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

[chorus.livejournal.com]

I have a friend who is highly allergic to milk.

One of the sources I use to help her find stuff is All Recipes (http://allrecipes.com/directory/1385.asp). While I can't say that everything there is spectacular, since it's so big, generally I've found that it's got good stuff. As others have said, there's a lot of good dairy-free sites out there, though, especially the vegan ones. There are also a ton of good recipe books for the same. Both gluten intolerance and dairy intolerance affect a fairly significant part of the population, so it's not hard to come by decent recipes.

For specifics, I know that soy cheese melts well and can be used in recipes in place of dairy cheese, and that you can make cream soups with soy milk, that being two things we've discussed. Friend in question has home-made soy cheese pizza regularly.

Whole Foods or the equivalent is definitely a good place to check for both GF and dairy-free items. From what I've seen most of it's a 1:1 equivalency.