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If You're Gluten Free But Love Authentic European Food :)

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erikalikescows Newbie
erikalikescows
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I don't know if anyone else feels the same about food as I do, but I am a foodie and I really like eating foreign foods! :P I am an American and I am currently living in Germany near the Dutch border. Being a celiac in Europe is sometimes a mild form of torture :P because there are so many amazing foods I wish I could try. There were so many things that I wanted to eat, but it just wan't possible, so I decided to get a little bit creative with my own cooking and wanted to share some of the results here. :)

I figured out that if there is any gluten free food from a foreign country that you really want to try, (or that you miss and it isn't possible to find gluten free already) the best source of recipes (gluten free ones) are online in the language of the recipe country. For example, in Germany I search "glutenfrei Rezepte" or for the Netherlands "glutenvrij recepten" or for Italy "ricette senza glutine". If you don't speak those languages, then you can just use chrome as a browser and turn on the little translate button in the corner.  I especially like to use pinterest for this because you can see pictures of it and that's easier if you don't speak the language. 

 

Here are some examples:

One thing that I always want to eat is wienerschnitzel from Germany (btw you can get the bread crumbs to make these from Schar in the USA now!) 

Open Original Shared Link
 

and lasagna from Italy: 

Open Original Shared Link

 

or anything from the Netherlands :)

Open Original Shared Link

 

The results of the food when you use authentic recipes are SOOO much better than if you use an American recipe and try to modify it to be gluten free yourself. I hope that this info can help out other celiacs who really like authentic foreign foods :) and if there's a gluten free recipe in Dutch or German I would be willing to help translate it if anyone needs help! :)

 

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Gemini Experienced
Gemini
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This is awesome, Erika!  I like your attitude.  If you can't eat the food that is under your nose, then find a way to make it gluten free and these links will certainly help.-

Thank you for sharing this.....much appreciated!  :)

 

European food is so YUM!!!!!!!!

LauraTX Rising Star
LauraTX
Posted

That is a great tip!  Thanks :)

sweetpomme Newbie
sweetpomme
Posted

thank you for the tip!! can't wait to try some new recipes

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