We don't sell items on this site, however, we are often asked to recommend products or vendors. As a convenience, we have compiled a list of products and links to websites that may be of interest to visitors to our site. We know how difficult it is to find single ingredients for special diets.
We do not recommend specific products unless we actually use them ourselves as shown below.
Specialty supermarkets:
Specialty baking ingredients:
Hard-to-find organic products:
Unusual hard to find health products:
Grass-fed Bison:
Fresh Seafood and exotic fresh meats:
Gluten free baking ingredients:
We don't recommend mixes since MSG sensitive persons or those with
celiac disease often have allergies to other foods found in mixes and baked
products.
Bob's Red Mill - Almond Meal/Flour
Use in gluten-free dairy free recipes instead of non-fat dry milk
Bob's Red Mill - Organic Coconut Flour
Use in gluten-free recipes
Spectrum - Organic Shortening
Non-Hydrogenated
Bob's Red Mill - Arrowroot Starch
Use for thickening in gluten free cooking
Bob's Red Mill - Sweet White Sorghum Flour
We use this sorghum flour to make wonderful gluten-free scones.
Bob's Red Mill - Tapioca Flour
We use this tapioca flour to make chewy gluten-free french breads
Bob's Red Mill - Buckwheat Flour
Buckwheat is actually related to rhubarb and is gluten-free.
Our favorite gluten-free pastas.
We recommend all the Tinkyada products - they stay al dente
Tinkyada - Spaghetti
Tinkyada - Spirals
Tinkyada - Shells
Tinkyada - Elbows
Taurine, CoQ10 :
We buy these supplements in powder form - it is much less expensive.
Camomile tea - Imported from Italy - Bonomelli- only flower blossoms - no added ingredients.
Coconut water - Zico - NOTHING ADDED
Tomatoes - Pomi - NOTHING ADDED
Kosher salt - NOTHING ADDED
Olive oil - Colavita - NOTHING ADDED
Wheat-free cookies - Lazzaroni Amarettini - Tiny and almond flavored like amaretto - these are great for crumbling into Italian desserts.
Environmentally friendly parchment paper,
cheesecloth, coffee filters, baking cups and cooking twine:
If You Care Brand
Nut Milk and Rice Milk Makers:
Although we do not recommend any soy or soy products,
SoyQuick soy
milk maker is what we use to make fresh homemade almond milk and rice milks.
Baking, serving and storing cookware - Corning - They look beautiful to cook with as well as to serve and store foods in. Be careful not to scratch them - do not use steel wool on them - ours have lasted for years.
Non-stick cookwear - ScanPan - Uses Ceramic-Titanium instead of fluoride-containing teflon. Won't flake or peel. They can be used with metal utensils too. We recommend buying them new. Carol loves her crepe pan so much, she bought two!
Stainless steel cookware - Calphalon - The metal handles allow for use in the oven - perfect for making rice pilaf the right way. Be careful as the handles stay hot for a while
Pots we learned to cook with - Revere ware- Still the cheapest way to get started if you've never really cooked before and need to outfit a kitchen in a hurry.
Pasta machine - Atlas - hand crank type.
Stand mixer - Viking - Has optional attachments for a blender, as well as a juicer, meat grinder, pasta maker, food mill. It has a very slow first speed and an 800 watt motor which is great for making gluten-free doughs, although we prefer our bread maker for typical wheat bread kneading.
Ice Cream maker - Cuisineart
The cream you use should NOT be Ultra-pasteurized. Buy only fresh
PASTEURIZED cream with NO additives. You can also make sorbets with fresh fruit
juices as well as diary-free desserts made from nut milks. We always keep
one bucket in the freezer so it is always ready in the summer.
English muffin rings - Fox Run - to make gluten-free crumpets using the recipe from Bette Hagman's book. You may want to get a few sets if you bake in bulk and freeze your baked goods.
All purpose sharp knife - Forschner - for boning chicken and cutting meat, or filleting fish. The sheath protects the blade and can be worn on a belt. The steel should be used every time the knife is to keep the edge true.
Chopper - we use this to chop nuts or onions in a hurry. It is great for chopping when you don't want to obliterate the food - you just want it finely chopped - or if you don't have a food processor. We love this thing. It is really sharp but opens completely and you can put the whole thing into the dishwasher.