This is a gluten-free soup, BTW ( Read more... )

As so many of you know, I'm a gluten free for life sort of person. And my friends Janine and Greg Ray opening GoodFellows Foods means that gluten free just got easier -- even gluten free, dairy free!

They have a newsletter, and I wrote an essay for it. The article was even lightly edited, A Good Thing. Please also remember that Wheatsville has ( Read more... )

Oh, the desserts. Heaven! And the pasta -- let me tell you about the pasta ( Read more... )

Over at Christina Cooks, Dr. Rhea Parsons talks about how seriously experimenting with a gluten free diet (not just horsing around with it) may seriously improve your health. In her case, she has a lot of incentive to stay gluten free. She started here:

Changing to a whole-food, plant-based diet relieved me of over one hundred pounds, a ( Read more... )

I hate to admit this, but I don't try a lot of gluten free products. I'm a super taster, and that means I notice everything. Too much sugar, baking soda, spice -- urk. Better to make myself cook food that tastes good to me. My biggest problem, even eating out (other than avoiding gluten) is salt. Once you cut back on salt, everything someone ( Read more... )

How food, diet, and dieting affected my writing and my life. And maybe effects yours...

I thought we needed a post on one of the adult privileges of life, and how the specter of being gluten-free may put a chill in the heart of any individual threatened by gluten. We’re talking responsible drinking of alcoholic beverages.

What about beer? I ( Read more... )

This article is based on a one-month “test diet change” plan I concocted for a friend back in January 2011 and posted at www.blog.bookviewcafe.com. Here’s a tweaked version for my personal blog readers.

How food, diet, and dieting affected my writing and my life. And maybe effects yours...Here’s my current theory on gluten-free “snackage.” Have ( Read more... )

Must - have - pecans!

These things are addictive! I'm going to have to take the dark chocolate pecans to a party tomorrow because I cannot stop eating a couple, even though they are so rich my stomach says "Now, wait a minute" after the third pecan half. Because these are not a thin slip of chocolate, people. These are toothsome chocolate ( Read more... )

I wanted to mention five great Austin places to y'all that you may not have tried. AND they all have web sites, so you can order from afar, too! We'll do this alphabetically --

bettysport has clothing, footware and lots of other paraphernalia as well. I was not an easy fit, because I wanted a sports bra that had very specific features. Carson ( Read more... )

This article is based on a one-month “test diet change” plan I concocted for a friend back in January 2011 and posted at www.blog.bookviewcafe.com. Here’s a tweaked version for my personal blog readers.

How food, diet, and dieting affected my writing and my life. And maybe effects yours...

I’m making the case for a diet experiment - going one ( Read more... )