Healthy Grains that are a Perfect Addition to a Gluten Free Diet… now that sounds like music to my ears! Millet, teff and sorghum are quickly becoming known as the best way to add whole grains and nutrition to a gluten free diet. It was once common for foods manufactured for a gluten free diet to [...]
Choosing Gluten Free Foods: Label Reading
Kraft foods has provided some comprehensive information about label reading, designed to provide tips for choosing gluten-free foods and is for people with diagnosed gluten intolerance. To provide consistency among food products labeled gluten-free, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is in the process of developing rules that would apply to all gluten-free products in [...]
Sharing a Gluten-Free Kitchen With a Non-Celiac
“Most people with celiac disease would love to have their own kitchen. With a kitchen that was free of gluten, cooking would be much less of a hassle. However, most people, whether they have dietary restrictions or not, don’t have their own kitchen. So how can a gluten-free individual share a kitchen with someone who [...]
Gluten Ingredients
Check out this comprehensive list of gluten ingredients… it’s categorized by “safe” and “un-safe”, including some “gotcha’s” like stamps and toothpaste! Also included are alcoholic beverage do’s & don’ts! docs.google.com/Doc?id=d5gfc5j_0gx9s9ddx. Thanks to the fine folks at The Gluten Free Raleigh Blog (glutenfreeraleigh.blogspot.com) for compiling and maintaining this useful list.
Tips for Cooking Gluten-Free
Cooking gluten-free To cook appetizing gluten-free meals, it’s a good idea to be aware of what function the flour is performing in your recipe before you attempt to replace it. Wheat flour can perform multiple functions: thickening, binding, adding flavour, changing texture, and absorbing moisture. No alternative to wheat flour can do all these things [...]
Useful Starches and Ingredients
Cornstarch Cornstarch is ideal for thickening, but does not have a pleasant flavour. Too much corn starch in a liquid sauce will give a jelly-like consistency. In baking, corn starch often gives a more pleasant texture, but can give a very hard, dense consistency. Rice flour Rice flour is close to wheat flour in behaviour, [...]