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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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!
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.
I recently discovered a German bakery in olde town Arvada called Rheinlander which happens to make some gluten free goodies. Everything from fresh loaves of bread to decadent treats. Not only gluten free but also some sugar free stuff for those watching their girlish figure. I have been so pleased with the stuff I get from this bakery that I’ve basically made it my sole provider of gluten free goodness. Its been a long time since I have had soft fresh bread and first time I have had gf bread I thought actually tastes good.
So far I’ve tried the sourdough and banana bread. Along with that I’ve also had coffee cake which was so good the guys at work even liked it. One guy said it might be the best he’s had. I’ve also had some little cakes and other treats which were all delicious. The only thing I didn’t like but still thought was pretty good was the blueberry coffee cake and that was just because I don’t like blueberries as much as I thought.
Obviously I highly recommend this place. If you don’t have celiacs its even more worth a visit because the glutenous cakes and pastries they offer look incredible. If you do have celiacs this is a must stop no matter where you live.
I just tried the gluten free Valencia Orange Cake from Starbucks and it was good. One of the better gf foods I have tried. It was also individually packaged to pevent cross contamination. Seriously, it was good. I wouldn’t recommend it to the lucky ones that can eat gluten, but for us freaks that can’t go grab one. Just not every day, $1.95 is kinda pricey.
According to their blogStarbucks is going to offer gluten free Orange Valencia Cake. They even took precautions on cross contamination and its made with 7 ingredients. Unfortunately orange cake sounds disgusting. I wish they gf free scones or bear claws or something. I miss the glutens.
I'm Mike Kauspedas - working in IT for a small web hosting company called GearHost who loves to cycle and has to eat gluten-free. Most of my posts will focus on gluten-free foods and restaurants around Denver Colorado with a sprinkling of cycling in between some posts about technology, guides, and how-to's for web hosting.
I'm Mike Kauspedas - working in IT for a small web hosting company called GearHost who loves to cycle and has to eat gluten-free. Most of my posts will focus on gluten-free foods and restaurants around Denver Colorado with a sprinkling of cycling in between some posts about technology, guides, and how-to's for web hosting.
