Pre-Orders for Christmas & our Holiday Hours!

We are starting our pre-orders for Christmas. The Christmas List is available and can be viewed at this link: http://www.scribd.com/doc/189024427/The-JOY-Christmas-List-for-Pre-Orders

We will be taking orders for those items as well as our 80 other items we have in stock every day ( Our entire menu is on Facebook www.facebook.com/thejoyofglutenfree and on our website www.thejoyofglutenfree.com. We are encouraging pre-orders to avoid having long line ups out the door and to be sure you get what you want and need for Christmas. Please come into the store or send an email transfer to us by Monday December 16th at 4pm. Orders will be available for pick up between 3pm and 6pm Tuesday to Saturday and between 2pm and 4pm Sunday and Monday. You can email us with the items you would like to order at thejoyofglutenfree@gmail.com.

Also: Our Holiday Store Hours:

Sunday and Monday: 11am to 4pm
Tuesday to Saturday: 10am to 6pm


Happy Holidays Everyone!

Our menu is now up on facebook and our website

Exciting news! You can check out our website at www.thejoyofglutenfree.com where you can find our full menu. We also have our full menu with photos up on our Facebook page.  https://www.facebook.com/thejoyofglutenfree  We have what we believe is the largest selection of in-store home-baked fresh products in North America.  Breads, squares, cakes, cookies, pies, pizza, craft sandwiches, etc.  See our full profile at: http://greenbankhuntclub.com/extendedprofile-26.cfm  and our favourite tv spot:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rAIZRNGYbYA

Easter Hours

Have tons of stuff in the store for Easter. Will be doing up some cupcakes and cookies in Easter fashion. Hot cross buns, like last year. Pull apart bread that can be used as rolls. Easter week open Tues - Thursday 10-6pm. Closed Good Friday. Open Saturday 10am-6pm. Closed Easter Sunday and Monday. As always have over 70 products in the store including bread. Oh my our bread is like you've never tasted before.   We will soon start using our new web site and start using this site as a blog.  www.thejoyofglutenfree.com  613-907-1252 store phone number.  thejoyofglutenfree@gmail.com is the email we use.  Please note we are cash only.  There is a bank in the same mall and the grocery store does do cash back. Many of our products (including all our breads) are dairy free.  We are pretty sure we have the largest selection in North America of home-baked on-site gluten free products.  Come see for yourself.  Located in beautiful Ottawa Canada we are at 250 Greenbank Rd. in the Mall near Hunt Club Road.  We are directly beside the M&M Meat shop on the south side.  Our store is The JOY of Gluten Free.  We opened Feb. 18th, 2012 after 7 years of recipe development.  We are very active on Facebook.  Note:  We cater to other food sensitivities as well like eggs and dairy free (lots but not all in the store meets this criteria).  We are peanut free.  We do not use soy flour or oil.  We use almonds in a couple of products that are clearly marked but no other tree nuts.  Please note we are a small business: owner operated and owned....at some times during the day we have to pan bread which must be done at that moment or we lose the rise on it.  This may mean a wait at the counter.  All our cupcakes are iced fresh.  Pre-order on cakes is recommended, although we can ice one while you wait.  The wait time depends on our line-ups.  Thank you for your support.  Susan Phipps - owner

Holiday Hours:   We are closed Monday's so we have extended our Sunday hours this week and next until 6pm for your convenience.  Any questions send us an email:  thejoyofglutenfree@gmail.com   Closed Mon-Wed. Christmas and New Year's week.   Open:  Thurs-Sat 10-6pm and Sunday 11am-6pm   Merry Christmas everyone and thank you from our hearts to yours for such a wonderful first year.  :)

Holiday Goodies - pre-order or pickup and freeze to make sure you aren't without this season

