{"id":2674,"date":"2014-08-21T10:44:06","date_gmt":"2014-08-21T09:44:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.free-from.com\/blog\/?p=2674"},"modified":"2017-05-20T11:37:02","modified_gmt":"2017-05-20T10:37:02","slug":"review-healthier-gluten-free","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.free-from.com\/blog\/review-healthier-gluten-free\/","title":{"rendered":"Review: Healthier Gluten-Free"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.free-from.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/healthier-gluten-free-s.jpg\" alt=\"healthier-gluten-free-s\" width=\"252\" height=\"311\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-2831\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.free-from.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/healthier-gluten-free-s.jpg 252w, https:\/\/www.free-from.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/healthier-gluten-free-s-243x300.jpg 243w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 252px) 100vw, 252px\" \/>Lisa Howard recently sent me an early copy of her new book, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Healthier-Gluten-Free-All-Natural-Whole-Grain-Ingredients\/dp\/1592335985\/\">Healthier Gluten-Free<\/a> to have a look at &#8211; and it does look delicious!<\/p>\n<p>And: it&#8217;s <strong>finally<\/strong> out here in the UK &#8211; published today.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s aimed at anyone interested in healthier eating and\/or avoiding gluten, and is in three parts: <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>the first discusses going gluten-free, with a useful list of wheat variants to look out for (something people sometimes find confusing).  <\/li>\n<li>the second discusses the importance of &#8216;whole-grain&#8217; to a healthy diet, and includes:\n<ul>\n<li>a fascinating discussion of flours: their taste, and their best use. This includes a whole range of flours I&#8217;ve never thought of using, such as poppy seed, acorn or coconut flour &#8211; interesting. <\/li>\n<li>discussion of different milks and dairy products, and of eggs, oils and sweeteners (again, including unusual ones such as yacon syrup and sucanat &#8211; I&#8217;m going to have to hunt some of these fascinating ingredients down&#8230;)<\/li>\n<li>advice on which flours would work well in various dishes: for example, she advises using a mild medium-starch flour such as brown rice flour in shortbread, or starchy flours such as potato or sticky rice flour in dumplings.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>and the third part is six chapters of recipes: breakfast, hand-held meals, salads and pilafs, appetizers and snacks, and finally baking.\n<p>Some of these are twists on classic recipes, and many are definitely going to be on my list to try out, starting with:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>goats cheese &#038; walnut scones with pears<\/li>\n<li>goats cheese, fig and caramelised onion pizza <\/li>\n<li>pear, walnut and gorgonzola salad<\/li>\n<li>halloumi &#038; grape salad<\/li>\n<li>parmesan-battered fish and chips <\/li>\n<li>almond-dusted crab cakes<\/li>\n<li>cumin-scented guacamole<\/li>\n<li>baked brie with homemade berry jam<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Theres more, much more: these were just the ones that caught my eye and made me peckish &#8211; and now that I look at the list, I&#8217;m obviously craving some cheese!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It&#8217;s written in a light and friendly tone, full of sidebars and summaries, with good explanation of technical matters &#8211; the section about leavening agents is excellent. <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.free-from.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/gfreefrittata-healthier-gf.jpg\" alt=\"gfreefrittata-healthier-gf\" width=\"360\" height=\"400\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-2832\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.free-from.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/gfreefrittata-healthier-gf.jpg 360w, https:\/\/www.free-from.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/gfreefrittata-healthier-gf-270x300.jpg 270w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 360px) 100vw, 360px\" \/>Note that it is written for an American audience, so ingredients (such as types of cream) and brands (such as Grainaissance or Aunt Jemima&#8217;s)  may not be the same as in your country, and do check everything you buy &#8211; for example, tortillas almost inevitably contain wheat flour here in the UK unless you make your own or buy from a specialist.<\/p>\n<p>The book is dedicated to Lisa&#8217;s mother, and there are many elements in the book that remind me of my own, sadly missed, mother, who also kept every butter-wrapper for greasing cake tins, and who once memorably repurposed one of my childhood baking disasters as Resurrection Cake. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lisa Howard recently sent me an early copy of her new book, Healthier Gluten-Free to have a look at &#8211; and it does look delicious! And: it&#8217;s finally out here in the UK &#8211; published today. It&#8217;s aimed at anyone interested in healthier eating and\/or avoiding gluten, and is in three parts: the first discusses [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2831,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2674","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-living-gluten-free","8":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.free-from.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2674","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.free-from.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.free-from.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.free-from.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.free-from.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2674"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.free-from.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2674\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.free-from.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.free-from.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.free-from.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.free-from.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}