Welcome to your new Gluten Free Life !

No more need to feel deprived!

Now you can enjoy gluten free cooking and baking that rivals traditional wheat based foods. You can save time and money by making your own mixes. You can be sure of what you are eating because you will know exactly what is in the foods you prepare for yourself and your loved ones.

Thanksgiving is around the corner

Are you wondering how you can have a family dinner and make it gluten free? Are you worried that you can please everyone at your dinner table, even if they eat wheat normally? There are complete instructions, including gf stuffing and all the trimmings in Gluten Free Goodies, Holiday Edition. No one will know it is gluten free unless you tell them. All the recipes are from scratch! Easy to obtain ingredients. Prepare now, save time and money.

Do you love Challah Bread? Trina's recipe for Bida Bread or Braided Artisan Bread makes wonderful Challah Bread. Use the recipe exactly as written, or making it even more traditional, just substitute butter for the oil, and use honey instead of sugar. This bread can also be made dairy and egg free.

Even the children will enjoy braiding the dough for the Challah Bread.

I have spent almost 20 years feeding my family a gluten free diet, and now I'm able to share all my years of testing and tweeking with you. Just look at those yummy blueberry pancakes on the right. If i had not made them, and photographed them, myself, I would wonder if they had been made with wheat. But no, I assure you they are made using my gluten free flour mixes you will find in my cookbooks. My gf flour mixes are rice based as well as rice free, and they do not taste gritty. I have had house guests who have enjoyed my pancakes, never knowing they were eating gluten free.

In many homes where only one person is wheat/gluten intolerant, the whole household goes gluten free in order to help the one who can't have the other foods not feel deprived. With my recipe books, you can feed one, or a whole family and eat well, have a nutritious gluten free diet, and save money by making your own mixes and buying in bulk.

Many have enjoyed my first cookbook, Gluten Free Goodies, Christmas/Holiday edition since publishing it as an e-book in 2007. I have been working steadfastly since then to bring you two more books that will make your every day gluten free life better. These books are the first in a new Gluten Free Trina Book Series.

Included in Gluten Free Trina - Health & Nutrition there is even a gluten free Encyclopedia of foods you can eat, about their nutritional value, how to start a gluten free diet, the first two stages, plus recipes.

The second, Gluten Free Trina - A Sampler, contains 20 of some of my easiest and best gluten free recipes with photographs.

Other than originally starting to assemble my recipes so my sons would have them, I wanted to make some beautiful cookbooks. I have shared many of my recipes over the years with those who have asked, also in the Food Section of Astoria Magazine, my other life as an artist & photojournalist. Are you tired of gluten free cookbooks looking bland? Not knowing what the recipes should look like. Well every picture in my books and on this website, was taken of foods I have made and photographed in my kitchen just before eating. No tricks. This is the food! If I can make these, you can too.

For our family, with varying intolerance's, most commercially available pre-made mixes or baked goods were either not available in our area, contained something one of us could not eat, were too expensive or had 'other' ingredients I would not consider putting in. Many recipes I came across were just too fiddly, they didn't seem to resemble any of the cooking methods I had been accustomed to. I didn't want to have to go through a huge list of different flours that I would perhaps only use once or twice. I had to come up with some standard ways to cook just about everything. After all, like you , I have a life. I work, look after a family, I can't spend all my time in the kitchen. When the ‘hungries’ strike, you need something wholesome to eat right away! . Over the years I developed ways to do this and save time and money.

Now you can too! Each of my books contain different recipes. Each stands alone as a resource, together they are a valuable resource for your gluten free, wheat free, lifestyle.

HEALTH & NUTRITION - GLUTEN FREE TRINA: COOKBOOK SERIES ©

Including: The Basics of Living Gluten Free
Healing Stages & other food intolerance substitutions - plus Menus & The Gluten Free Encyclopedia of 100’s of Foods You Can Eat’ - About Gluten Free Ingredients - Food Labels, Foods to Avoid, plus make your own mixes to save time & money. Includes recipes for several types of breads, including no yeast pan breads, tortillas, and my famous and incredibly great tasting real, Enriched Italian Bida Bread. In taste tests done with other Celiacs and those with wheat intolerance the unanimous reaction was, "This is the best gluten free bread I have ever had!"
Published in 2008. © Gluten Free Trina

A SAMPLER 20 of TRINA'S BEST EVERYDAY STAPLE RECIPES ... DELICIOS, EASY AND NUTRITIONS ©

Gluten Free Trina - A Sampler ©
20 Wonderful Gluten Free Recipes at your fingertips
Including Trina's real Italian Pizza Crust recipe ... Cookies, Cakes, Pies Noodles and more ..All from scratch !! A great value for the quality of recipes, with beautiful photographs on every page.
Published in 2008. © Gluten Free Trina

GLUTEN FREE GOODIES - CHRISTMAS/HOLIDAY EDITION©

This book has over 150 wonderful Christmas and Holiday Recipes handed down over the years. Off limits in their traditional form, I have translated them into gluten free/wheat free recipes. And they hold up to the most discerning pallet! Cookies, squares, cakes, pies, muffins, main courses, vegetable dishes, crackers, and the best gluten free bread. Your whole family can have a traditional menu and never miss the gluten. Menus for Christmas Holidays, New Years, A Gluten Free Vegetarian Festive Dinner, fun and thoughtful commentary. A fun 'Bridget Jones Supper' for the novice GF cook, or friend who wants to make a GF dinner for a GF friend.

Includes, my famous Gluten Free, Braided Artisan Loaf. Soft and delicious inside,makes great sandwiches, French Toast, or the very best Bagels you have ever tasted! Easy to make in smaller batches at a moments notice, from the mix included in the book.
Published in 2007. © Gluten Free Trina

In all of my Gluten Free Trina books, I offer tips and advice gleaned from my own experience in feeding a gluten/wheat intolerant family, from my own research and personal experience. I am not a doctor, or nutritionist, I make no claims in that regard. My recipes are from my own hundreds of hours of research and experimentations with foods over the years. I was a good cook in my previous life, and it was a shock to have to set aside all that. My grandmother lovingly taught me how to make wonderful Oklahoma Corn Bread and Scones. My mother gave me a discerning pallet and taught me how to make really good pies. Through my family, I have been exposed to the wonderful cuisine of both Great Britain & Europe and the Southern USA as well as the pioneer spirit and recipes passed down from both Canadian and American relatives. I was determined to find ways to both feed my family nutritious meals and not deprive them of the wonderful memories that come from sharing truly great food.

It is my sincere desire to help you live a better gluten free lifestyle ...and never feel deprived again.

Enjoy!

Trina Astor-Stewart

Download your copy of Gluten Free Trina ebooks now. Just follow the above links. Want information about ebook readers? Ebook Readers allow you to take your ebook into the kitchen, or have your ebook on your laptop. All my ebooks contain easy navigation. You can make your own printed copy if you like.

We have taken every precaution to have secure shopping cart facilities. Should you wish to buy however, using an International Money Order, you can email me directly and I will send you the books via email. The books are not available in print form as yet. I am working on having them available in print form. Printed books will cost more to cover the cost of printing.