Beth Hillson - Gluten-Free Makeovers: Over 175 Recipes--from Family Favorites to Gourmet Goodies--Made Deliciously Wheat-Free

Beth Hillson, a herald in the gluten-free industry, has successfully made over our fondest and favorite recipes. Using her endless culinary talents and attention to the necessary details, Gluten-Free Makeovers provides us with the secret to creating exciting, delicious, and inspiring gluten-free recipes. Its a must-have in any wheat- and gluten-free kitchen.

Robert M. Landolphi, The Gluten Free Chef, author of Gluten Free Everyday Cookbook and Quick-Fix Gluten Free

Gluten-Free Makeovers is so needed and an absolute addition to the cookbook collection of every person with celiac disease and gluten intolerance. Thanks to the time and talents of Chef Beth Hillson, we can now enjoy cooking fresh, creative, and healthy gluten-free versions of dishes that have been off-limits. Beth has succeeded in overcoming the culinary challenges of being gluten intolerant. There is something to appeal to every palate. Heres wishing you good food, food fun, and food friends! GFgluten-free!

Elaine Monarch, Founder, Celiac Disease Foundation

Thanks to Beth Hillson individuals with celiac disease and gluten intolerance can leave frustration at the kitchen door and learn how to modify and adapt recipes, even family favorites, to be tastefully gluten-free. This approach and the wonderful recipes makes Gluten-Free Makeovers a must-have for gluten-free cooks.

Andrea Levario, JD, Executive Director, American Celiac Disease Alliance

Over 175 Recipesfrom Family Favorites to
Gourmet GoodiesMade Deliciously Wheat-Free

BETH HILLSON

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Copyright 2011 by Beth Hillson

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Hillson, Beth.

Gluten-free makeovers : over 175 recipesfrom family favorites to gourmet goodiesmade deliciously wheat-free / Beth Hillson.

p. cm.

Includes index.

ISBN 978-0-7382-1461-0 (pbk. : alk. paper) ISBN 978-0-7382-1536-5 (e-book) 1. Gluten-free dietRecipes. 2. Wheat-free dietRecipes. I. Title.

RM237.86.H55 2011

First Da Capo Press edition 2011

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Substitute Boldly and Eat Well

Dedicated
to the great cooks who inspired me,
to my sister, Jennifer, my son, Jeremy,
and all the other gluten-free guests who
open these pagesmay you enjoy every bite!
To Joel, always

Contents

ON THE RISE:
YEAST BREADS AND QUICK BREADS

By Jax Peters Lowell,
Author of the Gluten-Free Bible

Dont tell Beth Hillson she cant do somethingunless, of course, you want her to do it.

From becoming a classically trained chef to founding the wildly successful Gluten-Free Pantry to food editor of Living Without Magazine, and activist for celiac disease awareness, this queen of the gluten-free makeover has set the standard for many of the recipes we count on to navigate lives that are mouth-wateringly full, and rich and uncompromised by the need for gluten-free alternatives.

It took chutzpah to take on the Holy Grail of Sunday brunch, that soft, yeasty vehicle for cream cheese and nova off-limits to millions of us. Her gluten-free bagel mix made its debut on Good Morning America decades ago when celiac disease was a distant blip on the horizon and you could Spackle a wall with the bread that was available. Beth Hillson is the trailblazer whose determination changed the game for all of us.

Beths genius is for making over the dishes weve eaten all our lives, the ones we long for when we become gluten-free. From brioche to biscuits, pierogi to pot stickers and chicken Wellington, there is virtually no recipe she cant convert with all the authenticity and taste we remember. In this treasury of makeovers, 175 in all, she gives us back the birthday carrot cake, grandmas Babka, vanilla blueberry Bundt cake, shortbread, chicken Marsala, even toaster tarts and, in so doing, returns our memories and traditions, even our daily routines, intact. She can do this because, as a professional chef, she knows the ratios of wet to dry, fat to flour, something she calls Recipe DNA, an apt term because the skeins of family and friends are forever entwined with food and table.

Dont take it from me.

Several years ago, Beth was in Philadelphia for the culinary professionals trade show and invited me to bring along a stack of books and sit with her. A rather large and inscrutable woman chugged by, picked up one of Beths decadent chocolate brownies and chewed.

Thats Julia Childs taster, Beth whispered.

I wondered what must it be like to have ones very own taster.

A few minutes later, La Julia, in all her glory, swooped in, greeted Beth and plucked a brownie from the tray.

Are these fat-free? she asked Beth (Im sure she was suspicious of anything that did not contain a pound of butter).

No, but theyre gluten-free.