Yes, we are gluten free. But is what I am doing considered cooking? Probably not.
We ate burgers (gf veggie for the adults, grass-fed cow meat for the kids) every day this week. Sometimes with a side of gf pasta with olive oil and cheese. Salad for the adults, frozen peas for the kids.
I am not exaggerating.
I am paralyzed in the kitchen. I don't think I normally cooked with all that much gluten, but now it is as if my brain is on ice. Stuck.
On the second (or third?) night of the neverending burger-fest, Dave ran out to get buns. He meant to get Udi's, but got Rudi's WHEAT buns instead. Only after they were in our brand, spankin' new glutenless toaster was this discovered.
It was hard not to yell. One letter separated the toxic from the nontoxic. Easy mistake, right? Heated discussions on how many crumbs of gluten could have fallen into our toaster in the span of 2 minutes. Enough to make us toss it? Is it possible to shake the gluten free? Anxiously, we decided to clean it. I now avoid it.
Last night, I mustered up enough brain power to attempt gluten free pizza last night. (I used this recipe.) I created a "surry" with flaxseed meal to approximate the requisite glutenous goodness to make the superfine brown rice flour, tapioca flour and potato starch come together in a ball. After the "dough" still looked like a pebbled sandy beach, I doubled the surry. It did come together in this ethereal, temperamental glob. The yeast seemed to work quite hard to get the heavy mass to rise just a smidge.
As we had to get rid of all of the rolling pins, I pinched out the dough into a circle. I tried not to think about my stretchy, soft, creamy gluten pizza dough as pieces of the crust broke off. Parbaked. Topped. It looked decent. I just couldn't bring myself to take a picture. Hipster food photography, be damned.
Nora declared that I deserved a chef hat. Dave repeated that he loved it, even though I was on to him that he just can't bear to survive another week of veggie burgers. Spence told me quietly that he didn't really like it so much.
If this was just one night, one attempt of gf pizza dough, it would be a hit. But, it isn't. This is forever. And I want my gluten back.
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