Costco haul

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From the department of "You have celiac disease, what the hell to you eat":

- zucchini souffles
- guacamole
- individual serving size hummus
- berry fuity snacks
- gluten-free turkey Italian meatballs
- mozzarella cheese
- some of the best marinara sauce EVER (so happy it's back in stock!)
- kafta
- popped corn chips


Other stuff in the house right now:
- mini chicken tacos
- chicken satay
- grilled chicken
- marinated zucchini & eggplant
- Amy's gluten-free kids pasta meal
- Gluten-free spinach pizza
- Gluten-free stuffed shells
- yet more cheese
- salami
- hot dogs

Comments

[filkerdave.livejournal.com]

Marginally related, my local pizzeria out here on LI has been serving gluten-free pasta and now serves gluten-free pizza. Not being celiac, I haven't tried it, but I've been to Caffe Baldo several times with a celiac college friend and the food there is pretty good.

[cpolk.livejournal.com]

heh. I have celiac disease, and I live most on fresh fruit and vegetables and do a lot of cooking from scratch. but I would snaffle down them meatballs, for sure.

[fmanalyst.livejournal.com]

Do you have suggestions for potlucks at which people with celiac disease will be present? I'm running into this situation more and more, and as someone whose inclination has always been to bake, I feel a bit at a loss because I want to make things everyone can eat.

[moizissimo.livejournal.com]

Cupcakes with gluten free flours. Look for quick one-bowl recipes that include vinegar for lift, and make sure you get them in the oven asap. My fav. recipe is this: https://docs.google.com/View?id=ddph928c_40f448v3hg

I cook for friends who are either allergic to wheat (she gets hives), or Celiac all the time, and no one's ever had a reaction (knock on wood). I wash my baking stuff twice, each time with a clean cloth or new sponge. I use parchment paper, or cupcake cups, and just stay really aware of what I'm doing. Check the ingredients on everything, like baking powder and add-ins like the various chocolate chips, too.

Gluten Free Girl has some amazing recipes that are all weighed. Honestly, that works so much better than subbing cups of gluten free flour. My shortbread recipe calls for 2 1/4 cups of flour, but it works better with 1 7/8. I had so many subpar shortbreads this year, figuring this out!

[hoyland54.livejournal.com]

Spread out into the world of gluten-free baking? (Epicurious has a gluten-free option in the search, I think.)

[meirion.livejournal.com]

Do you want the really good chocolate cake recipe with ground almonds instead of flour? (Be warned: is rich; really need cream to make it perfect) It's what I take to church bring-and-share lunches when I know coeliacs are present, but non-coeliacs think it's nomnomnom too!

[fmanalyst.livejournal.com]

That would be great. Chocolate cake is one of my go-to recipes, and so it would be great to have an alternative.

[ladyofthelog.livejournal.com]

All of these suggestions are good, but not really along the lines of easy baking for GF baking newbies. My go-tos for OH GOD POTLUCK BUT I AM TOO LAZY TO FIGURE OUT SOMETHING FANCY are black bean brownies or fruit cobbler. It's really easy to take pretty much any GF flour, add some butter and sugar, and make a crisp topping.

In my experience, bean-based flours are not the best for GF baking. I would avoid them. Fearn Rice Baking mix is the king of GF baking mixes and can be used as a 1:1 substitute for flour in most recipes (just reduce or eliminate salt). The standard Tollhouse chocolate chip cookie recipe made with Fearn is also easy and delicious.

[lawsontl.livejournal.com]

I can't recall seeing you discuss it, but I'm a big fan of King Arthur Flour products. They've got a growing line of gluten-free products: ingredients as well as entire kits. And their website also has recipes, which is a plus, because I've yet to have one of theirs fail to produce exactly what it suggested I should get.

[meirion.livejournal.com]

Sudden realisation: I don't spam people with recipes any more; why is that?

A lot of what I cook is gluten-free and as of yesterday I found the perfect omelette recipe for the dyspraxic cook.

Anything other than the evil gluten I should avoid before sending you recipes?

[ladyofthelog.livejournal.com]

Your fridge is full of delicious cheese that I'm not supposed to eat and somehow CAN NEVER RESIST when I'm there.

[silmaril.livejournal.com]

zucchini souffles

This concept intrigues me and I wish to know more. Off to Google.