GFCFetcF Kitchen Chemistry: Apple Pie...

Sunday, October 5, 2008

Apple Pie...

About to try and make a bonafied Apple Pie (as I have more apples than we can ever realistically eat..). Will post the recipe if it works out...

Salamander is LOVIN' the applie pie. I'll be posting the recipe soon.

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Why This Blog...

If you landed here from my other blog (OurTravelsInBiomedLand), then you know why. If not, well, my two beautiful boys have a lot of digestive issues and as a result, we ended up with diet that is free of gluten, dairy, soy, and a variety of other foods. Due to the particular combination of foods that the boys need to avoid, there are not a lot of store bought, pre-prepared, ready made foods they can consume. So I had to learn to cook things from scratch. And while it was rough in the beginning, now, after well over 4 years of cooking practice, most of the kitchen chemistry experiments actually turn out quite well.

Now please understand that the recipes I post here are intended to appeal to kids. It was never my intent to (re)create fancy schmancy haute cuisine. And you also won't find a lot of "this is how you can continue to serve your kid mac & cheese without the actual mac & cheese and they won't taste the difference" type recipes. As I have found that recreating the so-called *kid friendly* foods from our pre-diet changes days is virtually impossible, and would always lead to disappointment.

What you will find is this: any and all of my kitchen chemistry experiments are started from the premise of wanting to come up with something tasty that's relatively simple to cook, and uses pure food ingredients as much as possible.

Foods We Avoid or Only Use Sparingly

All artificial preservatives, emulsifiers, colorants, etc (aka artificial crap)
All prepackaged/pre-prepared foods with unrecognizable, unpronouncible or genetically modified ingredients (aka stay as close to foods as made by Momma Nature as possible)
Banana (Salamander)
Canola Oil (HUGE problem for Salamander)
Casein (well, pretty much all mammal dairy)
Citrus (Potatey)
Coconut (Potatey)
Corn (Potatey)
Gluten
Limited Eggs (we used to be egg free; egg white was the big IgG based problem, but egg yolks are *sulphur bombs* and the boys have trouble processing sulphur; so limited amounts and rotate, rotate, rotate)
Limited high glutamate veggies (legumes, beans, peas - we do eat them, but we rotate)
Limited Quinoa (high oxalate foods are a problem for Salamander)
Low protein (one of the breakdown elements of protein is ammonia; both boys have ammonia processing issues)
Low Sugar (as much as humanly possible - I use honey, agave syrup or maple syrup for sweeteners)
Most nuts for Salamander (he can have almond, walnut and hazelnut - of course then Potatey can't have walnut..)
Mushroom (fungus.. we have enough fungi issues, thank you very much)
Mustard (Salamander)
Onion
Pumpkin (HUGE problem for Salamander)
Radish (Potatey)
Shelfish
Soy
Various Spices, such as ginger, cinnamon, clove, garlic, nutmeg, oregano (Potatey - do I think he really is allergic to these? No. I think funky immune system cross reaction)
Whatever else I am forgetting right now - I'll add as needed
Yeast (Baker's & Brewer's)

Must Have Food Stuffs (WIP)

Almond Flour
Baby Carrots
Baking Soda (NOT powder)
Cherrybrook Kitchen GF Waffle & Pancake Mix
Ener-G Egg Replacer
Ener-G Potato Starch Flour & Potato Flour
Ener-G Tapioca Flour
Enjoy Life Chocolate Chips (GFCF and Soy Free)
Hain Lite Safflower Mayonnaise (I made my own for a while too)
Kosher Sea Salt
Mrs. Leeper's Corn Pasta & Spaghetti
Muir Glenn Tomato Sauce or Muir Glenn Chunky Tomato Sauce (I use this to make the boys' ketchup)
Organic Baby Spinach
Organic Dried Cranberries
Organic Extra Virgin Olive Oil
Red Mills Millet Flour
Red Mills Organic Buckwheat Flour
Spectrum Organic (raw) Apple Cider Vinegar
Spectrum Organic Shortening
Spectrum Safflower Oil
Spectrum Sunflower Oil
Sunmaid Raisins (small boxes only; the other sizes/bins are NOT gluten free)
Tinkyada Rice Pasta & Rice Spaghetti
Walnut Pieces

Helpful *Food Stuff* Books

** = My copies are starting to fall apart.. LOL
** Breaking The Vicious Cycle - Elaine Gottshall
** Cooking to Heal Little Tummies - Jenna Roberts & Natalie Hagood
** Is This Your Child - Doris Rapp, MD
** The Body Ecology Diet - Donna Gates
** The Encyclopedia of Dietary Interventions - Karyn Serrousi & Lisa Lewis, PhD
** Why Can't My child Behave - Jane Hersey
Complete Candida Yeast Guidebook 2nd Ed - Jeanne Marie Martin
Grain-free Gourmet - Jodi Bager & Jenny Lass
The Feel Good Food Guide - Deborah Page Johnson
The Thyroid Diet - Mary J. Shomon

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Sunday, October 5, 2008

Apple Pie...

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