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

[mlravenwrites]

Hi all!

I'm MLR, she/her/hers.

The last gf thing I made was roasted tofu with ginger/garlic sauce, +broccoli and rice.

I've been strictly gf since I was a teenager, and I'm enormously privileged to live in an almost entirely gf household-- my husband cooks entirely gf when we're both eating, and he keeps some gluten snacks/etc segregated to his office, pretty much.

In terms of gf things I like to make, because I have many other food allergies, I make pretty much everything from scratch (so gf). I love making gf pancakes, challah (not-motzei-fulfilling because I'm allergic to oats), and lots of other stuff I'm probably forgetting. I also do a lot of naturally-gf stuff like lentil/vegetable salads, beans/rice/tofu/etc.

I'm not very adventurous, so I like to take a recipe and do science on it (make it with modifications, document modifications, write post-mortem/suggestions for next attempt; lather, rinse, repeat!).

I have a fair amount of experience baking, but it often takes spoons I don't have.

I'm interested in recipes that are also dairy-free or modifiable with goat/sheep dairy, and anything easy or fast for the days where I need to cook, but also I can't face doing anything complex.

I'll likely mostly be a lurker, but I do want to share my science'd recipes with you all, on the off-chance that someone else needs recipes sans cow dairy, corn, apples, (...).

Re: pie: I did many sciences on a mocha pudding pie recipe for Pi Day 2017. I quite enjoyed the results, and will post it!

[runpunkrun]

Re: pie: I did many sciences on a mocha pudding pie recipe for Pi Day 2017. I quite enjoyed the results, and will post it!

Excellent! And welcome!

I do science on my baking too. One change at a time, write it down, see what happens. I've had to get more adventurous as my food restrictions have increased, but it turns out, in most cases, you can replace milk with near any liquid. :D

[jesse_the_k]

That tofu makes my mouth water.

Science always wins, and I wish I could resist the urge to fiddle with things. At our house, I see a brand new recipe and think, Great! Company's coming and I can experiment. MyGuy thinks, Wonderful, let's pull out the tried-and-true.

It is a blessing to have a GF-household! MyGuy has shouldered much of the work in that department, although recipe development has been a shared project.

[spikedluv]

I just got around to joining the comm and have gone back to start at the beginning, but I will cry real tears if I don't find that mocha pudding pie recipe in a later post. *g*