Beyond Flour: A Fresh Approach to Gluten-free Cooking and Baking

How many times have you come across a gluten-free recipe claiming to be just as good as the normal version! only to find that the author must have had some skewed memories on what the normal version tasted looked and/or felt like? How many times have you felt the need to settle for food with weird after-taste gummy consistency or cardboard-like texture convinced that this is your new lot in life?Most gluten-free recipes are developed by taking a normal recipe and swapping in a simulated all purpose gluten-free flour... whether store bought or a homemade version. Beyond Flour takes a bit of a different approach: developing the recipe from scratch. Rather than just swapping out the flour for an all purpose mix Marie Porter uses various alternative flours as individual ingredients and does NOT make use of any kind of all-purpose flour mix. Supporting ingredients and different techniques are also utilized to achieve the perfect end goal ... not just a reasonable facsimile.Think about it: - Fresh pasta! Yes you can have ravioli again- Gyoza too!- Homemade Chinese takeout BETTER than the real thing!- Deep dish pizza thats crispy outside & tender inside... like pizza is SUPPOSED to be!- Chewy delicious cookies that *everyone* will want to eat!- Never having to present a dish with an apology for it being Gluten-Free.- Indulging some of your deepest darkest guilty pleasure cravings... safely and joyously!Make no mistake - this is NOT a healthy cookbook. You will find yourself gorging on foods that you thought would never cross your lips again. Youll probably gain some weight and youll definitely need to learn how to defend your gluten-free food from invasion by your non-GF friends and family. (Well or make enough for everyone!)