Cooking and Recipes

[Nuytsia]

However, I do have a good gluten free flour recipe off the top of my head that's pretty easy and doesn't require very much hunting for special ingredients.
-1 cup brown rice flour
-1 cup white rice flour
-2/3 cup tapioca starch
-1/3 cup potato starch
-2 teaspoons xanthan/guar gum (my mom uses xanthan gum, but guar gum is apparently cheaper)

Thanks NBW, I think I can find all those things if I go to the right shops. I don't THINK I've seen guar gum for sale but I have definitely seen xanthan.

If you're just going gluten-free, the bionaturae brand of pasta and the umi's brand of bread are by far superior to anything else I've tried. If you can't find bionaturae or don't want to drop the money for it (it is admittedly a little expensive), or have some sort of allergy to potato or soy, try Tinkyada, which is also quite good and only made of brown rice and brown rice bran, and salt, and water.

Hmm I don't think we have any of those brands in Aus, or at least not in Tasmania. We do have SOME gluten free pasta and bread mixes so it's not too bad at all. We have GF soy sauce too.
It's fairly rare to find actual gluten free bread loaves here, and the other day I found some frozen ones at the supermarket and even fruit loaf! I was all excited about the fruit loaf, so I made some yummy fruit bread toast with butter when I got home and after a couple of bites I started feeling queasy and I though oh-oh no way they didn't put ALMONDS in it did they..... quick check of the ingredients - YUP! Sheesh!!!! I'm allergic to almonds so luckily I hadn't eaten much!
I've never come across fruit bread with almonds before! So they had to put it in the gluten free one! GRRRRRR.

Thanks for the other tips! The sesame coated tofu sounds excellent! Reminds me of something we used to have when I was a kid which was some sort of sesame coated prawn things.... no idea what exactly it was but I think it was some sort of take-away food and really yummy!