My husband and I were craving Taco Bell tonight and since we are going to be in Lincoln tomorrow, decided to see if we could eat there. I LOVED their website. Very informative and they understand the difference between allergy and intolerance.
They have four suggestions from their menu for gluten-free diets.You can choose from a tostada, a couple of salads or bowls. They go through each one to let you know any changes you need to make, like asking for no sauce or no red strips. The disappoint is that their beef does have gluten in the form of barley and oats, so you have to stick with chicken. I don't mind, but I could see A. minding.
We might try it tomorrow. We are picking him up from diabetic camp and then going to buy groceries.
June 27, 2008
June 18, 2008
Venting
I just made my first gluten-free pie crust. Ergh. I thought regular pie crust was tough to deal with! I used the Gluten-Free Pantry mix. They are in the oven now, so we'll see what happens. And I have to admit that the second one rolled out better than the first, but it just frustrates me.
I LOVE to bake. My grandma always baked pies and cakes and great desserts and my sister and I have followed suit. That's the hardest part of this for our family. Aaron is used to eating great baked goods. He's used to desserts all the time. And he doesn't complain too much, but he does get really excited when I do make some GF cookies or cupcakes for him.
We have tried to change our perspective. Instead of, "Does it taste like a pie?" we try to just treat it like another new recipe I've tried and see if we like it without comparing it to anything. But you do miss the old favorites.
I was really happy the other day to find a cinnamon roll recipe on Celiac.com. But, as I'm reading the recipe, it calls for a batch of "Workable Wonder Dough". So I click on that to see what it requires. To make "Workable Wonder Dough" you need 2 1/2 cups of "Wendy Wark's Gluten-Free Flour Mix"! So, I go to that link. I can't remember what all that required because when I went to print off these three recipes (to make ONE 8" pan of cinnamon rolls, mind you) the website doesn't print well at all, I got partial recipes and pages with half of it blank. It will have to be a less hectic time than this month before I tackle that.
I just want to make my son cinnamon rolls! Or Runzas, or pizza pockets or fresh strawberry pie! I guess it just comes down to this, I just want my life to be normal again. And it never will be. And I'm still working on accepting that. Aaron does better with all this than me. I probably sound incredibly selfish, and it's not always this way, but when it comes to baking I feel as if something really important has been ripped away.
I LOVE to bake. My grandma always baked pies and cakes and great desserts and my sister and I have followed suit. That's the hardest part of this for our family. Aaron is used to eating great baked goods. He's used to desserts all the time. And he doesn't complain too much, but he does get really excited when I do make some GF cookies or cupcakes for him.
We have tried to change our perspective. Instead of, "Does it taste like a pie?" we try to just treat it like another new recipe I've tried and see if we like it without comparing it to anything. But you do miss the old favorites.
I was really happy the other day to find a cinnamon roll recipe on Celiac.com. But, as I'm reading the recipe, it calls for a batch of "Workable Wonder Dough". So I click on that to see what it requires. To make "Workable Wonder Dough" you need 2 1/2 cups of "Wendy Wark's Gluten-Free Flour Mix"! So, I go to that link. I can't remember what all that required because when I went to print off these three recipes (to make ONE 8" pan of cinnamon rolls, mind you) the website doesn't print well at all, I got partial recipes and pages with half of it blank. It will have to be a less hectic time than this month before I tackle that.
I just want to make my son cinnamon rolls! Or Runzas, or pizza pockets or fresh strawberry pie! I guess it just comes down to this, I just want my life to be normal again. And it never will be. And I'm still working on accepting that. Aaron does better with all this than me. I probably sound incredibly selfish, and it's not always this way, but when it comes to baking I feel as if something really important has been ripped away.
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