Looking for some delicious new recipies to add to your meal rotation? Be sure to join us on Zoom to celebrate the release of Melissa Erdelac's new cookbook:  Frugal Gluten-Free Cooking: 60 Family Favorite Recipes That Won’t Break the Bank.   We will be talking about all things gluten-free including pantry staples, easy ingredient substitions, and of course, some new tasty meal ideas. 

Gone are the days when gluten-free cooking was costly, confusing and complicated! Thanks to Melissa Erdelac’s fuss-free—and delicious!—recipes, getting an affordable dinner on the table is easy as can be.

Rather than relying on expensive store-bought gluten-free products, Melissa’s recipes are full of economic kitchen staples like beans, grains, veggies and low-cost cuts of meat. Quick and easy weeknight meals like Chicken Tamale Pie and Tuscan Beans with Sausage and Kale are kind to the wallet and sure to make the whole family happy. Want to impress your family and friends? Wow them with culinary masterpieces like Brown Sugar–Garlic Pork Loin with...

Calling all bakers! Join us as we welcome Katarina Cermelj to our Zoom stage for a discussion of her new book Baked to Perfection: Delicious Gluten-Free Recipes with a Pinch of Science, the only gluten-free baking book you'll ever need, with delicious recipes that work perfectly every time!
 

“Katarina Cermelj effortlessly combines her knowledge of both science and baking to demystify gluten-free baking once and for all.” —Erin Jeanne McDowell, author of The Fearless Baker 
 

From proper crusty bread, pillowy soft cinnamon rolls and glorious layered cakes to fudgy brownies, incredibly flaky rough puff pastry and delicate patisserie – everything that once seemed impossible to make gluten-free can now be baked by you.

Baked to Perfection begins with a thorough look at the gluten-free baking basics: how different gluten-free flours behave, which store-bought blends work best, and how to mix your own to suit your needs. Covering cakes, brownies, cookies, pastry and bread in turn, Katarina shares the best techniques for the recipes in that chapter...

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ABOUT THE EVENT HOST: Bianca Amira Zanella is a Vermont-based performance poet, paper artist, and events coordinator, as well as the Poet-in-Residence at Phoenix Books Rutland. Zanella’s poems have most recently appeared in The Rutland Herald, The Mountain Troubadour, and The Reverie. In 2019, Bianca acted as Wellness Coordinator for the Feminine Empowerment Movement Slam (FEMS) tournament based in Cambridge, MA, and founded “Infinite Lit: a night of spoken word poetry,” co-producing this series alongside Michael Kingsbury around Rutland County. In 2020, Bianca founded and is the owner of The Paper Poet, offering healing poetic experiences.