Dinty Moore Beef Stew – Gluten Free!
http://www.hormelfoods.com/brands/dintyMoore/default.aspx
Back before I learned I was stricken with the gluten free curse, I used to eat some of the most unhealthy foods. One of those favorites was thick and creamy beef stew, the saltier the better. With nearly 100% of my daily value of sodium in one can, it's not exactly something you should eat every day. But some days demand thick canned beef stew, and today was one of those. Hormel, maker of Dinty Moore products has a microwavable beef and chicken stew that are gluten free. Along with a slew of other products. The stew tastes exactly the same as 10 years ago, when at times I would eat it cold straight from the can. Today, however, I microwaved it. My cat and dog swarmed me the entire time, thinking it was their canned food I was eating, and to be honest it does look like it. Man was it good though. $2.40 at King Soopers, that's not a bad price for lunch either. Although next time I may grab an extra can to treat the dog and cat as well, they both devoured my left over sauce. If you're in the mood for some salty soup, I wholeheartedly recommend Dinty Moore Beef Stew.
If you drain the creamy stock away, it looks just like that. No texture, all mush!
That's a good combination.
Gluten free sugar bombs!
Gluten free sugar bombs!
That's right, your eyes are not deceiving you. Those are Gluten Free Cocoa Pebbles and right next to that box were Gluten Free Fruity Pebbles. I feasted on pebbles tonight and it was glorious.
Jason’s Deli – Gluten Free Sandwhiches Review
I have had the pleasure of trying 3 different Jason's Deli sandwiches with Udi's gluten free bread. Each sandwich has been fantastic. After hearing the news, thanks to Gluten Freeville, that Jason's was going to be offering gluten free sandwiches, I made plans to eat a Reuben. Some of you may be thinking, who makes plans to eat a Ruben sandwich? Someone who hasn't been able to eat a Rueben in 3 years, that's who. That day I ate one, and it was delicious. It was everything I could have hoped for. Beautiful soft bread, lightly toasted, wrapped around a fist full of corned beef and some brown mustard. There was sauerkraut too, just enough to complete the sandwich. Oh, it was a tasty treat my friends.
While eating my Rueben, one of the servers rushed out because she forgot to warn me about cross contamination. Something I worry little about. It's going to happen, unless a place is entirely gluten free, cross contamination will be present. I thanked her for the warning and told her that didn't matter much to me, the Rueben was well worth the risk of tiny gluten particles. A few minutes after that, the manager came out to chit chat about the sandwich. Turns out his daughter is also cursed with an allergy to gluten.
So, first experience with Jason's, fantastic. Second time around I got it to go, a turkey club sandwich, I can't remember the exact name. It was another shining example of deliciousness, and again I was warned about cross contamination. Never before have I been warned by restaurant staff.
The third visit was today. I had a turkey rueben, good, but not as good as a normal rueben, but how could it be with inferior turkey instead of corned beef. The turkey isn't even corned, it's just normal thanks giving turkey. However, the turkey sits in my stomach far better than corned beef, and I do have to ride up a mountain tonight. Again, I was warned by the manager, who personally brought my sandwich out, about cross contamination. He even found me at the salad bar to let me know. And again, I didn't care.
Jason's Deli is awesome. Staff is great, food is great, and now even those of us cursed with Celiac disease can enjoy tasty sandwiches with our friends.
Gluten-Free Bisquick and Asian Helper
Saturday May 15 the Celiac Disease Foundation is holding a conference, General Mills will be there to announce some new gluten-free products. Gluten-Free bisquick and chicken fried rice asian helper, like hamburger helper with rice. GF bisquick mix sounds cool but they're a little late. I've been using gf pancake mix for waffles, pancakes, cookies, muffins, etc for a while now and I can get it at King Soopers. But there's the thing. General Mills sells in a LOT more grocery stores than the smaller boutique brands do so it will make two convenience items more available across the country. I shouldn't down play this either, its a great thing to have major brands pushing gluten-free.
In other news, my Bready will be shipping soon. Oh, I can't wait for fresh, warm, and soft gluten-free bread. I hope I can make some decent size loafs. The frozen stuff I get now at the grocery store is tiny, hardly call it sandwich bread. Unless you're a midget.
