learning about condiments

This tasty bento was inspired by a bento at Cooking Cute. It came out very good and I was quite happy.

At the same time, though I learned some valuable things that made my job as a gf/cf mama a whole lot harder :(

The salmon recipe is for an apple-horseradish glaze (follow that Cooking Cute link!)

Well as we've moved on through our gf/cf steps (see the sidebar on this page)we're now to where basically all of our food is gf/cf.

That also means condiments must be gluten and casein free.

Well if you take the time to read the back of almost all condiments you will notice that vinegar is listed there. Vinegar that is not specified "rice" "apple cider" "white wine" or some other innocent substance probably comes from wheat :/ It can additionally get even trickier because you have to find a non-wheat vinegar that totally non-wheat. So the apple-cider vinegar must be distilled from apples and can't just be "apple cider flavored."

This intense condiment realization hit me as I read the back of our horseradish bottle and noticed the big bad word "vinegar."

So our apple-horseradish glaze ended up being an applejuice glaze thickened with just a little cornstarch. The kids liked it and I liked it. You'll also notice that our rice isn't fried because we didn't have any gluten free soy sauce. It still tasted nice though, and the grapes and steamed broccoli rounded it out nicely :)