One of my other triggers is gluten. In a previous post I talked about gluten-free alternatives and I included a recipe for homemade gluten-free pasta. Which I have to admit, i have not got around to trying yet. But I have however located the pasta machine and making the pasta is on my list of things to do in the next couple of weeks.

In the meantime I had a craving for pasta and tried 2 new (to me) varieties and I have been very impressed. The first type was Organic brown rice pasta (tubes/macaroni) – Rizopia, from Infinity Foods and the second was spaghetti – Tesco ‘Free From’ range. I cooked both according to the instructions and was very pleased with the taste and particularly the texture of both varieties. They did not turn to mush and they both had a pleasant light flavour.

We had the macaroni with a creamy mushroom sauce made with fresh field mushrooms from our local farmers market, and it was delicious! The spaghetti was equally yummy with bolognese sauce. So they get full marks from me and the gluten eaters too! I’ll keep buying them until I finally get around to trying to make my own!