QUICK Glee (Gfree) Coffee Cake

- Follow directions for GLUTEN-FREE BETTY CROCKER Vanilla Cake Mix and spread in greased 9" sq pan (or 13 x 9 for thinner cake)

- Mix together until crumbly: 1/4 cup soft butter (or marg), 1/3 cup gluten-free baking flour, 1/2 cup brown sugar, 1 t cinnamon

-Crumble mixture over vanilla cake batter. Take a knife and swirl it into the batter.

-Bake according to cake mix directions.

Gluten-Free Tip: Try New GRAINS/FLOURS

Most people on a GF diet stick to rice and corn as their main source of grain and flour. But did you know there are many wonderful, tasty, highly nutritious grains/flours available? In fact, wheat-eaters should be diversifying their grains/flours as well. Many of the GF foods listed below have ancient origins amongst indigenous people throughout the world. Of course for the past 40 years food mega-corporations and lobbyists have influenced what we eat and what is available on a mass market level. But these alternative grains can be found at (or ordered through) most independent health food stores:

amaranth
arrowroot
besan
buckwheat (in pure form, not a wheat plant)
cassava
fava bean
flax
gram flour (not to be confused with graham)
lentil flour
millet
montina
nut flour
polenta
potato flour
psyllium
quinoa (plant shown in photo)
rice bran
sorghum
soya flour
tapioca flour
teff
wild rice
yam flour

Gluten-Free Tip: GF Food on iTunes!

Clan Thompson - an excellent online CD resource - has a new 2009 gluten-free food SmartList available to download to your iPhone through iTunes! If you own an iPhone it's such a handy way to access a full, current, accurate GF list whenever you're out grocery shopping or eating at a restaurant. Go to the iTunes store and search "Celiac SmartList," or you can access the link directly from Clan Thompson's website (www.clanthompson.com) under "software". According to Clan Thompson, "The new SmartList contains verified gluten info on approximately 18,983 products, including products for celiac vegetarians." Many other downloads also available!

Gluten-Free Tip: The Best BAGELS

Our family has tried just about every gluten-free bagel out there and by far our favorite line is Against the Grain bagels (www.againstthegraingourmet.com) from Vermont. Even though our daughter is the only one with CD, all of us eat ATG bagels and breads. They taste a little like delicious popovers and have the calories to match so you can’t slather on too much butter!