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Happy Gluten Free Holidays

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With Thanksgiving a recent memory, Christmas will be upon us soon – and that means a season of food and potentially tough times for Celiacs and anyone on a gluten-free diet. Luckily, knowledge of the condition and appropriate products are spreading like wildfire.  We attended a few Thanksgiving meals in the last few weeks, and [...]

Gluten free sandwiches at Jason’s Deli and at home

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  Five years in to the gluten free diet, there wasn’t a whole lot of food I still missed.  It has basically gotten to the point where feeling good is better than the meals I’m missing out on, but there was always the lingering sense of loss around two things:  pizzas and sandwiches. As far [...]

Gaining weight on a gluten free diet seems easy with GOMAD

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Before I started eating gluten free, I had no energy but I had too much extra weight.  Since I found out about wheat intolerance though, I dropped weight in no time flat and I’ve had the opposite problem:  being way too skinny. I ate a decent amount, but never exercised aside from a few walks [...]

Eating good, cheap, and gluten free

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When I started this blog, my idea was to figure out how to eat good gluten free food on a slim budget.  Then I got back from the grocery store the other day with an expensive pile of gourmet grub and I realized just as soon as I had an opportunity I was spending as [...]

Wal-mart says healthier, but they mean less

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Wal-mart is making headlines today with a big press blitz claiming they’ll deliver healthier foods at a lower price.  Call me skeptical, but that seems to be the opposite of what is actually happening in their stores. A few years ago, they got proactive about checking for gluten in their generic brand products.  However, in [...]

Marinated Shark Steaks

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I don’t cook a whole lot of sea food, but I am always looking to try new things.  So after a fairly successful attempt at salmon, I headed back to the sea food counter at the local grocery.  The man behind the case mentioned some shark steaks, and they looked so lean and meaty that [...]

What is a typical gluten free meal?

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There’s a lot of confusion about gluten free diets and meals, and some might be asking:  What is a “typical” gluten free meal? Well first of all, just because one can’t eat wheat doesn’t mean there aren’t still thousands of other ingredients and combinations available!  In that sense, it could be almost impossible to declare [...]

Prepared horseradish and a creamy gluten free sauce

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When you’re eating gluten free and you want to try various sauces & flavors, you’ve basically got two choices.  You can either research every brand and their production methods, or you can skip the risks and hassle by making it fresh at home.  While cooking everything is definitely time consuming, it is also a chance [...]

Now I understand the obsession with cast iron frying pans

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A lot of cooks and kitchen enthusiasts swear by cast iron frying pans – and now I understand why. From the hand-me-downs I got when moving out to the replacement pans I eventually picked up, everything I could find seemed to be that typical “non-stick” alloy that is actually pretty bad about sticking.  What’s even [...]

More gluten free pizza crust advice

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In the last few months there has been some progress – and some setbacks – in my attempts to make a convincingly real gluten-free pizza. The basic gluten-free pizza recipe is pretty delicious, but there have been some modifications over time as well, in what I hope to be a process of improvement and refinement. [...]

Still working on that gluten free pizza crust…

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Even though I’ve been enjoying home made gluten free pizzas for a few months now, I can’t say that I’ve really gotten the crust right except for one or two attempts.  Of course, when you’re really craving a pizza it is the taste that matters. if the crust crumbles & the meal requires a fork, [...]

Gluten Free Pizza Recipe – Made Cheap, from Scratch

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Now that I'm able to bake up gluten free pizzas at home, from scratch, I haven't had much interest in eating anything else! Click here to find out more about how to mix up your own gluten free pizza dough and turn it into many hearty meals with your favorite sauces, cheeses, and toppings.

Cooking is Chemistry – A Great Way to Know Your Food

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And its a lot more socially acceptable than most other amateur endeavors in chemistry.. I credit two things for my ability to cook.  First is my mom, who not only shared a wealth of Korean cooking methods, but also took specific effort to learn more common American meals so that she could integrate her knowledge.  [...]

Stir Fry – Intro 101

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So you want some stir fried vegetables but you don’t know what ingredients to start with? Maybe you got the veggies in mind, but end up with some dried out husks or a mushy paste? Read on brave souls, I’ll share the secrets of stir fry that I’ve learned this Christmas. The first essential step [...]

Gluten Free Meal-Burger

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The hamburger is an American classic, and properly loaded up it can provide just about all the essential nutrients in a convenient starchy bun. Unless you can’t eat the bread that is. Of course, everyone loves some fried potatoes with their burger, but I was kind of in a rush the other day and needed [...]