Recommended Products

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:

http://www.wholefoodsmarket.com/

http://www.traderjoes.com/index.html

Specialty baking ingredients:

Hard-to-find organic products:

http://www.thepowermall.com/

Unusual hard to find health products:

http://www.wondrousproducts.com

Grass-fed Bison:

http://www.northstarbison.com/

Fresh Seafood and exotic fresh meats:

http://www.prawnco.com/index.asp

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
From: glutenfree.com
Use in gluten-free dairy free recipes instead of non-fat dry milk

Bob's Red Mill - Organic Coconut Flour
From: glutenfree.com
Use in gluten-free recipes

Spectrum - Organic Shortening
From: glutenfree.com
Non-Hydrogenated

Bob's Red Mill - Arrowroot Starch
From: glutenfree.com
Use for thickening in gluten free cooking

Bob's Red Mill - Sweet White Sorghum Flour
From: glutenfree.com
We use this sorghum flour to make wonderful gluten-free scones.

Bob's Red Mill - Tapioca Flour
From: glutenfree.com
We use this tapioca flour to make chewy gluten-free french breads

Bob's Red Mill - Buckwheat Flour
From: glutenfree.com
Buckwheat is actually related to rhubarb and is gluten-free.

Our favorite pectin - We use this to make homemade jams. We use the jam setting on our breadmaker and can our own jams from fresh organic fruits. Instead of regular jams that are more sugar than fruit, this pectin allows you to use much more fruit - to get a much tastier jam. The company that makes this also sells it by the pound - which can be expensive. We don't use the calcium water packet - we use fresh squeezed lemon juice instead with the pure pectin. Be careful to use the recipes given - a little of this pectin packs a lot of thickening power.

Our favorite jam jars for home canning

Our favorite gluten-free pastas.
We recommend all the Tinkyada products - they stay al dente

Tinkyada - Spaghetti - $ 3.29
From: glutenfree.com

Tinkyada - Spirals - $ 3.29
From: glutenfree.com

Tinkyada - Shells - $ 3.29
From: glutenfree.com

Tinkyada - Elbows - $ 3.29
From: glutenfree.com

Taurine, CoQ10 :
We buy these supplements in powder form - it is much less expensive.

http://www.beyondacenturyonline.com

Our favorite Camomile tea
Imported from Italy - only flower blossoms - no added ingredients.

Our favorite coconut water - NOTHING ADDED

Our favorite tomatoes - NOTHING ADDED

Our favorite salt - NOTHING ADDED

Our favorite olive oil - NOTHING ADDED

Our favorite wheat-free cookies - Tiny and almond flavored like amaretto - these are great for crumbling into Italian desserts.

Our favorite environmentally friendly parchment paper, cheesecloth, coffee filters, baking cups and cooking twine:

Nut Milk and Rice Milk Makers:
Although we do not recommend any soy or soy products, this soy milk maker is what we use to make fresh homemade almond milk and rice milks:

Our favorite baking, serving and storing cookware. 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.

Our favorite non-stick cookwear. 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!

Our favorite stainless steel cookware. 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.

The pots we learned to cook with - Still the cheapest way to get started if you've never really cooked before and need to outfit a kitchen in a hurry.

Our favorite pasta machine - hand crank type.

Our favorite stand mixer. 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.

Our favorite Ice Cream maker.
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.

We use these English muffin rings 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.

Our favorite all purpose sharp knife 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.

Our favorite 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.