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Kasha Varnishkes, Gluten-Free
Kasha varnishkes is a traditional Russian-Jewish dish of roasted buckwheat groats tossed with bowtie noodles. Despite its name, buckwheat is not related to wheat, but rather it’s a nutritious, gluten-free whole grain from the rhubarb family. Until recently, there was no gluten-free bowtie or farfalle pasta available. But Le Veneziane’s new gluten-free farfalle pasta from Italy is the perfect ingredient for this satisfying Old Country dish.
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Gluten-Free Thin Mint Cookies
This year was my younger daughter’s first year in Girl Scouts. She sold 48 boxes of Girl Scout cookies with enthusiastic endorsements. But, because she has celiac disease and is gluten-free, she has never, ever tasted a Girl Scout cookie, nor will she. I didn’t want her to be left out, so I developed my own recipe for gluten-free Thin Mints, with a tender gluten-free chocolate cookie enrobed in a minty chocolate coating.
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Chinese Corn Egg-Drop Soup
For celiacs, Chinese restaurants are big caution zones, since soy sauce is brewed with wheat. Also, most oyster sauce, hoisin sauce, imitation crab and mock meat substitutes (like mock duck) contain gluten. In our old neighborhood, we were fortunate to find a Chinese restaurant that prepared food without soy sauce for us. When we moved, I wanted to make gluten-free corn egg-drop soup, like we used to have at the restaurant. Here’s our recipe for a velvety egg-drop soup, enhanced by sweet nuggets of corn — gluten-free, of course.
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Gluten-Free Peanut Butter Kiss Cookies
These easy-to-make gluten-free peanut butter cookies are sealed with a kiss – Hershey’s Kisses placed on top of the cookies while they are still warm from the oven. The bonus: They are naturally gluten free, with no flour at all, making them good crowd-pleasers.
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Gluten-Free Potato Latkes
Happy Hanukkah! One of our favorite Hanukkah traditions is eating freshly made potato latkes. And while many homemade and store-bought latkes contain a small amount of flour, it’s pretty easy to adapt latkes to be gluten-free.
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Sesame-Free Hummus
Ever since he was a kid, my father has been violently allergic to sesame seeds. Back then, it was a highly unusual allergy — whoever heard of being allergic to tiny sesame seeds?! Recently, however, I started hearing of more kids being diagnosed with sesame allergy. One doctor even called it the new “hot” allergy. I wrote a story about the increase in sesame allergy for the June/July issue of Living Without, a national allergy magazine. The story included the following recipe for sesame-free hummus.
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Chinese Chicken Salad
When I worked on Michigan Avenue, in downtown Chicago, we’d frequently go across the street to Nordstrom for lunch. I know it’s rude, but I’ve always poked fun at one-dish people – you know, the people who go to a restaurant and always order the same dish time after time (but, yes, Melissa, I love you anyway). However, the Chinese Chicken Salad at Cafe Nordstrom is so very, very good that I order it every single time. I’ve created my own gluten-free version, which uses gluten-free tamari sauce (you do know — don’t you? — that soy sauce contains gluten?) and gluten-free chow mein noodles. It’s a great take-along salad for summer picnics and barbecues.
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Homemade Strawberry Jam
In second grade, my older daughter learned about pioneers. As part of the unit, they wrote a newspaper called “Pioneer Times,” which included a recipe for strawberry jam. The class recipe for “Yummy Jam” comes right in time for peak strawberry season. “Do you want to hear about a deeeeeeeeeelicious strawberry jam? Here’s how we do it,” the Room 204 pioneers write.
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Luscious Gluten-Free Lemon Squares
Before my daughter was diagnosed with celiac disease, I loved to bring lemon squares to family gatherings. People would fight over the last lemon square. I loved the buttery shortbread crust combined with the mouth-puckering tartness and compelling sweetness. Little did I know that lemon squares are easy to make gluten-free.
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Please, sir, I want s’mores
It was cold and rainy in Chicago the other day, on our bumpy path toward spring. When my kids came home from school, they asked for hot chocolate and gluten-free s’mores — toasted marshmallows and melted chocolate sandwiched between two graham crackers. Gluten-free graham crackers are hard to find. Recently, I bought Kinnikinnick’s S’moreables, which have a honey-molasses flavor and are sturdy enough to stand up to s’mores (though there were quite a few non-sturdy broken crackers in the box).
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