Gluten-Free Cooking - a thread for coeliacs and gluten-intolerants. Come and share your tips please!

[redridingwolf]

On another thread, people started sharing gluten-free cooking tips, so this is now a home for all gluten-free tips.

My 4yo DS1 has just been diagnosed coeliac, so I am about to get to grips with all this and will be very grateful for all tips :)

Thanks for this thread, redridingwolf.

Just marking place as DH is coeliac :)

Buy a sausage machine. You can get them very cheaply, and Kenwood Chef has a sausage attachment.
We found that A LOT of GF sausages, for some reason have a lot of bready rusk in them, and a lot of spice/pepper/chilli in them. The texture and flavour is often not good.
I use a basic River Cottage recipe to start, its mainly just minced belly pork. The fat content is quite important, 25-30% or so is good, which makes belly pork ideal. I run it through a cheap as chips hand mincer, once for coarse, twice for a smoother sausage.
You can then add whatever you want. We did parmesan and green pesto, (yummy) and pork and stilton is fab as well.
Then the fun part, which the kids will adore, is filling the skin. (Which can be synthetic or traditional pork or ox runners(intestines) that you can usually get in the butchers)
100% meat sausages are FAB!

Marking my space this is an interesting thread and I can help I hope !

Our family is wheat intolerant (not gluten) but I use rice flour which is GF for almost everything I used to use normal flour for like sauces etc. it makes wonderful pancakes (DH says they're better than wheat ones) and as he's WF under protest that means a lot!

I'm not keen on the GF flour 'cos I also don't eat potato and it usually has pot. flour in it. IMO most of the suprmkt. Free from stuff maybe free from gluten and dairy but it's plugged full of sugar and salt and other not particularly healthy stuff. I know it saves time but better to cook and freeze when you have the time than live off that stuff.