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

[miella]

Hello. Miella, she/her.

I'm more about baking than cooking, even though cooking is important. I've been baking since I was a kid, mostly cookies/basic cakes/bars/quickbreads, etc. I didn't bake anything needing yeast before I went predominantly GF (9ish years ago. I think.), so all my yeast baking has been GF. That either means it's easier because I have no expectations and nothing to unlearn, or that I'm just kind of fumbling about. Or both. These days I mostly do bread with occasional cookies or quickbreads thrown in. ETA: AND HOLIDAY PIES! How did I forget that. Sheesh.

I like greywash's idea of especially low-effort or batch-cookable stuff because getting up the momentum to cook can be difficult. I'm often ambivalent about cooking, so anything that helps get over the hump to actually start the process is good.

I am always curious about new baking things, and it would be nice to get some more sort of easy day-to-day dinner options. Dinner creativity is not my forte.

Last thing I made was Roasty Thing (aka basically roasted root veg and sausage), but the last Official GF thing was my weekly loaf of bread.

I will...likely comment and maybe possibly post. And go through lurkerly phases.

Favorite pie: coconut cream, hands down. But fudge pie is also terrifically yummy when in the mood for a serious chocolate bomb.

Low effort

[jesse_the_k]

...is wonderful, especially for disabled folks like me.

Re: Low effort

[miella]

Right!?

[runpunkrun]

Hi!! So happy you're here!

[miella]

Me, too!