Homemade Lollipops

Homemade Lollipops

The kids will love making these gluten-free lollipops and inventing their own flavors! INGREDIENTS 1 c sugar 1/3 c corn syrup ½ c water ¼ tsp cream of tartar Flavoring Lollipop sticks Liquid food coloring (optional) 1 tsp citric acid (optional, for a sour taste)   DIRECTIONS 1. Turn a cookie sheet upside down, cover […]

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Food Review: Heaven Mills Gluten-Free Bakery

Food Review: Heaven Mills Gluten-Free Bakery

Alta Schlesinger had a dream after some of her family members were diagnosed with celiac disease. Already with a propensity toward good cooking, she quickly turned a diagnosis into a fun challenge. Alta took many kosher traditional family dishes and turned them into gluten-free ones. Neighbors soon were asking for recipes and to purchase meals […]

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RC Fine Foods Kitchens Gluten Free Sauces

RC Fine Foods Kitchens Gluten Free Sauces

These recipes are generously donated by the head chef of RC Fine  Foods. Pair any of these delectable sauces with your choice of protein and  “Bon Appetit”. Please enjoy more recipes here. Want to know more about head chef, Anthony Todaro or RC Fine Foods? You can read more now. Gluten Free Marsala Sauce ¼ […]

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Gluten-Free Peanut Butter Kiss Cookies

Gluten-Free Peanut Butter Kiss Cookies

  This recipes, donated by a participant at the 2009 Tampa Bay Celiac Group Cookie Exchange, is sure to be a hit! INGREDIENTS   ¼ c butter-flavored shortening 1 ¼ c packed brown sugar ¾ c creamy peanut butter 1 egg ¼ c unsweetened applesauce 3 tsp vanilla extract 1 c white rice flour ½ […]

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Gluten-Free Essentials – A Company Thinking Outside the Box

Gluten-Free Essentials – A Company Thinking Outside the Box

This company is not only gluten-free, but it’s run by 2 women who understand the gluten-free business and who are fun.  Between the two of them they count 15 grandchildren with immense care for the celiac. With children in mind they also evolved a line – Speedy Bake.  These well designed and delicious mixes are […]

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Product Company Review: Custom Choice Cereal

Product Company Review: Custom Choice Cereal

I’m sitting here with three gluten-free custom cereals, each one blended to my specifications, even down to the name. Custom Choice Cereal is really an innovative idea to help those on the gluten-free diet. The company allows anyone to choose a base for their mix, then choose out 1-11 out of 13 “ingredients,” then (get […]

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Gluten-Free Chocolate Peanut Butter Cookies

Gluten-Free Chocolate Peanut Butter Cookies

This delicious cross between peanut butter and chocolate cookies will be sure to please the whole family! Make some gluten-free chocolate brownies too! INGREDIENTS   1 (1-qt.) jar Gluten-Free Chocolate Peanut Butter Cookie Mix ½ c butter, softened 1 large egg 1 tsp vanilla extract   DIRECTIONS 1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Line baking […]

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PUMPKIN BREAD OR MUFFINS

PUMPKIN BREAD OR MUFFINS

I like to make Pumpkin Bread in the autumn, when the fall colors are peeking through my window. It seems so perfect for morning coffee or afternoon snacks once the weather starts to get cool. Your home will be filled with the warm aroma of sweet cinnamon, ginger, nutmeg, and cloves. This recipe makes traditionally […]

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Tastes Like Real Food – News

Tastes Like Real Food – News

Tastes Like Real Food, founded in 2007 by the Bosking family of Cedar Rapids, Iowa was purchased by Gluten-Free Trading Company of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, a Midwestern family-owned business. The brand’s mission is the same, however—to help celiac and gluten-intolerant people enjoy GF foods that taste great! Perhaps you’re familiar with the Toro brand baking mixes, […]

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Food Company Review: Natasha’s Health Nut Cookies

Food Company Review: Natasha’s Health Nut Cookies

Ever eat a cookie that tastes good and you know to also be beneficial for you? Today we did!Natasha’s cookies—the healthy snack. Natasha Becker has been creating three flavors of her grain-free healthy cookies for about sevenyears, serving health-conscious, gluten-free, celiac, diabetic, and Specific Carbohydrate Diet eaterswith rave reviews. One of my testers tested well […]

