re: The Mrs. has Celiac Disease.. is there anyone with "Good" gluten free recipies?

My elderly mom was recently put on a diet by her gastroenterologist which eliminated wheat gluten, lactose, and several groups of carbs. Since I go by her house every day to cook her food, it was a challenge for me, too.

For her main meal, she was quite happy with meat and veggies with either brown rice,potato, or yellow corn tortilla. However, she missed bread for her morning toast and sandwiches. For breakfast, I added walnuts or a spoon of peanut butter to her steel cut oatmeal or fixed her an egg along with corn flakes. We made wraps with the corn tortillas instead of sandwiches.

One of the foods we had to eliminate was soy, which I found in most gluten-free baking mixes. Eventually I found one without soy at the health food store. Once a week I would use it to bake muffins with lots of nuts and used butter and sour cream. One of these every day satisfied some of the craving for bread, cake, cookies, etc.

Rice flour can be used to make a roux, but the texture is silkier and it scorches easily. It took practice, but eventually I perfected the technique so she could have gravy.

Other findings: roasted spaghetti squash looks like pasta on the plate, baby carrots can substitute for crackers/chips.

Honestly, once I figured all this out, it was more difficult to cook without onions and garlic as recommended on her diet than without wheat.

I think that my body is happier without many carbs or wheat-- I want to go gluten-free for awhile to see if it helps me. As long as I could have lots of roasted vegetables and salads with meat, I could be happy.