SimplyGluten Free Founder To Cook a Gluten Free Dinner in Less Than Half Hour

Online, April 4, 2012 (Newswire.com) - Dunedin, Florida, - Carol Kicinski is making a gluten free meal entitled, "Rustic Elegance", in under 30 minutes at Publix Apron's Tampa Cooking School on April 19th, at 6.30pm at 7835 Gunn Highway, Tampa, FL 33626, 813-926-4465.

Publix Super Markets Inc., is the largest employee-owned supermarket chain in the United States. It provides employment to more than 151,000 people. Publix has about 1,049 supermarkets in the United States including 744 in Florida. Publix excels in customer service and is a large supporter of healthy eating and the gluten free diet - bringing many gluten free products to the shelf for consumers to buy. Publix is Kicinski's favorite supermarket and where she does her everyday shopping.

Kicinski is a strong advocate of healthy cooking and healthy eating. She believes in simple and easy meals without reducing the nutritional value of food. She is one of the original pioneers in the gluten free world. Kicinski founded SimplyGlutenFree.com in 2007 as a gluten-free recipe and lifestyle blog and website. She experimented and developed the recipes that revolutionized the gluten free food world. She proved to the world that gluten free food can taste as good as the food containing gluten and even better.

The menu for the evening is: Ricotta and Tomato Pasta; Rustic Salad; Blitzed Brownies. This pasta dish is a lighter, more elegant version of lasagna; all the flavors with a fraction of the time and effort. Serve the pasta in individual bowls with a dollop of the ricotta mixture. It is a pretty and rustic presentation which allows the diner to mix in a bit of the ricotta with each bite. The flourless brownies are ready in less than half an hour, and have endless possibilities.

Kicinski's food and recipes are not centered on gluten free only. She is a strong advocate of healthy eating and has developed many recipes that are free of refined sugars and other allergen preferences. She prefers natural sugars, sweeteners and nectars over white or refined sugar. This cooking class is another effort from Carol to raise awareness about celiac disease, gluten intolerance and how easy it is to live in this lifestyle.

Kicinski has written a book that contains over 100 quick meal recipes called - Simply...Gluten Free Quick Meals. She is trying to make a difference to the world in her own way by promoting healthy eating in a tastier way. Her recipe motto is "Gluten-free recipes that are not just "good for gluten-free" but just plain GOOD, period!!"

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Carol Kicinski is the author of Simply...Gluten-Free Desserts (St Martin's Press - 2011) and simply...Gluten Free Quick Meals (2012). She has appeared on The Fine Living Network, QVC and is in her third year of monthly segments on Daytime TV, a nationally syndicated morning show. She was a featured speaker at the Gluten Free & Allergen Free EXPOs (Chicago, April 2011 and Dallas, Oct 2011). She authors gluten-free recipes for Cooking Light and for Martha Stewart's Whole Living. She resides in Dunedin, Florida.

SIMPLY GLUTEN FREE is a food blog and website serving the gluten-free community, founded and operated by Carol Kicinski - a professional Recipe Developer, TV Personality and Cookbook Author. The Website provides hundreds of recipes, cooking tips and techniques, news, beginners instructions, giveaways, and product recommendations to help people facing the challenges of celiac and gluten-intolerance live a life of abundance instead of restrictions. Carol also founded the Gluten Free Global Community - a group of over 300 Gluten Free Bloggers Worldwide. Carol publishes a very popular monthly newsletter - Simply Gluten Free - and is socially active on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/SimplyGlutenFree and on Twitter at http://twitter.com/#!/simplyglutenfre. See hundreds of gluten free recipes at www.simplygluten-free.com .