Restricted diet recipes, please?

[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~

[Pedal Wench]

I'll try to find my fav Pad Thai recipe. I don't think it uses ketchup. Hmmm, yes, actually, now that I think about it, it does, but it's a small amount, and I'm sure you could leave it out.

***Off to find recipe***

[EBD]

You could make a frittata (or Spanish omelette, or a crustless quiche) - add some fresh herbs, potatoes, goat's cheese . . . good for dinner with a side salad, and would keep for a couple of days for lunch.

Other things that spring to mind: roasted sweet potatoes; stuffed acorn squash or stuffed peppers (with a rice-based stuffing), roasted chicken with leftovers made into chicken salad . . .

[LBTC]

Tonight I made a chicken curry vegetable dish with rice vermicelli. It was really yummy! I added a few dollops of goat milk cheese and a bit of cashew butter to round out the flavour a bit, and there's lots of leftovers for some lunches. Yay!

Now I have to go figure out what to do with a papaya. hmmmm

Thanks for the ideas. I love frittata. I usually make it with ham and cheese - the goat cheese is easy, but not sure waht to use to make up for the ham....hmmmm

And I'll try to make a cream of broccoli soup soon, too. Goats milk should work just fine, but I run into the ham probably there again.

Keep those ideas coming, please!

Hugs and butterflies,
~T~