Restricted diet recipes, please?

[LBTC]

Knot

Could I have your rice pudding recipe? mmmmmmm pudding!

I just tried goats milk. It's yummy! So is the cheddar and the cheese spread! I've had rice milk before. I didn't like it. But it could be good to cook with and save the milk for drinking. Wow. I haven't had a glass of milk in probably 25 years!

I'll have to check on the quinoa. I suspect it will be a no in the short term, but probably okay later. It may depend on what my scopes reveal, as it is a grain that may be mechanically irritating.

I'll look for alternative nut butters when I go to the health food store tomorrow.

Biggest disappointment this evening - the superstore has lots of rice cracker, rice cakes and rice chips - all but the unflavoured rice cakes contain corn or corn oil. Again, I'll see if the health food store has better alternatives.

Usually I make meals ahead of time, freeze them in 1/2 cup containers and bring to work to eat every few hours. I have nothing available for work tomorrow. I made a nice omelette tonight with allowed veggies and goats milk cheese and didn't leave enough leftovers for tomorrows lunch. It appears I've got myself in a bit of a pickle now! heehee
So handy mixups that I can freeze for later would be great!

I'm going to start my breakfast this week with puffed rice, fruit and goats milk. I hope to find goats milk yogurt as I'd rather mix that with my cereal.

In most cases I will probably not be able to use soy products to substitute for milk products as they usually contain casein.

Snap, that looks like a good salmon recipe. We'll give it a try later this week.

Thank you so much!

Hugs and butterflies,
~T~

[KnottedYet]

I don't really use recipes, I just kinda throw stuff together 'til it looks right. So adjust my rice pudding "guidelines" to your tastes! Since sugar cane is on your list of restricted foods, I'm gonna leave sugar out of my recipe. If you know you have sugar made from sugarbeets, you're ok. Use that if the flavor of honey is too strong.

Quick And Dirty Rice Pudding

1/2 saucepan of cooked rice
a cup or so of rice milk (probably more)
1/4 to 1/2 cup of honey or beet sugar or brown rice syrup
1 tsp vanilla
1 or 2 or 3 tsp cinnamon
1 tsp nutmeg
any other nice smelling spices
almonds, pecans, cashews chopped or whole

Start with the rice milk and cooked rice. Get it simmering and start adding your other ingredients. Adjust the liquid (rice milk, goat milk, what ever) as needed, it may thicken quite a bit. Simmer and adjust ingredients until you have a consistancy and flavor you like. Since nothing is inedible if raw, don't worry about cooking time too much. (if you add an egg for more protien, be SURE to simmer until the egg is cooked!) The nuts will soften as they cook.

Eat warm or cold. Also nice with a dollop of Rice Dream Ice "Cream". Or put some fresh fruit on top. Will survive just fine in the freezer.

If you don't have cooked rice handy, here's my Quick-N-Dirty way of cooking rice. 1 part rice, 2 parts water. Boil for 5 minutes, then cover and simmer until water is just about absorbed. (if you push rice around with a spoon there's still about 1/4 inch water in the bottom of the pan) Turn off the heat and leave rice to sit covered until last of water is absorbed. (No burnt rice! Yay! )

[LBTC]

Thank you, Knot!

That's kind of how I cook, too....love to start with a real recipe then tweak tweak tweak...

I'm currently stewing fruit - raisins, dates, frozen peaches, frozen mixed berries with cinnamon sticks, vanilla beans, cloves, cinnamon, nutmeg. Currently cooking instant rice to try making rice pudding. (I had some, what can I say)

At least I'll have something sweet I can eat tomorrow!

Hugs and butterflies,
~T~

[Duck on Wheels]

Let's see. He didn't rule out red meat, but you have Crohns, right? And red meat can have long fibers. Still ... small cubes of meat simmered with your favorite veggies and some spices and stock? Potato cubes that cook apart as thickening? Also, chicken isn't on your avoid list. Lots of yummy things to do with chicken, or turkey, or (dare I say it) duck. How about chicken with apricots and almonds on safron rice?

[Mr. Bloom]

LBTC:

Years ago, DD was diagnosed with a corn allergy. OMG! Besides the obvious, like Corn Syrup, Xanthum Gum is corn based and IN EVERYTHING. Sea Salt is pure, but ordinary table salt has corn additives... Be careful if corn is a serious problem.

Until she outgrew the allergy, I made home made bread for her (I honestly enjoyed that) and she would essentially limit herself to Bread, Apple Sauce, Pasta, and limited flavors of Ragu!!

Also, many pills use corn products as fillers...it goes on and on...

Authentic Mexican softdrinks use Pure Cane Sugar rather than High Fructose Corn Syrup.

[LBTC]

Today I found the greatest snack food - bit size poppadoms. Made with lentil flour, and cumin flavoured! Yummy!

And I found a dark chocolate and mint chocolate bar sweetened with beet sugar; found licorice sweetened with molasses and made with rice flour, not wheat flour. And found every variety of pasta made from brown rice flour!!

And found the goats milk yogurt. I'm going to try making a goat dairy and rice tuna casserole! yippee!!

It's just an adventure, right?

Keep those recipes and links coming, though, I will run out of ideas soon enough.

Thanks!!

Hugs and butterflies,
~T~

[Pedal Wench]

What about oriental cooking. Seems like a chicken and veggie stir-fry would be fine - just leave out those tiny baby corns. Indian curries, thai rice noodles in Pad Thai, chinese, japanese - sushi -- it all fits into your restrictions.

[LBTC]

Yup, pedal, I will definitely be going towards my favourite foods - those of the asian varieties.

Still have to be careful. Lots of sugar used in asian cooking, have to ensure only rice noodles and to leave the ginger and onion out, and, of course the baby corn. Pad Thai is made with ketchup, believe it or not, and my favourite curries are all made with coconut milk. With care I will be able to do it....need to find indian recipes: know any??

Hugs and butterflies,
~T~