tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-339044932010-04-12T06:22:54.928+01:00Gluten free food is our religion. Come and worship with us at our dinner table. We'll tell you what gluten free food we're eating and how to make it, and you can let us know what you reckon to our gluten free recipes.Gluten Free Food Freakhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03069877299072381485noreply@blogger.comBlogger216125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33904493.post-87251849913649217072010-04-12T06:22:00.001+01:002010-04-12T06:22:54.951+01:00

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I love it when people send me gluten free foods to test - I mean, what a perk :-)Malt vinegar in a 'gluten free' cooking sauce?It was a bit of a disappointment when I received these Table B'hote cooking sauces (I know, odd name, but it's apparently targetted at the boating market). I noticed that one of the sauces contained malt vinegar, which as we all know, isn't gluten free.I got back to the

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I've just had an email from Kate who has started the new gluten free (and other food allergen) restaurant review site LeaveItOut.This is really good news in my opinion, as the other competitor in this space is woeful. GlutenFreeOnTheGo.com was started by CoeliacUK and then handed over to someone else to run.GFOTG is difficult to navigate (nigh on impossible on a mobile device, which is when you

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MD of gluten test company reveals high levels of gluten in 'gluten free' productsI don't know about you, but there have been many times where I know I've been glutened, but I can't work out where it came from. And if it happens repeatedly, it can drive you nuts! (actually, it was nuts once, where flour had been used as a flow agent, but I digress).The other day I was chatting to the MD of a

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My gluten free haggis hunt is over!Oh how I wailed when I was diagnosed coeliac - no more haggis! I have to admit, I love haggis. I would eat it every week if I could. And now maybe I can!Because, just in time for Burns' night, I've found and ordered gluten free haggis from Findlays of Portobello.I'll let you know what it tastes like when I get it, but I thought I'd better let you know in time

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Gluten free fish and chips from the Real Food Cafe, Tyndrum, ScotlandIf you're anything like me, any time you hear a chip shop offering 'gluten free fish and chips', your ears prick up. Then, if you're anything like me, you start to think "Hmmm... do they really know what they're doing? I mean, there's batter everywhere... do they even know about cross-contamination in fryers... and what about in

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I'd seen the 'Look What We Found' range of gluten free ready meals on the supermarket shelf for several months. As usual, I'd checked the ingredient list and had been impressed at the simplicity, and impressed that they didn't need a fridge. A handy stand-by to keep in the car glove box I reckoned. (Note: Not all Look What We found ready meals are gluten free so do check the packet.)So when I got

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Along with gluten free haggis, gluten free black pudding (blood sausage) has been the holy grail of my food explorations. I've gone as far as to make my own gluten free sausages, but sourcing and handling all that blood is beyond me.They are a small bore sausage. Much spicier than any other black pudding I've ever had (in the pre-gluten-free days), and to be honest, they didn't taste much like a

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If you're looking to eat out gluten free, Indian restaurants are one of the safer bets. Much Indian cuisine is naturally gluten free, with the use of wheat flour being confined mainly to breads such as naan.But then there's always the danger of cross-contamination (check that the tandoori isn't made in the same tandoor oven as the breads for example), plus the sneaky, deadly, often-wheat-laced

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It's a shame, but I'm selling my wooden home grain / bean flour mill made by Waldner Biotech. I say it's a shame, because it's such a lovely piece of kit, but not one I've used much.I originally bought it to help ensure that all my flours were 100% gluten free, but since then I've discovered that I'm most well when I avoid grains and pulses completely, so there's not really much left for me to

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I've recently got back into eating liver after avoiding it for years after the dry chewy nastiness of childhood. Turns out lambs' liver is both subtly flavoured, and really tasty.Not however, tasty enough for the rest of the family to eat a massive pile of it fried like me, so I made a lambs liver curry tonight, which went down a treat. So in case you want to introduce your family to this vitamin

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As winter draws ever closer here on the West Coast of Scotland (and appears to have started, actually), my thoughts have turned to escape to Mallorca where we often go at this time of year.This year, we're taking a bit of a punt on going half board - mostly to get a real holiday without all the cooking, but of course it introduces a risk in terms of getting gluten free food.To minimize the danger

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OK, this is a bit off the beaten track, but someday, somewhere, some coeliac will be travelling to Magnetic Island in Australia and will be searching the web for how to get gluten free food there.And when you look at how small Magnetic Island is, you would imagine that getting gluten free food there would be nigh-on impossible. But then I got this email this morning...I wish to advise that I bake

