Decadent, Wheat-Free & Vegan in One New Bakery – Bake Sale

A long time ago in a land far far away there lived a girl with a blog called Comox Valley Kids and her friend Christa Herrling who wrote a fantastic weekly food column.
This CVK woman knew from the beginning that Christa was a chef extraordinaire – particularly in the baked goods department. But, the CVK [...]

Restaurant Review – Cumberland Village Bakery

When we discovered, much like the rest of us around here, that our daughter is wheat intolerant, I personally mourned the loss of the bakery.
Yes, it had been at least a couple of years before that when muffins, cookies and crusty bread went the way of the Dodo for me after I discovered that wheat [...]

Local Fresh Bread – Wheat- & Gluten-Free

Eating wheat-free or gluten-free doesn’t mean you have to give up foods you love! It seems these days.
Many families have to eliminate wheat products from the household grocery list because of intolerance or allergy. Bread lovers (myself included) find it hard enough to curb this staple from our daily diet (who can resist carbs!), and [...]

Cakebread Artisan Bakery

As most of you know by now, we are a wheat-free family.
Each of us have a different reason for staying away from it. But, the reality is that lovely, comfort-food baked goods like breads, cakes and cookies baked by someone other than me have long been off the snack list.
Until lately.

I hadn’t even dared to [...]