Sub-forum sugestions....

[David Hosobuchi]

Ok everyone, let's hear them...:D

Btw, I'm keeping the contents of the old forum "Food for Thought" as a subforum for now. We can decide what to do with it as we move along.

David

[jcc]

I'm hearing some not so sure feelings about this on the GS/CD, although only a couple people have voiced any opinion at all. I'd still like to try it to see how it might work for us, so I'm going to forge on. If the group decides they don't like it, we can always delete it, right? I think sometimes you have to see something and try it before you can assess its full potential.

So, can I take door number two for Gluten Free Recipes, and start threads there?

Cara

[aklap]

So, can I take door number two for Gluten Free Recipes, and start threads there?
Or...would you like to trade door number 2 for what Carol Merrill (http://www.letsmakeadeal.com/showinfo.htm) has behind the curtain? :D

[David Hosobuchi]

I'm hearing some not so sure feelings about this on the GS/CD, although only a couple people have voiced any opinion at all. I'd still like to try it to see how it might work for us, so I'm going to forge on. If the group decides they don't like it, we can always delete it, right? I think sometimes you have to see something and try it before you can assess its full potential.

So, can I take door number two for Gluten Free Recipes, and start threads there?

Cara

The Gluten Sensitivity/Celiac Disease forum is unique, being one that is quite established on recipies and the discussion thereof. I have reservations on just starting a new Gluten Free sub-forum here without strong support from those that post there. I don't discount the possibility, I just don't want to step on the toes of other forums here.

David

[annelb]

I have been posting on the GS/CD forum for a few years and I vote to have our GF recipes here where they will be more visable to the general community. Is door #2 still available? :)

Anne

[aklap]

The Gluten Sensitivity/Celiac Disease forum is unique, being one that is quite established on recipies and the discussion thereof. I have reservations on just starting a new Gluten Free sub-forum here without strong support from those that post there. I don't discount the possibility, I just don't want to step on the toes of other forums here.

David
I've been around for quite awhile too...just as long as Anne ;)

Let me make sure I understand this...our GF recipes would go into "general population" with the the other recipes?

If that is the case - it'd be way too much work to weed thru all the others to find the GF ones. The GF community would be better served by by keeping them in the GS/CD fourm.

[jcc]

Now I am confused! I am quite sure that we would/could have a separate subforum for gluten free recipes, and although housed under the umbrella of the Food Court, it would in fact be its own forum. I think David is unsure about doing it if people on the forum don't want it...just because we had an established system. However, that system is GONE, and we are starting over from scratch.

David~ annelb and aklap were two of three who responded to my thread about this on GS/CD who at first were unsure about this. The three of us have been here from the beginning...I was the one who petitioned for the GS/CD forum to be opened, and Anne and Al joined as soon as it was open, and the three of us pretty much talked to ourselves for many months as we slowly worked toward building our little empire :). The third respondent was diamondheart, and her opinion counts equally. I pm'd her last night to try to better illustrate what this might look like but I haven't heard back from her yet. I think it may be a case of not being able to envision it without actually seeing it or how it would work. Sub-forums are not something we are used to thinking in terms of.

What I think diamondheart wants to avoid is manually having to jump from one forum to another by the drop down menu to get at recipes, but a link on our forum that could bring us right here is all that would be needed. Then, it is really no different than what we had, only better because no single person has to keep an index. Anyone could start a new recipe thread category and ask for it to be stickied.

Most of our recipes have not been added back out yet. We were sort of holding out to see if the old database would return. It is a big task to do it, and those who maintained it in the past are no longer here. Bonus..with this new forum, no single person would be required to 'maintain' it..it would just be. And I think naturally people are a little worried about losing it all again and may not be as motivated to post to it at first, but I think eventually people would like it and post to it. Maybe having a separate whole forum just to hold our recipes and cooking info may be enough to draw back some of the lost members who seem to have vanished altogether. Not many people even responded to the post about this. We are a skeleton of what we used to be before the crash :(.

So, I really think we just need to try this to let people know what it would look like. Change is just confusing especially when the idea of a sub-forum is a new one. We would know early on (within a day or two), with just a framework up, whether this would work~ without investing too much energy. And so far, we haven't invested much at all on the main forum in terms of re-adding out recipes.

So...can we take Door Number 2? Which now looks like it is Door Number 1...waiting for a purpose!

Cara

[aklap]

Build it, and they will come.

I think some of the hesitation comes from the fact that we are still getting used to "our new home". What happened [the outage] was quite traumatic, and add to that changing how things have done in the past [the recipes]. I think caution is to be expected.

Like Cara mention, the 3 of us in this post have been around since the start of the GS/CD fourm. I think others will follow once we get a few items in there.

David, it appears that you have a handle on what food is to us. Unfortunately we live 24/7 with the fact that we must always be conscious of our food choices. Going off our diet is not something we have the luxury of doing, it's not whim for us. Hence the reason we get a little touchy when things in that area change.

Having a GF subforum would make organizing things a lot easier. I don't really see it as being strictly as GS/CS recipe forum - it's a forum for Gluten Free recipes, all would be free to post GF recipes. Just like there could be a forum for Diabetic recipes, Specific Carbohydrate Diet Recipes, Atkins recipes, or x, y, & z recipes.

[David Hosobuchi]

Yes aklap, as a retired chef, I like to think I have a handle on what food means to most people beyond the fact that everyone needs to eat.

I've never met a person that doesn't like their food to be tasty!!!

As for navigation problems, I believe I have solved this issue by placing a direct link to the BrainTalk Communities Food Court at the top of every page in these forums. It is among the links between the Braintalk Banner & the Google adsense banner....