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This recipe is:Gluten freeDairy freeEgg freeYeast freeIf you read Gluten Free Food Freak regularly, you'll know I'm a fiend for wedging goodness into the kids' food at every opportunity. That, plus my rabid fascination with hearty gluten free breakfasts, is pretty much my sole raison d'etre.So last night, at a loose end (or rather too knackered to be bothered doing anything much), I was wondering

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This recipe is:Gluten freeDairy freeEgg freeYeast free(In case you're interested, this pancake recipe is grain free, as well as pretty much everything else free too!)The search for healthy, gluten free breakfasts is never ending in our house, and I don't mean the 'sugar in disguise' lighter-than-a-feather burn-like-petrol and poof! it's gone 'breakfast' (although they relly are much easier.No,

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I've finally caught up with the massive backlog of email for celiactravel.com and I was really chuffed to find lots of new gluten free travel stories from happy users of the gluten free restaurant cards.And here they all are...South KoreaA year of gluten free food knowledge from South KoreaGreeceOur gluten free holiday in Greece and its islandsIrelandCeliac friendly (gluten free) hotels and

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If you ask me, the anchovy is the finest flavour enhancer this side of MSG, and its key role in this dressing makes for a powerfully tasty addition to pep up your greens.At this time of year, we have bales of green stuff coming from the garden - cavelo nero, curly kale, perpetual spinach, leaf beet, chard, the list goes on. Because these are some of the healthiest comestibles known to man, I like

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This recipe is:Gluten freeDairy freeEgg freeYeast freeHelp! There's green stuff EVERYWHERE!!! Curly Kale, Cavelo Nero Kale, Chard (not kale but definitely green and leafy!)We're chowing down about 3 pounds of the good green stuff every day, yet still it comes. The garden is in full summer song and nothing is going to get in the way of hte march of the kale.Apart from us, munchers of all things

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The nice folks at FlyBe just sent me on article on gluten free air travel. To be honest, it's nothing earth-shattering but it does serve as a reminder for all the basic precautions to take and preparations to make when travelling by plane. Here it is...Gluten free air travel articleIf you've got any tips for flying gluten free, be sure to leave them in the comments and I'll add them to the

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This recipe is:Gluten freeDairy freeEgg freeYeast freeI know the waffle is part of the American psyche, but here in the UK I reckon the pancake is the lead sweet breakfast player. And in our gluten free household, waffles hadn't graced the table in decades.Until my birthday that is. When Gluten Free Wifie presented me with a gorgeous wee waffle iron that makes heart-shaped waffles. Cute :)So I've

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This isn't going to be hard.Take one whole sea trout. Roast it at 200C/400F until just cooked at the shoulder. (you can tell by prying the flesh apart with the tip of a knife and looking). Don't overcook it. Rest for 5 minutes. Eat it.You don't need to season it, herb it, or otherwise mess around with it. Reason being, sea trout was created by angels and raised by gods. Therefore it is perfect.

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This recipe is:Gluten freeDairy freeEgg freeYeast freeI'm starting a quest to make the ultimate granola bar - with the challenging caveats that it must be gluten free, dairy free, soya free, egg free AND should be robust enough to handle a bouncy day in a kid's rucksack.I know, not so easy.It's easy enough to go and buy a nut bar, but I find they're too hard and too big-nutty for the kids. Plus,

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Years ago, when we were travelling in New Zealand, we visited a cafe in Little River on the Banks Peninsular near Christchurch. Filled with local arts and crafts, the cafe also did a deep-filled sweet potato tortilla, which Gluten Free Wifie enjoyed several times (on different visits ;-)This tortilla has become part of legend, until recently, when ducks eggs became accepted to my insides again,

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I'm always really chuffed when website visitors take the time to help others by sending in their stories of travelling as coeliacs. Getting gluten free food when you're on vacation or holidaying abroad is one thing that can make or break your trip.Yesterday, I got an email from Ed Fisher who spent a year in South Korea with his coeliac girlfriend, and as you can imagine, they gathered quite a bit

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After my recent successful trip to Glasgow, I was rather pleased to have survived 8 meals without being poisoned.When making my selection, I didn't just go for the first restaurant that said "Yes, no problem", I looked at the menus, sent emails and generally did some serious groundwork. I really didn't want to have our weekend away spoiled by being glutened.So I thought I would make an article

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