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

[j_crew_guy]

Hi, I'm Charles. Preferred pronouns are he/him. I'm probably going to lurk more than anything.

Last GF thing I made with my own hands were some peanut butter cookies called Arkansas Travelers yesterday. (No, I don't know why they have that name.)

I love to bake, mostly cookies and cupcakes. Tragically, I'm terrible at decorating, so the cupcakes are primarily for myself and my husband to enjoy.

I have years of baking experience, but I'm still finding new recipes and making mistakes or failures every so often.

When it comes to baking, I prefer using one of the cup-for-cup GF flour blends because then I can follow a regular recipe without much hassle.

Always looking for more cookie recipes as I tend to collect ones to try out for winter holiday gifts every year.

Favorite pie was chocolate cream. Then I figured out my stomach was sensitive to chocolate, so I had to give that up. Now, maybe a good vanilla cream pie or just pie crust cookies.

Glad you're here

[jesse_the_k]

...do you prefer a particular brand of cup-for-cup flour mix?

Re: Glad you're here

[j_crew_guy]

I've had generally great results with King Arthur's cup-for-cup GF flour. Recipes that didn't turn out right when I used it were my fault, not the flour's.

[runpunkrun]

Hi! Thanks for introducing yourself!