The holidays are upons us and we're busier than ever at the bakery.  Pre-order your holiday goodies or pickup now and freeze for use later.   Gift certificates are available.  Our elegant light fruitcake is on the shelves and gets better with age.   $15/pound - $17/for the version with VSOP brandy (it's 60% fruit and almonds).   Tourtiere pies are $19.00    All squares are $3.50 each.  stuffing $7.00/half pound. $15/pound.  We are making apple/cranberry streudel pies, mincemeat is coming, sugar pie is coming.  We always have shortbread - the butter version will come for the holidays.  Order a box of squares for Christmas dinner - marzipan, almond butter, nanaimo, apple crisp, carrot cake, chewy chunks, white chocolate cranberry blondies, date squares, guilt free brownies, caramel slice.  We also have our Australian Meat Pie and a Chicken Vegetable Curry pie.  Cookies are always a great choice as well.  To pre-order you must pre-pay....this is available in-store or on-line via email transfer through your web-banking.  613-907-1252   thejoyofglutenfree@gmail.com  Please come into the store for the best service.  Happy Holidays to you and your family from Susan, Bianca, Isabella and the staff at The Joy of Gluten Free.  We will be closed Monday's until the new year.   We are closed Dec 24/5/6 and Dec 31/Jan1/2 to share time with our families.  Thank you for helping us push the limits to what Gluten-free can really be and how wonderful things can taste!  We make over 75 products fresh from scratch in our store at this time.

Feb. 18th, 2012 I opened Ottawa's first 100% dedicated stand-alone Gluten-Free bakery and gourmet food shop. After 7 years of recipe development and 5 years as a teaching chef; I taught hundreds of cooking classes to hundreds of people. The bakery currently produces about 60 of the 300+ recipes I developed during that time. The bakery is dedicated to fine quality production of bread, cakes, cookies, desserts, lunches and dinner menus and offers a selection of tast-approved food items. We use 22 different flours in our baking and strive to have the highest quality and best nutrionally sound g/f products available on the market today. Our customers come from across Canada and the US to visit our Ottawa location. We welcome commercial inquiries from companies who wish to partner with us. Our plan is to make our products available everywhere. Cooking classes are not offered at this time.

Menu - in part

The formatting is not working on the blog - we realize this is hard to read, but it's the only way it would go up. All our yeasted breads are dairy free. Many of these items are dairy and lactose and egg free - please come into the store for more information. We cater to a number of different issues and can custom make many things that are not on the menu. Friend us on facebook for customer testimonials, photos and more information. Thanks for visiting us. Brown rice bread (like a nice white sandwich bread - soft and delicious) - 500g loaf $8.00 Sorghum almond bread (people say it tastes like the brown bread at Upper Canada Village) 500g loaf $8.00 Mock rye bread (teff flour/caraway seeds - no rye in it as rye is not gluten-free) 500g loaf $10. Chick pea bread (a big loaf) - the most like the texture of a wheat bread - has 3 eggs in it and the colour of a challah bread $12.00 Sorghum almond and chick pea flour bread are the two most popular - but we sell a lot of bread each day in each one. Focaccia bread (fresh herb, garlic and olive oil) - this is a flat bread made from our brown rice bread - very popular $8.50 Ham and Swiss Pannini on the foccacia bread - $7.00 Buns for hamburgers: yeasted buns (3 in each pack) - our brown rice bread $6.00 or foccacia with herbs and garlic infused in the bread ($7.50) non-yeast buns (no sugar added) - corn meal buns ($6.50 pck of 3) sweet potato biscuits (fresh sweet potato and butter in these) - pack of 4 for $8.00 waffles: pack of 4 $10.00 pizza crusts: 12" is $7.50 personal size is 9.5" $4.50 Squares are all $3.50 each: brownies made with real chocolate, we use flours high in calcium, protien and iron for this product marzipan squares: shortbread crust, almond cake and icing, raspberry jam date squares apple crisp squares nanaimo squares chewy chunks (sweetened condensed milk with coconut, roasted almonds, raisins, chocolate chips - no flour) Cupcakes are all $3.00 each chocolate red velvet (no food colouring used - this product is made with beets and fresh lemon juice) salted caramel confetti (this is a white cake with confetti sprinkles and white icing) chocolate cloud (chocolate cake with meringue icing) Cookies are all $1.50 each carrot with orange icing fruit and seed chocolate chip double chocolate shortbread oatmeal raisin Muffins are $2.50 each donut muffins (baked not fried - only 1/3 cup sugar in a batch of 12) - cinnamon and sugar topping butter tart muffins Pies: fruit pies are $15. each Currently our meat pies are $18.00 - they contain beef chunks, mushrooms, carrot and pototatoes, carmelized onions Salads (these are between $4-5 each): hummus tabouli curried corn jamaican sweet potato Soups: cream of brocolli 5.25 lentil 4.25 cakes: most 8" flavours are $35.00 most 9" flavours are $45.00 we custom bake cakes so they are fresh as we do not use preservatives in our cakes and many people have other allergies than just gluten who come into the store. We can make up a cake while you wait in chocolate or vanilla and have introduced 8" coconut cakes recently. We can make any flavour if it is made in advance. We also sell dried pastas, and a few other grocery items (this section will expand soon).

