| | REVIEW:Gluten Free Pantrys French Bread and pizza Mix |  Tue Nov 20, 2007 3:33 pm by Bete'avon! | So I finally broke down and opened that expensive box of French bread and pizza mix from GF Pantry. I was only going to use it to make a small loaf of bread and save the other half to make a small pizza later on, but after halving all the other ingredients I forgot with the eggs  and had to remeasure again and make a full recipe.
So I let it mix in the bread machine and then took it out after the manual cycle was over ( 50 minutes on mine). Then I spooned it into a glass loaf pan and baked it for about 40 minutes. I took it out and turned it onto a rack to cool. It smelled like 'normal' bread which was encouraging, because after I read the ingredients I was afraid this was going to taste like the glutino rice bread I purchased and had to throw out. 
So my plan was to have this as our 'challah' for shabbat. We haven't had bread for awhile. It was not bad spread with a little butter, my DH even said it was good, but I still tasted the same taste as the other rice bread I'd tried, I didn't get that squek between my teeth like the other but the taste was similar. I will say it did have a lovely brown crust, which was helped by my brushing an egg wash over it before baking. So I had one slice with dinner and the rest I had planned for after havdalah for dinner. Something I love, FONDUE!
So we didn't get around to eating it then, but on Sunday we went to an early movie, ( caught Jerry Seinfelds, B' Movie, it was really cute, more on that later), and when we got out, went shopping and came home and set up the chess board and I made the fondue. I used a beer fondue recipe I revamped for GF using wine and rice flour to substitute.
I sliced 3 - 3/4 " slices from the loaf and then cubed that. I put them on a tray and into the toaster oven on 275 while I made the fondue. When all was ready, they were dried out on 5 sides, leaving one side easy to put the fondue fork into .
Well I have to say , I was pleasantly surprised from the first bite. With the yummy fondue on it, this bread really tasted like French bread( especially if you got a crust piece instead of in inside one that had none). It really made the fondue enjoyable, and my little doggie who is so used to all my wonderful cooking and baking and can tell the difference (you should have seen her face when I gave her some of that frozen rice bread before, you'd think I had poisoned her! ) stayed at the table all night ( our game lasted 2 1/2 hours) begging for more! She usually doesn't do that, so that helped with my seal of approval.
If this mix was only good for that, I'd say it was worth the extra dough to buy, but I found out it's not.
Today hubby was running late for work and said, 'I'll just take a sandwich with me" forgetting we don't usually have bread around to do that anymore. But I though, Ok, I'll make him a PBnJ on that French bread and hope he doesn't choke. Well I decided there was enough time to try to make a grilled cheese sandwich. I figured with the butter on the outside and the cheese inside, it should be bearable. So I made him one. It toasted really nice, and even when I saw smoke and thought it was burning it wasn't, just a little cheese that had snuck out. So it doesn't burn as easily as regular bread, but toasted up nice. So nice I even made myself one when he left.
Not exactly like an old fashioned Gluten bread grilled cheese, but good, lighter tasting actually. I think next time I shall employ my secret grilled cheese method I came up with decades ago, put the butter on then sprinkle with garlic powder and Parmesan cheese! YUM! 
Yesterday with the omelet I made I also used it to make just toast and it wasn't too bad, just keep it thinly sliced.
So now all is left is I need to buy another package to try for a pizza crust, but it is worth trying, and we only have one end slice left in 5 days , which is really good for us.
Oh, one other thing I'd like to mention, it said to freeze what you don't eat right away, I just left it in a ziploc bag on the counter and there has been no taste deterioration nor any mold forming. I would put in fridge during hot weather, but it is fairly cool here now and it's held up like fresh baked.
Bete' Avon! ( Bon Appetit!)
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