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.
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
bd’s mongolian bbq – gluten free, sorta
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.
Pure wheat gluten aka satan aka seitan
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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