Diagnosed with celiac (can't eat wheat)

[KnottedYet]

Hey, OTG, have you seen this chickie's blog yet? She's got some good stuff.

http://glutenfreegirl.blogspot.com/

And she's here in Seattle.

Hot-diggity, no more sick days for a beer!
http://www.celiaccentral.org/Other/Anheuser_Busch/332/

Do you get bald spots on your tongue after a gluten encounter? I imagine that's what's also happening to all the little villi in my small intestine... poor lil' critters all sloughing away... sigh. Just for a beer, or a mousse-filled chocolate.

http://www.cafepress.com/chickcouture I like the "Seitan is Evil" shirt, cuz seitan is pure gluten, so it's... y'know, eeeeevil!

[AllezGirl]

Hey OTG,

Just caught this post. There's a Trader Joe's right near my house. I LOVE Trader Joe...I'm gonna marry him when I grow up ! He has plenty of Gluten Free products (but alas...no Two Buck Chuck...PA liquor laws suck...I'm a poet and didn't know it )

I guess you're due for a visit down my way again....

[KnottedYet]

GLUTEN FREE BEER!!!

I bought the first sixpack of Redbridge in north Seattle! So new it wasn't even on the shelf yet!

Mmmmm, not bad! A nicely hoppy amber, sweetish aftertaste, more like a microbrew amber than a Budweiser. $8 for a sixpack. And best of all it didn't make me feel yucky!

Hot diggity! GF beer!

[Offthegrid]

I never did care much for beer, but I will probably get it for the Super Bowl. (I prefer rum and coke. Yum.)

But wanted to share my latest discovery: buckwheat. I've been searching for an alternative to my morning oatmeal that I can make at work, and quinoa just made me want to vomit. But buckwheat (actually a fruit, not wheat at all) is pretty darn good! Not *quite* oatmeal, but definitely very edible.

[KnottedYet]

Ewwwwww...

Just watched a yummy ad for T.G.I. Friday, and EVERY SINGLE FOOD they showed had wheat in it.

bummer.

[LBTC]

I hear you.

At my office every day or so, somebody orders in lunch for a meeting and there are always leftovers. Today it was pizza. Wasn't too bad until I could smell it....so let's see: wheat, yeast, tomatoes, pork, dairy....there ya go. half of the things I can't eat right there. yahoo!

Good thing the curry stir fry thing I made for dinner was so yummy!

Hugs and butterflies,
~T~

[KnottedYet]

this is a duplicate of a recipe I posted elsewhere, but man this is so good!

Today's Culinary Adventure: Gluten Free Matzoh Ball Soup

Oh, MAN, this turned out soooooo yummy! But it looks soooo ugly! I was going to post a picture, but decided I shouldn't (my first attempt at matzoh balls aren't at all photogenic) Oh, but they ARE TASTY!!!

They fell apart a bit when I cooked them. Next time I'll mash up the rice crackers finer, and shape the balls more firmly.

The Quasi-Recipe

Make a crock-pot of chicken soup.

While that's pretty much done and simmering happily, mash up a cup or two of rice crackers. (I used Trader Joe's Original Savory Mini-Thin crackers) Mash them up VERY fine! I don't have a food processor, so I put the crackers in a ziplock bag and crunched them over and over with the back of a wooden spoon.

Now you're ready to make Gluten Free Matzoh Ball Dough

1 egg
1 tblpspn olive oil
cracker meal

Stir the egg and olive oil until it is well mixed. Add cracker meal until you get a firm dough. Chill in the fridge for at least 1/2 hour.

Pull off a few cups of stock from your crock-pot of chicken soup. Enough to half-fill a saucepan. Get it simmering. Bring out your dough. Roll a tablespoon of dough into a ball. (like a ping-pong ball) Make it a firm ball, because every little air pocket is going to be a weak point when these critters cook! Do this until you are out of dough. Makes 6-8. Add all the balls to the simmering stock, cover, and simmer for 1/2 hour.

Add all the contents of your saucepan back to your crockpot.

Serve a couple matzoh balls to each bowl of soup.

(and you might want to double the recipe for matzoh balls, because this made barely enough for 3 or 4 bowls. and they're sooooo good! MMMMMmmmmMMM!)