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Best Gluten Free Cook Book

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pinktulip Apprentice
pinktulip
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Actually a couple will do, make a great gift for my dad for his birthday and Christmas. He's a great chef, so skill level doesn't matter. He's been to cooking school and even owned a resturant, but stopped when he moved.

I looked at amazon .com and there are so many.

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Actually a couple will do, make a great gift for my dad for his birthday and Christmas. He's a great chef, so skill level doesn't matter. He's been to cooking school and even owned a resturant, but stopped when he moved.

I looked at amazon .com and there are so many.

In my opinion the best cookbook is Annalaise Robert's Gluten Free Baking Classics. Amazon carries it for 11.53 and it is a WONDERFUL cookbook. Everything I have made turns out perfect and gets rave reviews.

-Jessica :rolleyes:

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Pilgrim South Rookie
Pilgrim South
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Actually a couple will do, make a great gift for my dad for his birthday and Christmas. He's a great chef, so skill level doesn't matter. He's been to cooking school and even owned a resturant, but stopped when he moved.

I looked at amazon .com and there are so many.

My favorite is Special Diet Solutions by Carol Fenster. It has various food allergy, gluten free choices for each recipe. So if you can't have one of her ingredients she suggests another. Everything we have made from it is just delicious! Enjoy!

jerseyangel Proficient
jerseyangel
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The one I reach for most is "The Gluten Free Kitchen" by Roben Ryberg. Good, everyday, straightforward recipes :)

Guhlia Rising Star
Guhlia
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My favorite cookbooks are the ones by Bette Hagman, the gluten free gourmet. However, I must add that if your father is already a trained chef, he should have no problem converting his old recipes to gluten free status. I use the same flour blend for everything I make and I often use glutenous recipes and just sub my flour blend for all-purpose flour. I don't think I've had a major flop in almost a year, ever since I started using normal recipes again. Perhaps, if he's newly diagnosed, the yellow and black dummie's guide would be best, It's called something like Living Gluten Free for Dummies. That book is excellent for someone new to the diet.

Bette Hagman's The Gluten Free Gourmet Cooks Fast & Healthy is my absolute favorite.

2Boys4Me Enthusiast
2Boys4Me
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Angie, what's your all purpose blend?

As to the original question: I have Annalise Roberts Baking Classics, Roben Ryberg's Gluten Free Kitchen, Sheri Sanderson's Incredible Edible Gluten Free Food for Kids and Carol Fenster's Wheat Free Recipes and Menus. I have certain recipes from each that I rely on. I also have Bette Hagman's GFG Bakes Bread, but don't use it that often unless I need bread for stuffing or something (Ty won't eat bread).

Pilgrim South Rookie
Pilgrim South
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Actually a couple will do, make a great gift for my dad for his birthday and Christmas. He's a great chef, so skill level doesn't matter. He's been to cooking school and even owned a resturant, but stopped when he moved.

I looked at amazon .com and there are so many.

Oh yes, I also like the recipes on Bob's Red Mill page. Open Original Shared Link

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breann6 Contributor
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i like the bette hagman ones too- esp the comfort foods one- love it!!

~breann

Sophiekins Rookie
Sophiekins
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Rebecca Reilly's "Gluten Free Baking" - she's a french-trained pastry chef. . .and mom to a celiac. Her recipes are flawless and so good that my family regularly tries to stop me from eating them. . .

Guhlia Rising Star
Guhlia
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Angie, what's your all purpose blend?

As to the original question: I have Annalise Roberts Baking Classics, Roben Ryberg's Gluten Free Kitchen, Sheri Sanderson's Incredible Edible Gluten Free Food for Kids and Carol Fenster's Wheat Free Recipes and Menus. I have certain recipes from each that I rely on. I also have Bette Hagman's GFG Bakes Bread, but don't use it that often unless I need bread for stuffing or something (Ty won't eat bread).

I use Bette Hagman's rice flour blend: 3 parts white rice, 2 parts potato starch, 1 part tapioca starch... I add approximately 1 teaspoon xantham gum per 1 to 1-1/2 cups of flour blend. It depends on what I'm making. I've found that my pre-gluten-free recipes all turn out about the same when using this blend. Sometimes they even turn out better.

2Boys4Me Enthusiast
2Boys4Me
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Thanks.

pinktulip Apprentice
pinktulip
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Thanks so much. I'm gonna see what barnes and nobles has and flip through before I order, not sure whether I'll use Amazon or not.

The dummies one he has, I got him as a joke, becuase we tease him that anything new he needs the dummy books.

luvs2eat Collaborator
luvs2eat
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I'm w/ you, angel jd1... Analise Roberts book is the BEST.

dragonmom Apprentice
dragonmom
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I think I've got almost every cookbook written, I like to read about what I might cook, my most recent favorite is the Gluten Free Kitchen by Roben Ryberg. I made the cinnamon bun in it and it was ......words do not do it justice :)

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Robyn Ryberg's is excellent because it uses simple, easy to find ingredients and everything I've tried has tasted great. And she's a wonderful person. The book's inexpensive and well worth it.

richard

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Actually a couple will do, make a great gift for my dad for his birthday and Christmas. He's a great chef, so skill level doesn't matter. He's been to cooking school and even owned a resturant, but stopped when he moved.

I looked at amazon .com and there are so many.

Nancy Baker has just released a revised edition of Globally Gluten-Free (2006 edition). She is the wife of a diplomat and has recipes from around the world - french, spanish, greek to name a few. She and her son are Celiacs.

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I think you can download an electronic version if that interests you.

GFBetsy Rookie
GFBetsy
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Saw the title of the thread and had to interject that my friend and I just self-published a gluten free cookbook. It's so pretty!

Sorry, I just get excited!

Betsy

Lauren M Explorer
Lauren M
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Saw the title of the thread and had to interject that my friend and I just self-published a gluten free cookbook. It's so pretty!

Sorry, I just get excited!

Betsy

Betsy - how cool! What publishing company did you use?

- Lauren

GFBetsy Rookie
GFBetsy
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Just a small local company - not a "real" publishing house or anything. But every time I look at them I'm shocked that I DID THAT! I mean, I make all the recipes all the time, but it's really impressive to me to see them in print!

I'm funny . ..

Sweetfudge Community Regular
Sweetfudge
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Yay for Betsy! I can't wait to get my hands on a copy! I told my mom she needs one too! lol!

Lauren M Explorer
Lauren M
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Just a small local company - not a "real" publishing house or anything. But every time I look at them I'm shocked that I DID THAT! I mean, I make all the recipes all the time, but it's really impressive to me to see them in print!

I'm funny . ..

Oh I totally understand your excitement. I'm getting my masters in Publication Management, so I was just interested from that sense. Did you print a set amount of copies? Print-on-demand? Are you selling copies?

Sorry if I'm being nosey :P

(or living vicariously through you!)

- Lauren

GFBetsy Rookie
GFBetsy
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Oh I totally understand your excitement. I'm getting my masters in Publication Management, so I was just interested from that sense. Did you print a set amount of copies? Print-on-demand? Are you selling copies?

Sorry if I'm being nosey :P

(or living vicariously through you!)

- Lauren

Nope . . . not nosey at all! We printed 1000 copies, and will order more when we sell enough. We are selling copies - on the internet and through local health food stores.

We've contemplated seeing about going through a "real" publisher, which would probably increase the advertising scope (amazon, etc.), but would probably decrease the amount we would make per book . . . so we're not sure we'll do it . . . but I guess things can always change, huh?

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