May is CD Awareness... We have EVENTS!

A NOTE DELIVERED BY CHANDICE PROBST FROM THE EAST VALLEY GROUP! SOUND'S AWESOME (:

Think of this as your "Gluten Free Staycation!" Many events, in addition
to the Celiac Awareness Night with the Arizona Diamondbacks, will be
hosted by the Celiac Disease Foundation: Arizona East Valley Chapter
during the First Annual Celiac Awareness Week in Arizona! A portion from
every event will go back to the Celiac Disease Foundation. What a great
way to enjoy the best of gluten free while giving back to an amazing
organization!

Please Note: Some events have an RSVP deadline of Friday May 11.

May 18 (Friday): Kickoff Event! Celiac Awareness Night with The Melting
Pot in Scottsdale! $32 per person includes 4 course gluten free fondue
dinner. RSVP by calling the restaurant at (480) 607-1799.

May 19 (Saturday): Celiac Awareness Night with Streets of New York! All
locations! Dine between 5:00 - 10:00 pm and mention this event.

May 21 (Monday): Celiac Awareness Family Night with Harkins Theatres at
Tempe Marketplace! Party with vendors, FREE gluten free concessions,
raffles, and private screening! Party begins at 5:00 pm; movie at 6:00
pm. Movie will be announced soon. Adults $10, Children $8, 2 & Under
FREE. RSVP by May 11 by emailing chandice@arizonaceliac.org.

May 22 (Tuesday): Gluten Free Cooking Class at Williams-Sonoma in the
Chandler Fashion Center! Time will be announced soon.

May 23 (Wednesday): Banner Desert and Cardon Children's Medical Centers
Listen & Learn with Adult and Pediatric Gastroenterologists! Gluten free
refreshments will be provided. Time will be announced soon.

May 25 (Friday): Pre-Game Party with Coach and Willie's! Sponsored by
Udi's Gluten Free featuring an "Udi-Q" complete with FREE hamburgers and
hot dogs and hosted by GlutenFreeCalendar.com! This is open to the
public, whether attending the game or not! Just a short walk from Chase
Field, Coach & Willie's will be filled with local and nationwide gluten
free vendors sampling and selling their amazing products! There will
also be lots of FREE take-home products, a live DJ, a gluten free cash
bar, lots of raffles, the opportunity to win upgraded seats to the game,
and even an MLB All Star signed baseball! This is going to be a party
you don't want to miss! (NOTE: Bring a cooler if you plan on staying for
the game so you can take home goodies!) 4:00 - 5:30 pm. FREE (Game
ticket purchase NOT required!). For complete details about this event,
please click here:
http://arizonaceliac.org/diamondbacks_game/

May 25 (Friday): Celiac Awareness Night with the Arizona Diamondbacks!
First Pitch 6:40 pm. $17, $25, $42, 2 & Under FREE. Purchase tickets at
the discounted rate by going to glutenfreefrenzy.com. For complete
details about this event, please click here:
http://arizonaceliac.org/diamondbacks_game/

May 26 (Saturday): Gluten Free Afternoon Tea at The Ritz-Carlton in
Phoenix! Makes a PERFECT gift for Mother's Day!!! $50 per person
includes 4 courses of gluten free goodies, including pastries, scones,
and signature tea!!! $8 additional for keepsake hand-pressed tea leaf
menu to take home. RSVP by May 11 by emailing
chandice@arizonaceliac.org. Read the restaurant review on Gluten Free
Frenzy here:
http://www.glutenfreefrenzy.com/2011/11/ritz-carlton-phoenix-gluten-free.html

May 26 (Saturday): Celiac Awareness Night with Picazzo's in Tempe! Dine
between 5:00 - 10:00 pm and mention this event.




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Summer Camps

With summer quickly approaching, and the school year quickly ending, I though it would be nice to share info about the CDF's Celiac Summer Camp! Click Here for more information... It looks awesome!

