Glutten Free Recipes

King Soopers and Vitamin Cottage have a lot of options.

This site is great too.

Looking for more gluten-free grocery products?
visit http://www.CeceliasMarketplace.com

Good Luck!

Shelly Young wife of Dr Robert O Young has several kid tested recipe books that are gluten free. "Back to the house of Health, 1 and 2" S.

I've made a gluten-free crust for my brother who is gluten-intolerant. I got it off of celiac.com. It's the one that can be used as focaccia also. I actually thought it was good. And the leftover gluten-free pizza didn't get soggy like the wheat crust. I also have a friend with celiac. Once when he visited we had spaghetti with quinoa noodles that we got from Kitchen Kneads. They were pretty good.

YAY I'm not the only one! My son is two and he was addicted to Chicken nuggets when we found out he was allergic to wheat. Rice flour and rice noodles have been a Godsend. Rice flour is just like regular flour you can use it for just about anything. I use it to make cookies bread, pie crust. it is more expensive then regular flour and it comes in smaller packs. but its worth it.

R.

Carol Fenster's new cookbook 1,000 Gluten-Free Recipes is great. Others have mentioned pastas and pizzas your sister can make at home ... additionally, Beau Jo's Pizza makes a good GF pizza and Abbruzzi's restaurant in Wheat Ridge has great GF pastas. Many restaurants have GF menus. In most recipes, it's usually easy to substitue the dairy for rice milk/ghee/New Balance butter/etc. Once your sister figures it out, it's really not that difficult ... only the transition stage is hard!

Hi T.,

I don't have any recipes to give you but I can tell you about a product you might look into. My son is allergic to eggs and peanuts. We went to a dietician and got some information on what he could eat. The dietician told us about "cherrybrook kitchen" and "orgran" products. They are specifically for people with food allergies. You can get them online...cherrybrookkitchen.com and orgran.com. They have them at some health food stores. I thought my son was never going to be able to eat pancakes but sure enough there is an egg free pancake mix for him. There is even pasta you can buy. I hope this little bit of information is helpful for your family.
S.

Hi T., I work in a culinary school library and we have at least a couple of dozens of books on gluten-free cooking and baking. Most of the cookbooks include recipes for pasta and/or pizza. We even have a couple of dessert cookbooks. A search for books in Amazon on "gluten free baking", "celiac disease" or just "gluten free" will bring up most of the titles we own. Perhaps you could get yous sister a couple of cookbooks to get started. Good luck!

Gluten-free blogs will be a great resource for her... there are loads of fabulous-looking recipes & some great writing, to boot! There's a list of them here:
http://wheat-free-meat-free.blogspot.com/2008/06/i-though...

Also have her google "GFCF diet" and I'll bet she'll find a ton of great recipes. There's also an awesome allergy parents group on Yahoo (I'm a member of it) called TerrificKidsWFA. It's been an amazing source of information & support for me.

As an allergy mom myself, I have to say that it rocks that you're looking into this for your sister. The fact that it's significant to *you* will make a big difference as to how easy it is for your sister to deal with it. :)

Hi T.,

We don't have to eat gluten free, but it is better for you from what I understand. Try to find a local health food store. Whole Foods, Vitamin Cottage, etc. They have sections of the store just for this as well as cookbooks. There are also some websites that have great recipes I just google "gluten free (item) and lots show up and you can choose which ever one looks the best. I have found that it's more of a trial and error thing as for taste. Some things are great whereas others are not so good.

They have both rice pasta and gluten free flours she can buy at health food stores. She will need to use zanthum gum with the gluten free flour to make dough for pizza, but basically you make it the same way you would make homemade crust just with the gluten free flour and a few teaspoons of the zanthum gum. There are some great online sites for gluten free and celiac. The rice pasta tastes a little different, but he will get used to it.

There are some great Gluten Free cookbooks available. The "Gluten Free Gourmet" is pretty good. I loaned out all my gluten free cookbooks or else I would send you a few recipes. They have recipes for pizza and pasta. It's just made differently. Some specialty and natural food stores actually sell GF pasta!

