All posts tagged gluten-free

Austin: Gluten-Free Dinner at Olive & June

Italian and gluten-free don’t often go hand-in-hand … pastas, breads, and pizzas are serious gluten bombs. But leave it to parkside’s, backspace’s, and Olive & June’s Chef Shawn Cirkiel to create a five-course  Southern Italian-style gluten-free dinner in honor of Celiac Awareness month. Olive & June will host two of the gluten-free dinners on May [...]

Austin: Experience Aspen! Er, Um, Copper

The Copper Mountain Ski Patrol is bringing a Snow Day to Austin! Much needed after wildfires, no? Maybe some real snow? A Mobile Snow Day Van will be cruising around Austin all weekend, so look for it: Saturday, Sept. 10 at 1 p.m.: UT Longhorns Tailgate at the Bob Bullock Parking Lot The snow machine [...]

Around the Fitness Horn: Science!

Science is an imperfect science, no? You read a million different studies proving a million different things, and how do you decide what resonates with you and your body? Experimentation, mostly. Below, some science read and resonated recently: TONS of abstracts and summaries on why gluten is bad for people: The Case Against Gluten: Medical Journal [...]

Everyone Should Try Miracle Noodles

You guys might not know this, but I used to be a noodle fanatic. Growing up, I would eat whole wheat noodles for breakfast and dinner with parmesan cheese, nothing else. Needless to say, in my paleo or at the least gluten-free life, I’ve tried a lot of noodle substitutes. I love spaghetti squash noodles. I [...]

Tamale Tamale Tamale

I tweeted a lot about these babies, and external sources have confirmed: TAMALES ARE AWESOME!! Particularly these tamales. That I made. These are my 3 flavors. I was inspired to make tamales thanks to a new ridiculously awesome Austin blog called HilahCooking.com. Check it out. These are the video instructions I followed (I used vegetable [...]

Around the Fitness Horn

Coming soon: my tamale experience! Just have to get the photos uploaded … Until then, enjoy these links: The No-Goal Goal (I may like this just because I’ve never been a goal-setter) Sex and Sports: Before or After? Yum Yum Pecan Brittle (you know I’d use palm sugar …) For workouts? I’ve been skiing my [...]

Promise Pizza

There are two AMAZING things about Promise Pizza: 1) Gluten-Free Pizza Crust: – Smart Flour (amaranth flour, tapioca flour, teff flour), water, sweet white sorghum flour, modified tapioca starch, potato starch, eggs, olive oil, honey, yeast, sugar, xanthan gum, guar gum, salt, baking powder, baking soda MUCH better for you than regular crust! 2) Vegan [...]

Cookie Lounge – Hello Candied Serrano Pepper

Candied serrano peppers. Sure, the dough is good, the customizing thing is good, the choices are good … yeah, Cookie Lounge is good. But the candied serrano peppers make the place great. They make your cookie fantastic. I had the gluten-free dough, which is made with amaranth–an ancient grain that’s so super good for you. [...]

From Ultra Lounge to Cookie Lounge

You know Austin is big when we have an Ultra Lounge (Pangaea) AND a Cookie Lounge. One of the top 10 pastry chefs in the nation, Mark Chapman, former executive pastry chef at the Driskill, schemed up Cookie Lounge as a customizable cookie shop and delivery service. Here’s the main draw: customers choose from six [...]