Prompt: Introductions

[runpunkrun]

Hello, gluten-free friends and family! It is I, Punk, speaking to you with my words. If you haven't already, please read the community guidelines for your safety and mine.

If I can keep my act together, I'll be posting a weekly discussion topic to prompt conversation about gluten-free cooking. This week I thought we could introduce ourselves and do some light mingling.

Let's do name, rank, and preferred pronouns. And maybe answer one or more of the following questions:

• What's the last gluten-free thing you made with your own hands?
• If your answer is "coffee," that's valid.
• What kind of foods do you like to prepare?
• How much baking experience do you have?
• What type of recipes are you interested in?
• Are you here to post, comment, or just be a friendly lurker?
• If you are going to lurk friendily, please say hi just this once. We'll say hi back.

Also, as the comm opened on Pi day (3.14), why not tell us your favorite pie?

Come join me in the comments!

Comments

[ilyena_sylph]

Heya.

I'm Ilyena or Yena, she/her. I will probably be a total lurker.

We've been a gluten-and-soy-free house since... 2012? So new recipes and a discussion place sounds AWESOME.

Um, shit, what'd I make for dinner Tuesday? Right, I remember now!

I browned ground beef with chopped onion and white wine and also made up a safe "Spanish rice" mix and combined the two for a sort of hamburger helper kind of experience.

I do mostly savory things, I love pasta and am always hunting for better g-f, s-f ones.

I don't bake, terrible things happen when I bake. +wryface+

Savory dishes mostly, but I like new sweet things to push to my house baker, too.

Here to comment, mostly, probably. Might post occasionally?

Waves hi!

[jesse_the_k]

Before I went GF, dinner was "something on pasta" so the transition has been a challenge.

Taste Republic is a local-to-me company which makes darn nice frozen GF pasta, but it's spendy. I prefer their plain pasta to their filled ones.

[rydra_wong]

I love pasta and am always hunting for better g-f, s-f ones.

I really like red lentil pasta (and in fact I am eating some at this very moment, with kimchi and grilled cheese on top). Good flavour, doesn't seem to get soggy or fall apart when cooked like some gf pastas I have tried.

[runpunkrun]

a sort of hamburger helper kind of experience

I love all the qualifiers in this statement. Also the idea of a Hamburger Helper Experience is cracking me up. :D

I've always been really happy with Tinkyada brown rice pastas. The spiral is my favorite. It has no soy ingredients, and the English on their packaging (and website!) sounds like it was ran through Google Translate and back again, twice, but in an endearing way.