Lessons and Recipes for the Gluten Free Cook
Posted in Uncategorized on Jul 9th, 2008
I broach this topic knowing three things:
1. Most Americans would shudder at the idea of eating beans on a regular basis and thus, do not know how to cook beans.
2. Beans have a bad reputation and are oft involved in third-grade humor.
3. Beans can taste really good and are really good for us.
In my mind, [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jun 23rd, 2008
I need your help! I was perusing the gluten free cookbook section of Amazon last week and was dismayed to see how many of the cookbooks had negative feedback. Can you imagine how discouraging it must be to start a gluten free diet and have the first cookbook you buy turn out to be a [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jun 11th, 2008
Have you ever wished there was someone you could call when your bread falls in the middle for the umpteenth time? Or maybe a friendly voice to offer encouragement and guidance during those first few gluten free months?
Starting later this summer, I will be offering Gluten Free Coaching (by phone). Until then I’d like [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on May 28th, 2008
This, my friends, is a picture of a birthday cake. A gluten free Red Velvet Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting. David and I share a birthday, and my gift to myself this year was a homemade cake. For a first try I thought it turned out extremely well. No one could tell that it [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on May 18th, 2008
(And we have a winner: Karen from Comment #6 will receive my copy of Betty Crocker’s Best Chicken Cookbook as well as any advice she would like from me as to how to make the recipe’s gluten free. Congratulations, Karen!)
(Update: Today (05.18.08) is the last day to sign up for the giveaway. Just subscribe [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on May 14th, 2008
This may be a long story, but I found it so interesting that I’m going to share. There. You’ve been forewarned.
After the incredibly busy time in my life that I will not refer to by name for another nine months or so, I got back on a strict gluten free diet. I expected most of [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on May 10th, 2008
To my feed and email readers: Come visit the blog!
I’ve been making some changes to the blog over the past few weeks and I’d love for you to come check it out:
There’s a new header showcasing my Roasted Asparagus
I’ve changed the blog colors and I’m really loving the new look
Towards the top of the page [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Apr 29th, 2008
Recipe for Disaster:
3 nights away from home
3 people that need to eat gluten free
a big Italian family supper
a rehearsal dinner
a wedding reception
and a toddler without a schedule
Combine all ingredients with an incredibly supportive family, generous Italian hospitality, helpful restaurant staffs, a stash of gluten free good and a mini-kitchen to create a long weekend [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Apr 23rd, 2008
Rolling out dough, particularly into a circular shape, is a learned skill. I was reminded of this a few weeks ago when John tried his hand at making tortillas. At approximately 11:30 on a Tuesday morning I received a call from work that went something like this, “So how do you keep the dough from [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Apr 23rd, 2008
On sale today at Amazon.com is the Breadman TR875 2-Pound Breadmaker, on sale for $79.95 from $114.99. Free shipping is available.
This bread machine has a special gluten free setting. I haven’t tried it yet - our bread machine is still going strong after almost 5 years. But if you’d like to hear more about it, [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Apr 19th, 2008
I have a confession to make.
I’ve been eating gluten for the past 2.5 months.
Sometimes intentionally, sometimes not; but I have been eating it. My stomach is a mess. And I’m tired. And I’m mad at myself. None of the gluten-filled food that I ate was even that good. I just ate it because it was [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Mar 27th, 2008
Please welcome our guest author:Natalie Naramor, Gluten Free Mommy
Homemade angel food cake requires very few ingredients and is a snap if your gluten free flour mix is already prepared. It can be intimidating to work with egg whites at first, so visit Gluten Free Cooking School’s archives on How to Beat Egg Whites [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Mar 24th, 2008
These were so yummy and so easy to make. We used them in Last of the Sweet Potatoes soft tacos, which I’ll get around to posting some day.
Posted in Uncategorized on Mar 23rd, 2008
David lying in my lap to eat his cereal this morning. He’s cutting teeth and has been extra snuggly this weekend.
Posted in Uncategorized on Mar 23rd, 2008
Our fruit basket - we’re snacking healthfully this week.
Posted in Uncategorized on Mar 23rd, 2008
A Salad Trio for Supper: Potato Salad, Pasta Salad, and (not pictured) a green salad w/ apple slices, dried cranberries, pecans and wasabi dressing. Yum!
