low gluten diet experiment and PIE

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lierdumoa is at my place for a visit and we has embarked in the adventures of PIE; being that I triangulated several "best pie/pie crust evar" recipes I've found online and we kept making the suckers until the pie was Magical.

MAGICAL.

If you've been following lierdumoa's food tags at all, you'd notice that most of her cooking involve alcohol and we were very excited to learn about this pie crust recipe that involved vodka.

Us, being, us, decided that vodka was decidedly inferior to brandy, so we found one with the same alcohol content (because that's the fool-proof recipe's secret). And then we marinated the fruit in brandy before baking. ^_^V

The recipe is alllllmost there, it's already better than lierdumoa's fave restaurant pie, but it could be kicked up a notch to become GLORIOUS; along the way I've figured out some awesome baking tips for newbies. (like why pastry flour make pie more awesome and how to half-ass it from cake flour and all-purpose)

We'll post the final when we get there. =D


On the gluten issue; I've been connecting the dots on some GI symptoms that I've been having that've been stumping my doctors and wonder if I have some sort of gluten intolerance/allergy; especially since I found out that gluten allergy can cause late onset lactose intolerance as well as fatigue.

Since I don't really like most hard/chewy breads much (I lean toward the cake/flaky pastry end of the bread spectrum, if at all) it's not really that hard of a diet for me. What I'm wondering tho, is strange stuff that gluten is in without being on the label, so I thought to ask ya'll if you know of any major culprits that had surprise gluten? I found out there's gluten in ketchup, which makes me sad, are there any other condiments that have it?

Thoughts?

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Hi hi! How have you been?

My personal research on gluten indicates that anything processed and/or not explicitely labeled as gluten free may have it. Most grains save for quinoa and I think corn and rice (have to double check) has gluten. Gluten is often used as a binder or filler in processed foods, so something seemingly safe like packaged turkey or chicken may have it.

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hello! Pretty good, did a stint as a product rep, and now back to looking for a job in my field. Are you still at your apt? We should meet up one of these days!

Hmmm, good point on the packaged products. I'm hoping that I'm only slightly gluten intolerant so that trace gluten would still be fine but I'm waiting for my insurance to okay the GI doc. =\

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I am still in the Glendale apt! We def have to get together again soon. Are you still in the same place? Not that I ever visited you there, but it was close by :)

What products did you rep?

I'm hoping that I'm only slightly gluten intolerant so that trace gluten would still be fine

I suspect so, but I'm not an expert on it, so I most certainly could be wrong. But I also suspect that the more one can avoid it the better. I think there are some who are so sensitive to it that even a little bit makes them really sick. And if I remember correctly, like you said, you've never been fond of the baked goods that are my vice.

GL with the job hunting; I keep my fingers crossed for you.

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hmmm, how's next week for you? I've several free spots then in the afternoon, or perhaps the first weekend of sept?

Yeah, I've never been at One with the baked goods, so I wonder if this had anything to do with it. The job search goes way better now than it did earlier this year, I'll tell you more when we meet up =)

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Let me get back to you on that... potential jury duty of doom

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ewww. My sympathies.