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ilookthetype
ilookthetype Posts: 3,021 Member
edited October 4 in Social Groups
What are your favorite sites for recipes/inspiration?

What recipe helped you realize being gluten free didn't mean no more delicious food?

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  • mckshowie
    mckshowie Posts: 210 Member
    actually, what's funny is...

    i knew it wasn't all that bad because my favorite meal had always been steak, asparagus with hollandaise and my dad's garlic mashed potatoes. and it still could be - without modifcations.

    plus once we found out that my sister was a celiac, my mom mad it so effortless to transition our menus that i never noticed or cared that it was missing.

    i still don't.
  • ilookthetype
    ilookthetype Posts: 3,021 Member
    Glutenfreegirl(dot)com is my "food porn" I go there to drool and make recipe plans, especially since she's going more an more allergen free because of her family.

    What I've really enjoyed is find the naturally gluten free foods, I use squash/carrots/veggies instead of gf pasta. I make soups regularly. It's a million times easier than I had expected when I got my diagnosis over a year ago.
  • mckshowie
    mckshowie Posts: 210 Member
    i love to use my mom's cookbooks and find recipes that i love and just modify them so that i can have them. it always makes me feel more "normal" to be able to use a regular cookbook and adapt it. and it forces me to be creative sometimes!
  • AlsDonkBoxSquat
    AlsDonkBoxSquat Posts: 6,128 Member
    I just modify everything. My favorite flour baking mix is 50% sorghum, 50% rice flour or potato starch and xanthum gum, so far I find that it reacts in all of my recipes exactly like wheat flour. However, it has been fun adding extra zings to my other recipes, like using almond flour and almond milk in my "fried" chicken recipes gives it an amazing nutty flavor. It's nice to have the cookbooks and online recipes to fall back on, but when you find something that works Betty Crocker is just fine too!
  • terrythescot
    terrythescot Posts: 6 Member
    I have been gluten free now for 6 weeks. I'm feeling so much better. I'm still a newbie so any help would greatly be appreciated. I'm a picky eater so it doesnt help.Would love to find new friends that understand what I'm going through. :smile:
  • NiciS72
    NiciS72 Posts: 1,043 Member
    I pretty much make anything I want homemade and find it's WAY better than what you can get at the store. That said, last Thanksgiving I was determined to have green bean casserole WITH the fried onions. I was able to find GF cream of mushroom soup and worchestershire sauce. But I couldn't find the fried onions. So, I looked online for recipes to make them and found this site. http://glutenfreemommy.com/how-to-make-french-fried-onions/ OMG I made them and it was AWESOME. My husband said it was the BEST green bean casserole he's EVER had. The only thing I'm going to do different this year is to make the onions the day before so they have time to dry out and be super crispy!
  • ilookthetype
    ilookthetype Posts: 3,021 Member
    I pretty much make anything I want homemade and find it's WAY better than what you can get at the store. That said, last Thanksgiving I was determined to have green bean casserole WITH the fried onions. I was able to find GF cream of mushroom soup and worchestershire sauce. But I couldn't find the fried onions. So, I looked online for recipes to make them and found this site. http://glutenfreemommy.com/how-to-make-french-fried-onions/ OMG I made them and it was AWESOME. My husband said it was the BEST green bean casserole he's EVER had. The only thing I'm going to do different this year is to make the onions the day before so they have time to dry out and be super crispy!

    Oh my god. I freaking LOVE you! My whole family is GF and we were just lamenting that we can't have green bean casserole for Thanksgiving, you've made my holiday!
  • myurk
    myurk Posts: 108
    This year I made (Canadian Thanksgiving has passed) a stuffing out of Chex cereal. I thought it would be weird, but the Non-Celiac's loved it too!
  • dryfli
    dryfli Posts: 39 Member
    i cook ALOT from allrecipes and from fine cooking.
    i substitute when it is a pasta thing.
    one thing i don't do alot of breads, cookies, cakes. just not a big fan of the texture, and honestly there is SOOOOOO much food out in the world folks, not gonna make or break me if i dont' eat a cookie.
    i love cheesecake, which is super easy to change to GF. i think the first year i did that, i felt like hey, this is no big deal.
    i make homemade ice cream all the time, another easy GF dessert.
    fine cooking put out a 'special publication' last year on 'soups and stews'. basically about 100 recipes. i would say about 70 are GF. the rest you just need to modifiy. add corn starch instead of flour. change out the pasta for wild rice etc.. ( i think rice in soups holds itself together better than the gf pastas...)
    things i have been eating as of late:
    spicy tomato and red lentil soup and creamy seafood chowder with thyme and bacon. both from fine cooking (just google)
    wild pacific salmon burgers with a gluten free toasted eng muffin
    oh and for those of you who want the cream of mushroom soup, i read in a gf cookbook once that all that it is , is mushrooms, water and flour. the cookbook rec sauteing mushrooms with a little oil until soft and slight brown, then putting them in a blender with cornstarch and water.
    i make a killer pot roast in the slow cooker with sauteed mushrooms, water, cornstarch and a packet of lipton onion soup mix which is also GF.
    oh, and while tons of salad dressings are gluten free, i make alot of my own. they are so very tasty!
    please friend me if you would like and are new to GF. everything, i mean 100%, is gluten free that i eat and my diary is open. i cook alot of my own recipes, so if you want them, send me a message and i will send along to you...
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