Gluten-Free Girl Every Day

322 Pages·2013·105.07 MB·English

by  Shauna James Ahern

Gluten-Free Girl Every Day

Gluten-Free Girl
Every Day
Shauna James Ahern with Daniel Ahern
Photography by Penny De Los Santos
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
This book is printed on acid-free paper.
Copyright © 2013 by Shauna James Ahern and Daniel Ahern. All rights reserved.
Photography Copyright © 2013 by Penny De Los Santos
Cover design by Suzanne Sunwoo
Cover image by Penny De Los Santos
Interior design by Kara Plikaitis
Food styling by Karen Shinto
Prop styling by Anne Trenner-Mishka
Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company, New York, New York
Published simultaneously in Canada.
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Ahern, Shauna James.
Gluten-free girl every day / Shauna James Ahern, with Daniel Ahern; photography by
Penny De Los Santos.
p. cm.
Includes index.
ISBN 978-1-118-11521-3 (cloth); 978-1-118-39491-5 (ebk); 978-1-118-39492-2 (ebk);
978-1-118-39493-9 (ebk)
1. Gluten-free diet--Recipes. I. Ahern, Daniel, 1968- II. Title.
RM237.86.A339 2013
641.5’638--dc23
2012030520
Printed in China
C&C 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1
For Danny, who is my loyal, indispensible partner in everything,
including the creation of this book.
For Lucy, who is all joy.
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CONTENTS
Acknowledgments 8
Welcome to Our Kitchen 11
Breakfast for Dinner 35
One-Pot Wonders 63
A Big Pot of Whole Grains 87
Stir-Fries 113
Rice and Beans 141
A Big Bowl of Pasta 169
The Meat Chapter 193
Breaking Down a Chicken 213
Fire Up the Grill 237
Buffets 259
Sweetness at the End of the Evening 287
Resources 312
Index 313
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Thank you.
Thank you to the farmers and food makers on Vashon Island and in Washington State, who not only provided
the produce and salmon that made these recipes possible but also inspire us every week with their celery root and
Japanese cucumbers.
Thank you to our legion of practical, loving friends, who listened to us wonder about what to cook, ate our
meals, and gave us feedback on recipes that seemed too elaborate to make on a weeknight. (None of those recipes is
in this book.)
Thank you to Tara Barker, Charissa Luke, Lisa Stander Horel, and Erin Swing Romanos, who helped us with
all the baked goods, particularly the sandwich bread. We wanted to nail that one, make it foolproof, and you folks
helped us do it.
Thank you to Tracy Chastain and Kim Malone, who meticulously tested nearly every recipe in this book,
making the millet skillet bread and quinoa sweet potato stew much better, in particular. These two took notes, took
photographs, and took the time to make our lives much easier. We owe you two a Vitamix blender and a dozen
cookies every week for years.
Thank you to Anna Painter, whose friendship and fine mind helped make every one of the recipes in the
dessert chapter what they are. Anna, I owe you some peanut butter and jam bars.
Thank you to my brother, Andy James, who sat down with me at the table one day and said, “Listen, I don’t
cook according to ingredient, the way you do. I think about the kind of dinner I want to make. Why don’t you
structure the book according to types of meals: breakfast for dinner, rice and beans, one-pot meals.” He was right, of
course.
Thank you to Gypsy Lovett, who gave us feedback on recipes that didn’t work, let us use her home for a
Thanksgiving feast photo shoot, and cheered us on with good advice and stories.
Thank you to Penny De Los Santos for the stunning photography, Anne Treanor Miska for the gorgeous
props, and Karen Shinto for her ninja skills at food styling. Thank you to Molly Wizenberg and Brandon Pettit, dear
friends who allowed us to invade their home for a week to make the photographs for this book.
Thank you to Stacey Glick, who continues to be the best agent we could ever imagine.
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