Gluten Free Dairy Free Diet

Macaroni and Cheese Gluten and Dairy Free

Centennial, CO (PRWEB) June 15, 2011

A new video entitled “Macaroni and Cheese GFCF” is available on the Alternative Cook Channel on You Tube ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dVHflkqAPa8 ) to show step-by-step how to make it. Finally, a recipe that tastes just like the ‘real thing’ but without gluten, dairy and casein! Millions with Celiac disease, gluten intolerance and Autism avoid these ingredients and will find this recipe a delicious alternative.

Jean Duane, Alternative Cook has developed a combination of flavors using umeboshi plum vinegar, a salty condiment made from pickled plums. She also uses nutritional yeast, grown on molasses and pasteurized to ‘kill’ the yeast. It is full of B vitamins and adds a ‘cheesy’ taste. She uses raw cashews as the base for the cheese sauce. “It is remarkable how much this tastes like the real thing”, says Ms. Duane. The recipe is embedded in the video, so it is easy to follow along on your portable device, or for a written version of the recipe, please visit AskJean blog ( http://www.askjeanblog.com ).

The Alternative Cook Channel on You Tube features many helpful video streams for people following a gluten or dairy free (GFCF) diet including Gluten Free Flour Alternatives, Milk and Egg Substitutions for Baking, Gluten and Dairy Amazing Facts, Cooking Without Gluten and Dairy (GFCF), Ethnic Cooking Without Gluten and Dairy, Thai Fried Rice and Macaroni and Cheese. Subscribe to this channel to be notified when more recipes are added.

Jean Duane, Alternative Cook, LLC produces instructional DVDs (Chocolate, Mexican, Italian and Kids’ Meals), video streams ( http://www.alternativecook.com ) Bake Deliciously! Gluten and Dairy Free Cookbook and The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Gluten Free Cooking with over 200 recipes. She shows how to cook without gluten, dairy and other food-allergens. Ms. Duane has produced several spots for Comcast’s Video on Demand, made television appearances on PBS and has been a featured speaker at the 2009 and 2010 International Association for Culinary Professionals’ Conferences. She has developed recipes for Betty Crocker, for Beautiful Sweets bakery and been featured in Better Homes and Gardens special Christmas Cookies 2010. A regular speaker and magazine writer, she won Kiplinger’s “Dream in You” contest in 2006. AskJeanBlog has many more recipes and helpful hints for people following a gluten-free, dairy-free, allergy-free lifestyle.

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Today’s recipe reminded me of that gilded extravaganza, if only because it’s multi-layered, involves a creamy filling, and–most importantly–requires more than one day’s preparation.  (The original recipe , in fact, tells you to take at least 4 days lead time if you wish to serve this beauty, but I’ve cut it down to three.  See, there are some benefits to eating ACD-friendly!)

I guess I must love a challenge more than I realize, because as soon as I saw the original recipe from Fine Cooking , I thought, “I must make this anti-candida friendly.”  Now, that’s no mean feat, given that we ACD ers can’t eat sugar, refined flours, gluten, anything too starchy or moldy, and–in my case–eggs or dairy.  Yowzah. Then, a few days later, Iris posted her “Birthday Cake Challenge.”  You see, Iris is about to celebrate a major b-day (the last year of her 20s) at the end of this month, and she’s asking for people to post cakes that would be appropriate.  And wouldn’t you agree that this beauty fits the bill perfectly?