My New Book: Gluten-Free 101— The Essential Beginner’s Guide to Easy, Gluten-Free Cooking
I am delighted to announce the publication of my new book, Gluten-Free 101: The Essential Beginner’s Guide to Easy, Gluten-Free Cooking.
Gluten-Free 101: The Essential Beginner's Guide to Easy Gluten-Free Cooking
Those of you who know my books may recognize this title: it is revised and expanded from an earlier version, now with gorgeous full-color photos and is available for pre-order at Amazon.com
Gluten-Free Living Made Easier
I believe that living a gluten-free lifestyle can be fun, delicious, and easy. But it wasn’t always that way for me. Like other beginners, I was baffled by unfamiliar ingredients and new cooking techniques when I first adopted a gluten-free diet many years ago.
From my own experience, I recognized the need for a cookbook that makes it easy for beginners to make a simple and positive transition to cooking gluten-free meals. So my cookbook explains how to select and work with the best gluten-free foods from a now extensive (and sometimes confusing) product shelf, how to continue eating healthfully, and how to master basic gluten-free cooking techniques— such as baking delicious breads or rolling gluten-free pizza dough, all with easy-to-follow instructions.
Enjoy Your Favorite Foods
One of the first things newly-diagnosed patients tell me is how much they miss their favorite foods such as pizza, bread, and pasta— and all-American desserts such as brownies, cakes, and cookies. And they miss childhood favorites such as meat loaf, macaroni-and-cheese, spaghetti &meatballs, and comfort-food casseroles. So the book focuses on familiar dishes, but introduces time-saving, simplifying shortcuts and tips that are especially helpful to beginners.
French Baguettes in 30 Minutes!
For example, using my “cold-oven start” method, French baguettes bake in only 30 minutes. Pizza crusts can be baked ahead and frozen, ready for topping at a moment’s notice. I show you how to use time-saving appliances such as a slow cooker for beef stew and a food processor to blend cookie dough in seconds. I also offer tips for handling sticky gluten-free bread dough and shaping gluten-free piecrust so breads and pies look perfect and taste delicious. I know how much you like those breads , pizza, and pies!! Me, too!!!
Red Velvet Cupcakes, Anyone?
For baking, the book features a versatile sorghum-based flour blend as the base for my easy, streamlined recipes. Sorghum has actually been around for centuries and is a staple in Africa and India and sorghum flour is more nutritious than white rice flour and is now easily available to consumers after being used in commercial foods such as breakfast cereals, energy bars, and cookies for several years. It tastes somewhat like wheat, and has a pleasing texture that isn’t gritty like white rice flour, plus it makes fabulous Red Velvet Cupcakes. If you’re not inclined to use sorghum flour, you can replace it with brown rice flour in my flour blend.
Pre-Order Your Copy at Amazon.com
The book contains 175 recipes for everyday favorites with more than 25 beautiful photos to show how the finished dish looks, which is especially important to beginners and each recipe also offers nutrient content. Gluten-Free 101: The Essential Beginner’s Guide to Easy Gluten-Free Cooking is my 11th cookbook and available for pre-order at Amazon.com. So reserve your copy now and you’ll have it in January.
