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

[zellephantom]

Hi! I'm Zelle (she/her), and tbh I'll probably just be lurking and collecting recipes for my own personal reference.

The last gluten-free thing I made with my own hands? Ohh, that's a difficult question- I don't do a ton of cooking, and even less cooking from scratch, myself (due to various chronic health problems), but I think I made (or at least helped make- thanks mom!) a gluten-free chocolate chip cheesecake a couple of months ago?

(I don't drink coffee or caffeine in general, so I couldn't count that if I wanted to!)

When I do bake, I like to prepare sweet things in general, specifically breakfast foods (gluten-free waffles yay! yes, just using a mix and turning on the waffle maker counts as cooking, IMO) and desserts (seriously, any kind of cookie, cheesecake, cake, whatever).

I don't have a ton of baking experience, but I am really into helping my mom and grandmother (who are both really into baking) find good gluten-free recipes and figure out the weird flour replacements and all that stuff. And taste test, of course!

If cheesecake doesn't count as a pie, then probably apple pie? Or maybe pumpkin pie? At the moment, probably apple. Not that I'm not also a fan of the mathematical constant :)

[runpunkrun]

Happy to see you here, Zelle!

As far as I'm concerned, if you're in the kitchen, touching food with knives or electricity, you're cooking. :D

I made some really simple oat waffles today, and will be sharing the recipe soon!

Also an earlier poster already declared cheesecake as pie, so you've got support in the community.