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!
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
Just went to bd’s for lunch here in Denver. They have spicy bbq and lemon which are gluten free. They just don’t have soy sauce. They have gf stickers above the sauces advertising the fact as well. I had the lemon and it was ok, not enough flavor but you can add spices to it. I’ll go for the spicy bbq next time.
One of the guys I work with ate this stuff a couple weekends ago. It is seriously a wheat-meat steak. Yes, people eat pure wheat gluten. Now I completely understand eating bread and pasta, delicious foods that happen to have gluten in them. But pure gluten? Come on …
Well, its stuff for vegans that completely steer away from eating anything made from an animal. Or vegetarians as well who just don’t like meat. I like all food, including gluten. Unfortunately gluten does not like me.
But now I wonder, perhaps I’m holier than thou? I would assume so seeing as the only food I can’t eat is called Seitan, pronounced “Satan” or say-tahn.
It looks disgusting too.
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