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

jSIX  is located in the Kimptom Hotel in the Gaslamp district of San Diego.  I have driven by it and heard about it but never visited it until last night. Chef Christian Graves has a great menu with support of local vendors.  Many items are from  Suzie's Farm  in Southern California. I head that for May, Celiac Disease Awareness Month, they were offering a Gluten Free 3 course meal for each week.  I figured that if they were doing that they must have a good handle on GF cooking. We called and they said that the menu is clearly marked which items were GF and many of the ones not listed could be changed.  Although not a separate GF menu, it is easy to see which plates are GF - one star. We were seated and given our menus and there were many GF options including grilled shrimp, braised octopus, charcuterie, pork chops and roasted chicken to name a few. Our waitress, Jaime, was excellent.  She knew the menu well and relayed my gluten ...

As you know I'm always looking for good GF beer and so far New Planet Off Grid Ale has been my favorite.  I have been looking for Epic's  Glutenator for a month now since it came out but I couldn't find it in California. We were skiing in Park City, Utah and my wife made a trip down the brewery since no one is Park City (restaurants or liquor stores) carried it. This is Epic's first trip into producing a GF beer but their goal was to produce a good beer that was also GF.  It is made with millet, molasses, rice, sweet potato and hops.  It comes in a 22 oz bottle and is 6.9% ABV. It pours nice and had a nice color and aroma.  The taste?  Well, this really does taste like a beer, a really good beer.  It didn't have the funny sweetness you get with beer made from sorghum and the hops add a nice taste to the beer. Versus New Planet I am going to have to wait and taste them side by side.  I am sure I would be a bit biased after a day on the s...

We just got back from Park City.  Spring skiing is great and we even got 5 inches of fresh powder on thursday.  I did some research before we left and found some new places but this is what happened. Arrived on Sunday and went shopping at Whole Foods in New Park.  As with most Whole Foods they had a good selection but this one had more than my local Whole Foods.  Tons of Udi's and Rudi's breads and muffins.  Their back wall had a ton of GF crackers, cookies, flour and baking supplies. We found a new one,  Andean Dream .  These cookies are GF and low in sugar and come individually wrapped.  Good for lunches or for you pockets while you are skiing. We ate lunch at  Loco Lizards  in New Park.  They claim to be 100% GF except for their flour tortillas.  Except their fryer is used for kids chicken tender and french fries.  They have a separate corn fryer.  I had the Chile Verde, it had a nice kick and tasted ...