Archive for March, 2010

Eating Chocolate Covered Cotton

Sunday, March 28th, 2010

A gluten free diet can be surprisingly tasty, but there’s still the occasional assault on the palate. The texture of rice flour breads is not quite right, and the yeast aroma can be overwhelming. Dry pastries, crunchy bread, tasteless cookies, tooth-chipping crackers - these are all things we had to try before we found the ones […]

Rediscovering My Kitchen

Sunday, March 21st, 2010

When the only safe options for eating out on a gluten free diet are really expensive restaurants and chains, it’s time to start eating in more often. I don’t mind, though, because I love to cook.
The biggest problem now is that I’m constantly reminded about the deficiencies of my kitchen. The house was built in […]

Follow the Smug Cloud

Sunday, March 14th, 2010

So, since we’re now a gluten free household, we’ve had to break down and become the type of people who shop at Whole Foods. We still resist it, only shopping there for specialty items like gluten-free andouille sausage, this non-frozen gluten-free bread we can’t seem to find anywhere else, sorghum beer and an array of […]

Toxic Comfort Food

Sunday, March 7th, 2010

I must admit, it was a little depressing to read Two for the Road at the time I was reading it. We were on a short road trip of our own, staying in a little cabin on Lake Murray, a few miles north of the Red River in Oklahoma. I’d been there before with friends, […]