Hi Tracy,

I was diagnose w/ Celiac Disease in October & my daughter was diagnose this week, so I know where you sister is coming from. I have found two great cookbooks that were introduced to me. One from our dietician and the other from our Peditrican Gastroenterologist. They are: The Gluten-Free Gourmet Cooks Fast & Healthy by Bette Hagman & Life Tastes Good Again by Kirsti Kirkland & Betsy Thomas. I don't know where you are located, but there is a great store in Taylorsville called, "Against the Grain" that only carries Gluten-Free items. If you talk to the owner, she can help you or your sister with any questions you may have. Also, Harmons has a pretty good selection too. They started carrying pasta. At least the one in South Jordan. Tell her good luck for me.

Hi T.. I have celiac disease so I eat completely gluten free. There is a fantastic brand of rice pasta called Tinkyada. It is whole grain and doesn't get mushy loke some others do. I really can't tell the difference. There is a great brand of gluten free mixes called Namaste. They are free of all allergens and i know they make a pizza crust. I haven't tried it myself, but a lot of their other mixes are really good. I haven't solved the cheese craving, either. A lot of the soy and rice cheeses still have casein in them so be careful. Can he have goat cheese or sheep cheese?? I also subscribe to a magazine called Living Without which is a great resource and they have fantastic recipes, too. Good luck!

Hi T. - I hope you receive a lot of great recipes! Your sis will be amazed at all of the great gluten free products and food stuffs that are easily available now. Even gluten free pasta and pizza - just a little warning to not try his favorite food "gluten free" until he has been eating this way for a while. If he tries it too soon, he will be able to taste the difference snd might find it discouraging.

Tinkayada makes the best rice pasta--tastes like the real thing and doesn't get mushy. There is soy cheese that melts--a little different from the real thing but it works. Beau Joe's pizza makes a gluten free pizza crust that you can also buy from Vitamin Cottage. All natural stores have a whole section of gluten free products.
Good luck!
J.

You can google "gluten free blogs" and come up with lots of great blogs that focus on gluten free recipes. One that I particularly like is www.crockpot365.blogspot.com - full of gluten-free crock pot recipes. Make sure your sister knows to check all food labels because gluten can be hidden in all sorts of unexpected places.

Hi T.- I have MS but have recently (October 2008) started a no dairy no wheat diet - and it is amazing the results. I feel GREAT in comparison to the last 1.5 years since my MS diagnosis and I don't miss the dairy or the wheat - REALLY. The alternative to how I feel now keeps me motivated. I follow the Paleo diet - www.thepaleodiet.com and have really also stopped eating tomato and peanut products too - something science has shown to have the same results of dairy and wheat for those with MS. Huge difference. The website does have great recipes and good advice - the guy who came up with this is not a quack but a Ph.D. of Nutrition at CSU. Also - try QUINOA as a great substitute - I eat it for breakfast with fruit and my MIL even made Chicken "noodle" soup (no noodles but quinoa) and it was great. I even ate the Macaroni Grill for my anniversary last week - they have an awesome Sea Scallop Salad that is fantastic.
Don't give up the fight for more information - your sister is lucky she has you to help gather info for her.

My husband is gluten free and we have tried many products that are terrible. We have found some great noodles though. The brand is Tinkyada and they are good. They have all the different shapes of regular pasta and cook well. Many other brands turn to mush when cooked, but the Tinkyada noodles hold up really well. As for pizza, Pamelas Wheat Free Bread mix has a recipe on the back for making it into pizza dough, Pamelas other products are great as well. You can find both of these products at King Soopers/City Market, or at a health food store. Good luck.

I was diagnosed with Celiac about a month ago (of course it had to be right before Christmas!) so we are now all gluten-free.

It is HARD, at least at first. A few tips that I can offer are that the gluten-free pasta in the purple bag at King Soopers tastes just like regular pasta, and comes in a few kinds. Different flours cook differently, but there are some "baking mix" mixtures you can create that make it easier because they cook just like flour. The Gluten Free Gourmet is a great resource. It's a string of cookbooks from a lady that's been GF for thirty years. She also includes a lot of recipes that acknowledge that most people allergic to gluten/wheat have other food allergies, so there are a lot of substitution options.

The other super super helpful tip is that rice flour purchased at Asian markets is finer, better quality and CHEAPER!!! It's 69 cents a pound!

Potato Starch flour is not the same as potato flour. The Whole Foods I've looked at have stopped carrying it, but the Vitamin Cottage has it for about $2.50.

Hope that's helpful. The celiac.com website is full of recipes, as well as Allrecipes if you type in "Gluten Free." Again, most gluten-free recipes offer substitutions because of the frequency of other allergies also.