Posted in Uncategorized on Mar 23rd, 2008
A cup of chamomile before bed
Posted in Uncategorized on Mar 19th, 2008
For those who have had
Trouble with dough - A Picture
To guide you next time.
Posted in Uncategorized on Mar 18th, 2008
A 28 Days To Go Haiku
A Simple Breakfast:
Brown Rice, Butter, Sugar - A
Cup to Go, A Spoon
Posted in Uncategorized on Mar 18th, 2008
This new recipe got a few strange looks, but was actually pretty tasty. Creamed Mustard Greens over Spaghetti Squash. When I don’t plan menus, there is no telling what is going to end up on our table. Especially when I decide we need to eat more greens.
Posted in Uncategorized on Mar 17th, 2008
Posted in Uncategorized on Mar 15th, 2008
Friends, I’ve missed you. I’ve missed your comments, your encouragement, your suggestions, and your questions. I’ve missed talking to you a few times a week through this blog. And even though there are still 31 days to go in this busiest time of the year (for me), I’m ready to get back to [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Mar 10th, 2008
Hi everyone,
Last weeks open thread went so well that I’d like to try another one. This week you can head down to the comments and leave your most urgent question about living gluten free or you can chime in and answer someone else’s questions.
Since I’ve been horrible about answering the questions that readers have left [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Feb 26th, 2008
Hi everyone,
I haven’t dropped off the face of the earth quite yet. The blog has been a bit lonely since I’ve had to take a blogging hiatus, so I thought I’d see if you, my readers, are interested in conversing among yourselves.
Scroll down to the comments section and leave your best advice and encouragement for [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Feb 11th, 2008
This is the second in a two part post on minimizing your grocery bill while eating a gluten free diet. If you’d like to share your best grocery shopping tips, or commiserate on the price of groceries, please leave a comment and join in the discussion.
6. Set a maximum $/pound.
When I shop I try to [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Feb 3rd, 2008
Our Story: A gluten free diet can be hard on the pocketbook. Wheat is cheap and it’s in almost every single processed food that I used to buy to keep our grocery bill under control. Back in our college days (pre-GF), John and I used to cook all of our suppers for one month with [...]
Posted in Recipes for Bread & Baked Goods, Uncategorized on Jan 5th, 2008
Sometime in my early days of gluten free baking I learned the following:
Truth #1: Gluten free baking takes longer than non-gluten free baking.
Truth #2: I still have only 24 hours per day.
Conclusion: If I’m ever going to get around to cleaning the kitchen or folding laundry, I need to reduce the amount of time allocated [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Dec 31st, 2007
I only have an hour and 15 minutes left to look back on 2007, so here is a quick roundup of my most popular blog posts from the year (determined by the number of times each was viewed). There has been some recent comment action on several of these, so you may want to go [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Dec 27th, 2007
This post is the last in a 4-part series on Gluten Free Sugar Cookies. If you missed the first three, here they are:
Part 1: How to Cream Butter & Sugar
Part 2: To Cream or Not - The Gluten Free Sugar Cookie Trials
Part 3: My Basic Gluten Free Sugar Cookie Recipe
How to Roll out Cookie Dough
1. [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Dec 19th, 2007
This is the second of four posts in a series on Gluten Free Sugar Cookies. The first post on How to Cream Butter and Sugar may be found here. The third post (currently scheduled for Friday) will be How to Roll Out Sugar Cookies, and the fourth post, (check back on Sunday) will be my [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Dec 17th, 2007
This post is the first in a 4-part series on How to Make Sugar Cookies. Check back throughout the week for the next three posts.
As I was making up a batch of gluten free sugar cookies this week, I realized that a new cook reading a recipe for sugar cookies, would have no idea what [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Dec 7th, 2007
Hi everyone, I played around with the layout of my site last night and it’s looking a bit funky right now. I’m going to go ahead and do some more major changes while I have it messed up so that it only looks strange once this week.
I should have it back to normal by [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Dec 4th, 2007
Just a quick update from the road. Tonight’s room service from Embassy Suites appeared to be gluten free, but it was not as yummy as I would have liked. I envied John his Tofu, Lettuce and Tomato sandwiches of which I hear he had two.
