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“What’s for dinner?”
This age-old question is
especially challenging
for the millions of
Americans who live
without gluten––a
protein in wheat and
wheat-related grains.
Like everyone else, they
want a quick meal at the
end of a long day––but
it also has to be safe.
Cooking without wheat
once demanded hours in
the kitchen making
everything from scratch,
but in her
ground-breaking new
cookbook, Carol reveals
all her shortcuts, tips,
and time-saving
techniques from more
than a decade as
America’s foremost
gluten-free cooking
authority.
Here are her secrets,
ideas so simple you can
use them tonight.
SECRET #1: MINIMIZE
INGREDIENTS
Carol reveals which
flavor-intensive foods
you can add to flavor
your favorite dishes
without measuring lots
of ingredients. For
example, Mexican salsa
is packed with flavor
and replaces multiple
ingredients of tomatoes,
chiles, salt, oregano,
cilantro.... and so on.
So, you can have a
really quick soup using
canned black beans,
Mexican salsa, and a
little broth or water.
SECRET #2: MINIMIZE
EFFORT
Shave time off
preparation and cleanup
with Carol’s versatile
flour blends and
homemade mixes.
What is a flour blend?
It’s a blend of
gluten-free flours that
perform well together,
can be mixed up ahead of
time and stored in your
pantry, and then you
measure it just like the
wheat flour you used
before you adopted a
gluten-free diet.
Carol’s particular flour
blend consists of
sorghum flour, potato
starch, and tapioca
flour––items readily
available at health food
stores and often in your
local grocery store. You
can use this flour blend
in all of the recipes in
this book with
confidence.
What is a homemade mix?
It’s like any dry mix
you buy in the store,
only you make it
yourself. It contains
the flour blend, the
leavening agents,
and the other dry
ingredients. Homemade mixes
are an incredible
time-saver. For example,
you can whip up a bread
mix which is then ready
and waiting for
you––just like the bread
mixes you buy in the
store––to be used in
making sandwich bread,
pizza, breadsticks, and
dinner rolls.
You can also prepare
cake mixes ahead of time
to make any kind of
cake; or prepare quick
bread/muffin mixes or
pancake/waffle mixes for
your favorite breakfast
foods.
Carol covers other ways
to minimize effort in
the kitchen such as
using a food
processor––instead of
the usual electric
mixer–– to instantly
blend your cookie dough.
In fact, in her
Flourless Chocolate Cake
she shows you how to
grind the nuts in the
food processor, then add
the remaining
ingredients on top of
the nuts, and quickly
blend the cake batter.
In about 30 seconds it’s
ready for the oven.
Speaking of your oven,
Carol also shares her
cutting-edge baking
techniques to save you
time. Remember the
crusty, chewy French
breads we once ate?
Start your French bread
dough to bake in a cold
oven (prepared quickly
with the bread mix, of
course) and you can have
bread ready in less than
an hour. Make French
baguettes––which are
smaller and bake
faster––and you can have
bread in about 30 or 35
minutes. Your family and
your guests will be so
impressed.
SECRET #3: MAXIMIZE
MEALS
Carol firmly believes
that there is no such
thing as leftovers.
Armed with that
conviction, she shows
you how to “morph”
tonight’s dinner into
tomorrow’s lunch or next
week’s dinner––without
your family or guests
even knowing it. For
example, cook a roast
chicken and use the
bones for chicken broth,
the chunks of meat for a
chicken casserole, and
any remaining chicken
for chicken salad
sandwiches. Using your
freezer wisely is a key
to this strategy.
She even provides an
8-week menu plan showing
you in great detail how
a single meal can be
creatively “recreated.”
For example, cook two
pork tenderloins on
Tuesday night and serve
one; cut the other one
into cubes, freeze it,
and transform it into
sweet-and-sour pork a few
nights later.
Maximizing meals
involves more than just
the main dishes. Carol
shows you time-savers
like chopping a whole
onion and freezing the
portion you don’t need,
rather than just
chopping part of it and
refrigerating the
rest––which might be
forgotten in the back of
the vegetable crisper if
you don’t plan your
menus and follow that
plan. In Carol’s web
site package, she offers
a clever, erasable memo
board that you can use
for menu planning or jot
down what’s in the
freezer so you don’t
forget it.
Ideal for the following
diets or lifestyles:
·
Celiac disease
·
Food allergies and
intolerances
·
Autism (gluten-free,
casein-free diet)
·
Auto-immune diseases
(e.g., multiple
sclerosis, rheumatoid
arthritis, lupus)
Money-Back Guarantee
“If you are not
completely satisfied
with this book, I will
gladly refund your
money.”
––Carol Fenster, Ph.D.
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