Gluten Freebird

D.C. foodies have been drooling over Buzz’s cupcake of the month, a muffin of devil’s food cake frosted with a luscious peanut butter and bacon marriage.
Since I worship chocolate, eat enough peanut butter to be considered part of the Jiff family, and dream about bacon, this cupcake was meant for me.
Only it wasn’t available to [...]

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The NY Times is on a roll with gluten. I was really interested to read about today’s gluten-free patients blowing their budgets on ingredients.
I’m astounded by the high prices of gluten-free ingredients. The alternative of eliminating starch-based foods means a healthier, but also costly diet of proteins and vegetables. Sure, you’ll spend $12 on a [...]

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The corporate sweet tooth is catching up with us.
Diner’s Journal at nytimes.com blogged yesterday about Betty Crocker’s new gluten-free mixes. They haven’t shown up on any shelves near me, but soon?
When I went gluten-free, I felt somewhat glad to get away from the boxed mixes, which I’d grown up loving. Those mixes were the easy [...]

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I’ve been away (from the blog) on my annual cleanse of no meat/dairy/caffeine/alcohol. Clean and refreshing? Yes. Inspiring of blog posts? Not quite. But I’m back on the wagon, which means my first stop was the dessert aisle.
I busted over to the Old Town Whole Foods in search of some new treasures. Wandering the frozen [...]

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Tasting Table posted a list of some praise-worthy gluten-free beers today. I was glad to see that they didn’t stuff the list with those cloying ciders (Seriously: Have the bar managers who stock cider as the glutenless alternative actually tried it? They’re fine for some things, but no substitute for real beer.)
My favorite beer is [...]

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My inner 5-year-old freaked out last year when I realized that I couldn’t have a normal, store-bought birthday cake. I knew that there would be plenty of gluten-free cakes, but would they be suitable for my birthday? Let’s just say that the once-a-year issue of birthday cake led to more panics than losing beer, pasta, [...]

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Teaism’s Salty Oat Cookie is something of a legend in D.C.
It’s an enigma of flavors, all wrapped together. It’s salty, sweet, soft, and thick. It looks like a healthy oat cake, but tastes like a sinful treat. And I haven’t had one in eons.
The Gluteneer ran a 10-miler over the weekend, so we treated him [...]

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