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RC Fine Foods Offers a Top-Quality Gluten-Free Line

RC Fine Foods Offers a Top-Quality Gluten-Free Line

  In my work as an author, researcher, and gluten-free advocate, I search for ways to help manage a gluten-free lifestyle. In this search, as awareness about gluten intolerance increases in the United States, I’m finding that more and more companies are committing themselves to serving the gluten-free community. One such company, RC Fine Foods, […]

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Gluten-Free, Dairy-Free Vanilla Custard

Gluten-Free, Dairy-Free Vanilla Custard

I like to reward myself with this delicious treat! INGREDIENTS ½ c gluten-free cornstarch 2 c vanilla soymilk, almond milk, or hemp milk 1 whole vanilla bean ½ c agave syrup 2/3 c mixed  berries   DIRECTIONS 1. Place cornstarch in medium saucepan. Whisk in ¼ c milk and cook over medium heat, whisking constantly, […]

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You Bar –Create and Name Your Own Healthy Bar

You Bar –Create and Name Your Own Healthy Bar

With a passion for the outdoors, nutrition, and family, Ava Bise began creating her own snacks to maintain her energy as she skied and taught lessons on the ski slopes of California. The You Bar company eventually evolved after friends began requesting these nutrition-packed snacks and the idea of a business caught the attention of […]

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So Delicious™ Dairy-Free Sponsors First National Non-GMO Month

So Delicious™ Dairy-Free Sponsors First National Non-GMO Month

This is the latest Press Release that I am honored to share with my gluten-free readers with approval from the Marketing Service Manager, Chris Turek. . I love Turtle Mountain™ Coconut ice-cream as many of you do too: Eugene, OR – So Delicious™ Dairy Free, America’s leading brand of dairy-free foods, is proud to sponsor the first ever […]

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Gluten-Free Heavenly Chocolate Sauce

Gluten-Free Heavenly Chocolate Sauce

This sauce can be made dairy-free, too! Pour it over gluten-free chocolate chip banana bread to eat a slice of heaven!   INGREDIENTS 1 c butter 6 (1-oz.) squares unsweetened chocolate 1 ½ c sugar 1 c firmly packed brown sugar 2 c heavy whipping cream or non-dairy whipping cream 1 tsp vanilla extract   […]

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Flourless Chocolate Cake

Flourless Chocolate Cake

  This is one of my favorite, standby desserts. It’s a Flourless Chocolate Cake that is super-simple to make and never fails to please guests, whether they’re gluten-free or not. Carol Fenster Read Carol’s in depth and personal interview now! Printed with permission from 1,000 Gluten-Free Recipes by Carol Fenster (Wiley, 2008) 2 cups whole […]

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Only Oats-Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies

Only Oats-Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies

Below is a recipe that was contributed by Lael Giebel ,another fine field tester of mine she sent in based off of the terrific Only Oats GF products.  Before embarking on these, be sure to read up on the gluten-free baking tips and ideas, also other terrific recipes using Only Oats. Enjoy!  I have more […]

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Up Close and Personal with Author, Carol Fenster, “1,000 Gluten-Free Recipes”

Up Close and Personal with Author, Carol Fenster, “1,000 Gluten-Free Recipes”

1. First of all are you Celiac? No, I have non-celiac gluten intolerance. I don’t have the celiac genes; nonetheless, I get sick when I eat gluten. 2. How did you become interested in his area – gluten and celiac? I was told to avoid wheat in 1988, after decades of sinus infections. I realized […]

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Glad Corn Review

Glad Corn Review

4 flavors of Glad Corn, which I’d never heard of before. We had some spare time, and since I was especially curious, I thought we’d start the taste test right away. The 12-oz. bags come in original, jalapeno, BBQ, and gourmet cheddar. We started on the original. The corn tastes like a light and better-tasting […]

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General Mills Offers Gluten-Free Bisquick® and Hamburger Helper®

General Mills Offers Gluten-Free Bisquick® and Hamburger Helper®

  Attention, Bisquick® fans! Bisquick® mix has been an American staple since the product arrived on grocery store shelves in 1931. Luckily for the gluten-free community, General Mills has now made a gluten-free Bisquick® available to the public, as well as three flavors of gluten-free Hamburger Helper® in Chicken Fried Rice, Cheesy Hashbrowns, and Beef […]

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