Amazing gluten free pizza
Yesterday was my 28th birthday and to celebrate we went to Pizza Rustica on College, Oakland. One word for you….amazingtastic!
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Gluten Free Chick O Peas
Jan
19
African Spicy Soup
Eggplant Souffle and french fries
To celebrate five years together, John and I went to Chick O Peas on Shattuck Street, Berkeley for dinner. They are a Mediterranean restaurant with a casual and cozy eating area. They sell wraps, salads, soups, burgers and plate dishes and a few of their items are gluten free and marked as so on the menu.
There is no food service here but instead you order, pay and then pick up your order next to the kitchen when your number is called. There was no one around who knew anything about the gluten free nature of dishes so I asked to speak to the chef directly to find out a little more. The chef, a lovely woman who is gluten intolerant herself, understands the importance of care when preparing gluten free dishes and informed me that as well as the four labelled menu items, their french fries are also gluten free. The African Spicy Soup was very flavoursome and the Eggplant Souffle was interesting and tasty. The other two gluten free dishes they do are Veggie Souffle and Polenta with asiago cheese.
Gluten Free Beer and Sausages
Jan
19
Gluten Free Beer
Saag's gluten free brats
Even in pre coeliac days I wasn’t the biggest fan of beer and would almost always have chosen a glass of wine first so not being able to drink beer was the last of my worries when I was diagnosed. Despite this, I have always been curious about gluten free beers and how they might taste. I wonder if they taste differently from normal, gluten filled beers but I figure that it would be better for someone that actually drinks and enjoys beer to take the taste test since I would have nothing to compare it to.
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Berkeley Bowl Gluten Free
Jan
18
Lots of crazy fruits
Amazing selection of fruit and veg
There are a few large supermarkets in Berkeley but my favourite by far is Berkeley Bowl. They have a great selection of products (including the best selection of fruit and veg I’ve ever seen in a supermarket), decent prices and a brilliant selection of gluten free products!
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Gluten Free Traveller Forum!
Jan
17
Gluten Free Traveller now has a forum. It’s a place where you can share any gluten free information, advice and concerns that you have, whether it be travel or general gluten free living related, with fellow coeliacs. We’ve been working on this forum for a while and now that it’s finally up and running I’m pretty excited! 🙂
Perhaps you have been recently diagnosed and wondering whether your favourite foods are gluten free or you’re planning your first gluten free trip abroad and are looking for advice from someone local to where you’re heading. Maybe you are the one who can give a newbie coeliac the answer to the question they’ve been looking for or at least point them in the right direction.
Gluten Free Traveller’s forum is the place to ask for and share advice with other coeliacs!
Add your knowledge to a discussion which had already been started or begin a new topic yourself. Whether you’re concerned about something and looking for advice or just interested in what other coeliacs out there are thinking, gluten free traveller’s forum is the place to do it. It takes less than 20 seconds to register and begin posting. Click on the link provided below or find the link that now appears on the home page. Click on Register, enter a username and email address and your password will be send to the address you provide.
Let’s help each other to live and travel gluten free!!
Cafe Gratitude – I am Gluten Free
Jan
11
I am lots of gluten free choices!
Cafe Gratitude
Cafe Gratitude has to be one of the most unique places I’ve ever eaten at. They have a few locations throughout the Bay Area , including Berkeley and Oakland but I ate at the one on Harrison Street, San Francisco. The menu is 100% organic and 100% vegan and mostly comprised of raw dishes and only a few cooked foods.
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Pica Pica Gluten Free
Jan
10
100 a% Wheat and Gluten Free menu!
Pica Pica on Valencia, SF
Pica Pica Maize Kitchen is the first gluten free eatery I visited in San Francisco. I found their website and was excited to check this place out because it is a 100% wheat and gluten free kitchen! There are three types of bread to choose from if you are in the mood for a sandwich: Arepas (grilled corn flour cake), Maize’wich (sweet corn bread) and Cachapas (100% sweet corn sandwich) and various interesting fillings. Elsewhere on the menu are empanadas, soups, salads, sides of yuca fries and sweet plantains and drinks. Yum!!
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Gluten Free Siga La Vaca
Jan
06
Carne
Argentina is famous for it’s Parilla (BBQ) and a trip to Buenos Aires wouldn’t be complete without a trip to a Tenedor Libre. In Spanish this translates to free fork and basically means all you can eat. Siga La Vaca is an all you can eat parilla with a few different locations throughout Buenos Aires but their largest and probably most popular location is at Puerto Madero. You pay a set price (which ranges from 69 to 89 pesos depending on when you go). This gives you unlimited access to their fresh salad and sides bar which has a lot of variety, a bottle of vino, unlimited access to their parilla and a choice of desert from their menu.
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Gluten Free Christmas dinner (US style)
Jan
03
Blue Bunny Cinnamon ice cream
My tasty Christmas meal
This year I spent the festive season (and my second gluten free Christmas) with my boyfriend and his family in Iowa. Christmas Ham was on the menu for Christmas lunch and I was pretty excited about this. Cooked Ham isn’t really something we eat a lot of in the UK (and never at Christmas time) so the only thing I could picture was the delicious gammon steaks I used to get from the chippy when I was a kid.
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Gluten Free Rosario, Argentina
Dec
23
Lots of cookies!
El Almacen del celiaco
Rosario has one fantastic gluten free store that no coeliac travelling to this great city should miss! El Almacen del celiaco (on Salta 2449)  is a 100% gluten free store which stocks everything a coeliac living in or travelling to Rosario could want.
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