Tasty sliced raisin bread

Flavoursome and tasty!

Gluten free bread. Fresh, warm, gluten free bread. Delivered to your home. Delivered to your home by bicycle. A celiac’s dream? Perhaps, but a dream which has come true for gluten free travellers living in San Francisco and the East Bay.

Enter, Breadsrsly. Here is some unique, tasty and home made gluten free bread. The gluten free bread delivering girl is Sadie who bakes the bread in her gluten free kitchen and has been delivering and selling to customers since August, 2011. The menu changes weekly and each week there is a choice of two interesting gluten free breads and one muffin. She uses ingredients from local farmers as much as possible.

I was really impressed with her raisin cinnamon bread. It had a lot of flavour to it and didn’t fall apart when I sliced it the way gluten free bread often does. It was great smoothered in creamy peanut butter but equally as delicious on it’s own. As always this bread is best fresh. After a couple of days it becomes more crumbly so slice and freeze what you don’t eat.

Loaves are $8 and muffins are $3. Sadie delivers in San Francisco on Tuesdays and the East Bay on Thursdays.

In the oven

Preparing my empanadas

Whilst finding gluten free empanadas is easy enough in Buenos Aires, on the road it has been impossible. I’ve been craving them for weeks now so when I came across gluten free empanada wraps in a dietetica in Bariloche, the idea of making a bunch of my own sounded like a fantastic idea!

I cooked ground beef with onion, garlic, peppers, tomato paste, chilli powder and oregano. This was to be the filling of my empanadas de carne. I put a small amount of filling into each wrap and dabbed a little water around the outside to help them stick together. Muy simple and they were ready for cooking. I heat the oven to 200 degrees celsius and baked them for 15 minutes.

They looked great and weren’t falling apart as many gluten free things tend to do. They tasted great too! Now I know that I can make my own gluten free empanadas, there are many different fillings I must try.

Ready to eat!

Que delicioso!

Morgan's delicious Gluten Free tamales

Our friend Morgan prepared some special gluten free tamales and guacamole for the evening’s dinner. Morgan is an organic farmer in Mount Pleasant. As well as growing a great variety of delicious tasting organic veggies in her gardens (which make great additions to many of the gluten free dishes I make), she also makes various baked goods such as breads and muffins, which I’ve heard are great despite being highly glutenous! She wanted to try her hand at something gluten free for our symphonic, fireworks picnic and decided to make tamales. Tamales are traditionally made with corn flour anyway so nothing had to be substituted here in order to make them specially gluten free. She prepared her own stock as she didn’t want to risk possible glutenation from store bought varieties and checked any other ingredients she used to ensure everything was 100% gluten free.  Some of the tamales were filled with black beans and some with pork…they were amazing, as was the home made guacamole, and they went perfectly with the beautiful, multi coloured and extremely loud fireworks.

I’ll have to get Morgan’s tamale recipe to make these again myself…..mmmmm!