Feeding a gluten-free family of eight is always an adventure, so I try to keep things simple but tasty. If you stock your pantry well, you can whip up most things in no time. Aside from my experimenting phases and special recipes, I try to keep these items on hand:
Basic flours I use for my three DIY flour blends:
- Brown Rice Flour*
- Tapioca Flour/Starch*
- Potato Starch*
- Oat Flour (I grind up rolled oats into flour)*
- Blanched Almond Flour
- Millet Flour
*Flours I use for my tasty all-purpose flour blend. Simple and cheap.
Other grains and flours:
- Rolled oats
- Steel cut oats
- Buckwheat flour (makes a mean pancake!)
- Sorghum flour (I use this in my artisan bread)
- Arrowroot powder
- Coconut Flour
- Organic Corn Mesa flour or Fine organic cornmeal
Basic baking necessities:
Binders, thickeners and leaveners:
- Instant yeast
- Xanthan gum or Guar Gum (what is this?)
- Phyllium husk (what is this?)
- Flaxseed/flax meal (binder)
- Chia seeds (binder & thickener)
- GMO-Free/organic cornstarch
- Baking powder
- Baking soda
Spices and extracts:
- Real Salt
- Cinnamon
- Nutmeg
- Vanilla extract
- Lemon extract
- Almond extract
- Maple extract
Add-ins:
- Cocoa powder
- All-natural chocolate chips
- Dried fruit like raisins, cranberries, apricots, dates
- Nuts and seeds (e.g., almonds, walnuts, poppy seeds, sunflower seeds)
- Unsweetened coconut flakes (or shredded)
- Sunflower seeds
Sweeteners:
- Organic coconut palm sugar
- Organic
sugar or raw sugar - Organic powdered sugar
- Raw honey
- Maple syrup
- Liquid stevia
Other items:
- Canned all-natural coconut milk (great for chia pudding!)
- Vinegar (some of my bread recipes call for it.)
- Nut butters (like almond, peanut)
- Shortening (I use Spectrum)
- Olive oil
- Coconut oil
- Avocado Oil
- Grapeseed oil