Gluten-free Recipes

I don't know about recipes at home but thought I would let you know that PF Changs has one of the most extensive gluten-free menus of all the restauarants out there. I used to work there and we always had people coming in talking about how hard it is to never be able to find food out at restaurants and how nice it was to have a few options for a change. Most restaurants don't even have one meal that is gluten-free but Changs has like a dozen.

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Hi H..
Here is a site I found with tasty sounding gluten free recipies.
http://recipes.sparkpeople.com/browse-results.asp?categor...
Bless you for being such a good friend!
W. M. from Indiana

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Maybe your friend should consider joining a celiac yahoo group. They would have some great recipes to share, I am sure.

Hello
My friend does gluten free for her family. she has her own website and I am certain that she has gluten free recipes on there. She has a basic version and deluxe version, that has a cost. I do not know which version has the recipes. but the website is: http://www.homemaking-cottage.com/

H.

Hi H.,
it's so nice of you, helping your friend. I'm on a very stricked diet myself, worse than gluten free, so I understand how hard it is to find new recipies. Something very simple I two a few times a week, is quinoa, which is highly recommended from nutritionists. A few ideas is to mix it with veggies, like broccoli, sweet peas, zuccini etc and a lot of spicies and herbs, cilantro, fennel, garlic, turmeric etc. It works just like rice, only is much much healthier. She can add anything her kids love. I also make it with shrimp, shellfish and some veggies. My favorite is with green peppers and chicken livers (organic of cours). Tell her she can find a lot of quinoa recipies online.
hope this helps

Hi--I just saw your post after giving this info out to someone else. Try Tasteofhome.com/healthycooking -- I get the mag. but that is the website....They have all kinds of recipes for different medical/diet needs including gluten free.
Hope this will come in handy.

Hi H.:
Please double check on this before buying, but I used to work with a pediatrician whose son was highly allergic to gluten, nuts, eggs, just about everything and she had a difficult time at the beginning - she learned to make birthday cakes gluten free and I always encouraged her to write a book! Anyway, she found that he could eat Moon Pie cookies! Just a thought that may help as I think they are still on the market!

As far as a gluten free diet, I work with a nutrition company that has gluten free products. I highly recommend the protein shakes, especially as there are often other allergies involved, as you can mix anytning with them and feel like you are having a treat. You can make them to be yogurt ccnsistency, milkshake, pudding, or wherever your imagination takes you! The shakes can be used as a meal replacement or an addition to your diet and provide protein, carbs, and vitamins that are essential for our diets. If you would like more info, please feel free to contact me. I coach everyone who tries the products and can provide recipes and tips too.

A bit about me - I am a pediatric nurse and work with special needs children. I love these products because many autistic children are on gluten free diets! They are good for many (my son takes them too) and I have lost 25 pounds recently thanks to them!
Best of luck for your friend!
E., RN

I have a friend with this problem and yes it is very difficult to cook for the gluten sensitive person. I had to make a dish for this person and did a pot roast. You need to make sure that the meat is also gluten free and that the animals are not fed with wheat meal. But I made a pot roast with brown organic rice, meat, carrots and green beans. Iused a gluten free broth (many cream soups are not gluten free) and salt and pepper. You have to be careful of some of the spicey mixes too because they are also not gluten free. This was a really big hit not only with my friend but also with the whole group that I took the meal as a pot luck. you can also go online and look for gluten free recipes. Good luck

Some grocery stores sell gluten free products and also gluten free flour, like rice flour. You can make many recipes substituting these ingredients.

There is a recipe book called The Gluten Free Gourmet, by Bette Hagman. It is a great book, your friend would love it!

have you tryed vegatable lazonia(sp?)its made with zukini(sp?) squash insted of noodles and tastes good.I dont know many recipes glutten free because I love pasta but another idea how about spanish rice we add hamburger and make a one dish meal with a vegatable on the side.stuffed peppers or stuffed cabbage both are good also if your child can have rice.this is all I can think of.good luck

If there's a Trader Joe's near where she lives, she should try that. They sell a lot of gluten free items at a reasonable cost. Hope this helps!

My sister has started a gluten-free diet and bought this book that she absolutely loves: "Special Diet Solutions: Healthy Cooking Without Wheat, Gluten, Dairy, Eggs, Yeast, or Refined Sugar" She emailed me the below recipes that she really liked out of the cookbook as I am trying to go sugar free and gluten-free as much as possible .. . I hope they help.

