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

 If you followed my blog in the past you know that we were big homemade pizza fans. Basically, every Sunday night was pizza night. Homemade sauce, store-bought cheese and GF pizza dough made from scratch. If you like pizza and want a ton of GF options for different crusts check out Peter Bronski's book on GF pizza -https://amzn.to/4r7zrIJ I have used many different recipes and tons of flour combinations but although our go-to was good it was still GF pizza. Enter Caputo's GF Pizza Flour. I heard about this and was interested. It is made with wheat starch which technically does not contain the gluten antigen but I was skeptical and cautions and did a bunch of research. Italy is the home of pizza and Italy has a lot of celiac patients and tons of GF options. So I ordered some Caputo's from Amazon. You can find it here -https://amzn.to/3MUGoip I followed the recipe on the bag. It was less liquidy than my other GF pizza dough flours and easier to work with. The dough, on a pre-...

 I used to love beer. I liked hoppy, darker beer. Pre-celiac I would drink Rogue and Sierra Nevada and Guiness and Negro Modela to name a few. But, that all changed after I was diagnosed. I tried New Planet and Redbridge but the taste was not to my liking. Then I found Ground Breaker a.k.a Harvester and loved their No. 5 IPA. They are located in Portland. I found Ghost Fish from Seattle and loved their IPA's too. Glutenberg from Canada was around but I believe they closed. Then Holidaly from Golden, CO popped up and they have some really nice beers. As I got older, alcohol just didn't agree with me so I stopped drinking. But, I missed the taste of beer. At times I missed the ritual, like cracking open one during a hockey game or after a long hike. The non-alcoholic beer market has exploded but I couldn't find any GF NA beers. I even reached out to a few places and was told that they got the request from others but it was not on the agenda for the near future. Enter  Go Brew...

 I'm back. It was 2021 when I last posted and unfortunately, I still have Celiac Disease. I have been spending more time working on my YouTube Channel where I cover Total Knee Replacement stuff and other Orthopedic Information -  My YouTube Channel For those of us that have to, or choose to, live a GF lifestyle, we all find great joy in finding a new place that offers GF food. Even better when it is 100% GF. And when the food tastes awesome, well, you get where I am going. So I was driving through Solana Beach the other day and saw a sign that I had not seen before - The Coop . I got home and checked it out and found out that it was 100% GF. I grabbed my wife and we headed there for lunch. The menu was pretty extensive. I got the turkey sandwich, and a pizza, and a cookie, and a cinnamon roll. I had worked up an appetite after a long hike (and I didn't finish it all, but tasted everything). The sandwich and bread was incredible. The pizza was like a personal deep dish with a l...

 Living in San Diego I am lucky to have a number of GF options. One place we have frequented for a while is Nectarine Grove in Leucadia, California. It is 100% Gluten Free. You can eat anything. They have awesome everything bagels and a number of pastries. Breakfast options, salads and sandwiches. I like their Chicken sammie which is a plantain encrusted fried chicken sandwich on their homemade GF roll. The spicy BBQ sauce is awesome and you get a side salad or fries. YES, GF fries in a GF fryer. I'll have to add a photo here next time I go for you to see... But, the nice thing is they opened another place even closer to home and what is cool is that the menu is totally different so there is a reason to visit both locations. First, they have GF croissants. So good that my son, who looks out for me, even asked "Dad, are you sure these are GF?" Super flaky and delicious. And, they have chocolate croissants. GF Sourdough bread. Delicious. Their chiliquilles for breakfast is ...

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...