What can you do living gluten-free when it comes to holidays. A lot, actually. I’ll share my stunning success at Thanksgiving Stuffing shortly, but there’s a more dire topic at hand: Jelly Donuts! Even if you don’t celebrate the festival of lights, you probably know that Chanukah is a celebration surrounded by a puddle of oil—symbolic oil and cooking oil. Symbolically, historically, there was only enough clean oil left...

Monday, September 27, 2010-Tuesday, September 28, 2010 DH drives me to airport after spending frantic morning   at last-minute self-employment deluge. Appear to have left without hair brush. Figures. Trip begins auspiciously with gluten-free beer in Delta Terminal bar/sushi bar of the Tucson Int’l (snort) Airport. Guess I shouldn’t snort. They have GF beer. Surrounded by happy travelers with lovely smiles. Sat next to only funny...

I’ve made a discovery. It’s dry in Arizona. Outrageous, I know, to claim something like that. But I was getting really sick of the gluten free bread’s refusal to rise much. Then I thought—maybe it’s just drying out, despite my best efforts to lube it up and humidify the oven and all that. So I made a REALLY sticky dough…um…batter. Just added maybe 1/3 C more water. And like magic, my goofy GF baguette...

For those of us who are glutinously challenged: I tried to build a better baguette via Jules and one of her awesome recipes. For those of you who haven’t been zapped by the gluten monster yet (I emphasize the yet) this wont mean anything to you. However, if you have. You’ll see my pain. First, a regular baguette has dough that’s been kneaded into elasticity, then left to rise in a warm environment. Most gluten-free bread is...

I went to Gluten Free Steve via Google for his yeast-free cinnamon roll recipe (yeast free out of impatience, not allergy). I was not disappointed. Except in looks. I can’t get my build to look like his! I followed his instructions but, as you can see, my roll dough is rather blobby (buttery, but blobby). There is no cutting I can do. They still look okay in the pan, they won’t hold up on their own in a regular pan, sadly. Today,...