Gluten free fusilli pasta (Carbonara)

I don't know why my photos get rotated automatically by blogger... And sorry, pic of the final product is missing.

Gluten Free Fusilli pasta is from Toronto. Gogo Quinoa, made with Rice and Quinoa.

Casa Rinaldi Cabonara sauce is from Il Bel Paese on Queens Road East, Hong Kong. It doesnt say gluten free but it listed rice starch in ingredient list.

I cooked it for ~ 15+min. And then mix in the Casa Rinaldi sauce.

Pasta: (8/10). It looks a bit whiter than wheat pasta. Texture is bit chewy as regular pasta. But most pasta broke into smaller pieces. Cooking time seems a bit longer than regular cuz they are kinda thick. It tasted good. No particular strong egg or rice flavour. Overall a decent to nice pasta. =) Your family probably can't tell that this is GF.


Side note: Il Bel Paese in Hong Kong sells gluten free (corn) pasta for about $69 500g =) But since I got so many from Toronto & Germany. I'll try Il Bel Paese's later.

Snacks from Toronto

It has been a while.. Finally some free time to update =) Remember all the souvenir I got from Toronto? Here they are .. well, some of them.

Barbara's raspberry fig bar. I took them with me in a ziplock on the trip. I suspected for a while that they might not be gluten free cuz they tasted very much like regular fig bars. Points are being deducted as they are a bit on the sweet side as they are sweetened by juice (-2) . Plus I'm not a super fig bar fans (-1). (7/10)
Dried blueberries. Naturally gluten free (10/10)
Smooze! are available in HK. But the ones in HK are not marked GF... though fruit ice should be naturally gluten free. I prefer ice cream over ice. But this is also lovely. (8/10)
My favourite favourite favourite! Sacher hazelnut wafers. It tastes better than regular wafers. The best wafers I've tried =) This is a Germany brand. I bought even more when I was in Germany =) Officially my favourite GF snack (together with Envirokidz rice crispy) (10/10)
Sacher Chocolate dipped cookies. Sacher. Enough said. (9/10)

Individually packaged - perfect to stuff a few packs in your bag for trips or as an every day snack. Tastes yummy too =) (9/10)

Souvenir from Toronto!!

So excited to see the photo preview of the souvenir I'm going to get from Toronto!! Thanks mky.


Source: Ambrosia Natural Foods, 55 Doncaster Ave., Thornhill, Ontario L3T 1L7