Many have eaten here, few have died.

  Why am I doing this?

      I am a Russian-Jew; to us food is a religion and eating an Olympic sport. To refuse food is an insult tantamount to sacrilege and to be honest quite impossible. If the tantalizing smells don’t get you, the thick layer of guilt will. 

I have been a vegetarian since the age of 11 and in October of 2011 I was diagnosed with wheat and gluten intolerance. In addition to not being able to eat meat and fish, I had to give up a lot of very delicious and some very basic things. After a few weeks of salads and chick peas (and many fits) I had decided to turn this negative into a positive. To channel the many generations of family cooks who came before me and see if I can fined a way around this pesky vegetarian-gluten-free problem. I have made it my mission to take old family recipes (some new ones) and try to make them like Grandma did, but with out the things I can't eat. Every time my kitchen experiment worked, in my excitement I would post “food photos” to Facebook. Since I don't want to be "that person" and spam my time line and my friends feed with food pics. I have decided to be that other person and start a food blog. You know the Russian-Jewish-Gluten-Free-Vegetarian blog.  

To be honest this is more for me, to have a record of recipes and ingredients (and maybe some controlled feed back). If this helps someone, or makes someone’s family diner a safer and enjoyable place, it’s a bonus. All recopies will be tested on yours truly, current boyfriends and other people loitering in my apartment. 

Please cook, try and let me know what you think! (For the healthy counties people I’ll add calorie counts.)