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Last week I sponsored a finger food brunch for a local business meeting, Homeowner Services Network. Every now and then I like to show people how good gluten free food can be and also raise awareness.  As part of the menu I took along some of my gluten free Omega 3 and fiber rich loaves with Chia and everyone loved the bread. They were all wheat eaters too, so once again I got to confirm that everyone will love my gf breads.

Some people have asked for a table of contents to my books to help them decide.. There is a table of contents and a complete index in the Sample e-book which is a free download here. In the full edition of Gluten Free Goodies, every recipe in the table of contents is hyperlinked so you can get to any recipe easily and quickly with the click of your mouse.

Happy Holiday Baking,

Trina

We launched our new Affiliate Program this week. Take a look, if you are interested in earning commissions by selling my e-books on your site.

Have you heard of the new Wellsphere on the web? It is a place that has many interesting links to blogs and other articles about Healthy Living, answers to health questions etc.

Have a look at http://www.wellsphere.com

Last Friday night Whitby History Museum sponsored a Fashion Food & Fun night as a fundraiser. I baked my gluten free carrot cake with cream cheese frosting so that attendees who are gluten intolerant could eat without worry.

The event was a lot of fun, and along with Jane, of New Vision Nutrition, I was able to give a short talk about the gluten free diet.

Well, here it is almost fall and I am still working on my next book, a lot of work! I’m finding it really rewarding though, as I experiment with new recipes and they work!!!!! Then photographing them is fun too ...

This next book is turning out to be an encyclopedia of sorts. All the foods we can eat in a gluten free diet. There are lots of them! People often ask me if a gluten free diet is healthy? And so I am making this book answer questions on nutritious ideas I have implemented in feeding my family a gluten free diet.

Well, it has been a busy time this winter testing new gluten free recipes for another book. In the middle of all that I’ve been answering people’s emails, lots of good feed back and ideas to help me make things even more clear.

This week I’m putting on a Gluten Free Victorian Tea at the Whitby History Museum. From 1:00 to 3:00pm -123 Brock Street South, Whitby, Ontario. www.whitbyhistoricalsociety.com

Blue cheese is generally made from cow's milk, sheep's milk, or goat's milk cheeses and have Penicillin type cultures added so that the final product is spotted or veined with blue or blue-green mould. Traditionally it was started on wheat bread, and so not gluten free. However, many lists now state that most blue cheeses are now started with an artificial or synthetic culture. So best to read the label for contents such as wheat or gluten.

Of course we had a wonderful gluten free Christmas Dinner complete with turkey for Christmas Dinner. The holiday dinner my family loved most though, just because we hadn’t had anything like this for years was my new gf recipe for Classic English Fish & Chips. My husband said this was one of his favourites, way back when. He had given up ever having it again. Of course I have tried, but it never quite made muster till now.

The fish was wonderful and the batter didn’t fall off. The fries were so delicious, I think it was due to the wonderful farm fresh potatoes I had bought locally at B C Pickering Produce. The woman at the cash register said they were very particular about their produce and everything was so fresh.

Classic English Fish and Chips
A Gluten Free Adaptation by Trina Astor-Stewart

Fish & Chips is classic English street food and many would not go a week even today without heading down to their favourite locale. The first shop opened in London in the mid 19th century. By the 1930s, shops were located in towns all over England.