To make up for the deficits in the meal, I topped it [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Oct 22nd, 2007
Winter squash can be a bit intimidating to the uninitiated. They suddenly appear in the supermarket when the first hint of autumn is in the air, a heaped pile of colors and shapes. A lot of people buy them for decoration. But the wise cooks buy them and cook them up into wonderful pies and [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Oct 15th, 2007
So many of the favorite dishes from my childhood started with a can of Campbell’s Cream of Mushroom Soup. Poppy Seed Chicken, Chicken Rollups, Chicken Spaghetti Casserole, my Grandmother’s gravy….all unattainable on a gluten free diet until you learn how to make a white sauce.
I first discovered white sauce in my great-grandmother’s cookbook. My [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Oct 7th, 2007
It is getting to be late on Sunday night, and in case you’re busy blog surfing I wanted to let you know that Gluten a Go Go posted her Bread Baking Bonanza Roundup this past week. The post features bread recipes from eight different blogs, including two of my favorites Gluten Free Mommy and Gluten [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Sep 5th, 2007
The first few days and weeks of life on a gluten free diet are tough. You’re not sure what to eat. Lots of the food in your pantry is full of gluten. And, many of your favorite comfort foods are off-limits just when you really need some comfort. But, there is hope. [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Sep 1st, 2007
Just in case you missed them, here are the top five posts from August.
“Gluten Free Fried Brown Rice Recipe” Fried Brown Rice is one of our favorites because it’s yummy and it’s quick. We never have leftovers when I make this, so when my coworkers see that I’m eating a sandwich, they now comment [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Aug 29th, 2007
Kate at Gluten Free Gobsmacked has tagged me for my first ever meme. Never heard of a meme; it’s kind of like a chain-letter for bloggers.
Here are the rules:
1. Once tagged, let others know who tagged you.
2. Players are to list 8 random facts about themselves.
[...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Aug 22nd, 2007
When I was a kid, our church had a potluck lunch every Fifth Sunday (i.e., if a month had five Sundays, we at lunch together on the fifth one). Every family would bring a couple of dishes, and since there were a lot of good cooks in our church, we always had quite a [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Aug 18th, 2007
The Gluten Free [Cooking School] Website is about to under-go an expansion. We will be adding a separate page for reader submitted recipes, so that all gluten free cooks can share there recipes with the world. If you’d like to go ahead and submit a recipe, just type it into the comments section of the [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Aug 15th, 2007
We’re running a bit behind on the Forgotten Cookie recipe that I had meant to post for tonight. Hopefully it will be up tomorrow night, but in the meantime I wanted to tell you about a few great recipes that we’ve tried this past week.
First, Gluten Free Gobsmacked has a wonderfully good recipe for gluten [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Aug 14th, 2007
How to Crack an Egg
Cracking an egg for the first time can be intimidating, even if you’ve seen it done before.
1. Firmly tap the middle of the egg against the side of the bowl or the edge of your counter. Basically any sharp object that will crack the shell, rather than crushing it, will [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Aug 13th, 2007
The lesson to recipe ratio is getting a bit too low on this blog, so this week I am going to focus on “how to” articles. Tomorrow’s post will cover how to crack an egg and how to separate the egg white from the egg yolk. The topic for Wednesday’s post is beating egg [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jul 23rd, 2007
Hi everyone,
John and I are heading off on our first week-long vacation in over a year. My younger brother is home on leave from Iraq and we are going to spend some time with him, his fiancee, and my parents.
I’ll be back with more recipes next week, and I hope you’ll spend some [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jul 19th, 2007
Experiments are extremely common in our household. One of the more recent ones was to determine whether it is better to shred cabbage with a knife, with a Cuisinart, or to buy it pre-shredded at the grocery store. Despite the fact that I own a lovely Cuisinart and that pre-shredded, bagged cabbage is readily available [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jul 2nd, 2007
Onions seem to be in almost every supper recipe that I cook. I have been known to dice an onion and start sauteing it before I even decide what we’re having for supper. However, I do know people that run at the thought of prepping veggies for supper because “it takes so long”. [...]
Posted in Easy Gluten Free Recipes - Five Ingredients Or Less, Gluten Free Casein Free Recipes, Gluten Free Side Dishes, Uncategorized, Vegetarian & Vegan Recipes on Jun 12th, 2007
There are days in our house when the pantry is almost empty and the produce bin only holds a few [slightly shriveled] carrots and potatoes. For some reason, this is when I tend to revert to the cooking of my childhood….downhome Southern cooking.
Last Monday night was one of those nights. I rummaged [...]