We are making awesome thin crust pizza crusts for ZaZaZa Pizza in Ottawa! The former owner of the Works restaurants has opened this new specialty pizza restaurant and has it's second location opening in the Glebe on June 6th (915 Bank St. near Holmwood). Find them at www.zazazapizza.com or on facebook. It's our amazing chickpea flour crust. The size of the crust is a 12 inch which is a standard medium size pizza. Love the toppings they have. The new Glebe store is truly elegant and fun.

We are now making pies. A sample selection at the moment is: Cherry lattice, apple crumble, butterscotch meringue. Our first meat pies sold out last week and will be available again on Tuesday afternoon.....the meat pie is made with beef chunks, caramelized onions, mushrooms, carrot and potato. Our pastry currently is half the fat of regular pastry and contains egg yolks, but no dairy and is made with lard. See our facebook page for photos. See below for store hours and information.

located at 250 Greenbank Rd in Ottawa Canada close to Huntclub in the Mall beside M&M Meats.

The Joy of Gluten Free is a wheat free, rye free, barley free commercial kitchen facility for baked goods and catering including bulk flours (soon to come), artisan bread, cakes, pastries and lunch items (soon to come).

The Joy of Gluten Free prepares fabulous food everybody loves. Founded on 6 years of intense recipe creation and research we vow to achieve the highest standards in both taste and nutrition. Tantalizing your senses and taste buds with fresh baked bread, crepes, cakes, buns, sweets and pastries all made on the premises. For cooks there is a selection of gluten free flours, pastas and gourmet items. If you thought gluten-free was just for those who needed it, we guarantee we'll change your mind about wanting it. With our open concept kitchen on site and our selection of food we hope that we truly will convert you over to a gluten free lifestyle filled with joy. We also have some selections for dairy free, egg free, vegan lifestyles.

We are a peanut free facility. We use almonds in some of our baking. We do not use soy oil or soy flour. We use hershey's chocolate and crystal lactose free margarine in some products; both these contain soy lecithin. We use "Only Oats" in some of our baked goods as clearly indicated in the store. Those baked goods (date squares, oatmeal cookies, apple crumble squares, chocolate macaroons) are therefore considered wheat free, rye free and barley free but not gluten-free. For information on allowable oats in a Celiac diet please refer to: http://www.celiac.ca/Articles/PABoats.html Current labeling laws in Canada prohibit the use of a gluten-free label on any oats.

