Prompt: FREE SPACE

[runpunkrun]

Have a gluten-free question, comment, request, suggestion, update, brag, or defeat? Have an article or resource to share? Just want to do a quick product recommendation? Just want to post a gluten-free link and flee the scene?

Anything goes! Just make sure your comments follow the community guidelines and don't contain unsolicited medical advice or details about your health. You folks have been great about both rules, but I just want to repeat them in case we've got some new community members.

Pop into the comments and do your thing. Content can be about GF stuff or the comm itself. Feel free to chat amongst yourselves!

Comments

sandwich bread

[runpunkrun]

Personally, I've been thinking of girding my loins and making an attempt at sandwich bread. I've been eyeballing this High Protein Quinoa Bread for a while now, but it involves toasting the quinoa flour first and for some reason I just can't make myself do it.

Re: sandwich bread

[jesse_the_k]

It looks like the effort would make it worthwhile -- but I'm always suspicious of beautiful GF bread pictures because really? Not that easy.

Re: sandwich bread

[runpunkrun]

I knoooow, and I probably don't have the exact right pan so mine's going to be short and stubby...but perhaps it'll be delicious??? Eh.

I'll try to toast the quinoa flour today. And then tomorrow I'll either make bread with it or these quinoa chocolate chip cookies. I've never used quinoa flour before--toasted or untoasted--so that'll be an experiment too.

[unicornduke]

Ah, I was planning to make a post on a product recommendation! Schar makes gluten free saltines! I tried them recently and was extremely impressed with how good they were. I find most of their snack foods pretty good but this was as close to a perfect saltine as there is.

Thanks for the rec

[jesse_the_k]

and I need to calibrate your saltine application. Do you crumble saltines in your tomato soup? Gnaw on them with ginger ale when you're feeling poky?

Re: Thanks for the rec

[unicornduke]

I snack on them at any time! I eat them plain or with a little bit of cheese as a snack in between meals. I've eaten some crappy gf crackers and these have beaten all of them by far. I think you could find a difference if you ate them side by side with gluten saltines but they are very close.

Re: Thanks for the rec

[jesse_the_k]

Hooray! /adds to shopping list

Re: Thanks for the rec

[runpunkrun]

That sounds very promising!

Here's the current list of ingredients if anyone's interested:

Ingredients: non GMO corn starch, non GMO corn flour, blend of vegetable fats and oils (palm fat, Non GMO rapeseed oil), maltodextrin, rice syrup, modified tapioca starch, non GMO soy flour, sea salt, yeast, guar gum, modified cellulose, cream of tartar, ammonium bicarbonate, baking powder, citric acid, natural rosemary flavor. Contains: Soy. May Contain: Tree Nuts.

Re: Thanks for the rec

[gatheringrivers]

Whoa damn, a gluten free that doesn't hit any of my usual "no-no's" too, a miracle!