The Un-Gluten Guy (My Gluten Free Recipes & GF Adventures)

Life, work and kids all create a big to do list and blogposts seem to be at the bottom of that list. Anyway, I do have to add some posts soon. We have found some good new GF options that we use at home now on a regular basis. We took a trip to Bend, Oregon this summer.  If you enjoy the outdoors this is a great place to visit.  I’ll share with you the many places we found that offered good and safe GF options. I am also happy that  Sweetfin  Poke opened up near us.  This is a great poke place (that also offers vegetarian options) but everything is GF. This fall I am looking forward to Peter Bronski’s new book on GF pizza. (No Gluten No Problem) I’m also happy to report that the best and my favorite GF bakery, ( New Cascadia ), now has a mail delivery service. Be back soon.

I noticed that I have been slacking on the blog updates.  I do have some recipes to add and a bunch of new GF products that I have found.  But, one of the best new additions I have found was another dedicated GF Brewery out of the incredible Pacific Northwest.  Home to beautiful mountains, rivers, steelhead, salmon and GF Beer.  My other favorite GF beer is just south of these guys in Portland, Oregon - Groundbreaker Brewing  (The brew pub is also a block away from my favorite GF Bakery - New Cascadia Traditional. I found out about  Ghostfish Brewing  after hearing about all of the medals they won at the 2015 Beer events.  They are another dedicated GF Brewer located in Seattle, Washington.  Three guys making great GF beer. I was able to get my hands on three of their beers.  They did not last very long because they were all very good. Grapefruit IPA This won the Bronze Medal at the 2015 Great American Beer Festival.  Its made with sorghum, brown rice, candi syrup, hops, gra

Life.  I knew I was busy but I did not realize that it had been 8, yes eight, months since my last post.  I have tweeted here and there (definitely requires less time) but not a peep on the blog in eight months. I have some cool things to share so I'll try to be better with updates.  I found some new products that I'll post about.  We have developed some new recipes.  A great new gadget we found was a dumpling maker so I'll have to share our experience and dough recipe.  BEER, happy to see more people getting in the craft GF beer market. But first I wanted to break bread with everyone. I was never a big bread eater.  I was definitely not a fan of grocery store bought, mass produced, white bread.  But give me a good baguette or artisan loaf and I was in heaven.  Some hard cheese, salami or a good soup to dip it into - that's what I miss. How happy was I to then find Artisan Bread in Five.  I'm not sure if I saw it in a magazine or e-zine or twitter post but I

I grew up near Philadelphia, home of the cheesesteak, soft pretzels and sunday morning bagels.  I remember that bag of fresh, hot bagels, cream cheese, lox, red onions, capers, whitefish.  Hungry yet? Once I moved to the west coast bagels were still an option.  We could pick them up at a number of the big chain bagel stores around San Diego.  Once I had to go GF there was one option - Udi's.  Although it was GF, Udi's bagels are fair. I was happy to hear about Sweet Note Bakery  and their GF bagels handcrafted in Philadelphia.  You can read all about Michelle and her story on their website. My wife ordered a box to be delivered.  It came with eight 4 packs of GF bagels.  We got 3 bags of plain (mainly to make pizza bagels), 4 everything and 1 cinnamon raisin.  They ship frozen with an ice pack and were delivered 48 hours later to my front door. Their bagels are GF, egg free, soy free, dairy free, peanut and tree-nut free and non-GMO if you were wondering.  In additio

We took our annual ski trip to Park City.  The kids always look forward to it.  Unfortunately, like most of the West, it was pretty dry.  Most of the runs were open and kids still had fun.  They skied 4 days and I rode with them on Monday and Friday.  It finally snowed on Friday, so we had a few inches of fresh powder. To not bore you with repeat reviews you can see my post on our Park City trip from  2012  and  2013 . We definitely made it back to  Loco Lizard .  You can't miss this place for 100% GF mexican. We also had a few GF pizzas from  Park City Pizza . My new find was  501 On Main .  This place was awesome.  Most of their dishes are GF and everyone was knowledgable about GF and celiac.  The wife and I stopped in for lunch one day and sat at the bar.  We had the Utah Onion Slivers - you have to order these.  They were served with an awesome dipping sauce and it was delicious.  The super duper bonus is they have a GF fryer.  For lunch I had the turkey melt on GF Udi&

Well, its over but it was fun.  This was definitely the best expo that I have been to and there was lots to see and try.  The folks at  GFAF Expo  describe themselves as the largest Gluten Free and Allergen Free Expo in the US and I agree. While I was there I met Angela aka the celiac hash girl.  She has a cool  blog (celiachashigirl.com)  that you should check out. Massel's  had a nice booth front and center.  They make gluten free bouillon.  It comes in cubes, a condensed liquid and a granule form.  Not only is it GF but its vegan.  They have vegetable, chicken and beef flavors.  I made Vietnamese Pho with the beef and you would never know that its vegan.  Great to travel with if you cook when you travel - no more searching for GF broths. Udi's  was also up front.  Serving up their snacks and bread.  There stuff is always great and you can always find their bread in my freezer. One of our new finds was  Smart Flour.   They make pizza with an ancient grain crust.  T