Ideas for gluten free cooking from Katuska

Here are some tips for gluten free cooking from my sister in law who lives in Utah. She is a great cook and very creative, too.

"Hawaiian Hay stacks (do not use campbells cream of chicken, make your own (so easy) with broth, spices and corn starch. Replace the chow mein noodles with something else crunchy.
Polenta with spaguetti sauce on top
Rice and lentils, the kids love it! and with the left overs i make soup the next day. The only one that frowns is Dave.
Taco Salad ( I add rice and beans so it is more hearty and filling)
Grilled salmon with mashed potatoes and salad (wild caught, i don't like dyes added to my fish or anything else I eat for that matter and you can get it cheap at winco).
Kalua pork with rice
teriyaki chicken with rice (you have to use La Choy brand of soy sauce because kikoman has wheat in it so just read the ingredient label.)
I have a recipe for pancakes with cornmeal instead of any kind of flour. This site only uses everyday ingredients and you don't have to buy anything expensive. I will look for it and forward it to you.
Another alternative to buying the expensive flours is to get a really expensive blender like BLENDTEC, we have VITAMIX but you have to buy a separate cup ( for $100, a rip off in my opinion) and grind the rice, beans, etc... and make your own flour, it pays for itself in my opinion.
We complement meals with rice, potatoes, instead of pasta. Also, there is a quinoa/corn pasta that used to be sold at Maceys. I prefer it over the rice pasta (yuk!). Here is the link so you see what it looks like. sometimes you can especial order stuff at your store, like Maceys and I do not know that you have Maceys in Idaho.
http://www.quinoa.net/145/163.html. I paid around $2.75 for each small box of the curly noodles.
Also, you should be able to find HARINAPAN it is a corn based mix used for AREPAS which we eat for breakfast (eaten in Venezuela and Colombia and a main staple in their diet). here is a picture so you know what to look for, Maceys sells it too and it retails for about $1.99 per bag. sometimes you can buy it for $1.75 in some latin markets around here."