Wahoo’s Fish Tacos – Gluten Free
I'm sitting above Wahoo's Fish Tacos right now. The office I work in is actually located one floor above their restaurant. I smell delicious grilled meat every morning when they fire up the kitchen. Despite this I rarely eat there. I can't tell you why. GearHost actually has a house account with them so getting fishy tacos is as simple as walking down there and putting it on the house account, for free. (Margaritas as well, but they aren't as good.) But I never did because I usually eat larabars and salads because I've grown into a wimpy girl thanks to my glutenous allergy and weight watching.
The #8 chargrilled fish bowl has 900 calories. That's a pretty decent amount if you're counting. But of those 900 calories you only get 10 grams of fat, 65 grams of protein, and 143 grams of carbs. Damn! I should be eating this as my after ride meal or after workout. However, this isn't a perfect world. It also packs 2025 mg of sodium and the recommended daily intake is 2300. Hmm, that might account for the bloated feeling after, albeit a good full of fishy rice and beans bloated feeling. Those values might be different with brown rice as well. They also seem awfully high, maybe I'm just reading their nutrition info wrong.
Now that we're past the nitty gritty we can get into taste. Yes, it's delicious, I'm not the only one that thinks so. Wahoo's is regularly packed at lunch and there are always a few people munching on something throughout the day.
Short and sweet, there you have it. BTW, the sauce is gluten free as well, the little tub of green sauce you get with the bowl. Here's a list of gluten-free stuff they sent me in an email as well. http://www.mikesaysmeh.com/Wahoo-FoodAllergens102209.xls
I go to the Denver location off Blake street, near Blake and 15th in lodo.
Larabars
I think I've tried every flavor of larabars so far and the best one by far is peanut butter cookie. Not to say the other ones aren't bad, but the pb cookie is that much better. Lemon bar is also a favorite and actually reminded me of my Grandma's lemon bars. So much that I had my wife make some gluten free lemon bars, but they weren't Grandma's, probably because they were missing delicious gluten. A box of larabars runs about $20 at King Soopers and lasts me and my wife 2 weeks. There are some days when all I have for lunch is one. They make great fuel on long rides as well.
Gluten-Free Bread making Robot for President!
http://mybready.com/index.php/
It's $300 but can you put a price on joy? On deliciousness? No, you can't. This is exactly what I have been looking for and I have to thank my wife for finding it for me. Gluten-free bread is normally frozen and never fresh. Unless you can actually find a restaurant that serves it, like Le Central (more on that later), your gluten-free bread experience will leave something to be desired. Bready, possibly the best robot ever created - yes it's a robot - is going to change that for all of us who live with the gluten-free curse. That is why my vote will be a write-in for Bready. It's also why your vote should be for Bready as well.
Gluten-free Frito-Lay Products
You can find a list of gluten-free Frito-Lay products on their site here. Its actually pretty damn long.I eat plain fritos sometimes when I'm in a pinch and judging from the way I feel and the ingredients on the back I figured they were safe. I just did a quick double check online today and found out I was right, and there are a lot more unhealthy chips I can eat as well. Gonna be tough staying away from all that deliciousness.
http://fritolay.com/your-health/for-special-dietary-needs.html
Just click on product not containing gluten. Here's just a few.
Last updated February 24, 2010
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OMFG! – Progresso Traditional New England Clam Chowder is Gluten Free!
Gluten free deliciousness.
This is the first time I have found out one of my old staples is gluten free. I LOVE clam chowder and now I can eat it again. I don't know if this has always been gluten free. Regardless I know what I'm having for dinner tonight!
Alton Brown – Chewy Gluten Free Cookies Video
My wife found this youtube video recently. Its a recipe from Alton Brown Good Eats for "chewy" gluten free cookies. Believe me when I say most gluten free cookies are far from chewy. But Alton brown, being the genius that he is, managed to form a recipe that produces gluten free cookies that are both delicious and chewy. Then my wife took it one step further and made them even closer to perfection, she removed the grittiness that you get with some of the flour used. I'm not exactly sure what she did, but her magic works great. The recipe as it stands is great, but there is a slight gritty graininess to the cookies.
Scroll to about 3 minutes to see the gluten free part, the first bit is peanut free. Thank god I can eat peanuts. One of the most interesting piece of info I got from the show was xanthum gum replaces gluten. I didn't know that and always wondered why gf recipes used xanthum gum all the time. now I know. You're supposed to let the cookies cool but I never can. They're just too delicious.
The recipe from Food Network.
http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/alton-brown/the-chewy-gluten-free-recipe/index.html
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