Category: Gift Ideas
Deerfields Gluten-Free Bakery- WOW!
Deerfields Gluten-Free Bakery, located in Schaumburg, Illinois, is open to everyone at their location and via the internet. Lucky for us as well as their gluten-free line is in a dedicated GF facility! Open since 1886, it is now a five-generation bakery. I’m telling you, folks, if you want some tasty treats and delicious baked […]
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 […]
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 […]
Desert Wind Skin Care and Emu Oil
(No chemicals, detergents, alcohols, solvents, parabens, or petroleum-based products.) Many people have sensitive skin and many of these sensitivities derive from basic allergies or from the fact that so many topicals, shampoos, and soaps are laden with chemicals. So, what’s emu oil have to do with all this? Read on. Celiacs or gluten-sensitive individuals can […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
Gluten Free Getaways- Travel Safely Gluten-Free
This is a terrific site for gluten-free getaways and traveling. Many of the old timers( those familiar with the gluten-free arena) are well aware of Bob and Ruth’s. These two have done a tremendous job in pioneering this area and setting up incredible getaways we can do in the comfort of other who also need […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Aunt Becky’s Fast and Yummy Gluten-Free Wheat-Free Recipes and Childhood Stories From the Little Farm In the Ozarks, by Becky Pierson
Becky lived a life of stomach troubles and headaches starting as a little child. Back in the 60s and 70s, the limited tests conducted on her never revealed what was happening inside her body. It wasn’t until many years later that Becky finally discovered what was causing the turmoil–gluten. With gluten out of […]
Homemade Gluten-Free Vanilla Extract
Believe it or not, you can make this popular ingredient at home, too—and, boy, is it worth it! INGREDIENTS 6 Madagascar vanilla beans 6 Mexican vanilla beans 1 (1.75-l) bottle vodka DIRECTIONS 1. Split and scrape vanilla beans. 2. Place scraped beans and seeds in vodka bottle. 3. Screw cap on tightly, and shake […]
An Extraordinary iPhone App
Many of us are either gluten-sensitive or celiac, meaning that even the smallest amount of gluten can make us ill. It’s estimated that 3 million Americans suffer from celiac disease, which is an autoimmune disorder caused by gluten, a protein found in wheat, rye, and barley, resulting in a variety of physical and mental […]
Livin Spoonful – A Terrific Gluten-Free Company
Livin Spoonful, what a great name. I was wondering what these 3-in-by-3-in. crackers were going to taste like. They are fairly thick and loaded with healthy, sprouted and dehydrated ingredients, sprouted sunflower seeds, sprouted flax, organic carrots, organic kale, etc. I tested 4 different flavors, just the right variety to satisfy one’s particular […]
Is That Gluten Free? Download an iPhone App and Find Out!
As an author, researcher, and gluten-free advocate, I’m always on the lookout for ways to help manage a gluten-free diet. I just went shopping with the app, Is That Gluten Free? and I know I’ve found a product that will completely change what it means to be GF! You probably ask the question all […]
Company Review: Michael’s Naturopathic Programs
While on my fall East Coast book tour, I was traveling from city to city, eating food here and there while doing my ultimate best to stay away from gluten, as I’m celiac. In Whole Foods I decided I wanted to supplement my diet with a good nutrient-based product. I was so pleased to find […]
Bagels Buddy and Me by Melanie Krumrey
Mother of 3 and new children’s author Melanie Krumrey did a very fine job in illustrating and writing the book, Bagels, Buddy and Me. This book is her story of her son’s headaches and stomachaches leading to tests which eventually led to high antibody tests, then her and then her daughter and then […]