Tiffany Janes « Gluten Free Questions
Dec 23 2009

What Flour Should We Use For Fried Foods?

The person who sent this question in used plain rice flour to fry something and apparently it didn’t work out too well. The batter kind of dissolved and fell apart. This is a common problem when using gluten-free flours in hot oil.
Gluten-free flour blends that contain both cornstarch and tapioca starch seems to hold up [...]

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Dec 22 2009

How Can I Determine What is Gluten-free at a Buffet Holiday Dinner?

It would be great if there was an easy answer for this common question. Unfortunately, there is not only not an easy answer, there is really not a very good one either. In the almost four years that I’ve been gluten-free, the only buffet meals I’ve been able to enjoy much were gluten-free events. The exceptions [...]

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Dec 21 2009

How Do We Learn More About Offering a Gluten-free Menu?

These days many restaurants are lining up to offer a gluten-free menu, but some of them don’t go about it the right way. The first thing I suggest a restaurant do is get in touch with a trusted gluten-free organization that certifies gluten-free menus and offers training for proper gluten-free service. The Gluten Intolerance Group [...]

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Dec 18 2009

Where Can I Purchase Betty Crocker Gluten-free Mixes?

If you have not found these mixes in your area yet, they can be purchased at Amazon.com, but only by the case.  Just this week, glutenfree.com announced that they will be offering these mixes so that everyone can order them online, if they can’t find them in their local stores. The Betty Crocker gluten-free mixes hit [...]

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Dec 17 2009

Are All Nuts Gluten-free?

Nuts in their pure form are gluten-free. Peanuts, almonds, pecans, macadamia nuts, walnuts, pine nuts, pistachios, cashews, Brazil nuts and all other natural nuts are gluten-free. Sesame seeds and sunflower seeds are also gluten-free. The thing you have to watch out for with nuts is  packaged nuts that have flavors added. Many of those are [...]

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