Easy Gluten Free Living

This blog will be taking a slight change of direction for a while.  I will be writing more about celiac disease and children. 

You see, just before Christmas, we found out that our oldest granddaughter, Courtney 6 1/2, tested positive for celiac disease.  Read the rest of this entry »

Celiac Disease is an autoimmune, malabsorption disease of the small intestine.  When people with Celiac Disease eat gluten, Read the rest of this entry »

It’s hard to believe that we are about to celebrate a new year’s arrival.  I feel like 2010 just flew by.

This is always the time when I start making my  New Years Resolutions. 

One of my biggest resolutions this year is eating more healthy.  Although I try to eat a well balanced diet everyday Read the rest of this entry »

Well after much baking, cooking, and measuring, my new cookbook is finally for sale.  As you can probably figure out from the title of this post, it is called Gluten Free Get-Togethers and you can find it for sale at Easy Gluten Free Foods. 

Now let me give you a little background on how this cookbook came to be.  If you’ve been reading this blog for a while then you know that I have been a Celiac since 1987.  For a very long time I “did without” all the goodies that I had loved before my diagnosis.  But then I started missing all the great party foods and lets face it,  the “Parties” too.  So I decided that I would take all the foods that I had loved before Celiac Disease and make them gluten free.

Now, I have been making the gluten free recipes in this cookbook for well over 15 years, but anyone who cooks a lot can tell you that you can get so familiar with a recipe that you stop measuring the ingredients and that’s pretty much what happened with me.  But then I went to a live internet marketing event that totally changed my life.  This cookbook is the direct result of that event. 

Now let me tell you a little about the cookbook.  I think the title says it all.  When people get together for any reason, parties, picnics, potlucks, everything revolves around the food.  But when you’re a celiac or gluten intolerant, you have to worry about everything surrounding food.

In Gluten Free Get-Togethers I show you exactly how you can be a part of the party scene again without worrying so much about things like cross contamination when attending a party, how to host a party without fear of your condiments being contaminated, and most importantly, how to host a party and have food that you can safely eat, but your guests will never guess are eating gluten free.

This cookbook has a variety of foods from appetizers to casseroles to breads, desserts, and muffins.

This was a labor of love for me and I hope you find it helpful too.  Especially right now as we head into the most food oriented time of the year.

Linnea Wiedeman says:

December 13, 2010 at 12:25 am (Edit)

I have been allergic to gluten since I was 9 almost 20 years and I have a gluten free diet I am strict about. Recently my hair has been falling out Read the rest of this entry »

It’s hard to believe that here in the United States Thanksgiving is just a little over a week away.  I have so much to be thankful for this year.  A loving husband, adult children that are also our friends, 3 healthy, beautiful granddaughters, ages 6, 3 and 2 months.

I thought that today I would share a recipe for a nice moist turkey without all the time it takes to roast a whole turkey. 

                                                  Tender Juicy Turkey Breasts  Read the rest of this entry »

Hello Everyone.  I just wanted to let you all know why I haven’t been around much the past few months.

September has been a time of great joy and immense sadness for our family.  Read the rest of this entry »

I had a question from Sharon about Bards Beer:

I live in Pittsburgh, and my husband has a gluten allergy. I have difficulty finding Bards that is even remotely fresh. At a “Mom and Pop Beer Warehouse” the staff was ecstatic because they were able to locate a case of Bards with a January, 2010 stamp. Unfortunately, it was July, 2010 when they made their discovery. I did buy the case anyway, because it was my husband’s birthday. His only comment was, “this is really hoppy.” I didn’t tell him it was six months old. Read the rest of this entry »

Hi Mary,
I have been gluten free for 8 months. what I wish someone would have told me is: The bodies reaction concerning probiotics, the good bacteria in our bodies that are fed by wheat. I am having a harder time finding an inner balance bacteria wise. I am taking probiotics now and I am searching for something to replace the wheat (prebiotic) in my diet. Any ideas would be helpful. Also, everything I know so far I have learned on the internet, do you know what kind of dr would be helpful to the celiac or wheat intolerant?

Jodie Nielsen

Hi Jodie,

Good question.  I’m going to briefly touch on what probiotics are and then go into prebiotics. Read the rest of this entry »

I live in a small town about 50 miles north of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, so there’s not much hope of getting pizza from a pizzeria in my town.  However, my daughter and son-in-law live in the heart of the city and on Saturday my husband and I were at their house for the day.  My husband was helping our son-in-law cut a doorway into a wall for their new deck.  

 Our daughter had told me about a pizza shop in her neighborhood Read the rest of this entry »