When you realize you have to go GF, stop eating things that contain wheat, you inevitably realize that certain of your favorite cooking style’s dishes are no longer available to you.
Then comes the ‘how do I adapt my favorite cooking style’ question.
I have to be honest – rice-based pastas are just NOT the same as regular pasta. And the corn-based ones are close, but not close enough.
Rice-based tortillas – well, they’re ok.
Especially with a male pre-teen in the house, we were hard pressed to get good substitutes/replacements for the favorite foods. There was a lot of angst going on.
Easiest GF cooking style for our family? Mexican.
You have to be careful and read each and every label, even if you’ve purchased the item before. But Mexican style cooking works quite well with a GF diet.
The best tortillas we’ve found are from Trader Joe’s. Handmade Corn Tortillas:
A warning: the ingredients list ends with “Made on equipment shared with Wheat, Milk, Eggs and Soy.”
Full ingredients:
corn, water, baking powder (sodium acid pyrophosphate, sodium bicarbonate, corn starch, monocalcium phosphate), lime.
These are best done warmed in a pan – they taste like corn from the grill in summertime, and scent the whole kitchen with that aroma. Truly nummy, and so far no cross contamination problems (that we’ve detected).
Yum! Enjoy!
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