Blog Archives - gluten free safari™

Do you have your New Year's Eve/Day GF dessert decided? Try these!

12/31/2010

These gluten free holiday recipes (including "Cinnamon Chestnut Chocolate Ganache Tart" sound absolutely divine (though I haven't made any); from baker and cookbook author Karen Morgan (as reported by the "Tulsa World"); find the article here, with recipes that aren't in the book!"
Click: Elaborate-and delicious-sounding GF holiday recipes

Which restaurants serving gluten free food are your favorites, worldwide?

12/30/2010

I'd love to know. Please tell me in your comment and I'll post them in the "friendly dining options" section. Thanks!

Do you like blue cheese? And Britain? Then you're in luck: Cornish Blue just won at the World Cheese Awards!

12/29/2010

I love blue cheese (or bleu cheese, never sure which is the most shi-shi descriptor), don't you? Of course, some of it isn't gluten free -- I deal with this elsewhere on this site -- always check with the cheese maker. But I digress. Cornish Blue cheese bested over 2,000 others to win top place at the World Cheese Awards, according to "News Cornwall." I've been to a cheese festival; they are a ton of fun. Anyone been to the World Cheese Awards?
Click: Cornish Blue cheese is World Cheese Award Winner.

Now, for a little less brain food, and a little more yummy food!

12/28/2010

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This recipe -- Belgian endive, orange and avocado salad from the "Angie's Recipes" website, via Twitterer Chowandchatter, caught my eye -- doesn't it sound delish?
Click: Recipe from "Angie's Recipes": Belgian Endive salad

Vitamin D: A Good Discussion re the Ongoing Debate: What is Enough?

12/27/2010

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Vitamin D: you can't turn around in a health food store or even a drugstore without bumping into a bottle; and, for those of us in the northern climes, we're constantly admonishing each other to "get outside and get your Vitamin D!" Here's a great discussion on Vitamin D requirements, inspired by the recent recommendations of the Institute of Medicine (IOM) to bump up the requirements for children and adults under age 70 to 600 I.U. (from a previous 400 I.U.). From "The Huffington Post", by Joel Fuhrman, M.D.
Click: Vitamin D: 600 I.U. or more?

Organic: always better?

12/21/2010

Yet another entrant into the ongoing debate, this USA article from Twitterer "TheAtlanticFOOD" seems to affirm that organic is, indeed, better: at least if one wants less pesticide residue in one's body. But it affirms what I've heard before - there's not a huge difference between organic/non-organic bananas, for instance. An interesting read:
Click: USA Today article re organics: always better?

Birthday near? Even gluten free epicureanistas love freebies! Happened into a great list --

12/20/2010

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Check out this Real Simple compendium of birthday bonanzas.
Click: Real Simple article re merchant birthday promos.

Foraged Foods? Treasure hunting on your beaches, in your woods and wilds

12/20/2010

Seaweed, spikenard, powdered wintergreen, anyone? All are items that can be foraged from Quebec forests or the Straight of Georgia in Canada. Check out this fascinating article about the new "foraged food" rage, from Canada's "Globe and Mail."

Click: "Foraged food" trends, from Canada's "Globe and Mail"

Poll: What's your favorite gluten free cereal?

12/19/2010

Hi - cold or hot; just wondering. I know my favorite -- but there's got to be something else out there I haven't tried!

Happy Birthday, Licia!

12/18/2010

Today is a very special day: it's my friend Licia's birthday! Please send good thoughts.

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