GFCS: The Online Cooking School
Where You Can Learn To Cook Delicious Gluten Free Food
Making a gluten free cake from a box mix is convenient, but you’re not going to get comments like, “This is the best cake I’ve ever eaten! I can’t tell that it’s gluten free at all!!” Goal: There are two goals for this class. The first – bake a delicious gluten free cake. The second […] Read more »
“It is more difficult to give rules for making bread than for anything else; it depends so much on judgment and experience…wisdom must be gained by a few mistakes.” Lydia Marie Francis Child in The American Frugal Housewife c. 1832 The above quote gave me much comfort as I was developing this class. For it’s […] Read more »
I sifted through my email archives and blog comments and pulled out 10 questions that repeatedly make their way to me. If you have questions about gluten free bread that are not included her, just leave your question in the comments and I’ll add it in. Kneadable Gluten Free Bread? Q: I just made my […] Read more »
You can’t really teach gluten free cooking and baking without also teaching about ingredient substitutions. Here’s my first stab at anticipating the ingredient substitution questions that you all may have about gluten free bread. If I’ve missed something, please leave your question in a comment and I’ll add it, along with my response, to the […] Read more »
Pizza is actually a pretty simple food to cook. You’d never know that though, since most of us are accustomed to paying someone else to make our pizza, or at least our pizza crust, for us. When gluten free frozen pizzas first became available in our area, I tried them. They were not good, to […] Read more »
Now, that you’ve learned to make gluten free crepes, I thought that you might could use some ideas for how to fill them. Crepes can be filled with almost anything. If you’re making them for breakfast, you can fill your crepes with traditional savory breakfast foods like sausage, bacon, eggs, hashbrowns, sauteed mushrooms, onions and […] Read more »
Popular cooking magazines have misled us. Those magazines always use pre-packaged wonton wrappers as a “short-cut” for making delicious, easy, and impressive looking appetizers. Somehow the fact that these recipes never suggest that you make your own wrappers led me to believe that there must be some great mystery to making wontons. There is not! […] Read more »
I don’t know that I’ll ever get tired of a hot bagel, fresh out of the oven, smeared with cream cheese and jelly. But sometimes, I do want a little extra something to make the bagel a little extra special. Variety is the spice of life, right? Here are some ideas for bagel toppings and […] Read more »
Waffles Why should you make your own waffles from scratch when you can just buy a mix? That’s easy. Mixes are a compromise. Mixes are generally formulated so that you can make two,three, or more different recipes using the same flour. The only problem with this is that all of those recipes should have different […] Read more »
Crepes Do crepes intimidate you? I was intimidated as soon as I heard you had to have a special pan and that they were French. And so I never made them. That is, until I had gluten free crepes at a wonderful restaurant in St. Louis called Rooster. After that I knew that I had […] Read more »