In the kitchen: Susan Phipps and Michael Cook (production manager)

Phone: 613-907-1252
Email: thejoyofglutenfree@gmail.com
Blog: www.thejoyofglutenfree.blogspot.com
Website: Under construction: www.thejoyofglutenfree.com
On Facebook: The Joy of Gluten Free - daily menu posted on f/b
On Twitter: Joyofglutenfree

Open 10-6 Tuesday - Saturday
Open 11-4 Sundays
Closed Mondays

informative tv spots from A Chanel CTV morning news

First spot: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rAIZRNGYbYA

second spot: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D9pGkIMJ1xE&feature=related

Announcing our New Bakery!!!!!

250 Greenbank Rd. - close to Huntclub in the Mall where the Tim Hortons and the Metro is. We will be located right next to M&M Meat Shop. Did you catch us on "A" Chanel this morning? thejoyofglutenfree@gmail.com is our interum email for the moment as we are busily getting all the renovations done (and I thought a house was a big deal - 1500 square feet from the floors up). With a lot of help we are getting there and plan to be open just before Valentine's - Feb. 7th or so. Our hours will be Tues-Sat from 10am-6pm and Sunday from noon-5pm. Check out more photos and news updates on our facebook page: the Joy of Gluten Free. We will be looking forward to making you bread, crepes, muffins, buns, sandwiches, sweets, cakes, cookies, desserts, and meals once the bakery side of things gets up and running. For commercial inquiries please contact Susan at pce@magma.ca Thanks everyone for making this happen!

Wed, Nov. 2nd - new session of cooking classes starting - $200/6classes/includes food

This is our 15th session. New recipes. Great ideas. Wonderful food. If it should have had wheat, we make it gluten free. Where's the bread? Have we got bread items....in pretty much every class, whether it's a wrap, a bagel, a bun, a pizza. White sauces, homemade perogies this session, pastry crust, fish and chips. Egg rolls in the appetizer class. Around 40 recipes get made in the 6 sessions. All in my dedicated Gluten-Free teaching kitchen in the Glebe. Join us.
Wed. Nov. 2 - Appetizers (includes egg rolls and wraps this session)
Mon. Nov. 7 - Breakfasts (includes bagels this session)
Wed. Nov. 9 - Cakes and Cookies (includes shortbread this session)
Mon. Nov. 14 - Main Dishes (includes fish and chips and perogies)
Wed. Nov. 16 - Breads (includes pizza)
Mon. Nov. 21 - Desserts (includes tri-level brownies this session)
register at pce@magma.ca or call 613-237-1515

People who complete this class typically no longer cheat on their diet and have the entire family eating the same meals afterwards.
Class time is from 7:00pm - 9:30pm
*Please note that if you wish to take one class only the cost is $65. per class and includes a Q/A session from 6:30-7:00pm

Private classes are 3 hours and cost $200 (for up to 2 people - each additional person is $75) in my kitchen. Menu is specially selected.

Dinner party classes are $300. in your home

Catering available. Private baking available.

If you are only able to make either a Monday or Wednesday please contact me to work out the schedule with the next class that's up and coming.

If you would like to join once the class has already started, with availability you may do so and add the next classes into your missed ones.

Please see a large selection of samples of what we have made in class over the years on our facebook page: The Joy of Gluten Free. It should be open for public viewing: http://www.facebook.com/#!/pages/The-Joy-of-Gluten-Free/115895621816236 Like us. Help spread the word!!

There are some special surprises planned to participants this session. We have been working hard on several business projects. Join us. Smiles, Susan

New cooking classes start Sept. 12th

Next set of classes starts Sept. 12th - runs 3 weeks on Mon/Wed. from 7:00-9:30pm in my dedicated gluten-free gourmet teaching kitchen. See the post for summer for cost details. No two classes the same for recipes. $200. for the 6 classes - includes your food. To join: pce@magma.ca or 613-237-1515

Summer cooking classes - scroll down the page for tons more photos

Tired of tasteless recipes that don't work out? Tired of spending lots of time and money making these things?
I have been creating and researching new gluten free cooking methods for 6 years and teaching for 4. I have taught over 300 classes.

