Gluten Free Pasta Review

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If you’ve been on the celiac diet for longer than 3 months, you can go ahead and add some specialty gluten free foods into your diet. Be careful though, as many companies say their product is gluten free when they have in fact been “manufactured in a facility that also processes wheat.” These foods are not safe for celiacs! The easiest rule to follow is to only purchase products with the certified Gluten Free symbol:

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If that symbol is present then its time to get cookin’! I’ve been experimenting with pasta lately and wanted to share my thoughts on 3 brands: Bionaturae Organic, Tinkyada and Ancient Harvest.

Estrella Damm Daura Updated

Finally tried. And Approved!

Well, it took me a few weeks since I blogged about this beer before I actually picked it up and tried it.

Available in four-packs at Belmont Station for about $8.50, it’s a pricey beer. But the claim of ‘best gluten-free beer in the world’ is worthy of investigation.

Well, I’ve gotta admit, it’s really damn good!  I’ll not try to wax philosophical on the flavor notes, but this beer seems to be very well balanced, and doesn’t have any metallic or strange aftertaste, the way some GF beers do.

Truth be told, it’s been a while since I’ve had regular ‘ol beer, so I wouldn’t be able to compare Estrella Damm Daura to another well-known brand, but chances are, you’re going to like this.

Eat Pastry Gluten-Free Cookie Dough

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Nice to see good packaging design and quality products together!

Packaging based impulse buying at the market kind of day. But i was craving fresh cookies too… and while killing time at Mother’s down in Newport Beach… the packaging on the Eat Pastry vegan cookie dough jars sucked me right in with their playfully complex graphic label. The San Diego based line has a few flavors of cookie dough (Choc Chunk, Vegan Gluten-Free Choc Chunk, Peanut Butter Choc Chip, Chocoholic Chunk, Cinnamon Ginger Spice, and Oatmeal Raisin Choc Chip) ~ and its really the speakeasy-esque eyes peeking over what is either an open book or a mustache on the front as well as the fun fonts that lured me in first. And of course there’s the lady with the monkey on her shoulder ~ both enjoying cookies. And the mustache shaped barcode that can’t be ignored! Take a peek at the lovely packaging on the next page… cute branding continues to the Eat Pastry website as well. And i have a few cookies coming out of the oven in a few!