Question about cooking and allergies.

[kyrielle]

I know some of those reading this journal cook, and some have food issues, and I'm hoping you can help me. One of my relatives must now avoid both wheat gluten and dairy products. She's lived her whole life cooking for a normal diet without these restrictions, and she's trying to find alternatives and good recipes.

Anyone have any good recipes, especially ones that substitute for things like bread/pasta/etc.? I'm sure I could do a search and turn up tons of recipes, but I would have no clue whether they were good or not.

Comments

[condotierre.livejournal.com]

I have an excellent pizza base substitute, as well as a few more things from my gluten-free bread book. As for pasta, I have found that lentil pasta works very well as a substitute (to me it tastes almost like the real thing) and there is a very good brand of rice pasta out which does taste like the real thing. I will try to find out the name of it for you. I don't recall who makes a corn spaghetti but it is EXCELLENT. It tastes real. And you know how picky I can be about things tasting right!

My brain isn't working right now but let me think a bit and I'll pull out the gluten-free webpages that do stock the stuff I've been telling you about. And then I'll give you the pizza base tonight, when I'm home from rehearsals. It's even been taste tested - Jenn and Scott loved it in Chicago, and they couldn't tell the difference.