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  1. Takala
    The cake pan itself.... should be scrubbed clean of gluteny residue or a dedicated, new cake pan should be used. Don't spread the frosting with an old gummy rubber spatula. Use a clean metal table knife. Baking the cake: baking times/and temperatures for gluten free items may vary from wheat using recipes. It helps to take a clean table knife...
  2. Takala
    Do you know if you are lactose (milk sugars, found in fresh unaged milk products) intolerant, dairy intolerant, or casein (milk protein) intolerant ? Since you were recently diagnosed, you may go thru a phase where you find you cannot digest dairy products, as you heal up internally, this ability may come back to where you find you can once again eat some...
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    There's a reason the Indigenous Peoples of the Americas used things like corn for tortillas and beans to put on or next to the tortillas.... or the Europeans, growing peas and barley, made bread out of the barley and soup out of the peas... That being said, you might want to just mail order the garbanzo bean flour from somewhere if you can't find it...
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    I have this theory that there is a Bread Baking Bean Flour Poltergeist, a spirit caught between the two worlds, that goes around from kitchen to kitchen, trying to bake a perfect loaf and always doomed to failure, and this time it was your turn to host it.
  5. Takala
    For vinegar, try plain, real apple cider vinegar made from 100% apple juice, NOT the apple cider flavored vinegar. I keep a jug of apple cider vinegar in the pantry, a bottle on the counter, and a glass shaker top cruette of it on the counter, and I use it for salads, baking, meat marinades, counter cleaning, etc. I also have some in a spray bottle mixed...
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    Yeah, I "know" how scientists are. In science, one observes a condition. One comes up with a hypothesis as to what could be the cause of the condition. The hypothesis is based on observations of other things The hypothesis is tested out by experimenting The results are noted If the hypothesis is correct, the testing situation shows...
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    Finally made it to Mariposa Bakery in Oakland yesterday (phew, heavy traffic on the interstate, we live about an hour north of Sacramento then have to go across 80 to the Bay area) and it was good ! This was the first slice of pizza I had had that was not homemade in 5 years. Yay ! It had some sort of leek/potato spinach topping with the cheese and...
  8. Takala
    We visited a gluten free bakery yesterday about 2.5 hours from where we live, in Oakland. Aaaahhhh. Can't wait to go back. They have a little sit down section in the very front where you can eat your goodies and drink coffee or whatnot. My husband ate some too and it was good enough that even non gluey's would enjoy it. We had a slice of pizza and some...
  9. Takala
    Yes, there is a difference. People who are "gluten intolerant" don't have the ability to digest the proteins of wheat, barley, and rye grains properly. Those proteins are called gluten. If a person who is gluten intolerant keeps eating gluten, over time, they will develop an auto immune disease with many different symptoms. This disease may cause...
  10. Takala
    Take a safe gluten free rice cake. Smash it into a bowl. = Rice cereal. Re the seasoned tomato products... BEWARE. Do not use if it says "natural seasonings" or has maltodextrin. Do not assume your maltodextrin products are always corn based anymore in the US. I have seen some Contadina tomato products like seasoned tomato paste that now have wheat...
  11. Takala
    Go back to the "really strict diet" part and add in one thing at a time and see how you react. In general, the more unprocessed food you have in your diet, the better off you'll be. Vinegar- I try to stick to real apple cider vinegar only. Chocolate milk. No. Not unless I made it myself of milk substitute, cocoa powder, and sweetener. Butter...
  12. Takala
    You feel anxious because you have been glutened. You need to "sell" your needs to the wait staff. Wait staff varies from the kind and helpful to the hopelessly ding a ling. Tell them it's a wheat and barley allergy. So NO wheat or bread or flour products. You say "gluten" and they won't hear it correctly. I have found one has to be extremely...
  13. Takala
    If you want to make a loaf of bread that looks "braided", you can order the pan off of Amazon that you pour batter or soft dough into that will shape this. "Braided Loaf Pan" Open Original Shared Link Lol, at the preview link, go to Amazon's kitchen, bread pan category and do a search if it doesn't come up or put Amazon in place of Lame advertisement...
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    Takala replied to kenlove's topic in Publications & Publicity

    Perhaps if and when the proposed newer labeling laws go into effect ( shudder... ) companies could still be allowed to state on the label that they manufacture the product in a dedicated facility, for example. I am thinking of the controversy with milk labeling. Some consumers want milk produced from cows who are not treated with artificial growth...
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    ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ I looked at the "Hallejulah Diet" and it is a nearly all - raw foods, very little cooked, vegan vegetarian (no animal products whatsoever) diet. I also looked at "Barley Max" and it looks like a rip off consisting of dried hay juice, as it's made of barley grass and alfalfa. One human is supposed...
  16. Takala
    Friends don't let friends drink Stargluts. I know theoretically there are supposedly safe gluten free drinks at Starbucks, but.... I don't do the mixed drinks either anymore after one two many mystery migraines. If I must drink something from them I want to see the teabag (they used Tazo and some of the Tazo teas have gluten, and they've even given...
  17. Takala
    ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Open Original Shared Link Gluten Free Matzo Balls (Kneidlach) by Gluten Free Bay (she is vegetarian, gluten free, and Jewish) Recipe uses almond meal and potato starch, optional flax seed, salt, mixed with egg. You can make almond meal by grinding nuts in a blender MUCH cheaper than buying it. Open Original Shared Link Same...
  18. Takala
    You have to trust the more sensitive individuals on this. (I am not, btw) It only takes a minute amount of gluten residue to cook into your non gluten foods to make you constantly feel a little bit "off." It 's only when you've been clean for a long time and then get accidently nailed with whatever your symptoms are, that you appreciate being un contaminated...
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    "why can't you just take a pill for this and get over it?" They don't make a pill that one could feed to difficult family members who criticize other's cooking, or it would be a best seller. All we have to do is get you into the recipe search section of this site, and then to a health food store or grocery with a gluten free aisle, and then you...
  20. Takala
    I haven't eaten the Outback bread in so long I can't remember what it tastes like, but I've smelled it. If you want a darker colored bread you can try adding some agave nectar in place of the honey, and maybe a small dollop of molasses. I found this out by accident, that if I used any agave in a white bread mixture it comes out baked a deep golden...
  21. Takala
    Depends on what you mean by "strict enough on the diet." You didn't say what she was eating, or what could be accidently going into her mouth, you just gave your family history. People who are gluten intolerant also can be lactose (milk sugar) or casein ( milk protein) intolerant, and/or soy intolerant, and/or other grains intolerant as well. Or intolerant...
  22. Takala
    You may have more taste buds than the average person and taste things differently, I don't, but I know some people that do are called "supertasters" because they can taste things other people can't. I didn't eat dairy for a long time so I got used to using olive oil in everything. And it works, even in baking. There are different types of olive oil...
  23. Takala
    Don't get me going on the topic of Homeland "Security" at airports. Edible items may be brought aboard in carry on, as long as the airlines do not recognize them as anything a normal person would care to eat, non flammable, and as long as the security alert is only "orange" and not "red." Fluids above a certain amount (what is it today, 2 ounces...
  24. Takala
    The diet is not hard. The problem is that food manufacturers insist on using processed grain byproducts as fillers in nearly all manufactured food products where they should not be expected to have that ingredient, and don't want to take responsibility to verify the source of said grain byproducts as to what they really are and where they come from. This...
  25. Takala
    Nope. If the basic price of the grain the rest of the humans eat goes up, guess what happens to the demand for the stuff the special people eat. There is going to be mass indignation when the average shopper picks up a little sack of flour that costs as much as ours does.
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