Gluten Free Baking (& Cooking) Thread

[Kassaundra]

The silk brand has a new milk, made from coconut, it is awesome! Has a definate coconut flavor so wouldn't work for everything, but worth trying.

 

[Patchesnposies]

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I'll have to look for that. Sounds yummy. Anyone use the whole coconut product that makes like a cream or something? I'd like something natural to use in place of butter for my DD who seems not to tolerate dairy.

I will be leaving in a few days to take my 13 year old son to Albuquerque for heart surgery. His fifth.

I probably won't be online, though I plan to bring my lap top...we'll see....so if I disappear and don't reappear until May some time....that is where I am! (Say a prayer for Mike, please.)

Deb

 

[3goodeggs]

hugs to your son. I can not imagine having to go through so many surgeries at such a young age.
Have a safe trip.

 

[Illia]

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I'll have to look for that. Sounds yummy. Anyone use the whole coconut product that makes like a cream or something? I'd like something natural to use in place of butter for my DD who seems not to tolerate dairy.

I will be leaving in a few days to take my 13 year old son to Albuquerque for heart surgery. His fifth.

I probably won't be online, though I plan to bring my lap top...we'll see....so if I disappear and don't reappear until May some time....that is where I am! (Say a prayer for Mike, please.)

Deb

We use extra-virgin coconut oil as a butter replacement all the time. We got a whole coconut to crack and use once, and, umm, never got around to cracking it.

 

[Kassaundra]

I don't like the coconut "milk" straight from the coconut, but love fresh coconut over anything you can get in the store.

 

[WriterofWords]

I'm so glad I saw this thread! My Asst. Prin. grandson was just diagnosed with Celiac's and they are having a really hard time here in the land of Mexican food and tortillas. I'm going to try and put together a list of recipes and foods for them that is easier than trying to struggle through all the websites. This way he has something tasty while they do research on what he can and can't have.

 

[Frogdogtimestwo]

Actually I find many items we eat have a mexican flare that are GF/DF. We make tamales GF, nachos, taco's. It seems hard at first but it gets easier if you know how to cook. The biggest issue I find is half of the people I talk to consider making a pot of hamburger helper cooking (before they were diagnosed) and do not know how to follow a recipe. I do not make any convenience foods from a package and we have gone to very basic meals of fruit, veggies, meat and find we don't miss the GF items too much anymore.
*Bionaturae has one of the best replacement noodles if they are looking to mimic foods the child is already used to and there are many awesome recipe books to be found

 

[Patchesnposies]

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The problem seems to be if you also have a corn sensitivity.

 

[Frogdogtimestwo]

Writerofwords only stated GF

Yes there very well may be other allergies but I have found ways to work around all of them. I have one with no wheat, dairy, eggs. One with no soy, wheat, mild dairy reactions

 

[Patchesnposies]

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I wasn't very clear was I. lol Sorry, it wasn't about anything you wrote. I guess I was thinking (out loud through my fingers!) about our struggles trying to make our favorite Mexican dishes. My DD and I both have sensitivities to corn and it is in everything!

No slight intended towards you, at all. After we figured out that wheat was big offender for us, it was fairly easy to still make lots of family favorites/comfort food...now that we are trying to avoid corn it has become much harder (and cow's milk!).

Still learning here! Please, take no offense.