Are you new to gluten-free?

I look at these photos and start to feel lousy just remembering. In the early spring of 2005, my body turned against itself. Actually, if I’m remembering correctly, it started gnawing at me years before. After a surgery and car accident in 2003, I never recovered. My energy flagged, my head ached, the injuries from [...]

When I was first diagnosed with celiac, almost five years ago now, I was lucky. I had been so sick, and I was so clear that cutting out gluten made a profound difference in my life, that I embraced this. That doesn’t mean I went without grieving. I walked around the grocery store, weaving through [...]

I remember the feeling clearly. Newly diagnosed with celiac, I felt relieved that I had found the answer to what ailed my body. I felt determined to stick to this, to heal myself. I felt sort of giddy that I could grow well by eating good food, instead of enduring terrible treatments and a lifetime [...]

Life, gluten-free, can be this warm, inviting, and delicious. The picture you see above (as well as on the banner on the top of this website) is a plate of steaming artichokes, in the Chef’s hands. We had the decadent pleasure of dining on these – and many other arresting dishes – with Judy Witts [...]

There are certain moments in a woman’s life that she will remember forever. The first time she hit a baseball over the left-field wall. The first time she had her heart broken by a nerdy guy in glasses or a dashing basketball player an impossible four years older than her. The first time she talked [...]

I don’t know, sometimes. Actually, let me re-phrase that sentence. Often, I don’t know. Keeping this website is one of the joys of my life. There are others: — waking up in the Chef’s arms, and snuggling into that warmth — that first cup of coffee, much later in the morning than it was last [...]

Danny planning the new menu, originally uploaded by shaunaforce.   This is a picture of the Chef, hard at work in our living room, planning his menu. He may look angry, but he’s not. He’s busy concentrating, looking out the window at the Olympic Mountains, imagining flavor combinations and ways to make his menu gluten-free. [...]

When the Chef and I were listening to the radio this morning, as we were preparing breakfast, some moron announcer said, “Only 31 shopping days until Christmas!” Before I could even say it, the Chef said, “Oh shut up, Bob.” I love him. Every year, it drives me crazy, how the holidays in this country [...]

Gluten-Free Girl, originally uploaded by shaunaforce.   As soon as I learned to read, I wanted to write. As soon as I knew that a book was created by a mere human being, I wanted to write one. Over the past thirty-plus years, I have read thousands upon thousands of books. I have filled countless [...]