Gluten-Free Hamantaschen

Yesterday was the Jewish holiday of Purim. Maybe you’ve heard the saying about Jewish holidays — they have a theme: “They tried to kill us, we survived, let’s eat!” Well, if ever a holiday really deserved that description, it’s Purim. This holiday is based on the Book of Esther (and if you don’t know the story, you can find a pretty good synopsis on Wikipedia).

The traditional Purim food is a pastry called Hamantaschen. It’s triangular, because the villain, Haman, purportedly wore a triangular hat. So we get to eat his hat. Oy vay.

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My mother, bless her heart, sent me a link for Gluten Free Matzo.
GlutenFreeMatzo.com

On Saturday, February 20, 2010, Tommy’s Pizza & Chicken in North Ridgeville, Ohio (the far west suburbs of Cleveland) hosted a Gluten-Free buffet with three seatings — 1:00 p.m., 4:00 p.m., and 6:30 p.m.

I made reservations for my party of five for the 6:30 seating. We arrived just about 6:00 and were greeted at the door by representatives of the Northeast Ohio Celiac Support Group. They asked us to sign in and also write our information on slips of paper for a door prize drawing (none of us won anything). We were seated at a booth and I stood around and talked to people while the place filled up.

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Mo and I (well, mostly Mo, with some small help from me) have been adding features to our site. We now have a link to the Northeast Ohio Celiac Disease Information page, which links you from there to all kinds of great resources and fun activities. For example, this weekend there’s a gluten-free buffet at Tommy’s Pizza & Chicken in North Ridgeville (far west suburbs of Cleveland). It’s booked solid with a waiting list! Lucky I got our reservation in before it was too late, so I’ll post about it afterwards.

Also new and very exciting, our “store” page. This links you to Amazon.com, with many of our favorite books and groceries (by the case lot, don’t let the prices scare you!). If you are already an Amazon.com customer or if this is brand new to you, you can make your choices through our page and Amazon will pay us (a very tiny percentage) that will help us pay for things like our server space and URL registration fees to keep this site going. And if there’s some gluten free item on Amazon that you really love, and it’s not already in our store, let us know and we can add it!

I’m off to bake a cheesecake for a meeting tomorrow — the board of the figure skating club stuck me with a 3-pound loaf of cream cheese so I swore I’d make a cheesecake for the next board meeting. They don’t care that it’s gluten free — it just tastes good!

I’ll post over the next few days about the buffet at Tommy’s… stay tuned.

I posted the following to the Silly Yaks Yahoo! group a couple days ago. I just wanted to share it because it’s something that needs to be said and bears repeating.

I just wanted to add, there is a frightening tendency among people with CD, to blame ALL symptoms on gluten, sometimes without looking into any other possibilities.

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As I’ve said numerous times before, anyone who leaves my table hungry has no one to blame but themselves. Yesterday I served Christmas dinner for 12, and packed up a bag for two more (with enough food for at least two meals each), and my fridge is still nicely packed with leftovers.

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As promised, here is my actual review of my trip to Lake Placid. I didn’t have the opportunity to visit many restaurants because I spent two solid days inside the Olympic Center skating and watching my friends skate in the ISI Adult Championships. Which is how I discovered gluten free sandwiches from Simply Gourmet on Saranac Avenue and the Big Mountain Deli & Creperie on Main Street. They deliver locally, free delivery on orders of $25 or more. The restaurants are actually two locations of the same operation and the menu is the same. (And a glutenoid friend of mine said the banana hazelnut dessert crepe was fabulous.)

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http://www.glutenfree.com/recipes.htm

http://members.ozemail.com.au/~coeliac/fav.html

http://www.glutenfree.com/recipes.htm

http://www.csaceliacs.org/recipes.php

http://www.celiac.com/st_main.html?p_catid=20

As we head home to Ohio today, I wanted to write a little about my experiences eating GF here in the Pittsburgh area.

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Posted from the Livejournal Community “what a crock” :

http://community.livejournal.com/what_a_crock/535976.html

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