GlutenWatchers

I have a confession to make, I am a little sick of finding a trillion recipes for GF breads, cakes, muffins, cookies on the web. No offence meant to folks who love these, but come on, there has to be much more to life than just these foods. I am sure there are a ton of celiacs who are avoiding yeast and sugars/ agave & what-not, I am one of them for sure! So on one of our forays looking for something exciting, we came across this recipe for samosas and does it look yummy! For folks who don’t know what samosas are, they are a delicious pastry filled with vegetables (usually potato & peas) or meats. In India, these are accompanied by a sour-sweet chutney, & you are likely to find this food in every restaurant & sweetmeat shop in India. Trouble for us celiacs is the pastry is typically made of maida (refined flour).
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Don’t we celiacs often wonder: is Celiac Disease a new-fangled disease of our modern times ( what with all the industrial food we are eating) and our forefathers did not really have issues like these; or is it that celiac has always existed, it is only now that due to more awareness on the part of both patients & doctors, more people are actually being diagnosed.
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