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

 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...

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...

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 n...