The Gluten-Free Gourmet Cooks Fast and Healthy: Wheat-Free Recipes with Less Fuss and Less Fat

by Bette Hagman

Book Overview

The Gluten-Free Gourmet Cooks Fast and Healthy is the perfect cookbook for those who must put together a gluten-free meal at the of the long working day From the author of The Gluten-free Gourmet, 2nd... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0805065253
• ISBN13: 9780805065251
• Release Date: June 2000
• Publisher: St. Martin's Press
• Length: 416 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

This book grounded me after I was diagnosed!

I've only known I am a celiac for a couple of months. By great luck, I saw a review of this book two days after my diagnosis, while I was visiting in the Seattle area. Ms. Hagman brought me into the reality of living as a celiac and did so with solid and thorough information. This book is so much more than I expected. I really have found more help in it than in the diet the doctor gave me-the book being far more thorough. It's also encouraging because the author is a celiac and she offers years of experience and deep knowledge of the subject. I'm buying another copy now for my niece, who tried the diet after hearing about my diagnosis and has had immediate relief. With Bette Hagman's books, I hope many more people will find out about celiac disease sooner and be spared years of deterioration! For me it offers hope of restored health and a realistic view of how that may come about. It's a very practical and readable resource!

A necessity for the gluten-free kitchen

The bean-flour bread recipes alone make this book a worthwhile buy. No more dry, crumbly, grainy rice breads for me! Finally, individuals on a gf diet can have a bread with a texture just like wheat bread. Directions both for bread machines and for mixing by hand are included. Thanks to Bette, my gluten-free, dairy-free son will eat sandwiches again! This book also provides tips that are helpful for adapting recipes on your own, including descriptions of different flours and substitution recommendations. Plus, there is a wide variety of easy dinner recipes.

Bette has done it again!

Bette has done her usual great job at describing Celiac Sprue, Gluten free living, using gluten free ingredients and baking and cooking with this challenging diet.In this book Bette shows how to make up "mixes" for we who are gluten challenged. For example she explains cake and bread flour mixes, my two favorites, that can be made up in large quantities, mixed very well and stored for later use. This makes it as convenient to bake a gluten free cake, as it is to make one from one of those boxes from the grocery-baking aisle. There are many other mixes. (I counted 36.) One of my favorite everyday mixes is Onion Soup. I use it when cooking meats and stews. This one alone has saved my day when the children's activities take up all my time and energy and I just could not have sliced and diced and browned and simmered, etc, to get the onion base for the gravy just right. Bette supplies recipes for lots of the hard to find things like Sweet and Sour sauce, Sweet Pickle relish, low-fat dressing and lots more. She also explains some very helpful substitutions like things to use in baking if you have lactose intolerance and Sprue (and the taste doesn't overwhelm in the final product). Just seeing how Bette creates her mixes and uses them in her recipes is a great education. Once you start using this book you probably will get the courage to try out your own mixes or vary Bette's until it meets with your palates delight.Her recipes are easy to use. She explains the directions well. The end product is delightful.I love this book and refer to it often even when I am not using it to bake. I take it to the grocery store to use as a reference.

Wonderful book for those with wheat and gluten sensitivities

This really is a great book. The author goes beyond just recipes (although those alone are worth the price of the book!) to give us a whole lot of intersting and important information. This book caters to those with celiac disease, and there is a whole section of questions and answers in the front which addresses a number of relevant issues for those dealing with celiac and related diseases.That being said, the best part about this book are the recipes! Hagman covers everything from soup to nuts. The ingredients are, for the most part, readily available at your grocery or health food store. There is a large section on breads, both rice-based and rice-free. She includes directions for making bread by hand or using several sizes of breadmakers. There are also some which omit eggs and dairy, a nice plus for those with additional sensitivities.All in all this is a terrfic book, one which can liberate those dealing with wheat and gluten allergies, allowing us to "eat like the rest of the world." Don't hesitate!

Great Book!

As a mother of a large family, with a child who needs wheatfree, gluten free items, this book has been a great help. In it are simple easy to make recipies, that please even hard core wheat lovers! (Like my husband!) The recipies are easy for me to double, easy to fix on a moments notice, and our frequent guests have not even missed the wheat! From there, I have learned to adapt the basic principles of gluten free cooking to old time family favorites. This book is top of my list for ALL cookbooks, and has a treasured place on my book shelf.