I have spent the past couple of weeks reading through Dr. Carol Fenster’s recipe book, “Gluten-Free Quick and Easy”, and I gotta tell ya… there is absolutely nothing quick or easy about getting started. Changing your cooking and eating habits is not easy. My wife is physically motivated to stay wheat-free. Her wheat intolerance has made it really easy for her to stay away from wheat products of any kind. Or at least it seems that way to me. Me? I still want a cold beer, a yeasty dinner roll, and a slice or two of frozen pizza.
Give me quick and easy. Let me pop something into the oven and pull it out all hot and gooey and ready to eat. Yeah, I didn’t think that was gonna happen much anymore. You can’t see it, but I’m pouting and I bet my wife is too even though she is not showing it so much. “Gluten-Free Quick and Easy” has got to be the worst book ever written for someone who knows how to cook and wants some bread for sandwich making right now. Oh, that was 3 weeks ago, wasn’t it? I don’t think I have ever been so frustrated or intimidated by a cooking challenge before in my life.
Dr. Fenster, your book is mis-titled. It should be called “Redesigning Your Life In Order To Learn Partial Recipes You’ll Need To Research Online In Order To Complete After Sharing an Emotional Meltdown With Your Partner And Spending Hundreds Of Dollars On Ingredients And Gasoline Only To Learn Main Ingredients Are Not Available Within 100 Miles And You’ll Have To Order Those Online Too”.
The potato starch should arrive via UPS in a few more days. And for anyone who hasn’t done the research, potato starch and potato flour are not interchangeable although potato starch is sometimes sold as potato starch flour.
Until all your ingredients are on hand, please consider buying either Hodgson Mill’s or Bob’s Red Mill gluten-free mixes for your yeast bread needs. Yes, your food costs have just risen by 200%, but you really will feel a whole lot better if you have any type of wheat intolerance.
Dr. Fenster, I will give you credit for bringing my wife and I closer emotionally and baring our insecurities to one another.
I did make acceptable sandwich bread for us last night, but it’s still not right and as soon as I figure out the ingredients, I will share them. In the meantime, I found a box of Hodgson Mills Bread Mix while searching desperately for more corn starch yesterday. At least we’ll have enough bread to help us use up the sliced turkey and cheeses Cristy was good enough to pick up after work last night along with more corn starch.
"When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on."
Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882-1945)
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