Ep 86 Summertime Gluten Free
Let’s start the blog with the show notes for this Episode –
This week is all about summer eating. I chat with Cinde Little of The Everyday Gluten Free Gourmet about what makes summer eating different from other times of the year. Cinde has lots of great time-saving and tasty ideas to spruce up our barbeque meals, as well as the new trends in salads. We talk about some of the ingredients in marinades that may contain gluten, as well as some products that might make grilling a safe gluten free meal easier.
You can find Cinde at https://www.everydayglutenfreegourmet.ca/
Cinde sent along many links to the recipes and products we talked about –
Southwestern Grilled Vegetable Pasta
https://www.everydayglutenfreegourmet.ca/fw-recipe-slug/southwestern-grilled-vegetable-pasta/
Grilled Pizza
https://www.everydayglutenfreegourmet.ca/fw-recipe-slug/grilled-sausage-and-vegetable-pizza/
Reusable Grilling Sheets – https://www.everydayglutenfreegourmet.ca/reusable-grilling-sheet/
Homemade Worcestershire Sauce – https://www.everydayglutenfreegourmet.ca/fw-recipe-slug/homemade-gluten-free-worcestershire-sauce/
Corn with feta and lime – https://www.everydayglutenfreegourmet.ca/fw-recipe-slug/gluten-free-corn-with-feta-and-lime/
Balsamic Marinated Grilled Vegetables
https://www.everydayglutenfreegourmet.ca/fw-recipe-slug/balsamic-marinated-grilled-vegetables/
Dinner Club – A Southwestern Menu for Summer
https://www.everydayglutenfreegourmet.ca/dinner-club-southwestern-menu/
Roasted Vegetable Stacks served with balsamic glaze – we didn’t talk about this but we should have. 🙂 https://www.everydayglutenfreegourmet.ca/fw-recipe-slug/vegetable-stacks/
Crab Apple Jelly Glazed Chicken – https://www.everydayglutenfreegourmet.ca/fw-recipe-slug/gluten-free-crab-apple-jelly-glazed-chicken/
Round Up of Summer Salads – https://www.everydayglutenfreegourmet.ca/round-up-of-summer-salads/
Grilled Shrimp Martini – https://www.everydayglutenfreegourmet.ca/fw-recipe-slug/gluten-free-grilled-shrimp-martini-2/
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Email – sue@suesglutenfreebaking.com
Other Podcast – Gluten Free Weigh In – https://glutenfreeweighin.libsyn.com
My Thoughts –
When I think of eating in the fall or winter, I think of comfort foods. We all have long lists of comfort foods. My list includes soups, stews, mac and cheese, casseroles and almost anything with dough in it.
Summer foods, on the other hand give us an opportunity to eat lighter, and with some purpose, much healthier. Not to say that soups and stews aren’t healthy, but they more lend themselves to settling in on the couch with a comfy throw-blanket, than heading out for a walk around the neighbourhood after dinner.
Eating in the summer, at least in summer heat is often an adventure in how to make dinner not using the oven and heating up the house. Cinde spoke about the opportunity to eat outside. We can find many excuses to not eat outside – bugs, too breezy, being overlooked by neighbours, but I know when I go south in the winter, I try and take most of my meals outside. I find some freedom in that.
Having to share a barbeque with others not eating gluten free can be a challenge. Cinde gave us a couple of strategies, and here’s what I do – no gluten on the barbeque. No gluten in marinades, no breads with dinner at all. We rarely have burgers and when we do, buns are heated in the microwave and brought outside. I think as the “cooks” in the house, we feel our gluten free diets often take a back seat to those in the family eating wheat.
This brings me back to eating in the fall and winter. That’s when we include bread with meals, gluten free for me and wheat for the others.
Summer days are longer and more relaxing, my family eats lighter and we don’t even think about many of the heavier wheat-laden foods and how to make gluten free substitutes. Gluten free goes well with summer eating, and I’m making the most of it.