It all started on a chance that eating gluten free might relieve some of the fibromyalgia symptoms I was experiencing. Not only did it greatly relieve many of my fibromyalgia symptoms, but switching to a gluten free (GF) diet has all but eliminated the migraine headaches I had suffered with for years, going from two or three a week, to six months between migraines! Let me tell you, it has been well worth it, but I still miss what my family and friends call "real food". (What they are mostly unwilling to admit is that, due to the fact that I also try to avoid as much processed/refined foods and artificial colors and flavors as I can, most of what I eat has more actual real food value than much of what they eat!) Things like really good bread, cakes, cookies, etc. Mostly really good bread. I also enjoy cooking for friends and family (not to mention I look forward to being married some day), and, while my friends and family are, for the most part, very understanding and polite about what I make, I'm sure they would rather be eating "real food".
With all that in mind, I have set out on a culinary adventure to develop good GF recipes that taste like what most people are used to eating. My goal is to make my GF dishes and breads taste so much like "the real thing", that no one will know they are eating GF until they see me eating it too! The following posts will include both my successes and my failures, and believe me, the latter have far outnumbered the former, both in the kitchen and out, and, I might add, really do make the best stories!
So, sit back and enjoy this wild and crazy adventure I call everyday life!
