Comments on: What Are Your Favorite Cookbooks?

By: Meagan

Meagan — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 23:33:21 +0000

This book: Gluten Free & Easy: Enjoy Your Favorite Foods with These 90+ Recipes (Paperback), is really great. There are HUGE beautiful pictures and all the ingredients are easy to find. Not basic, but not gormet, it’s a perfect balance.
This book: Great Gluten-Free Baking: Over 80 Delicious Cakes and Bakes (Hardcover) by Louise Blair, is an awesome baking book. Like the book I mentioned above, it too has HUGE beautiful color pictures. The ingredients are perfect and everything I have made from it has worked out so well. Everything is so yummy and the pictures will make you want to bake everything at once. But probably the greatest thing about this book is the fact that alot of the recipes are unique combinations and such, without being strange- there are so many new things to try!

I HIGHLY recommend these books go look at them at Amazon. You won’t be disappointed

By: Sandi

Sandi — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 18:43:41 +0000

My favorites are the Paula Deen cookbooks, you would amazed at how many of the meals are already naturally gluten free, also my teenager, who is Celiac, is so happy to be eating ‘regular’ food and not have to eat ’special’ food. I susbstitute rice flour or quinoa for wheat flour in many of the recipes and no one at my house has seemed to notice yet.

By: Jennifer

Jennifer — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 16:02:18 +0000

I am a beginner and have 5 gluten free cookbooks. I use this one the most: The Gluten Free Kitchen by Roben Ryberg. It’s got basic recipes, nothing too fancy. But that’s why I love it.

By: Rachel

Rachel — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 15:47:36 +0000

I have some of Bette Hagman’s cookbooks and find them a good inspirational source and jumping off point for recipes. My family’s tastebuds like a little more spice and fire than Bette provides, so we don’t usually cook verbatim out of her books.

For baking, I’ve been most using Elizabeth Barbone’s “Easy Gluten-Free Baking”. I met her at a celiac support group meeting and saw her at another gluten-free event where she demonstrated some bread baking and she’s just delightful. Her book contains a lot of great and truly easy recipes.

Other than that, I try to just use other cookbooks and substitute out gluteny ingredients. We cook a lot of vegetarian meals (love those Moosewood cookbooks!) and these usually don’t involve too much wheat. It does get immeasurably easier after the first year of cooking gluten-free, for those celiac newbies! You get used to new techniques and ingredients and these just get ingrained (pardon the pun) into your cooking style.

-Rachel

By: Mary

Mary — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 23:03:26 +0000

The Bette Hagman cookbooks are the best.
Thanks for this great idea!

By: Mary Frances

Mary Frances — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 12:49:05 +0000

Thanks for all of the suggestions, everyone. Keep them coming =)

By: Patty

Patty — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 11:54:02 +0000

I know all of the cookbooks that I have ordered from the Library have been Picture Free. I love to look through cookbooks at the pictures and then I have a better idea of what I want to cook and how it will look. I have not found one cookbook that I could do this with, which is pretty frustrating.

By: Carolyn Files

Carolyn Files — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 06:50:19 +0000

I love to read cookbooks…a hobby of mine and since I was diagnosed with Celiac, I had a dozen reasons to search the internet for recipes, visit Barnes & Noble for purchases and my local library (to my surprise many of the G-F cookbooks were checked out). I have enjoyed & used G-F Cooking for Dummies, Korn & Sarros, G-F Gourmet Bakes Bread, Hagman, G-F Baking Classics, Roberts, & Wheat-Free Recipes & Menus, Fenster. There are more good ones, but these I use often and while I had not cooked for myself for 10 years when I had a chef, I have really enjoyed learning to bake! I did spend a few bucks on trying different flours and buying equipment.

By: Rochelle

Rochelle — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 03:24:04 +0000

I second the recommendation for Gluten Free Baking Classics by Annalise Roberts. Her muffin, cookies, pie crust, yellow cake and lemon squares are staples for us; I’ve also enoyed the scones and quick bread mixes. I’ve found that her recipes work well with other gluten free flour mixes too.

By: Cynthia

Cynthia — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 02:54:14 +0000

I have had very little luck with the exception of the Bette Hagman books. Her bread book has some wonderful recipes, our favorite being the 4 flour bread. I also enjoyed Gluten Free Girl both for her writing and her recipes.