Meet Peter
Hi, I’m Peter.
I sell real estate for a living and cook like it’s my second job. This blog is where thirteen years of that obsession lives — gluten-free, mostly healthy, always built around getting people around a table.
How this started
It started with a camera I didn’t know how to use and a habit of cooking too much food. Friends kept asking for recipes, so I started writing them down. The first hundred posts were rough — bad light, no measurements, way too many ingredients. I kept going anyway.
Somewhere along the way it turned into a real thing. My roux and cheese sauce post has been passed around for a decade. Readers email me about my gluten-free bread almost every week, and I answer all of them, because that’s the whole point of doing this.
I’m still not a chef. I’m a home cook who tests things until they work and tells you the truth about how they turned out.
The Short Version
Based in
Chicago
Cooking since
Long before the blog
Blogging since
2013
Kitchen MVP
12″ cast-iron skillet
Most-made recipe
Chicken Milanese
What you’ll find here
Why gluten-free
My wife and I went gluten-free years ago. I refused to accept worse food as the price of it, so I spent years learning which flours, gums and hydration levels actually work. Honey and apple cider vinegar changed everything.
A serious seafood habit
Crispy-skin salmon, steamed halibut, blackened redfish, and the occasional very good tuna melt. Seafood rewards confidence and high heat, which happens to be how I like to cook.
The pizza oven obsession
Two years of gluten-free dough tests in a backyard oven at 900°F. My family has eaten a lot of failures. The Pizza page is what survived.
Learning to shoot food
Every photo here is daylight on my kitchen counter, usually while dinner goes cold. I’ve written up the gear and the lessons on the Blogging Resources page.
“Say hi. I answer every reader email that isn’t a pitch.”
Questions about a recipe, a substitution, or your own blog — all fair game.