Gluten Free Cookbook Recommendation

[Guest guest]

None of us at our house are gluten intolerant, that we are aware of,

but I would like to try some gluten free recipes, for variety in our

diet. Does anyone have a recommended cookbook, that uses simple and

quick recipes? (Since Heidi hasn't published yet!)

Rebekah

[Guest guest]

Actually what I usually do is use the Joy of Cooking, and substitute

sorghum flour for wheat. Use 1 cup sorghum and 1/2 to 1tsp of Xanthan

gum and cook as per usual. Other people have said they use

corn starch instead of wheat flour. For bread things get a little

more picky ... my " white bread " recipe is in the archives though

and it works well. For noodles, I just buy Tinkyada, or those

Oriental yam or rice noodles, and spring roll wrappers. I don't do

a whole lot of grain baking though ... our meals center around

meat/vegies/fruit (and potatoes count as a vegie in my book)

and the baked stuff is for fun. I use corn tortillas for snacks

for the others (tacos, or just slather them with refried beans

and a little cheese and pop them in the toaster oven). None of

the grain/baked goods sets as well with me as a good steak ...

Anyway, I have tried a couple of the GF cookbooks but they

haven't been very useful ... too many different types of flour etc.,

plus a lot of the recipes are like, " so what " (I mean, most foods

never did need wheat flour, I don't need help making wheatless

gravy, for instance). There are a ton of recipes on the web though,

for anything you can think of.

-- Heidi Jean

>None of us at our house are gluten intolerant, that we are aware of,

>but I would like to try some gluten free recipes, for variety in our

>diet. Does anyone have a recommended cookbook, that uses simple and

>quick recipes? (Since Heidi hasn't published yet!)

>

>Rebekah

[Guest guest]

Thanks for the recommendations!

Rebekah

re:Gluten Free Cookbook Recommendation

Rebekah wrote:

None of us at our house are gluten intolerant, that we are aware of,

but I would like to try some gluten free recipes, for variety in our

diet. Does anyone have a recommended cookbook, that uses simple and

quick recipes? (Since Heidi hasn't published yet!)>>>>

The Gluten-Free Kitchen by Roben Ryberg is the simplest cookbook I've found in

my two years of being gluten free. Her recipes use only cornstarch & potato

starch, no rice flour. She has some easy doughnut recipes that I enjoyed making

for my little boy who has been off gluten since he was 18mo. He'd been watching

the people in our church fellowship eat doughnuts every Sunday for a year and

was really wanting to try some.

I use the recipes in Cook's Illustrated magazine quite a bit. They are very

detailed, use basic ingredients and are generally easy to convert to GF.

I also print out Heidi and Katja's recipes and put them in a binder notebook.

=)

Jeanne

[Guest guest]

Rebekah wrote:

None of us at our house are gluten intolerant, that we are aware of,

but I would like to try some gluten free recipes, for variety in our

diet. Does anyone have a recommended cookbook, that uses simple and

quick recipes? (Since Heidi hasn't published yet!)>>>>

The Gluten-Free Kitchen by Roben Ryberg is the simplest cookbook I've found in

my two years of being gluten free. Her recipes use only cornstarch & potato

starch, no rice flour. She has some easy doughnut recipes that I enjoyed making

for my little boy who has been off gluten since he was 18mo. He'd been watching

the people in our church fellowship eat doughnuts every Sunday for a year and

was really wanting to try some.

I use the recipes in Cook's Illustrated magazine quite a bit. They are very

detailed, use basic ingredients and are generally easy to convert to GF.

I also print out Heidi and Katja's recipes and put them in a binder notebook. =)

Jeanne