May Meeting

I am so excited for our May 2nd meeting... it will be so much fun! We are having a bake off. There will be three categories: homemade, modified to be GF, or from a "mix," (please make sure to include an ingredients list with your baked good!) There will be prizes for the winners in each category! **ANY AGE CAN BAKE!** If we have enough kid/teen RSVP's, we may be able to have a special kid/teen baking challenge (: That would be exciting! Please bring your delicious, GF, baked goods to the meeting at Paradise Valley Retirement Community. The meeting starts at 7pm, and is located at: 11645 North 25th Place, Phoenix, AZ 85028. There is no cost to the meeting, but we do encourage you to bring GF food donations for our food drive! 


I hope to see you there!


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EXPO REVIEW!

WOW! We had so many people at the expo yesterday... it was an incredible turnout! Hopefully, those who took business cards and flyers are viewing this website for the first time today! I hope that you all will sign up for our Yahoo Health Group. I wanted to say thank you for coming out yesterday, I had a wonderful time meeting you (:

Hopefully there will be photos to follow this!

Peace, Love, Cure... Celiac Disease.

Celiac Travel Cards

Hi Everyone!

I'm traveling this weekend (inside the US though..) so I was inspired to do a post about GF travel. Aside from bringing some of your own snacks, I find that having GF restaurant cards is very helpful.

GF Passport Dining Cards
Celiac Travel

These are two websites that have GF dining cards that I think are awesome! They have them in multiple languages and are so helpful!

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GF Homemade Veggie Burgers!

I thought I would share this recipe with everyone! I made it for dinner and it was delicious. In fact, it was so delicious that it didn't last long enough for a picture ):

1/2 cup black beans
1/4 cup garbanzo beans
1 green bell pepper
1/4 red onion
1/2 cup quinoa
1/2 cup corn flour
1/2 teaspoon garlic powder
1/2 teaspoon turmeric
pinch of salt and pepper

The directions are very simple!

Boil the quinoa until it's nice and "fluffy." Put the black and garbanzo beans into a bowl and mash them together. Next, chop the pepper and onion into some small, and some medium sized pieces. Add all of the ingredients together and form into little patties. If the burger doesn't stick together well, you should double the amount of corn flour! Cook the patties on the stove for about 5 minutes on each side. I served these on a lettuce bun with avocado slices, mustard and hummus!  ENJOY!

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Gluten Free Passover

Although I won't be eating these this year due to their eggs, I have had these Matzo before, and they are delicious! You can crush them up and make them into Matzo balls!
Here's the site! Matzo GF

Also, I have the ingredients for my favorite GF/Vegan Latkes... a holiday staple! Enjoy

Gluten Free Latkes

6 starchy white potatoes, peeled if you don’t like the skins

1 medium onion (we like the sweet red ones)

1 large or 2 smaller zucchini

2 carrots, peeled

½ tsp sea salt, or to taste

¼ tsp pepper

¼ cup of organic non-GMO corn starch or potato starch

1 ½ -2 cups Garbanzo bean flour

Safflower oil or your favorite oil for frying

If using a food processor:
Use the grating blade to shred the potatoes, onion, zucchini and carrots.

If shredding by hand, use a grater to shred all the potatoes, zucchini and carrots. Dice the onion as finely as possible.

Put all vegetables in a large mixing bowl and blend.Add the starch of your choice and mix.Allow it to dissolve for a couple minutes and get sticky from the moisture of the potatoes.

Add the salt, pepper and flour combining well.The mixture should get sticky and be able to hold together and form well.Use more or less flour to get to this consistency.Let mixture sit while heating up the oil.

In a non-stick skillet, add the oil for frying and heat on medium-high heat.Do not let the oil smoke—it too hot!Turn me down!You want to have a good amount of oil in your pan because these babies love to suck up the oil and get crispy good.

While the oil is heating up, set your oven to warm to keep the latkes warm until you’re ready to serve.Also have a plate with paper towels ready to soak up their oil when you first bring them out of the pan.

When the oil is hot and ready, take a large cookie scooper and scoop the latke mixture into the pan and press them flat with a spatula.If you don’t have a scooper, just use your wet hands and roll into medium balls and flatten with spatula.Fry the latkes on one side for about 4-5 minutes, or until they are golden brow.Flip and fry for another 4 minutes.We like ours a bit crispy here so reduce the frying time by a minute if you want them less crisp.

Transfer to the paper towel plate and to dry and them place in warm oven on baking sheet.Continue the process until you’re out of mixture. Munch on a latke while completing, it takes some time.