In My Gluten-Free Kitchen with Gretchen Brown, RD | Celiacs in the ...

Gretchen Brown is food-loving, gluten-free Registered Dietitian and author of kumquat, a blog filled with exclusively gluten-free recipes. She has also just written her first cookbook, Fast & Simple Gluten-Free, which will be published in October.

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Welcome! Here?s a quick peek into one of my happy places? to me, a kitchen
is a place for creative juices to flow and for love to be infused into delicious food. My kitchen is both my office and my retreat. As the old saying goes, it is the heart of my home.

Honestly though, as a military family, home changes a lot. So I guess this is the current heart of the home, but one I?ve been grateful to call home for a few years now (basically, a millennium in military terms). I have dreams of the perfect kitchen, built with all of my personal touches, but for now, this one has been good to us and I can?t complain.

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Like any foodie, I love kitchen appliances and gadgets. Here are a couple of my favorites? first, I love my KitchenAid standing mixer. It makes such quick work of beating egg whites, mixing gluten-free doughs, and entertaining my 4-year old. I don?t think I?ve been allowed to turn it on without his assistance for a year or two.

My newest and most current favorite appliance is my Breville toaster-oven. I?ve never before been a toaster-oven kind of girl, but I?m a total convert. It?s so super easy to cook small meals for my son, to easily (and perfectly) toast some breakfast, or to reheat some leftovers. My husband is completely opposed to the microwave. I can?t say I disagree, but warming up the whole oven to reheat one slice of lasagna was not my favorite. But now, voila, warm lasagna is just minutes without heating the entire kitchen? LOVE it!

Then, to the one necessity in any gluten-free baker?s kitchen is the scale. Only since baking gluten-free have I begun to use a kitchen scale. It?s absolutely necessary for making gluten-free flour blends, consistently and successfully substituting flours, and any baking by weight. Now I couldn?t live without it.

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Then of course is the most-used appliance in my kitchen (maybe second to the fridge), the coffeemaker. Typically it?s one of the kitchen things that actually joins us in the car when we move from one place to another. And I love my antique Japanese kitchen clock that we found in a shop when we lived in Hawaii.

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One of the best things about this kitchen is the space? by that I mean both working counter-space and the open and airy-ness of it all. So many bright windows overlooking the forest behind us? makes me happy! I know it?s not enormous by some standards, but after some of the kitchens we?ve endured, this one seems huge.

I did consider photographing my fridge and freezer, but after the recent storms that left us without power for several days we?ve had to start over there. Now it looks like we don?t eat much. I couldn?t give you that false impression. Luckily the frozen (defrosted and refrozen) gluten-free flours were all just fine.

So this is my space? where I?ve relished feeding my little family, entertaining friends, testing recipes for my book, developing recipes for the blog and for other freelance jobs, and teaching my son how to love cooking too.

Because talking about food and sharing good recipes seem to be my love language, I can?t leave you without some of the favorites on my blog. I hope you like them!

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Thank you, thank you, Wendy, for including me and my gluten-free kitchen!

Source: http://celiacsinthehouse.com/2012/07/in-my-gluten-free-kitchen-with-gretchen-brown-rd.html

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