Hope that's a little helpful. IT's so overwhelming. I cried for days. But, now that I've done more looking around, it seems a lot more positive. There are things like Rice Chex and most generic Wal Mart products say right on the front of them when they're gluten free (pudding, scalloped potatoes, etc.) so there are some "real" foods out there that aren't a fortune.

Good luck to them!

my son is very allergic to dairy so I understand..check out godairyfree.org its the best website..on the left hand side of the page you will see dairy substitutes..pick any item you want to find a substitution for..I have tried numerous ones and they actually work..and then the co-op and Fred Meyers has a great variety of soy products..I also have a co-worker here at work who is allergic to wheat and she does all her shopping for breads and pasta at the co-op...good luck..once you get the hang of it its not so hard..the beginning is very hard

Hi T.!

www.elanaspantry.com She has wonderful recipes with great instructions and pictures- very much worth checking out. I do not have any gluten sensitivities, but I still make and enjoy many of her recipes.

H.
www.naturalchoicesforliving.com

Hi T.:

We have gluten and dairy allergies in our family. One of my favorite blogs is: http://____@____.com

She has a pizza crust recipe, hamburger bun recipe, cookies, breakfasts, etc. We love the pumpkin waffles. It's not dairy free, so you still have to modify for the dairy allergy. We found that our local wal-mart carries a dairy free margarine (not all margarines are dairy free!) called Earth Balance. It works great in all of my baking recipes.

There are some really good rice pastas available now. We really like a brand called "tinkyada."

On that blog, there are links to other blogs that are also great resources.

Hi T.,
I haven't read the other responses, so I hope I don't repeat information.

My sister-in-law started a gluten-free restaurant/bakery/grocery store in the Denver area. I don't know where your sister lives, but I do know that she ships, too.

She has invented gluten free flour that can be used cup for cup in place of regular flour in most recipes. AND, it's SO good! She has ready-made pizza crust & pastas and even supplies some well known restaurants in the Denver area.

Go to debysglutenfree.com for more information.

Hope this is helpful!
M. W.

About a month ago, I had to cook a meal for a family who had someone who is also allergic to wheat glutten, because they just had a new baby and I wanted to help out. I was trying to figure out what to cook and remembered while I was in the philippines, I remembered how many recipes in their country had no wheat or dairy in their dishes. They have many dishes that include coconut milk (which is non-dairy) or coconut vinegar. One of their recipies include bean or rice noodles. Most health food stores carry both. Also the Sunflower Farmers Market, sales a lot of gluten free products. I'll include the recipe of the dish I took to the family I made it for. It's called Chicken Adobo, it is served over rice. I don't know if you have ever had philippine food, but it is really good.

Ingriedients:
Three to four boneless chicken breasts
1/8 tsp. of minced garlic for each piece of chicken or one section of fresh garlic crushed
two purple pearl onions
1 Tblsp of gluten free soy sauce per piece of chicken (in the Philippines no soy sauce had wheat gluten in it, but you have to look, I do know the generic Walmart brand of soy sauce has no wheat gluten in it.)
2 tsp of sugar per piece of chicken (sugar can be left out, it tastes better in my opinion with the sugar)
2 Tblsp of coconut vinegar per piece of chicken (you can use cider vinegar, coconut vinegar is sweeter. You can probably find coconut vinegar at any asian market or if your near Provo, you can find it at a store called Many Lands across the street of the hospital in Provo.)
2 Tblsp of olive oil or Omega 3 oil

Instructions:
First heat the pan and cut the chicken to chicken finger size, then add olive oil or Omega 3 oil, then add the garlic and onions. Saute those for about 2 minutes, then add the chicken, pouring the coconut vinegar and soysauce on each chicken in the pan. You can add a little pepper for spice. Then add about 1 1/2 cups of water to the chicken in the pan. Cook chicken for about 15 to 20 minutes, depends on how thick the chicken is. The chicken may need longer if really thick or less time if the chicken is thin. I then always check the chicken to see if it is done. Serve the chicken and sauce over cooked rice.

Sorry this is so long, Good luck, Wheat gluten allergy isn't fun, but there are recipes that are out there with out Wheat gluten and that are very tasty. If you want more philippine recipes, send me a message, I have a few more that don't include Wheat or dairy in them. M.