Posts Tagged ‘Pasta’

Eat n Park’s the place for Gluten Free buns

I love, love, love that Eat n Park has a clean, separated, easy to follow menu for just about everyone. Turn it over and you’ll find senior options, allergen-friendly items and calorie concious dishes in a cleanly designed, easy to read page that covers it all. I love it. Have I said how much I love it?
This said, Husband took me after work one day to the Waterfront Eat n Park so I didn’t have to cook dinner (how sweet :) ). I settled down for my usual perusal of the salad bar and saw some yummy looking soups on the bar. Unfortunately every one of them was packed with pasta. Husband urged me to ask if they had any soups included in the GF menu and eventually I did. The server went to fetch the manager and he appologised profusely but they did not have any GF soups and he would mention it at the next team meeting to see if something could be added on to the menu. I was impressed- enough to try the hamburger with GF bun.
Now the bun was more like a roll than a bun. Tasty, heavy, good with butter and probably some jam. Almost like a scone. With the hamburger it was just too heavy. So I’m wondering if Eat n Park could just bring some smaller versions of these buns to the table if requested just as they do their sticky buns. Perhaps they could serve them with coffee and jam as a breakfast offering. And perhaps Eat n Park could maybe maybe maybe bring out a GF version of the Smiley cookie. Get together with Gluuteny and whip some up for the holidays. They could even just be offered during the winter season when even wheat-free dieters want a little something warm and soft after skating.
Tasty Factor: Very tasty, soft and yummy– would recommend to everyone!
Poopy Factor: just a little heavy to service as a sandwich bun but there could be endless uses for these guys.
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Mrs. Leeper’s GF Pasta

I had never heard of Mrs. Leeper’s and must admit my intense fear of gluten free pastas (I’m a pierogie hater too.  Eat that, Pittsburgh). I had seen them nestling in far away corners of grocery stores and whole foods markets and I let them go their way and me go mine. Then Husband decided to treat me on vacation and I thought, well why the heck not? It won’t kill you to at least taste it.

So I brought home a bouncing bag of Alphabets pasta and gave it a try with regular old Ragu. One word to the wise- just like you want to pay attention to the cooking times with wheat pasta, most definitely pay attention to the cooking time for Mrs. Leeper’s. The Alphabet pasta is rice-based and only takes right around 4 minutes to cook in boiling water. Just under and it’s nearly crunchy; just over and you get a big congealed mess. Now some might like the big congealed mess and personally I like it a tad on the crunchy side but right at 4 minutes brings it out just right.
And just right it is! I’ve been scared all this time for nothing. The texture is just right- firm but not hard, soft but not squishy. The taste is as akin to pasta as anything you’d want and it wasn’t insanely expensive which is another plus for this product. There are other products in the Mrs. Leeper’s line which aren’t available in our neighbourhood store but I imagine they’re leading the way in GF pastas.
Tasty Factor: tastes pretty much like the real thing and holds shape after cooking.
Poopy Factor: cook it too long and even Oliver wouldn’t be asking for any more, sir.
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