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Thank you for taking the time to check out my blog. I feel like it is important for you to understand my motivation to be healthy while enjoying life. I have lived for so long concentrating on the glass being half empty rather than half full. This is my public commitment to change that way of thinking and just be happy.

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Wednesday, February 10, 2010

I just want to bake something!

Tonight the quest was to find bread or roll for turkey burgers at whole foods. I was there for an hour and a half but for good reasons! I encountered two women. One was faced with the reality of living a gluten free life as a person who makes a living cooking for others. The other woman who is a gluten free was very knowledgeable about this exclusive “club”. It was a feeling of relief that I was not facing this alone and that someone could tell me the things that they have tried that were actually good. The first woman I started talking to was new to this lifestyle and we became fast friends trying to talk through the options that we both had. Both of us willing to do whatever it takes to just have one of life’s simple pleasures…a chocolate chip cookie! After our immediate connection we both found through our research that this involved a combination of gluten free flours and one secret ingredient:

All-Purpose Flour Blend- Use this blend for your gluten-free baking.
1/2 cup rice flour
1/4 cup tapioca starch/flour
1/4 cup cornstarch or potato starch
Self-Rising Flour Blend - Use this blend for muffins, scones, cakes, or cupcakes.

1 1/4 cups white sorghum flour
1 1/4 cups white rice flour
1/2 cup tapioca starch/flour
2 teaspoons xanthan or guar gum
4 teaspoons baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt

It seems like this would be the first thing you learn when you find out what a gluten free lifestyle is about but it is not. I have found that the combination or types of flours used when baking vary and there is no consistency. What is up with that!

Happy Thoughts: Found out today Peet’s coffee has dutch cocoa that is milk fat free J

Special Stuff: The Flying Apron is a cool dairy free and gluten free cookbook!

Other Notables: Buckwheat doesn’t derive from wheat so it’s ok to eat! There are several chocolate sorbets that are gluten and dairy free J

MENU

Breakfast: Trader Joes Gluten free granola

Lunch: Veggie Grill Baja Fiesta salad (no salsa or cucumbers)

Soy vanilla latte

Dinner - Turkey Burger – cumin, cayenne, oregano, avocado, lettuce, gluten free dairy free bread from whole foods. Salad with walnuts and cranberries and pomegranate dressing!

Dessert - Chocolate sorbet

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