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Gluten Free Pie Crust

December 20th, 2009 No Comments

Just in time for the holidays …
The snowy weekend inspired me to warm up in front of the oven and do some baking. I always turn to Carol Fenster’s recipes for my gluten free pies, but since we’ve already headed north to Massachusetts to spend time with family, I was without my trusted cook books. Instead, [...]

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Why the mystery when eating out?

December 1st, 2009 1 Comment

I love to eat. I really love eating out. But, I really don’t love being forced to eat on the road. For gluties, every new restaurant is a risk and every uninformed server is a serious source of frustration.
Over the past several months, I’ve been traveling quite a bit in both my personal and professional [...]

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Hill’s Kitchen Offers GF Baking Class

October 13th, 2009 No Comments

Hill’s Kitchen in the Eastern Market neighborhood is a gourmet cooking store that I stumbled upon recently because of its pressure cooking courses. There are few cooking classes that delve into the  locavore culture, but Hill’s Kitchen is all about teaching people to cook with seasonal ingredients and preserve summer’s pleasures in jams, jellies and [...]

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Foods I’m Loving Now

August 23rd, 2009 2 Comments

Recently, the gluties were lucky enough to receive a few sacks of Enjoy Life gluten-free granola. Man, this stuff is good. While it’s completely oat-free, it’s got that perfect granola texture you’ve been craving and the flavors (Cinnamon Crunch, Cranapple Crunch, and Very Berry Crunch) are all delish – sweet but not too sweet. We [...]

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Founding Glutie Lets Inner Cowgirl Loose, Makes New Home in Wyoming

August 12th, 2009 1 Comment

One of our very own has run for the hills! Earlier this summer, founding glutie Samantha Abernethy graduated from theMedill School of journalism at Northwestern University. Shortly after, she threw caution to the wind, packed all of her belongings into a Ford Expedition and drove herself out west to pursue a unique opportunity as  a [...]

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