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My IGA levels were too low to be conclusive and I've not done the biopsy. I've been gluten-free for 3+ years and at first, if I accidentally ate wheat, I would get the stabbing abdominal pain like I had suffered with all my life. Now if I eat gluten (once every few months... most recently, the topping picked off of one slice of Pizza Hut pizza), I don't...

I'd say don't do the biopsy. I was given that choice when my blood test came back as IGA-deficient and thus useless. Why destroy your body for a month and then cough up lots of money just to be "sure"? Will knowing change your lifstyle? Will you magically be able to eat normal food just because you are "sure"? Nope. So why punish your body more than...

Hi Purple et al... Thanks for the suggestion on the Hamantaschen! I tried this recipe and made thumbprint cookies instead of the triangles, and they turned out great: Open Original Shared Link I ended up baking them for an extra 5 minutes or so, and I used sweet rice flour for coating the dough balls. I also used low-sugar Smuckers raspberry jam...

I'd have to agree on the Enjoy Life packaged cookies, but sadly, my son is allergic to soy and nuts too, so most of the other packages cookies aren't safe so I end up being extra motivated to make my own. I suppose taking the eggs out of a cookie is going to make for baking problems...

Thanks purple! I see that the eatingglutenfree recipe has you partially bake the cookie before filling it, and that was one idea I had... thought it might help the cookie keep its shape. I've also seen some mention of refrigerating the dough before baking. I'm thinking I might dare try again with both recipes (keeping the nuts out of the eatingglutenfree...

Hi all, We recently purhased the EnjoyLife cookie cookbook and have been attempting to make cookies usingseveral of the recipes, but they've all been flops. e.g., The thumbprint cookies I made last night spread out across my cookie sheet... The first half dozen balls seemed too dry when I pushed my thumb in (they cracked), so I added a tiny bit more...

Nope... The only thing I use egg replacer in is Chocolate chip cookies (Bette Hagman's recipe.. which also uses regular eggs). But I can't imagine egg replacer NOT working. My son is sensitive to food dyes, which is one reason I didn't frost these cupcakes (of course they HAVE to put blue food dye in white frosting )... too lazy and cheap to make my own...

I posted a gluten-free chocolate zucchini cupcake recipe last month, and I tried making a vanilla yellow squash version in an attempt to use up some of our oodles of yellow squash. They turned out great so I wanted to pass along the info. Here's the link to the original allrecipes.com recipe: Open Original Shared Link Here's my modification for...

I just modified a chocolate zucchini muffin recipe that I found on allrecipes.com. I don't normally like experimenting with recipes (the flops are very expensive), but we used to make the Taste-of-Home version (could be the same recipe for all I know) way back when, and I missed them enough to try to make a gluten-free version. Anyhow, it worked well, so...

We've attempted Carol Fenster's (1000 gluten-free recipes) corn bread recipe several times and have found that to get anything resembling a fully baked product, we have to bake it for 45 minutes rather than 25, and our first attempt with the white cake was woefully underbaked even after baking it for far longer that the instructed amount of time. Our over...

Funny you should mention switching brands... We were up in Minneapolis visiting the inlaws, and they made Quaker corn grits, which we doubted were truly safe, but we didn't want to seem overparanoid, so we said they were fine. Six hours later our son went mental in Home Depot. Now, I also gave him a few ounces of diet 7-up earlier in the day, and he has...

Hi all, I have a question about corn grits. We have been eating Bob's Red Mill corn grits, and for the first year or so of being gluten-free we seemed to be ok, but for the past ~6 mnonths my 5-year-old who acts hyper and mental (to put it bluntly) when he eats wheat started having frequent "relapses" after eating corn grits. My wife (also gluten-sensitive...

Sorry... My original reply got buried in my accidental quoting of the original message, so I don't know whether you have even noticed that it's there. What follows is what I originally posted, but I just logged in to correct what I said about Bette Hagman's choc chip cookie flour... She says to use the 4-flour mix (not the gluten-free flour mix). The...

Someone (in a different thread, I guess) suggested I try using buckwheat flour as a substitute for coconut flour (instead of using tapioca flour, as I listed in the recipe). I tried this recipe with buckwheat instead of tapioca yesterday, and my wife thought the muffins tasted the same. I liked them a little better with the tapioca, but they are good either...