{"id":197,"date":"2011-10-06T04:24:00","date_gmt":"2011-10-06T04:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/meshell.ca\/blog\/?p=197"},"modified":"2011-10-06T04:24:00","modified_gmt":"2011-10-06T04:24:00","slug":"vegan-mofo-gluten-free-humpday-xgfx","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/meshell.ca\/blog\/vegan-mofo-gluten-free-humpday-xgfx\/","title":{"rendered":"Vegan MoFo: Gluten Free Humpday. xGFx"},"content":{"rendered":"

So, I’m not going to pretend I know what I’m doing with gluten free baking, I’ve made at most three or four gluten free baked products in my life. But I’ve been curious, and I have friends with serious gluten issues; it would be nice to be able to accommodate their needs.<\/p>\n

I also have a bit of a fear of gluten free products, and sure, that phobia has been mitigated slightly since trying amazing baked goods from at Bunner’s Bakery<\/a> in Toronto, or Burlington, ON’s Kindfood<\/a>, and Sweet Freedom<\/a> in Philadelphia, PA, but whenever I hear those two words combined… gluten free… I still get a bit nervous. In my past food adventures I’ve had some really not so great gluten free products, with unpleasant flavours, weird textures, and a whole lot of bleh. But the same goes for some vegan items from long long ago, and things have improved! A lot! In any case, I wanted to challenge myself to start working on my gluten free baking skills.<\/p>\n

Conveniently soon after I decided to work on these skills, Laurie Sadowski<\/a> (author of the Allergy Free Cook Bakes Bread) had posted about needing recipe testers for a new gluten free vegan cookbook. I was sold. And I was ready, and up to facing the unknown head on. I am the recipe tester version for dummies.<\/p>\n

Today I made her Olive Oil Orange Cake. Freshly squeezed orange juice, homemade apple sauce from freshly picked apples, and mysterious flours I hadn’t worked with before. The hunt for Sorghum flour turned into a fun trip to Bulk Barn, a bulk food store I’ve only seen in Ontario, which I’ve been to before, but never explored as much as I did that day.<\/p>\n

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\"Colourful<\/a>
Combining colourful flours<\/center>
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\nThe end result – flavourful orange cake, spongy, and no gluten free aftertaste. It was so easy, a gluten free newbie like me can do it! I realize now, that I should have used a smaller pan, but I’ll know better for next time.<\/p>\n

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\"Icing?\"<\/a>
I’ll work on making it prettier next time!<\/center>
\nSo first gluten free experiment was a success. If you want gluten free recipes I suggest heading over to the awesome Vegan Mofo<\/a> Gluten Free RSS feed<\/a> package!<\/p>\n

Tomorrow is a day I’ve really been looking forward to. I’ll be sharing my Things I Love Thursday list on here! Happy MoFo!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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