ground savory and pepper no salt at this time, fill the pot about 2/3 full of water. I let it cook down for a couple of hours while the turkey cooks. After the turkey is done cooking I add the dripping to the pot of broth and season to taste, mind you this is going to be a big pot of gravy so you can freeze the leftovers. I would take about 1 1/2 cups cornstarch and mix with cold water kinda like a slurry set aside. Drain all the broth into another pan through a sieve and bring to a boil and thicken with the cornstarch mixture but only use as much as you need to thicken the gravy how ever thickness you like, add more salt if you like.

Pizza? ME?

Yes! You CAN have pizza again!

Romio's Pizza located just south of DaVinci's is now carrying delicious gluten free pizza crusts, pitas and french bread made right here in your trusted gluten free bakery. You can fearlessly enjoy your favorite pizza, grinders, paninis and appetizers again! They deliver to a large area too.

(They even have a gluten free beer if you are a pizza and beer type of person!)

Romio's Pizza and Pasta- Greenwood

8523 Greenwood Ave.

Order: 206-782-9005

or online at:http://www.romiospizza.com/

Avanti Art Design
Is inviting you to a Party
Art, Music, Wine and Gluten Free Desserts

Da Vinci's will be doing pictures of Bunny on cakes.

November!

Welcome Persephone Eve! Kaili is a proud grandma. Tricia and Tony are the lucky parents of this cutie!

The rain and cold has come to Seattle and we are all looking for some comfort food. For those of us with gluten allergies, this can be a challenge! Have you ever tried to find gluten free soups? Gluten free cinnamon toast?

DaVinci's has stepped up to the challenge. Not only are we serving daily brunch items such as quiche, cinnamon orange french toast and omlettes but we also have a daily soup now and various delicious breads such as crusty french bread and pumpernickel. Add a steaming cup of coffee or tea and you're set.

Consider yourself comforted!

Thanksgiving is coming!

We are currently taking orders for Thanksgiving items. Don't slave away in the kitchen trying hit or miss gluten free recipes- come pick up some tasty treats from us! Here's what we're offering:

Breads:

Stuffing Cubes: regular or vegan $7.95 DF
(1 ½ lbs. serves 10-12)
Rosemary Garlic Rolls $5.95 6/pack DF
Cornbread $5.95 a loaf Vegan


Cakes (serves 8-10):

Pumpkin Cheesecake (12 in., Serves 12) $48.00
Apple Spice Calvados Bundt $32.00 DF, SF*
Pumpkin Chocolate Spice Bundt $32.00 DF*
* can be made Vegan as well


Pies (serves 6-8): Deep dish 9” pies

Pumpkin $24.00
Dutch Apple $24.00 Vegan
Vegan Pumpkin (also soy free) $24.00
Pecan $24.00
Cranberry Shaker Lemon $24.00 DF

Please have all orders in by Sunday, November 23, 2008, so we can make sure you get everything that you need!
For orders call or e-mail
(206) 782-5735 or wheatlessinseattle@yahoo.com

Cake, cake, cake... let them eat cake! Even if they can't eat gluten!!!

Have you seen those great cakes with photos on them of people or places? Guess what? We can do that! For an extra $10 you can have any photo that you e-mail to us on your cake! The special paper is gluten free!

Remember- we also do beautiful wedding and special occasion cakes.

A reminder- We are open M-F until 5 p.m.!

Gluten Free Cooking Classes!

Gluten Free Ravioli

We just did our first cooking class of many to come. It was really fun teaching everyone how to make something other than bread and cookies. Everyone got to make ravioli and taste 2 different kinds of ravioli in 2 different sauces. We made pumpkin filled pumpkin ravioli served with a dairy free wine and sage sauce and cheese filled spinach ravioli in an alfredo sauce.



$35.00 per person $50.00 for couples.
Includes recipes, samplings and take home product as well as refreshments.

Class Schedule:

October 6th - Pan Sauces and Alfredo Sauce. I will show you how to make an inexpensive rice pasta in a dairy free sauce as well as an alfredo sauce.

October 20th - Pies and Tarts. All dairy free!

November 3rd and November 10th (due to limited space, this class will be offered twice) - Thanksgiving gravy (turkey and vegan), mushroom soup (vegan version as well), and stuffing (regular and vegan).

November 17th - Jewish delights, challah and desserts.

December 1st - Holiday appetizers for your guests (no one will guess they're gluten free!).

December 8th - Sugar cookies (please bring your own rolling pin and favorite cookie cutters).

December 15th - Christmas breakfast fruit bread and crepes.

Allergy Free Chef At Your Service

This is Kaili Mcintyre owner of Da Vinci's Bakery & Cafe and I am giving up my secrets and recipes for you to enjoy!! You can receive consultation, custom made recipes and information that I have taken a few years of research to help you understand what we are all going through. I will come to your home and cook for you and show you that there are other foods available to cook with for you and your family to enjoy. This is my new venture and am very excited to help anyone that is having difficulty cooking and baking.

For any of you who know me I am very excited to announce that I am going to be a grandmother in November. Patricia my oldest is also getting married in September to Tony Greenman.