Simply Gluten-Free

I bought a bunch of gluten-free recipe books from the U.S. last year, but haven’t had much time to experiment. This month with our ahyi back home in Sichuan, I’ve been spending more time in the kitchen. One frustrating aspect of cooking/baking gluten-free in China is not being able find the right ingredients. Most ingredients [...]

The VitaMix comes with a variety of recipes ranging from appetizers, beverages, sauces, soups, salad dressings, and desserts.
There aren’t that many recipes that is completely Jason-friendly, meaning recipes using ingredients that Jason can eat. I went through the recipes to mark the ones that Jason can eat.
Today’s experiment was the chicken spread and [...]

The other day I was looking for mayonnaise at Carrefour supermarket and couldn’t find regular plain mayonnaise. It seems as if all the mayonnaise sold in Shanghai/China are the sweetened kind packaged in plastic squeeze bottles. Kewpie seems to be a popular brand but whatever happened to regular plain mayonnaise sold in a jar without [...]

The only choices for peanut butter at Carrefour in Shanghai are Skippy’s and cheap Chinese peanut butter, both full of sugar, hydrogenated oil, and even MSG! We buy organic peanut butter from Trader’s Joe whenever we visit the U.S. and bring them to China. Due to limited luggage space in addition to other food [...]

Wow, it’s been almost two months since I lasted posted on this blog. Sorry for the long absence. Working full-time and preparing gluten-free meals every day has become such a chore that we hired a housekeeper, we call them "ahyis" in China, to help us with daily meals. Our ahyi cooks dinner and packs our [...]