James Ahern - Gluten-free girl and the chef: a love story with 100 tempting recipes

Gluten-Free Girl and the Chef

A Love Story

Shauna James Ahern and Daniel Ahern

Photography by Lara Ferroni

With 100 tempting recipes

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Copyright 2010 by Shauna James Ahern and Daniel Ahern. All rights reserved

Photography 2010 Lara Ferroni

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Ahern, Shauna James.

Gluten-free girl and the chef: a love story with 100 tempting recipes / Shauna James Ahern and Daniel Ahern; photography by Lara Ferroni.

p. cm.

Includes index.

ISBN 978-0-470-41971-7 (cloth)

1. Gluten-free dietRecipes. I. Ahern, Daniel, 1968- II. Title.

RM237.86.A338 2010

641.5638dc22

2009051016

Printed in China

10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1

For Lucy. Thank you for joining us at the table.

Recipe List

At Home

At The Restaurant

Resources

Alter Eco
2325 Third Street, Suite 226
San Francisco, CA 94107
(415) 701-1212
www.altereco-usa.com

This fair-trade company buys directly from farmers in third-world countries and sells to consumers all over the world. Their quinoa is particularly high quality (try the black quinoa!), but they also sell rice, coffee, chocolate, teas, olive oil, and unbleached sugars.

Anson Mills
1922-C Gervais Street
Columbia, SC 29201
(803) 467-4122
www.ansonmills.com

The folks at Anson Mills have made it their mission to bring back heirloom grains that were near extinction in modern America. Their antebellum coarse white grits are the best we have ever eaten, and we try to always have some in the house. Not everything milled by Anson Mills is gluten-free, but they maintain good practices to keep the grits, cornmeal, polenta, rice, rice flour, and buckwheat separate from the gluten ingredients in the warehouse.

Bob's Red Mill
5000 SE International Way
Milwaukie, OR 97222
(800) 349-2173
www.bobsredmill.com

Without Bob's Red Mill, we wouldn't be able to bake. Our pantry is always filled with their little bags of gluten-free grains and flours. They maintain a separate milling facility for gluten-free products, so look for the red symbol of a line through a grain of wheat on the bags. All the flours we use in this book are available through Bob's Red Mill. Their website is a fount of good information on the gluten-free life as well.

Chef Shop
1415 Elliott Avenue West
Seattle, WA 98119
(800) 596-0885
www.chefshop.com

Oils, nuts, beans, June Taylor marmalades, sea salts of all kindthese are the staples of Chef Shop. Run by people who truly love food, Chef Shop sells the best of all categories of comestibles. They also have agreements with Native American tribes in Alaska to sell Copper River salmon and sablefish directly from fishermen to customers.

D'Artagnan
280 Wilson Avenue
Newark, NJ 07105
(800) 327-8246
www.dartagnan.com

Every chef in America must know D'Artagnan by now. Their meats and poultry, both fresh and cured, are used in some of the best restaurants in this country. We promise you that duck confit is easy to make. However, if you want to buy it instead, this is your place. In addition, the veal D'Artagnan sells has been raised humanely, on a small cooperative farm where the calves roam freely. This might make you feel better about that veal stock.

Gustiamo
1715 West Farms Road
Bronx, NY 10460
(877) 907-2525
www.gustiamo.com

Umbrian lentils, Sicilian olive oil, Roman coffee from Caffe Sant'EustachioGustiamo has all the best ingredients that Italy has to offer, directly from the Bronx.

La Buona Tavola
1524 Pike Place
Seattle, WA 98101-1527
(206) 292-5555
www.trufflecafe.com

If you're in Seattle, you can stop by this tiny stall in Pike Place Market where we bought the wild truffle honey on our second date, the one that later topped our potato-leek soup. If you're nowhere near Seattle, you can order the honeyalong with oils, vinegars, and whole trufflesonline.

Lotus Foods
601 22nd Street
San Francisco, CA 94107
(866) 972-6879
www.lotusfoods.com

This wonderful company uses sustainable practices worldwide to bring "exotic" rice to the U.S. while benefiting the farmers. Their Bhutanese red rice is the basis for one of our favorite salads in the book, and their Madagascar pink rice is an almost spicy heirloom you most likely have not tried. If you think you know rice, you probably haven't eaten some of these varieties yet.

Monterey Bay Aquarium
www.montereybayaquarium.org/cr/seafoodwatch.aspx

No, we are really not suggesting you go to the aquarium to pick out your fish for dinner. The Monterey Bay Aquarium runs Seafood Watch, one of the best centers for understanding sustainability in fish. Their pocket guides to sustainable seafoodavailable onlineare enormously helpful in deciding what fish are best to eat, both for you and the environment. (They even have an iPhone app!)

Rancho Gordo
www.ranchogordo.com

Steve Sando, who founded and runs Rancho Gordo, is kind of a god to us. Frustrated by the lack of good ingredients indigenous to the Americas (beans, grains, and corn), he made connections with growers and enticed them to grow heirloom varieties of these foods. If you have never tasted a Vallarta bean, you have never really eaten good beans. Rancho Gordo sells dozens of different beans, as well as amaranth and quinoa, chili powders, good Mexican cinnamon, and dried corn.

Ritrovo
309 South Cloverdale, Suite D-11