Safiyah

I found a recipe for French Bread which was very quick and easy. I love French Bread but I don't know much about baking bread and I have never cared for crunchy bread. I like it soft. But the recipe makes it very easy, so I make the bread and when it's cooled down to just barely warm I put the loaves into ziplock bags. I freeze the bread I...

I sent an email to Starbucks and asked which of their products were gluten free. One thing she mentioned was that sometimes the blended items, though they themselves may be gluten free, if the drink BEFORE it wasn't gluten free, then maybe that might cause cross contamination. Maybe that was the cause? Safiyah

Some time ago I bought a rice cooker. I love it, I can cook anything from omlettes to potatoes and onions to rice dishes. I downloaded a huge 79 page PDF file (apparently from Panasonic, because I can't find another author listed there) of rice cooker recipes that I'm finding are very easy to adapt to a gluten free diet. The only dishes I can find that...

I'm still having problems. I've been on this gluten free diet a month, you'd think I'd be able to go now, but I'm still having problems going to the bathroom. How long does this usually last before I will start getting better? It seems my input is much more than my output, but maybe I'm wrong. I've got an appointment this Wednesday, maybe she'll do...

Thank you for the tip. I thought about getting a PDA or something but do not have the money right now. Maybe sometime in the future, who knows? I wasn't aware of the lists on this site, I'll have to track them down... Safiyah

So the doctor has diagnosed me with Celiac disease, though I have yet to have a colonoscopy or biopsy to see how bad it is... So far I have visited Vitamin Cottage and recieved a list of all their products that are gluten-free. Wow, what service! Whenever I shop there, I always get a feeling that they care. Rare nowadays. I have a couple of cookbooks...