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Community Farmers Market, Bowling Green

July 27, 2016 By: Brittanycomment

Bowling Green, Kentucky, is home to the Corvette Museum. This is of no interest to me, as I don’t know the difference between a Corvette, a Camaro, and a Chevy.

When I recently visited Bowling Green, Kentucky, we toured Mammoth Cave. This was interesting, but there’s really only two reasons I travel: beaches and food. There were no beaches in Bowling Green, but we did visit a Farmers Market. I’ll take what I can get!

Community Farmers Market is a small indoor farmer’s market in Bowling Green. It’s open from 8 a.m. To 1 p.m. on Saturday and 2-6 p.m. on Tuesday. Community Farmers Market only allows local producers, so none of the subpar produce that sneaks in to some farmers markets will find its way here.

Community Farmer's Market Bowling Green

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AMOT Eatery Nashville TN

July 25, 2016 By: Brittanycomment

Traveling while gluten-free can be hard. I spend a lot of time packing my own snacks and eating salads. I don’t have anything against salads. Actually, I usually have a big salad for lunch! However, when everyone around you is chowing down on delicious-looking carbs, and you’re sadly poking a piece of iceberg lettuce with a fork? Yeah, no.

Nashville is about two hours away from my home base of Chattanooga, Tennessee. My best friend recently moved to a Nashville suburb, so when we were passing through after a trip to Kentucky, I was able to meet her for lunch. Now, Taylor has been one of my biggest supports since going gluten free. She’s suffered through more weird homemade gluten free concoctions than I can count, and has dutifully tried each new restaurant I’ve found with a gluten-free menu.

When I mentioned that I was going to be in Nashville, she asked where we should eat lunch. “I usually get Fido,” I said, referencing the best gluten-free option near my Vanderbilt doctors.

“They’re busy on weekends. Look up AMOT Eatery!” she replied.

AMOT Eatery Nashville

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Going Gluten Free Without Breaking the Bank

July 11, 2016 By: Brittany2 Comments

When you first go gluten-free it can be daunting. It seems like you’re destined to spend seven times what you did before, and everything is doomed to taste like heated cardboard. Although plenty of blogs assure you that eating gluten-free is easy, low cost, and you’ll never miss anything you ate before. While that may be true for some people, the reality for me was that following a gluten free diet was a challenge at first, and I still miss some junk foods I can’t have. (Fazoli’s lasagna anyone?)

However, a gluten free lifestyle doesn’t have to be miserable. It also doesn’t have to be terribly expensive. In fact, I’ve made an art out of being gluten free on a budget. So here’s how I stay gluten free without breaking the bank.

Going Gluten Free Without Breaking the Bank

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Gluten-Free with Flavor: What a Celiac Eats

April 29, 2016 By: Brittany3 Comments

When someone hears that I’m gluten free, there are three pretty standard reactions I’ve come to expect.

  1. “I’m sorry, I don’t think I could ever live without bread!”
  2. “What is gluten? What can you eat?”
  3. “Oh yeah, me too, it’s sooooo much healthier for you.”

I’m not going to be one of those celiacs that claims I never miss bread or pizza. I would probably chew off a man’s arm for a real pizza, and I’m not even kidding. As for the people who tell me, while I’m buying a gluten-free brownie the size of my face and eating it in one sitting, how healthy my diet must be? Well, yes and no. Yes, I am no longer literally starving to death because my body has decided gluten is the bad guy. No, I’m not some magical paragon of healthy living and eating. Sure, I eat a lot of salads and healthy, balanced meals. But you’re going to pry my baked goods and sodas out of my cold, dead hands. A girl’s gotta have balance, right?

The “so what can you eat” question is the only one that throws me. I mean…..everything y’all eat, except without the gluten?

What do celiacs eat? (Almost) anything we want!

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Easy Guacamole Recipe for Cinco de Mayo

April 27, 2016 By: Brittanycomment

When you think of Cinco de Mayo, you probably think of two things: food and booze. Endless margaritas, beer, tacos, and all the Mexican food you can stomach. No wonder it’s such a popular holiday, right? Despite the misconceptions surrounding it (no, it isn’t Mexico’s Independence Day), Cinco de Mayo remains a favorite holiday for many. And why not? Who doesn’t love Mexican Food?

When Food Should Taste Good reached out and asked if I’d like to collaborate with them for a Cinco de Mayo recipe, of course I said yes. They sent me several flavors of their tortilla chips, and after perusing the offerings (including blue corn, my favorite!), I decided to make something that would well with any chip I chose: guacamole.

Guacamole is a simple dip that’s endlessly customizable. My favorite guacamole recipe is incredibly simple, so I’ve included a list of my favorite “add-ins” for when you want to mix things up a bit.

Easy Guacamole Recipe

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Tortilla Making Adventures (and recipe)

January 20, 2016 By: Brittanycomment

Look, I know the basics to making tortillas. You need masa, you need water, you need a griddle. Some people use a tortilla press. Some brave people manage to make perfect circular tortillas with their hands. (These people usually have years of practice. Seriously, some of my friends started training in handmade tortilla-ing when they couldn’t even reach a counter.) I know HOW to make tortillas, just like I know HOW to drive a stick shift. That’s why I always buy tortillas from the local tortilleria, and also why you don’t see me trying to drive Justin’s Kia around. I can go in first gear and reverse, so it’s not like we’re getting anywhere fast.

Last night, someone I know was having a rough night. It was time for food, so Justin and I stepped up to the plate- literally- and offered to make the dinner. There was no tortilla press to be found.