Rice Bread

2 eggs, separated
1 c. milk or soymilk (any kind of milk)
2 T. oil
3 T. honey
2 c. rice flour (brown or white)
2 t. baking powder
1/2 t. salt

Mix dry ingredients in a large bowl, set aside. Mix egg yolks, milk, oil and honey; set aside. Beat the egg whites til stiff peaks form. Add liquid ingredients to the dry ingredients. Mix well. Fold in egg whites. (Add cinnamon to dry ingredients, if desired, and add raisins at the end.)

Place in greased bread loaf pan. Bake at 350 for about 40-45 minutes.

Whole Grain Muffin Mix (Makes 1 dozen)

1 cup stone ground whole wheat flour
1 cup spelt flour
1/2 cup oat bran
1/2 cup raw wheat germ
1/4 cup rolled oats
1/3 cup ground flaxseeds
1/2 t. baking soda
1 T. baking powder
1/2 t. sea salt

1/2 stick butter, melted (I'm thinking you could use oil instead)
1/3 cup orange juice
3/4 cup raisins

1 mashed ripe banana
1 3/4 cup low fat milk or soy milk
1 beaten egg
1 T. apple cider vinegar

1 cup chopped walnuts or pecans
2 t. stevia concentrate

Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Line muffin pans with paper muffin cups or coat with coconut oil.

In a small pan, simmer the raisins and orange juice for 3-5 minutes. Add the butter and stir until it melts. Remove from heat and set aside.

In a large mixing bowl, combine oat bran, wheat germ, flours, baking powder, baking soda, and salt. Mix together well.

In a separate bowl, combine the milk, egg, mashed banana, and raisin and orange juice butter mixture. Add the dry ingredients to the wet and stir with a wooden spoon to combine. Add the stevia and nuts. Stir to mix thoroughly.

Fill muffin cups to almost overflowing and bake for 20 minutes or until a knife inserted into the center of a muffin comes out clean. Cool on a wire rack.

PS - Coconut oil is sold in the health food section and may even be found with the regular oils now that it's so popular. Coconut oil is extremely good for you. You can use it to fry foods and for baking. I saw coconut oil at Walmart where the regular oil is sold, so it's not hard to find.

Hope you enjoy the muffins! Paul thought they could use some applesauce, but I thought they were yummy just as they were

Dee's Mighty Herb Vinaigrette

1 cup extra virgin olive oil
1/2 cup organic ulfiltered apple cider vinegar
1 t. dried parsley
1 t. dried oregano
1 t. dried basil
1 t. dried thyme
3 cloves fresh garlic, minced
juice of 1/2 fresh squeezed lemon
1/4 t. liquid stevia extract
Herbamare seasoning to taste

Combine all ingredients in a glass jar. Cover the jar, close tightly, and vigorously shake the jar to blend all the ingredients. Refrigerate. Keeps for up to 3 weeks.

Pancake recipe:

2 cups 100% stone ground whole wheat flour
1 cups fat free milk or soy milk
1 egg, whisked
1/4 cup unsweetened applesauce
2 t. aluminum-free baking powder
1 t. baking soda
1/2 t. sea salt

In a medium mixing bowl, combine flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt. In a separate bowl, whisk the egg, milk and applesauce together. Add to the flour mixture and mix well to make batter.

(You know the rest)

Variation: You can add 1 cup of blueberries or 1 mashed ripe banana instead of the applesauce and 1/2 cup chopped walnuts

Dee's Mighty Muffins
(makes one dozen)

Dry ingredients:
2 cups raw oat bran
2 1/8 tsp. baking powder (she uses aluminum free)
1 T. cinnamon (this is not too much, trust me)
1/2 t. nutmeg
1/2 t. sea salt (I used regular because I didn't have sea salt)

Wet ingredients:
1 cup vanilla enriched soymilk or nonfat cow's milk (I used soymilk)
1/2 cup unsweetened applesauce
2 large egg whites
1 t. pure vanilla extract
1/2 t. liquid stevia extract (I used the powder form)

Third set of Ingredients:
1/2 cup raisins
1/2 cup walnuts, chopped
1/2 cup raw unfiltered honey

Preheat oven to 400 degrees. Line muffin pans with paper muffin cups or coat with coconut oil or butter.

Combine dry ingredients in a large mixing bowl and mix together thoroughly with a wire whisk. In a separate mixing bowl combine the wet ingredients with the wire whisk until the mixture becomes somewhat frothy. Slowly add wet ingredients to dry ingredients and mix thoroughly with a wooden spoon or use an electric mixer such as a Kitchen Aid. Fold in the raisins or walnuts. The last step is to add the honey very slowly to the mixture while stirring. The batter should become lighter in texture.

