Saturday, September 23, 2006
Bento #120
Check out the (seems like) million and one amazing 'Bento's from Ngoc at her website Cooking Cute. The attention to detail and innovation that goes into each and every one of these gluten free boxes for herself and her husband is incredible. And to think I had never even heard of Bento before she posted in the Coeliac Flickr pool!
Saturday, May 13, 2006
Malabi - milk pudding with pistachio's
According to 'make life sweeter' this is "A milk pudding thickened with rice flour and flavoured with rose water. Popular dessert in Israel."
The photography is sumptious, just as the dessert sounds! I hope we can get a recipe from her! ;)
The photography is sumptious, just as the dessert sounds! I hope we can get a recipe from her! ;)
Wednesday, February 01, 2006
Gluten Free Beer Festival!
For any coeliac beer lovers lucky enough to live in the vicinity of Chesterfield, this event on the 4th February was made for you! Note that you must buy tickets in advance.
http://www.glutenfreebeerfestival.com
gf choc chip cookie VI
The latest invention of the wonderfully talented (with gf foods and with words!) shaunaforce
Look out for the amazing recipes to accompany the Flickr pics, and feast yourself on her stories to accompany them at her Gluten-Free Girl blog
Look out for the amazing recipes to accompany the Flickr pics, and feast yourself on her stories to accompany them at her Gluten-Free Girl blog
Thursday, January 12, 2006
Origins
I don't know why, but in the year I have been diagnosed, I have never really thought about what gluten actually means. I had thrown myself so rigorously into eliminating gluten from my diet on a per-food basis, and following my rule book from Coeliac UK of what I could and could not eat, that I came to view it as some nasty entity all to itself which manufacturers like to put in all sorts of foods (roast chicken? coleslaw?) just to taunt me.
So I was using a new reference source at work and decided to look up gluten and see if it returned anything interesting. And who would have thought it? (Probably everybody except me), the word actually comes directly from Latin:
Collins Latin Dictionary
Which makes sense when considering the definition of gluten in the Collins Dictionary of Medicine:
"...insoluble, glue-like protein constituent of wheat that causes stickiness in dough"
Additionally (I am shamed to say that I hadn't bothered to find out what exactly contained gluten, just what I could eat to avoid it, but "Gluten consists of two proteins - gliadin and glutenin. Some people are sensitive to gluten and in these it causes the intestinal malabsorption disorder coeliac disease. Gluten is found in wheat, oats, barley, rye and similar grain cereals"
If only that glue didn't make bread and cakes so ridiculously tasty! But once settled in a GF diet and feeling the relief of eating without tension and bloating, I for one would find it impossible to go back. Not even for a little nibble of sticky cookie dough!
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Additional info:
Many medicinal products contain gluten as part of their inert ingredients.
Pharmaceutical Medicine Dictionary
(Gluten) is used in gluten bread for diabetics, and as an additive to chocolate and coffee.
Philip's Encyclopedia
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Coffee? I shall be checking my information, but I've always been led to believe that all coffees and teas are gluten free. And gluten bread for diabetics? Pah, never heard of it!
So I was using a new reference source at work and decided to look up gluten and see if it returned anything interesting. And who would have thought it? (Probably everybody except me), the word actually comes directly from Latin:
Collins Latin Dictionary
Which makes sense when considering the definition of gluten in the Collins Dictionary of Medicine:
"...insoluble, glue-like protein constituent of wheat that causes stickiness in dough"
Additionally (I am shamed to say that I hadn't bothered to find out what exactly contained gluten, just what I could eat to avoid it, but "Gluten consists of two proteins - gliadin and glutenin. Some people are sensitive to gluten and in these it causes the intestinal malabsorption disorder coeliac disease. Gluten is found in wheat, oats, barley, rye and similar grain cereals"
If only that glue didn't make bread and cakes so ridiculously tasty! But once settled in a GF diet and feeling the relief of eating without tension and bloating, I for one would find it impossible to go back. Not even for a little nibble of sticky cookie dough!
****
Additional info:
Many medicinal products contain gluten as part of their inert ingredients.
Pharmaceutical Medicine Dictionary
(Gluten) is used in gluten bread for diabetics, and as an additive to chocolate and coffee.
Philip's Encyclopedia
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Coffee? I shall be checking my information, but I've always been led to believe that all coffees and teas are gluten free. And gluten bread for diabetics? Pah, never heard of it!
Coeliac - Wheat Free Cookery!
Ok, I am coeliac myself so I know the description 'Wheat free' is not entirely accurate (it should be gluten free) but this blog came out of a group I started on Flickr with the same name. At the time I decided that for the casual browser, wheat free is easier to understand than gluten free (for the same reason I tell McDonalds I am allergic to bread, not that I have coeliac disease) so named it as such to encourage posting. I have been diagnosed with coeliac disease for about a year now, however would estimate to have had it for a good while longer, and started the Flickr group very recently.
As well as Flickr pictures, there are many other interesting things about coeliac disease on the internet. My brain is however too fragile to remember them all, so here they will also appear.
As well as Flickr pictures, there are many other interesting things about coeliac disease on the internet. My brain is however too fragile to remember them all, so here they will also appear.
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