Showing posts with label gluten. Show all posts
Showing posts with label gluten. Show all posts
Tuesday, April 1, 2014
Gluten Free English Muffins Recipe
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| Lovely, toasty gluten-free English muffins. I kid you not. |
After four attempts we have a gluten-free English muffin we can toast with pride. An English muffin worthy of jam. Worthy of peanut butter. Or a sit down breakfast. Heck, worthy of breakfast in bed. These warm and golden little babies are too crispy-tender good to munch running to the bus stop or strapped in your car, thinking about the onslaught of your daily tasks. These muffins deserve a proper plate. A mug of tea. Your Sunday morning iTunes playlist.
I'm not sure why a simple English muffin is so tricky to recreate gluten-free (and in my case, also vegan- no milk and eggs to help the stubborn gluten-free flours fluff and rise). I thought it would be a snap. So I perused Alton Brown's recipes for inspiration, found his English muffin recipe, and did a quick gluten-free casein-free conversion. It seemed doable. Although I knew from experience that using a griddle to cook gluten-free muffins would be trouble.
I opted for baking the muffins on a sheet lined with my trusty Exopat (using a liner keeps those overly sensitive gluten-free flours from scorching on the bottom). I'm using English muffin rings to help shape the dough (I purchased them at Amazon). A reader suggested on Twitter I could use cleaned out tuna cans, but. That seems a tad unappetizing (intellectually, I know tuna cans would work; emotionally, all I keep visualizing is the mystery neighbor in Neil Simon's Barefoot in the Park who piles his smelly used tuna cans out in the hallway).
Using Alton's basic template the first batch turned out very dense, with no rise and no crunchy edges- though the dough looked promising (pictured above, rising). Dense was not a quality I wanted in my muffin. So I tried again, this time using my own original Gluten-Free Bread recipe as a template (I'm loving the combo of sorghum, potato starch and millet as a flour base for yeasted breads these days). The result was better- but still not quite there.
After a third attempt I realised that the issue might be moisture. I was creating a dough that resembled wheat dough, and I could shape it a bit and pat it into the English muffin rings, but the result was heavy and more resembled a gluten-free hockey puck.
The fourth try was the charm (sometimes perseverance pays off). I added more warm water to the dough (than seemed wise), until it was more of a thick cake batter than a stretchy playful dough.
And sweet bi-locating John from Cincinnatti! It worked.
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Tuesday, March 18, 2014
Favorite Autumn Recipes for a Gluten Free Diet
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| It's that time of year again. Fall is for baking. |
Gluten-Free Autumn Recipes
Welcome to my favorite Fall recipes- my collection of gluten-free comfort food for the golden, burnished season of Autumn. From harvest inspired appetizers to cinnamon laced baked goodies, from pumpkin soups to cozy casseroles, flavors are warm, homespun, and inviting- perfect for cool, clear days and early nightfall.
Take your inner domestic goddess by the hand. Grab your apron. Rustle up your favorite gluten-free ingredients. Turn on your oven.
Fill your kitchen with the comforting scents of apples and cinnamon, cranberry and pumpkin, butternut and maple, nutmeg and curry.
Take your inner domestic goddess by the hand. Grab your apron. Rustle up your favorite gluten-free ingredients. Turn on your oven.
Fill your kitchen with the comforting scents of apples and cinnamon, cranberry and pumpkin, butternut and maple, nutmeg and curry.
{For readers Down Under, here are my Favorite Spring recipes}
Tuesday, February 11, 2014
Gluten Free Maple Meatloaf
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| My gluten-free maple meatloaf is homespun comfort food. |
I have some good news. I mean, besides this delicious gluten-free meatloaf recipe. After eight long weeks of no funny business, yours in gluten-and-casein-free bliss is humming to the Stereo MC's
and shuffling around our one room casita with a walker. Yup. I was officially sprung from wheelchair
status today! Progress with a long o.
and shuffling around our one room casita with a walker. Yup. I was officially sprung from wheelchair status today! Progress with a long o.High-fiiiive me.
I'm one happy crone tonight. So I'm keeping this short and sweet. Here it is. It snowed today. There's a crackling fire in the kiva. A glass of wine awaits- not to mention- one of our favorite comfort food suppers. A slice of my favorite meatloaf and a generous scoop of warm Champagne Vinegar Potato Salad.
Life is good.
Life is good.
Have a safe and tasty weekend!
And be good to your bones.
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Thursday, January 30, 2014
Gluten Free Sweet Potato Fries
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| Easy, tasty gluten-free sweet potato fries baked with spices. |
Like my pal Kalyn I'm a big fan of sweet potatoes. And sweet potato fries. Kalyn's recipe has a different spice blend than mine but our recipes are quite similar. Check out hers if you don't happen to care for my particular spices. Or get down-and-dirty personal and make up your own signature concoction.
Cooking is all about making recipes your own. Developing your own tastes. Your likes and dislikes. Cooking is flexible. And highly personal. It's not precise like, say, brain surgery. Unless you're baking something fussy. Baking folks swear by precision. But I've never actually been that kind of cook. I'm intuitive. I fly by the seat of my jeans. I look at a glistening picture of pasta and vegetables and I feel inspired. I open my pantry and get juiced to play the What If? Game.
What if I take this ingredient and add it to that ingredient? I wonder. What would that taste like? Then the fun begins.
How do you cook?
Do you wing it like Chet Baker? Or do you prefer a road map, with precise direction?
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Sunday, January 19, 2014
Gluten Free Chili Our Favorite Recipe
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Our favorite gluten-free chili- hearty winter comfort. |
FADE IN:
INT. 5TH FLOOR APARTMENT - DAY
A chilly winter light slices into a SANTA MONICA apartment and illuminates every cobweb. (Obviously, a certain individual has been neglecting house work again). Said individual sighs audibly. Glances sideways into the mirror hanging above the kitchen sink cluttered with coffee spoons, grilled cornbread crumbs and half-filled tea mugs. She could never pass for Martha Stewart. Not in a million years.
DISHEVELED GLUTEN-FREE GODDESS
Good gravy. Look at all the dust balls.
STEVE (HUSBAND)
So what. What's a dust bunny or two?
(glancing up from his laptop)
I’ll vacuum later. Or next Tuesday.
DISHEVELED GLUTEN-FREE GODDESS
My hero.
(dragging out the Crock Pot from under the sink)
My hero.
(dragging out the Crock Pot from under the sink)
This calls for chili.
FADE TO BLACK
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