Pheline

I am too, but I've been cooking, baking and brewing for a long time and have always been free and easy with substitutions of many kinds. (DH isn't, sad to say...) If I were making an apple crisp, I would use any other kind of flour- so far, in this gluten free exploration, I've used rice, corn and buckwheat. I liked the zucchini bread I made with a...

I don't know- but I have fibromyalgia/brain fog/maybe ADD and am now trying gluten free to see if anything changes. I take Addarall XR and find it helps with the brain fog and some of the pain and depression. (hard to not get depressed when life is disorganised and can't cope with the various messes around me!) It's great to not fall asleep in class...

I've been wondering for a long time..... I've heard there are high rates of celiac disease in Ireland, and gluten free meals are readily (?) available so people must be fairly aware of a celiac diet. But, the stereotype of Irish people includes a lot of time at pubs, lots of beer or other drinking- generally it seems Irish whiskey comes to mind. I've...