Issues about the old database can be put at ease. It may take some time to iron out the wrinkles with that, but John and Mike will be handling that project. The former database will be made available as an archive as soon as we can get it done.

Keep telling me what you want here, the member input really helps!!!

:D

David

[aklap]

It looks like BT's GF Cafe is open for biz!! "No Gluten for you!" :D

Thanks David!! Wow - a retired chef...cool!

[aklap]

David, I think the No Gluten Forum is locked or not allowing me to post a thread. Can you check that please?

Thanks!!

[diamondheart]

Thanks for including me here in the discussion. I was just discussing with Cara and Kim about getting recipes back on the GS/CD forum. So, that is my preference, that they be housed there, and then link them back to the food court (instead of the other way around). We often start threads talking about how to cook things, and then link them in with the recipe threads. I wouldn't want to lose that. And, it has to be easy. It was hard enough for me to find this thread. So far, I don't find this forum very user friendly, IMHO, and I don't like the sticky titles. Granted, there isn't much in here yet and it just got started. I think "Gluten-Free Recipes" is better than "No Gluten Here". Maybe someone has an idea for something more creative?

Al makes some good points. I was reluctant to start posting much back on Braintalk for fear of losing data. I think timing is an issue. If the old data is there, it's important to get it back up as soon as possible. Otherwise people like me are going to think that there isn't a commitment to saving data, keeping up the forums, etc., and I'm not going to contribute.

There is a lot of traffic on the GS/CD forum, and as Al says, eating is basically our life. That's why I wanted to get the recipes back on the GS/CD forum. It's not something frivolous. If we eat the wrong thing, we get sick. So, we are thinking about food all the time!

Well, I've offerred my two cents, so I guess at this point, I'm just going to sit back and see what happens.

Claire

[howdydave]

Howdy David!

Good to see that we have a place to pool our resources.

Not all food concerns apply to the ingredients of the recipe --
as can be seen from the "Cooking without burning the house down" thread
in the Epilepsy Forum.

The process of cooking itself can be the bane to some of our lifestyles.

[David Hosobuchi]

The Gluten Free sub-forum is now open for posting. I was interrupted in my work this morning when the local electrical substation went down....:(

David

[aklap]

I think "Gluten-Free Recipes" is better than "No Gluten Here". Maybe someone has an idea for something more creative?
I agree with Claire. While I do like the title [it is light hearted and creative], I favor the plain ol' boring "Gluten Free Recipes". What was I saying about change? LOL :D :p

Thanks David for setting all this up!

[aklap]

BTW - I do like the description of the No Gluten forum!!! Well done!! GF does not = boring, tasteless crap ;)

[FoolsGold]

Hello, I've just discovered this 'Food Court' forum and am not quite sure about sub-forums. Some people have different viewpoints: Too much salt, Not enough salt, Wrong type of adjectives on the salt package, etc. And ofcourse for some people its not the ingredients but the preparation restrictions such as 'no dangerous instrumentalities' or 'must store well' etc. For many there are dietary/genetic influences on how certain drugs will be matabolized. We do need a way of sorting through all the food court items to find just what would be on our particular list of desirable items.

I would be interested in categories such as:

Ease of Preparation/Few ingredients/Time. This would be an area where 'plain versus fancy' would be apparent, so there would be nothing that dealt with fifteen different types of lettuce greens or excessive ingredient preparation times and tasks, but instead recipes that deal with basic staples, a few spices and nothing very exotic or demanding.

Vitamin Content focus: Here would be 'High in Vitamin X' or 'foods low in vitamin X' so that persons taking warfarin/coumadin might be able to select what would be low in vitamin K or high in vitamin K whichever it is that people on warfarin need. I am not proposing that there be separate subthreads for each particular vitamin or combination of vitamins. Just one thread wherein all recipies and preparation techniques have been analyzed from the viewpoint of vitamin content and we can choose what happens to be relevent for us.

[Horton]

How about a "Cooking with Cannabis" subforum???

[AncientWolf]

How about a "Cooking with Cannabis" subforum???



That sounds interesting. In a perfect world I would agree 100% with the idea as it is used that way as medicine by many at Braintalk. I wonder if that would be pushing Braintalk too much on the legal edge though. I'm not sure where lines are drawn on things like that. I'd be interested to see what others have to say about it.

Namaste,

Daniel

[CathyE]

Hello, I've just discovered this 'Food Court' forum and am not quite sure about sub-forums. Some people have different viewpoints: Too much salt, Not enough salt, Wrong type of adjectives on the salt package, etc. And ofcourse for some people its not the ingredients but the preparation restrictions such as 'no dangerous instrumentalities' or 'must store well' etc. For many there are dietary/genetic influences on how certain drugs will be matabolized. We do need a way of sorting through all the food court items to find just what would be on our particular list of desirable items.

I would be interested in categories such as:

Ease of Preparation/Few ingredients/Time. This would be an area where 'plain versus fancy' would be apparent, so there would be nothing that dealt with fifteen different types of lettuce greens or excessive ingredient preparation times and tasks, but instead recipes that deal with basic staples, a few spices and nothing very exotic or demanding.

Vitamin Content focus: Here would be 'High in Vitamin X' or 'foods low in vitamin X' so that persons taking warfarin/coumadin might be able to select what would be low in vitamin K or high in vitamin K whichever it is that people on warfarin need. I am not proposing that there be separate subthreads for each particular vitamin or combination of vitamins. Just one thread wherein all recipies and preparation techniques have been analyzed from the viewpoint of vitamin content and we can choose what happens to be relevent for us.

Gee, this is what I was posting about. Well, some of the issues you mentioned:
sensitivities & ease of prep or cooking

PS my keyboard needs to be replaced after I dropped it twice due to my poor grip, luckily on the carpet! I am usually a fairly good typist!