Fill muffin cups and bake for 10 minutes at 400 degrees and then lower the heat to 350 degrees. Bake for an additional 10 minutes, or until the muffins are golden brown and knife inserted in center comes out clean. Let cool in pan.

VARIATIONS:

BLUEBERRY MUFFINS: Instead of raisins and walnuts, you can add 1 cup of blueberries.

BANANA-NUT MUFFINS: Add 1 ripe mashed banana and reduce applesauce to 1/4 cup. Omit raisins and increase nuts to 1 cup.

PUMPKIN MUFFINS: Use 1/2 cup canned pumpkin instead of the applesauce. Replace cinnamon and nutmeg with 1 T. plus 1 t. pumpkin pie spice. You may also omit the raisins and walnuts and replace them with 1 cup dried cranberries for a great cranberry-pumpkin muffin.

NOTE: If you use the Stevia powder, add it to the dry ingredients instead of the wet. :)

One of the best resources is Lisa Lewis's book" Special Diets for Special Kids".
She will be a speaker at the Save Our Kids Heal Our Planet expo in Charlotte September26-28.
Check it out.. www.sokhop.com
It is going to be fantastic!!
T. H

Hi H.!
Check out myrecipes.com, the enhanced recipe search. Under dietary considerations, you can select "gluten-free". I don't know if the recipes will be any good, but at least there will be some choices. I get a lot of recipes from their web site and they are typically very tasty!
Cyndi

There are many places online for gluten free recipes. BTW, wheat free does not mean gluten free. Gluten is also found in barley(malt), rye, and oats. I would recommend the following cookbooks:
any Bette Hagman Gluten Free Gourmet cookbooks
Carol Fenster's Wheat Free REcipes & Menus (all are gluten free)
Those are the ones I have. Also:
Living Gluten Free for Dummies by Danna Karn. Tells you so many things & includes some recipes.
A great gluten free flour substitute I have found is Better Batter Flour (http://betterbatter.org/) I just made the best gluten free chocolate chip cookies we've had since going gluten free. I just used this flour in Better Homes & Gardens recipe.

Some websites:
glutenfreegirl.blogspot.com
http://www.celiac.com/categories/Gluten%252dFree-Recipes/ (this one has lots of recipes)
http://allrecipes.com/Recipes/Healthy-Cooking/Gluten-Free...

Lastly, I head up the Memphis Celiac Support Group. I don't know where your friend lives, but she is always welcome at our meetings. In fact, our next meeting is this Monday, the 28th, at Wild Oats on Poplar Avenue. We begin at 7pm, we meet in the back in the kitchen area.

If she wants to email me privately, please feel free to give her my address ____@____.com This diet is a life changing event, but not life ending. We've been gluten free in my home for over 1-1/2 years and it's much easier than it was in the beginning.

Just thought of one more site. This woman was actually featured on The Rachel Ray show. It's a crock pot cooking site and she has 1 new recipe a day (her goal to have one for each day of this year). She has almost 200 gluten free recipes listed there. The address is http://crockpot365.blogspot.com/
I cooked the Cowboy Stew yesterday & it is heavenly!! It's also a great site for those not on a gluten free diet.

H., I have a co-worker who is gluten intolerant and 2 of her 3 daughters are as well. What I have discovered is that rice flour is tolerated quite well by those who are gluten intolerant. And, just about anything that can be made with wheat flour can be made with rice flour without compromising the recipe... including birthday cake! A real treat for kids who must live in a cake-free zone. Remind her to check with her doctor first to make sure it is okay to add this rice flour to her diet. It does cost a little more so it's not something that you would be baking bread and cookies with every night but it is nice to be able to eat some things along that line every now and again.

My favorite gluten-free recipe is to make polenta (just cornmeal and water), then saute a bunch of fresh summer veggies (zucchini, yellow squash, mushrooms, peppers, etc.) with some Italian spices, salt and pepper, and olive oil and serve those on top. I add a little sprinkle of cheese and it's done. I guess you could add meat to the saute, but I just like it with veggies.

Also, any kind of stir-fry with rice would work well. You can add anything you want to a skillet rice dish- chicken, ground beef, beans, veggies, etc. Spice as desired.

H.,

I would suggest that your friend have a consult with a knowledgeable dietitian and join a celiac support group. Just providing her with recipes will not really help. She needs to adapt to a completely different lifestyle. Recipes can be found by doing a google.com search. Also, most recipes can be modified to be gluten free if you know what you are doing too.

Good luck,

T. Cornelius, MS, RD, LDN, CLT
http://nutrition.bitwine.com/advisors/tcorneli