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ARCHIVED Question About Celiac Disease
IAtodd replied to balor123's topic in Celiac Disease Pre-Diagnosis, Testing & Symptoms
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... -
ARCHIVED So, Tell Me Why I Need This Endoscopy....
IAtodd replied to Monklady123's topic in Coping with Celiac Disease
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... -
ARCHIVED Enjoy Life Cookie Cookbook & Thumbprint Cookie Recipe
IAtodd replied to IAtodd's topic in Gluten-Free Recipes & Cooking Tips
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... -
ARCHIVED Enjoy Life Cookie Cookbook & Thumbprint Cookie Recipe
IAtodd replied to IAtodd's topic in Gluten-Free Recipes & Cooking Tips
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... -
ARCHIVED Enjoy Life Cookie Cookbook & Thumbprint Cookie Recipe
IAtodd replied to IAtodd's topic in Gluten-Free Recipes & Cooking Tips
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... -
ARCHIVED Enjoy Life Cookie Cookbook & Thumbprint Cookie Recipe
IAtodd posted a topic in Gluten-Free Recipes & Cooking Tips
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... -
ARCHIVED Yellow Squash Cupcakes
IAtodd replied to IAtodd's topic in Gluten-Free Recipes & Cooking Tips
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...
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ARCHIVED Gluten-free Chocolate Zucchini Cupcakes/muffins
IAtodd posted a topic in Gluten-Free Recipes & Cooking Tips
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... -
ARCHIVED Probs With Fenster's Bake Times
IAtodd posted a topic in Gluten-Free Recipes & Cooking Tips
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... -
ARCHIVED What Corn Grits To Use... Bob's Red Mill?
IAtodd replied to IAtodd's topic in Gluten-Free Recipes & Cooking Tips
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... -
ARCHIVED What Corn Grits To Use... Bob's Red Mill?
IAtodd posted a topic in Gluten-Free Recipes & Cooking Tips
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... -
ARCHIVED I Cannot Get A gluten-free Cookie To Turn Out
IAtodd replied to Lexi's topic in Gluten-Free Recipes & Cooking Tips
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... -
ARCHIVED Gluten And Coconut-free Chocolate Chip Pumpkin Muffins
IAtodd replied to IAtodd's topic in Gluten-Free Recipes & Cooking Tips
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... -
ARCHIVED I Cannot Get A gluten-free Cookie To Turn Out
IAtodd replied to Lexi's topic in Gluten-Free Recipes & Cooking Tips
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ARCHIVED Substitute For Coconut Flour?
IAtodd replied to IAtodd's topic in Gluten-Free Recipes & Cooking Tips
It was brown teff (darkest flour I've ever seen, I think). I've only used it this one time, and I've only used buckwheat once so far (in pancakes). I've only been gluten free for 18 months so I'm still learning and appreciate all the feedback. -
ARCHIVED Gluten And Coconut-free Chocolate Chip Pumpkin Muffins
IAtodd posted a topic in Gluten-Free Recipes & Cooking Tips
Gluten Free Chocolate Chip Pumpkin Muffins I modified this recipe (mainly replaced the coconut flour and nuts) from the original one that I found at Open Original Shared Link Makes about 28 muffins (was 24, but more flour = more muffins! Yay!) 1/4 cup vegetable oil 1/4 cup olive oil 2 1/2 cups sugar 2 large eggs (warmed in a bowl of... -
ARCHIVED Substitute For Coconut Flour?
IAtodd replied to IAtodd's topic in Gluten-Free Recipes & Cooking Tips
Thanks for all the quick feedback! My family spent the day inhaling pumpkin muffins. They were clearly a big hit! I would have been tempted to have used almond flour, but my dear son is allergic to them (I think the poor kid got peanut allergen in a barbecue sauce at a friend's house tonight... either that or wheat, but if it was wheat, my wife and I would... -
Hi all! I am trying to find a substitute for coconut flour. I want to make some pumpkin muffins, and I found what sounds like a good recipe, but it calls for CF. My son is allergic to coconut and my wife abhors it (and I wonder whether she would actually react to it now that she's been off gluten for 18 months). The only thing I could find online when...