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

[runpunkrun]

Ooh, an expert baker! I hope we can all benefit from your knowledge and experience. We've got some folks here new to baking who'd like to give it a try.

Thanks for introducing yourself, and I look forward to those fruit recipes!

[unicornduke]

I've convinced a number of people to give it a try after giving up lol. I really enjoy it and I'm building up a good bunch of recipes.

Back in December, I wrote up a quick guide for a friend of a friend, who was specifically looking for a cookie recipe. Not sure if it's something that might be useful or expanded on, but I figured I could link it here and see what you think. Google doc here

[runpunkrun]

I think your guide could be very useful to our new bakers!

You could either take the advice portion and post it as an introduction to GF baking, or you could choose any of those topics (flour mixes, cookie doneness, flour substitution), elaborate on them, and post them individually, like a series. The recipes would be their own posts, too, if you want to share them; one recipe per post.

We have a "tips & tricks" tag -- tips based on your personal experience with GF cooking -- and this would be perfect for it, however you choose to share it.

[unicornduke]

I'll definitely do something with it then! I'll probably expand on some things, I wrote it up in like 30 mins real quick and then forgot about it.

[runpunkrun]

That would be great! Just put "Tips & Tricks:" in the subject line when you post.