My breakfast today

I was thinking maybe it would be helpful to post ideas for yummy, simple gluten-free food. I'll start posting pictures at some point, I guess.

OK, so breakfast today was both yummy and easy. I chopped a sweet potato into about quarter inch pieces and sauteed it with some olive oil, salt, pepper, chili powder, cumin and a smidgen of cayenne pepper. Once the potatoes were soft, I moved them to the side of the pan and fried an egg over easy in the remainder of the spices and olive oil on the pan. When it was almost done I sliced a very thin slice of cheddar cheese on the potatoes to melt it. Put the egg on top, put it on a plate and then, because I am a glutton for punishment, I topped it with Sriracha hot sauce. Salsa would be just as good. Took me maybe 10 minutes in total.

Easy, peasey gluten-free breakfast.

Product Review: Ancient Harvest Quinoa Rotelle Pasta

This was delicious. I both oiled and salted the water when I cooked it. I paired it with a fresh tomato I'd taken the skin off of and smooshed, spinach from the farmer's market, a bit of Trader Joe's pasta sauce, feta cheese and spices. Delicious.

Darrell knew it was gluten-free pasta, but couldn't tell by the taste or texture. He really liked it. Success!

It's on sale at my Whole Foods right now 2 for $4. Well worth it. Glad I stopped there on my way back from the farmer's market!

Cati gave me these awesome awesome tips!

Letter from Cati F when she found out that we are also doing the no gluten jig! So awesomely helpful! Enjoy!!


This was my guiding light during the first few months:
http://www.amazon.com/Living-Gluten-Free-Dummies-Danna-Korn/dp/0471773832

Here's a good blog, she's also written a book on the subject and her and her chef husband are writing another one with better recipes.
http://www.glutenfreegirl.blogspot.com/

Tinkyada rice pasta is fairly good (although a little chewy)
http://www.tinkyada.com/

My favorite pasta currently is Bionaturae it's from Italy so we know it's good ;)
http://www.bionaturae.com/gluten.html

I've had less luck with GF bread...most of them have such a strong flavor that it overwhelms everything else but I actually had a decent roll this past week from a bakery in Glastonbury . If your family is still in Tolland, tell them to take a drive down to:
http://www.deesonesmartcookie.com/

Betty Crocker actually just started a GF line and they're actually really good:
http://www.bettycrocker.com/products/gluten-free-baking-mixes

This is another local bakery out of CT, not as good as Dee's but there stuff is available in Stop and Shop in CT. I buy their gluten free crutons and smash them up for bread crumbs :)
http://www.aleias.com/

I live on Amy's GF frozen meals at work...or just when I'm super lazy. I love the Penne pasta, rice mac and cheese, enchiladas and veggie lasagna:
http://www.amyskitchen.com/products/search_results.php?form_glutenfree=1

last week the Advocate had a really good article on GF places in CT (sorry I know you're not out here but it will be good when you come visit!)
http://www.hartfordadvocate.com/dining/gluten-free-ct

Ok, I'll stop my little Gluten-free product seizure for now...more to come :)

Gluten-Free Deli Meat

Did you know that most deli meat has gluten in it? It's not one of the things that I would think would, but I'm learning there is no assuming in gluten-free eating.

There are two brands I know for sure do not have any gluten in their deli meat: Applegate Farms and Boars Head.

There may be others and some brands may have some items that are gluten-free, but Applegate Farms and Boars Head deli meat are all 100% gluten free.

Breakfast is the worst

Finding tasty breakfast's to eat gets very difficult. The cereals that I thought I could eat don't taste good at all. Oats are a no-no, they are usually made in places with other gluten products and there are still studies going on to determine whether oats actually affect people or not. Well unless it was the yogurt I was eating it in, oats do not work well with me. Maybe I should find some gf oats. Anyways, the most amazing thing I have found so far are Van's gf toaster waffles. The same brand also makes pancakes and does all different flavors of them. When you put a tiny bit of syrup on them they taste exactly the same as regular waffles, and they only take toaster time to cook! I used to eat two every morning, but I have been getting away with eating one, and being able to get more breakfasts out of the box. Gluten free stuff isn't the cheapest unfortunately. Although some of the big brands of stuff have sections on their websites for gf stuff. For example, cheetos and cheez doodles and stuff are gluten free which I found out by searching the frito lay website. It was exciting news when I found out! :)

But I don't have any gluten free pasta!

I came home tonight CRAVING some pasta with bacon and cheese.

After ignoring the craving and taking the dog to the park I couldn't put off making supper any longer. So I pulled out the rice cooker and threw in a serving of rice and a couple tablespoons of bacon bits (I got a huge bag of real bacon bits at costco a while ago. It's perfect to throw into things like this, or a side of vegetables or a scrambled egg, The best part is that I don't have to worry about cooking bacon before it goes bad!) then I loaded it with my aged cheeses!

It easily fixed my craving!

Special K is a no-no

Today I sadly learned that special K is a big no no... Today will be the last day I eat special K with strawberries. You might think wait aren't those corn flakes? Well yes, technically they are as the first ingredient is CORN, but the second is Whole grain wheat and the third? Wheat Gluten. Though obviously the presence of Whole grain wheat implies wheat gluten is there anyway.

This cereal now belongs to Dusty and I am jealous.. no more buying giant family size boxes at Costco!

New Task: Find real Corn flakes to put in my yogurt that happen to be gluten free!