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Arepa Mia

January 14, 2016 By: Brittanycomment

Located inside the Municipal Market in an area of downtown Atlanta that I am not highly familiar with is a small restaurant cooking up 100% gluten free Venezuelan food. I don’t remember how I first heard about this restaurant, but when Justin took a trip to Atlanta without me sometime last year, I decided to send him in search for it. Since it was located inside the market, he had a bit of a hard time finding it. The arepa he brought back, though? Totally worth any trouble he may have gone to.

For some reason, I have been craving arepas during my pregnancy. Sure, I’ve only had them once or twice, but pregnancy cravings are no joke. When the opportunity to visit Atlanta came up, I agreed to go on one condition: we were stopping by Arepa Mia.

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BFree Foods: Gluten Free Review

January 1, 2016 By: Brittany3 Comments

I was given samples of Bfree Foods in exchange for an honest review. My opinion is, as always, my own.

When my package from Bfree Foods arrived, I was beyond excited. Not only are all Bfree products gluten and wheat free, they’re also dairy, egg, nut, and soy free. This makes them suitable for celiac so who have other intolerances (like my lactose intolerance) and also a good option for vegans. The products are also low-fat and high fiber.

Let’s be real, though. As much as I can talk about the specs of the food, it doesn’t really matter. What’s important here is one thing: the taste. (And, if you’re pedantic, the texture. I’m counting that as an aspect of taste here.) So how does BFree Foods measure up?

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Buford Highway Farmer’s Market

December 29, 2015 By: Brittany1 Comment

When you tell someone that you’re headed to Buford Highway, there are generally two reactions: “I love that place! Have you eaten at (restaurant)?” Or “Gosh, you’re going to get mugged!” See, Buford Highway is a stretch of road housing most of Atlanta’s truly great ethnic food. It gets a bad reputation, but if Anthony Bourdain has been there, it can’t be bad, right?

One of the highlights of Buford Highway is the Buford Highway Farmer’s Market. It’s not a true farmer’s market with stands selling local produce from the backs of pick-up trucks. Nope, this is a Costco sized building housing foods and ingredients from around the globe. There’s a food court, a handmade tortilla station, a fish market, a panaderia, a steamed-while-you-wait dumpling area, and of course, aisles of groceries and mountains of produce. You could easily get lost in the Farmer’s Market, and we did several times, losing parts of our group to enticing pastries or fascinating meat products.

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We we spent a little over two hours in the Market, and left with over two hundred dollars worth of groceries. The verdict? If you’re in the area and you don’t shop here, you should. If you’re not in the area, it’s worth a day trip.

The highlight of the Buford Highway Farmer’s Market is the produce. Here, you can find all the herbs, greens, and unusual fruits you need for that recipe you’ve always wanted to try but never been able to find the ingredients for. We picked up pink lemons, sweet limes, ugli fruit, ginger, giant garlic, chunks of aloe, hand-made tofu, and a variety of herbs and spices. We eyed the purple sweet potatoes, the Belgian endive, and the huge jackfruit, but we knew we would quickly run out of car space if we bought everything we actually wanted. Maybe we should come back with a UHaul?

Buford Highway Farmer's Market

 

My little brother, a student in the food science department of Missisissipi State University, was amazed by all the ingredients he found that he had only heard about in class or from friends. He picked up a variety of curry ingredients and teas from the Asian section- did I mention that the shelf stable foods are divided by region, making it incredibly easy to find exactly what you’re looking for.

The main sections of the store are the Asian section and the Latin food section, but there are also Eastern and Western European sections that we noticed. We were able to skip the section labeled “America,” which featured gems like Mrs. Butterworth syrup and Hershey’s bars. Is that what other people think we eat here in the USA? If so, I’m cool with being represented by Mrs. Butterworth.

Ugli Fruit Buford Highway

 

If you decide to make the trek to Buford Highway Farmer’s Market, I recommend bringing a cooler. You can’t pass up the deals in the seafood and meat departments, and when handmade tofu is only 99 cents a block, you’re probably going to want some.

If you get hungry while you’re shopping, there is prepared food in various areas available for purchase, including the steamed to order dumpling that I mentioned at the beginning of the post. You can also check out the food court, which offers a variety of food from around the world. There is a crepe making station, a hot food station, a cold case, and a hot food bar measured by the pound. You can also pick up drinks from the cold case- and yes, these go beyond your ordinary Sprites and Mexican Coke. I picked up a ginger beer from Jamaica, while my little brother had a ramune and my husband had a mango juice. My mom stuck with what she knows- Diet Mountain Dew.

Dont worry about bringing cash to Buford Highway Farmer’s Market if you don’t want to, as they take debit and credit cards.

While you’re in the area, be sure to stop by any of the local taquerias, Chinese restaurants and more that Buford Highway is known for. You won’t be sorry.

Sluggo’s Vegetarian Café, Chattanooga, TN

October 29, 2015 By: Brittany13 Comments

For a region that’s know for things like pulled pork barbecue and the meat-and-three, Chattanooga is surprisingly full of vegan and vegetarian options. From the raw vegan options at local juice bars to a couple of prominent vegan cafes to vegetarian and vegan options at normal restaurants, there’s something for everyone who’s avoiding meat and dairy. Although Justin and I have sampled plenty of meatless meals across the area, there’s one place we always seem to return to: Sluggo’s North Vegetarian Café.

Although their name says vegetarian, don’t be fooled. This is a vegan restaurant, slinging all kinds of diner-like dishes, and offering plenty of gluten-free options for people like me. They aren’t an entirely gluten free restaurant, but order off the gluten free menu and you will be rewarded with their best efforts to avoid cross-contamination. So far, I haven’t gotten sick from Sluggo’s, so it’s on my trusted restaurant list, which grows shorter all the time.

Sluggo's Chattanooga

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