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Whether it's that usual Monday-night-just-before yoga class meal, or Tuesday-night-let's-snuggle-up-with-a-late-snack-before-watching-our-favorite-series; or Wednesday night-just-after-baseball-practice, or ---
Thursday-night, we've got to find-a-potluck-item-to-take-to-Candace's-fifth-birthday-party, or Friday-night-let's-do-something-a-little-special-but-I'm-too-tired, or Saturday-night-o.k.,-let's-really-do-something-a-little-special, or Sunday-night-let's-do-potroast-with-an-elegant-gluten-free-twist--now-what-would-that-be?
There's always a reason to dream up a special recipe -- or find a new favorite "old standby."
Please let me know what your favorite recipes are, and I might include links to them, with a note that they are from a reader. Thanks for the input; you'll find a comment form below!
While my goal is to cook every recipe provided on this site myself, first, I want to ensure that everyone has access to great recipes, whether I've tried them myself or not. I find that trying recipes is a little like trying on clothes: sometimes they look great on paper/on the rack, but the real test is whether they make it in translation!
Find recipes on these pages:
Gluten free breadmaking
Salads
Sauces
Gluten free grains
Beans, fish, eggs, meat, nuts
Desserts
Ingredients
Thursday-night, we've got to find-a-potluck-item-to-take-to-Candace's-fifth-birthday-party, or Friday-night-let's-do-something-a-little-special-but-I'm-too-tired, or Saturday-night-o.k.,-let's-really-do-something-a-little-special, or Sunday-night-let's-do-potroast-with-an-elegant-gluten-free-twist--now-what-would-that-be?
There's always a reason to dream up a special recipe -- or find a new favorite "old standby."
Please let me know what your favorite recipes are, and I might include links to them, with a note that they are from a reader. Thanks for the input; you'll find a comment form below!
While my goal is to cook every recipe provided on this site myself, first, I want to ensure that everyone has access to great recipes, whether I've tried them myself or not. I find that trying recipes is a little like trying on clothes: sometimes they look great on paper/on the rack, but the real test is whether they make it in translation!
Find recipes on these pages:
Gluten free breadmaking
Salads
Sauces
Gluten free grains
Beans, fish, eggs, meat, nuts
Desserts
Ingredients
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Favorite cooking show: Vote here!June 29, 2011: Well, just caught "French Food at Home" -- my fave cooking show -- on the Cooking Channel. French food -- because of the emphasis on fresh, local ingredients -- is often naturally gluten free. The show is hosted by Laura Calder. What's your favorite cooking show?
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Successful gluten free dining at other people's houses!
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How can you finesse those situations at a family dinner or party where you'd love to eat the food (since that's half the fun!) but you don't want to spend a big chunk of the night in the kitchen looking through twist tied plastic bags for ingredient lists on various cans, boxes, and wrappers?
The ham, turkey or other meat.
If the host(ess) is providing it, depending on whether it's family or not and your personal relationship(!) with the hostess, if you can alert them as to the brands of meat that are gluten free, you can head the problem off at the pass! You'll run into the issue of cost. Most GF items will be pricier! However, anticipating this, you can use apps/the newspaper ads/or the good old-fashioned phone -- to call a few places and ask whether they have any sales on the meat items that are GF. Then you can subtly convey that info (I'm not so sure how you convey the word "sale" subtly, but there must be a way!) during your conversation.
If you don't know the hostess well but the person who invited you does, you can ask them to run interference.
Or, you could offer to bring the meat dish yourself.
If the hostess provides it, please ask that s/he cuts off several slices before s/he applies any sauces/marination/gravy to the meat, unless you know everything that's in the sauce in advance.
The ham, turkey or other meat.
If the host(ess) is providing it, depending on whether it's family or not and your personal relationship(!) with the hostess, if you can alert them as to the brands of meat that are gluten free, you can head the problem off at the pass! You'll run into the issue of cost. Most GF items will be pricier! However, anticipating this, you can use apps/the newspaper ads/or the good old-fashioned phone -- to call a few places and ask whether they have any sales on the meat items that are GF. Then you can subtly convey that info (I'm not so sure how you convey the word "sale" subtly, but there must be a way!) during your conversation.
If you don't know the hostess well but the person who invited you does, you can ask them to run interference.
Or, you could offer to bring the meat dish yourself.
If the hostess provides it, please ask that s/he cuts off several slices before s/he applies any sauces/marination/gravy to the meat, unless you know everything that's in the sauce in advance.
Appetizers/cheese plates
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Luckily, most cheese is gluten free! However, there is a question about blue cheese. According to one major Gluten awareness organization, all blue cheese is safe to consume. However, because I have actually emailed one farm in Europe who told me that their cheese was not gluten free, if you are extremely gluten sensitive or intolerant I would avoid it -- unless you can contact the particular cheese producer first. (I, myself, eat all blue cheese because I love it and I don't think that I've had adverse reactions.)
However, there is a cheese that not a lot of people know about called Gjestost cheese. It's Norwegian. Although I have not emailed the producer to check for sure that it is GF, there are no gluten ingredients listed, and it's not a blue cheese. I took some to one of my GF meetings, and it was a hit! It's a bit sweet and highly addictive. In the Pacific Northwest, I know that you can find it at many QFC stores.
Happy munching!
--Karen
However, there is a cheese that not a lot of people know about called Gjestost cheese. It's Norwegian. Although I have not emailed the producer to check for sure that it is GF, there are no gluten ingredients listed, and it's not a blue cheese. I took some to one of my GF meetings, and it was a hit! It's a bit sweet and highly addictive. In the Pacific Northwest, I know that you can find it at many QFC stores.
Happy munching!
--Karen
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