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Hey everyone,

My younger sister is Gluten Free (because of allergies) and she has loads of health problems and I have been encouraging her to go veg, as I suspect it will really help!

She is going to try it for a week from Monday, so I thought I would cook meals in the evenings for the two of us to have, but I really need to make a good impression if she's going to stick at it! Any recipes you can give me to help/impress/convert her???

Thanks so much!
Charis xox

Well, I like the Golden Potato and Tempeh Casserole by fatfreevegan.com. You can find the recipe there. I also like Isa's BBQ Mango Beans and her Caeser Chavez Dressing on top of a big old salad. A lot of food but you can eat small portions. Tee hee!

i make Katie's tempeh wingz with gluten-free breadcrumbs (i make my own - so easy!) and brown rice flour and really super love them: http://donteatoffthesidewalk.com/the-zi ... e-recipes/

i make this tofu marsala with brown rice flour and it's another favorite of mine: http://www.eatingwell.com/recipes/tofu_ ... rsala.html

i also love making bbq'd (homemade sauce, too!) soy curls and putting them on gluten-free buns with coleslaw - so yum!

eggplant parmesan is really easy to make gluten-free - and rock'n if you have time to make your own marinara. gluten-free lasagna is gloriously good with a cashew-white bean cheeze for the ricotta, too!

i'm a big fan of indian foods - they're generally cheap to make and oh-so yummy! i recently made hara bhara kabab, chickpea-red bean rajma and bhindi sabji: http://happyveganface.blogspot.com/2011 ... s-and.html & before those i had made malia kofta, red lentil dahl, and cilantro-corn fritters http://happyveganface.blogspot.com/2011 ... ganza.html (can you tell i love me some indian eats. ahahahahah!)

would love a link to these recipes. My husband isn't fond of the rice pasta or lasagna so maybe he would go for these. I can get away with the lasagna pasta in lasagna but he hates the spaghetti and the other types of pasta made from rice. Truthfully I am not crazy about them either but doesn't bother me that much.

Hi, I'm new to PPK. It's nice to see a GF forum!

Once you get over the shock of it, the GF-vegan nexus is actually larger than a person would think. Interestingly enough, I've prepared far more vegan meals since going gluten-free. You'd think that being GF would be restrictive enough, but it actually opened up whole new avenues of cooking.

Our current favorite GF-vegan recipe is enchiladas. I've modified the filling in the enchiladas from Veganomicon many times. The original fillings were very good, but we've settled on a mushroom-kale-leek filling that gets devoured by my resident carnivore. Devoured.

Curries are really good GF options. We had the red-lentil cauliflower curry from Veganomicon last night. Also met with strong approval from the peanut gallery.

The possibilities are really endless. Salads, stir-fries, grilled veggies, veggie tacos, the list goes on. Personally, I'd avoid the GF-pastas while trying to knock it out of the park. They're fine in a pinch or when I really really really need a bowl of pasta, but none of them are so great that I'd serve them to company.

you know, i find that with rice pasta, brown rice pasta is really good - i looooove the Tinkyada brand and the key is to not cook it for as long as they specify in the directions. we only cook our Tinkyada brown rice pasta for 8-9 minutes (then rinse it will cook water) instead of the recommended 16-18 minutes.

anywhoo.........i don't have a recipe for the lasagna - i just make my own marinara, white bean-cashew cheeze (2 cups cooked white beans + 1/2 cup raw cashews + 1/4 tsp sea salt + a bit of water + a good squeeze of lemon juice and puree in a blender until smooth - just make sure it stays kinda thick and doesn't get too runny - so start with a little water) + veggies i like (portobello mushrooms, spinach, caramelized onions, eggplant and kale are a few favorites of mine - i saute them beforehand) + herbed tofu crumbles. then i get to layering and bake it all (covered) on 350 for 50 minutes and uncover for the last 10 minutes of baking (i usually top the lasagna with gluten-free bread crumbs, too).

here's how we make our eggplant parmesan (and you can use tapioca starch instead of the teff flour): http://happyveganface.blogspot.com/2009 ... plant.html

Thank you so much! I cook the pasta about 10 minutes after discovering it was mush from cooking to long following the directions. However, I do not rinse, maybe I need too. Will try your recipes, thank you!

There are a lot of things you can cook at home that are both vegan and gluten free. The hard part is when you want to venture out of your house without carrying a whole suitcase of food. (If you live in a small, midwest city, as I do.) Meals loaded with veggies are great for everyone--vegan and otherwise, so if committing 100% to a vegan diet stresses her out, just encourage to try some of the tasty recipes mentioned above, and if she's veg 90% of the time, that's healthier than only 15%. :)

My favourite is nachos or corn tacos, or rice noodles stir fries.

What kind of food does your sister love the most? Try and make her favourites so she can see that you can be gf & veg*n.

Here's another great recipe for eggplant parmesan.

The red lentil dal and chickpea piccata from AFR are easy and delicious. I love everything I've made made from Viva Vegan and lots of the corn-based meals in there are gluten free.

Check out xgfx for more info & recipes

One of the biggest things at first is to try things that are naturally gf/vegan - without crazy or difficult or expensive substitutions. My mindset now is so that if I try a sub and it messes up it's no huge deal, but when I first started out with gf and veg it was an emotional trauma to have a kitchen failure.

Fruits and vegetables, rice, quinoa, millet, corn, herbs, nuts, beans, coconut, pure spices (have to watch spice mixes & cheap versions cut with fillers though): any combination of them is gf/vegan.

And now I want that eggplant parm.

My blog (link below) has some gf/vegan recipes if you'd like to chek it out.