Look What Santa Brought for this Allergen-Free Baker

I just love gadgets and books and new food products for bakers. I describe myself as a baker rather than a cook or chef because I have so much fun creating baked goods – and transforming from traditional baking methods to allergen-free baking methods. While I can walk in and out of a cookware store rather quickly, get me near a store that focuses on baking products (like the King Arthur Flour Store in Norwich, VT) and I can spend hours browsing and dreaming up new recipes to try.

So it’s probably not a surprise that I asked Santa for some new baking books and tools, and he really came through! I had asked for The Gluten Free Girl and the Chef, and Jules’ new Free for All Cooking. I got both of those, as well as a Julia Child’s baking book (I’ll need to transform the recipes, but there’s some great stuff on technique in this book that I am looking forward to reading.

I also received Dianne Jacob’s Will Write for Food. Yes, I will write for food, especially gluten-free and allergen-free food. Enough said.

And look at the cool tools Santa brought me from the King Arthur store! I was lusting after that little brownie spatula. I know… not everyone needs a spatula just for brownies, but if you make as many brownies as I do, then you need one too. And that little pastry roller is just too cute!

Now, onto 2011…

I’m not making resolutions, but I am prioritizing the projects I want to work on. For this site I am planning to work on more recipes, tackle more technique and how-to bake allergen-free questions, and incorporate some video posts! And I hope to have a few surprises along the way! If there are any topics, products, or techniques you'd like me to cover, please let me know.

Happy New Year!