RE: The Best Wheat Flour Substitutes

2012-02-15 Thread Eric Roberts
: The Best Wheat Flour Substitutes +1 for quinoa (keen-wah) On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 7:57 PM, Eric Roberts wrote: > > I love millet and Quinoa > > -Original Message- > From: Erika L. Rich [mailto:elr...@ruwebby.com] > Sent: Tuesday, February 14, 2012 2:41 PM > To: cf-co

Re: The Best Wheat Flour Substitutes

2012-02-15 Thread Ras Tafari
+1 for quinoa (keen-wah) On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 7:57 PM, Eric Roberts wrote: > > I love millet and Quinoa > > -Original Message- > From: Erika L. Rich [mailto:elr...@ruwebby.com] > Sent: Tuesday, February 14, 2012 2:41 PM > To: cf-community > Subject:

Re: The Best Wheat Flour Substitutes

2012-02-15 Thread Judah McAuley
One of the many foodie things I find weird, fascinating and kinda cool about Portland is that there are 2 pizza places within walking distance of my house where you can get both gluten-free pizza and gluten-free beer. Not much of a fan of either, but it is cool to have options. Judah ~~~

Re: The Best Wheat Flour Substitutes

2012-02-15 Thread Gruss Gott
Has anyone mentioned almond flour? I've used it for muffins. In general I stay away from all grains, whole, sprouted, or otherwise. I.e. no quinoa, no buckwheat, no nothin. Interestingly since I've been doing that I've definitely noticed some general health improvements. My diet is basica

Re: The Best Wheat Flour Substitutes

2012-02-15 Thread Sandra Clark
Thanks Larry, I'll check it out. Erika, I use different flours depending on what I am trying to do. Disclaimer, I don't do much baking at this time. I use chickpea flour for breading and frying. Any type of baking is going to require a variety of flours along with xanthan gum. The problem wi

Re: The Best Wheat Flour Substitutes

2012-02-14 Thread Larry C. Lyons
EriKa, and Sandy, I think you'll be interested in this MarketPlace story: http://www.marketplace.org/topics/life/food-and-drink/yummy-baked-goods-without-allergens On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 3:35 PM, Erika L. Rich wrote: > > For those that do cook without flour, does anyone have a preference? > >

Re: The Best Wheat Flour Substitutes

2012-02-14 Thread Dana
I'm not really trying to eliminate gluten but I don't eat that much bread any more due to my campaign to cut back on processed food. The snippet of information I have for you though is that more that one person is urging me to work quinoa into my diet, and in fact one of them brought me some. Have

RE: The Best Wheat Flour Substitutes

2012-02-14 Thread Eric Roberts
Yum...I used to teach wilderness survival as a teen at the Boy Scout summer campo I worked at...I used to love that. Eric -Original Message- From: Jerry Milo Johnson [mailto:jmi...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, February 14, 2012 3:38 PM To: cf-community Subject: Re: The Best Wheat Flour

RE: The Best Wheat Flour Substitutes

2012-02-14 Thread Eric Roberts
You can also make a flour out of cattails... -Original Message- From: Erika L. Rich [mailto:elr...@ruwebby.com] Sent: Tuesday, February 14, 2012 3:13 PM To: cf-community Subject: Re: The Best Wheat Flour Substitutes I didn't even know you could eat acorns!! On Tuesday, Februa

RE: The Best Wheat Flour Substitutes

2012-02-14 Thread Eric Roberts
I love millet and Quinoa -Original Message- From: Erika L. Rich [mailto:elr...@ruwebby.com] Sent: Tuesday, February 14, 2012 2:41 PM To: cf-community Subject: Re: The Best Wheat Flour Substitutes Here's what I've found on the net by the way ... but would love to know fro

RE: The Best Wheat Flour Substitutes

2012-02-14 Thread Eric Roberts
Subject: The Best Wheat Flour Substitutes For those that do cook without flour, does anyone have a preference? Want to experiment with eliminating as much gluten as possible from the diet. Thanks! ~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion

Re: The Best Wheat Flour Substitutes

2012-02-14 Thread Erika L. Rich
Yeah been reading that for awhile. Lots of great stuff on there! On Tuesday, February 14, 2012, Judah McAuley wrote: > > I don't do the gluten-free thing, but have you checked out Sandy > Clark's blog? She's been writing about gluten free cooking in addition > to the GMO articles she posted here

Re: The Best Wheat Flour Substitutes

2012-02-14 Thread Jerry Milo Johnson
Thanks, I actually started reading that the other week. I also started to eat some local honey from the discussions here. FWIW, I too am trying to cut down on my wheat flour, especially processed and bleached. Last night I made coconut shrimp using corn flakes as the breading. Wonderful. (not g

Re: The Best Wheat Flour Substitutes

2012-02-14 Thread Judah McAuley
I don't do the gluten-free thing, but have you checked out Sandy Clark's blog? She's been writing about gluten free cooking in addition to the GMO articles she posted here. http://healthyfoodnaturally.com/ Cheers, Judah On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 12:35 PM, Erika L. Rich wrote: > > For those that

Re: The Best Wheat Flour Substitutes

2012-02-14 Thread Jerry Milo Johnson
I just asked a friend with celiac sprue and she says she uses corn flour and potato flour for everything, all the time. (the cattail ROOT is awesome, too, treated like a potato. As is arrowroot. Man I miss survival camping. And fiddlehead ferns. And young skunk cabbage. And wild asparagus. And f

Re: The Best Wheat Flour Substitutes

2012-02-14 Thread Erika L. Rich
Cattail flour?! Interesting. I'll have to look these up. Thanks' On Tuesday, February 14, 2012, Jerry Milo Johnson wrote: > > Amazingly, cattail flour (pollen) mixed with acorn flour makes killer > pancakes. Did that a lot back when I camped a lot more often. > > (add wild blueberries or wild st

Re: The Best Wheat Flour Substitutes

2012-02-14 Thread Jerry Milo Johnson
Acorns tend to be a little bitter to me because of the high tannins (even commercially available acorn flour). I also seldom use 100% acorn flour, but cut it with some other flour for better results. Amazingly, cattail flour (pollen) mixed with acorn flour makes killer pancakes. Did that a lot b

Re: The Best Wheat Flour Substitutes

2012-02-14 Thread Erika L. Rich
I didn't even know you could eat acorns!! On Tuesday, February 14, 2012, Larry C. Lyons wrote: > > Nuts. > > no that's not an insult, but you can make a flour out of different > sorts of nuts and use that. Wendy has a recipe for a cake that uses > flour made from acorns.and was very rich.

Re: The Best Wheat Flour Substitutes

2012-02-14 Thread Larry C. Lyons
Nuts. no that's not an insult, but you can make a flour out of different sorts of nuts and use that. Wendy has a recipe for a cake that uses flour made from acorns.and was very rich. On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 3:40 PM, Erika L. Rich wrote: > > Here's what I've found on the net by the way ... but w

Re: The Best Wheat Flour Substitutes

2012-02-14 Thread Erika L. Rich
Here's what I've found on the net by the way ... but would love to know from personal experience, which ones work the best and easiest. Millet. This is the most easily digested grain available - and is also the least allergenic. It is a good source of silica and protein. Millet flour can be used

The Best Wheat Flour Substitutes

2012-02-14 Thread Erika L. Rich
For those that do cook without flour, does anyone have a preference? Want to experiment with eliminating as much gluten as possible from the diet. Thanks! ~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adob