Lactose Free Birthday Pie Rhubarb & Strawberry Pie Filling 1 1/4 cups sugar 3 tbsp. cornstarch 1/4 tsp. salt 1/4 tsp. ground nutmeg 3 cup rhubarb, cut into 1/2″ pieces 2 cup sliced fresh strawberries 1 tbsp. butter Dairy Free Pastry for a Double Crust Pie Stir together the sugar, cornstarch, salt and nutmeg. Add the rhubarb pieces and sliced strawberries,and toss gently to coat fruit. Let the fruit and mix stand for at least 15 minutes. Meanwhile, prepare and roll out your pastry. I used a 9 inch pie plate and ran a pastry cutter around the edges to trim it and make it look tidy. Pour...
A friend of a friend is reputed to regularly eat a mango with her hands on the streets of London, much to the amusement of the male pedestrian community. She is tall, slender, beautifully tanned and tends to wear gorgeous exotic colours (that I tried to mimic once, but just ended up looking like a frumpy beach lizard). With that image of a model (really, Charlotte, if you aren’t, you should be), standing on a bustling street corner, literally making cars swerve as she eats an exotic juicy fruit with her bare hands, let me bring you down to earth. Eating a mango is messy business. And for...
A dairy free pancake recipe to keep up with the tradition of Shrove Tuesday (without suffering for the duration of Lent) Shrove Tuesday, or “Fat Tuesday” seems particularly relevant to me today after finding out that I did in fact gain almost ten pounds through my unusually heinous gastro issues. For the last six months, not only have I had to cut out all acid and acid-inducing foods (onions, garlic, tomatoes, citrus), but I seem also to have developed a nice addiction to carbs. I told my gastroenterologist this morning, “I’ve been eating so many crackers I feel like I’ve...
My favorite birthday cake of all time has got to be yellow cake with chocolate frosting. I’m not much of a cake person in general, but I’ll make an exception every year for my brithday with this one: the good, old fashioned, my-mother-started-making-it-for-my-birthday-when-I-was-four-and-never-stopped-because-I-wouldn’t-let her, Betty Crocker mix. But how to survive with all the dairy in the mix? It’s a box of absolute doom for my body, and without fail, I suffer for my weak willpower after. So this year, I chose this Valentine’s Day/Lunar New Year weekend to test...
“Bad, WordPress, very very bad WordPress…”, is what I’ve been saying to my website for weeks as I’ve tried to (unsuccessfully) make it look the way I wanted it to. I realize now that it wasn’t WordPress, it is a poor musician who blames her instrument, and it was a simply a case of choosing a template more suited to my needs at Belly Healthy. So apologies for the delay in posting and a hearty thanks for your patience. Coming up: Springtime Soups, Mangoes and more Dairy Free Pantry Items.
Tortelli di Zucca is traditionally served on Christmas Eve in Mantova (or “Mantua” – a translation I’ve never understood…like the painter “Titian” when his name is Tiziano… Mantova is where my grandmother was born, and famous for harboring Romeo after killing Tybalt in Romeo & Juliet). The finest version of this dish ever served around our family dinner was by my aunt, and she served it with a deliciously simple tomato sauce on top. You should know that my aunt, Zia Lella, makes the most amazing dishes known to man. Ask her for the recipe though,...
Promises, promises . So instead of being able to post a bunch of Christmas recipes in time for Christmas, I’ve got to settle for showing you a taste of what’s to come. Sorry, but life just happens sometimes, doesn’t it. (#decemberfail.) Just a short post to let you know how grateful I am to my readers for visiting this site and to wish you all the happiest of holidays. If anyone is desperate for these recipes, drop me a line and I’ll accelerate my posting productivity. On Its Way (or Cooked But Not Posted): • Dairy Free Pumpkin Ravioli: My Personal Grail Quest • Dairy...
This one is a bit of a mystery. Clearman’s Restaurants are responsible for the delightful North Woods Inn in the San Gabriel Valley. Now this is not the most dairy-free-friendly restaurant in the world, but it can still be done…Famous for their salads and cheese bread that come with any order of an entree (or on it’s own for a nominal fee), their Cabbage Salad is so more-ish you can happily much away on that alone for an hour. Tangy and sweet, the cabbage in this recipe is sliced thinly or grated and left to sit until the flavours of the dressing seep in and loosen the fibers...