Upon graduating from class participants no longer make two meals and no longer cheat on the diet. A real sense of fun and inspiration is truly absorbed. Flours make sense and nutrition is put first. Cravings are satisfied. Shortcuts to managing your kitchen and shopping are explored.

And the best part according to Alec is that the recipes taste amazing....better than most food he's ever eaten.

My cookbook will have it's launch in Dallas Texas in November. Until then I continue to teach from my gourmet kitchen in the Glebe in Ottawa and can be found at pce@magma.ca or 613-237-1515 www.thejoyofglutenfree.blogspot.com

Next session runs this summer Mon/Wed evening from 6:30-9:00pm. 6 classes are $200. and include all food costs for about 40 recipes. You must pre-register. We will start class as soon as we have enough registrants. Sessions include: Appetizers, Breakfast, Dinner/pasta, Breads/pizza, Cakes and cookies, Desserts. The first 4 include bread type items in each class. We work around the issues of dairy and egg intolerances. I will be previewing a new egg substitute in a banana raspberry loaf for breakfast. Fish and Chips, ravioli and many yeast breads will be on the menus. Gravy/pastry/white sauces. Essentially everything you will need to know to substitute your own recipes and your own kitchen.

Take the trial and error out of g/f cooking. Meet a group of really inspiring people and create delicious food that you will never know is gluten free.

Thank you to all students, you have been such an inspiration over the years to make things better and better and better. We have solved so many technical cooking issues together that I am forever in your debt.

Susan Phipps
gluten free teaching chef

Order taken for pre-made items upon request. The list is only limited by your imagination. All baked goods at similar prices to other specialty stores like Dufflets.

Bread tips #1

When fluffy bread collapses when you are baking with yeast: Most gf breads require more yeast and water than their non-gf counterparts. As such the yeast rises higher and can not support the weight of the water content in the bread. If the bread is collapsing in on itself or shrinking it most likely needs to rise for less time and have a bit less water in it.

Summer Cooking Classes

6 classes - Mon/Wed. 6:30-9:00pm for 3 weeks. $200. includes food materials and instruction for about 40 recipes.

Interested parties please contact Susan at pce@magma.ca Start date depends on number of confirmed participants. Hopefully soon. Class limit so get your request in early.
Location: My gourmet kitchen in the Glebe.

Great Bowls of Fire

So tell me of all the bowls to pick from, how do I pick a bowl from a potter who I bought my favourite all time butter dish from....randomly from hundreds of bowls......amazing. Loved the event!!! So much positive feedback on our bread items.

Gluten-free flour mix coming soon.

Join us:
On Twitter as Joyofglutenfree
On Facebook at The Joy of Gluten Free

Cookbook still in the works....6 years research and counting. But will be out soon so drop a line: pce@magma.ca with cookbook in the heading.

Cooking classes right now on on Wednesdays in my home in the Glebe.

Meetup group for desserts every 3rd Sunday of the month from 2-4pm. Send email to pce@magma.ca with dessert meetup in the headline.

Corporate events, Sunday baking and restaurant consultations available.
Contact Susan at pce@magma.ca

Hope everyone enjoyed the corn bread, cheese buns and butter tart muffins.

See you are the Carefor Chocolate contest in 2 weeks time!!

Cooking Class info

Wednesday classes run from 7-9:30pm and are held in my home in the Glebe in Ottawa near Bank St. and Fifth Ave. You must pre-register. They start on Wednesday Jan 19th and run for 6 weeks. Why take a class? If you currently cook two meals at anytime of day you won't need to anymore. We cover between 4-7 recipes each time. Dairy free options are always discussed and included. Watch the /A\ chanel video and pass it on: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nBs9R7uXlOw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=griuz3rNccs

Mondays class runs from 7-9:30pm as well. Contact me for details if this is your option. pce@magma.ca