Product Description

Rediscover the joy of eating with delicious, easy-to-digest recipes and meal-planning tips.

Everyday Grain-Free Gourmet provides delectable, easy-to-digest dishes that appeal to family and guests who have food limitations which simply must be accommodated. Unlike other gluten-free cookbooks, this one offers traditional favorites in whole-foods, low-lactose, refined-sugar-free versions. Moreover, this book is ideal for anyone who wants or needs to improve their health through diet, including those with lactose intolerance, celiac disease, Crohn's disease and irritable bowel syndrome.

The benefits of a whole-foods diet are addressed in special sections of the book. The authors also include important information on kitchen tools and equipment, food storage and menu-planning, plus a list of health-related resources.

Some of the mouthwatering recipes are:

• Brie and apple crêpes
• Caesar salad with ginger aïoli vinaigrette
• Vegetable quiche
• Curry risotto
• Cannelloni
• Osso bucco
• Heavenly hazelnut ice cream.

Every breakfast, lunch and dinner dish is great for the entire family, yet meets the strict limitations and standards of grain-restricted diets.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #29695 in Books
• Published on: 2008-02-15
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 223 pages

Review
Here's a great cookbook to add to your collection. Beautifully photographed, the recipes focus on nutrient-dense whole foods. (Carp Magazine )

About the Author

Jodi Bager is the president of Grain-Free JK Gourmet, a company that manufactures grain-free, honey-sweetened baked goods. She lives in Toronto.

Jenny Lass is a cooking instructor and medical writer, and the founder of Have Your Cake Consulting. She lives in Toronto.

They have another book in the same series: Grain-Free Gourmet: Delicious Recipes for Healthy Living.

Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.

Introduction

When we approached Whitecap Books back in 2003 with the concept for our first book, Grain-Free Gourmet: Delicious Recipes for Healthy Living, we were touched by their leap of faith as they decided to be the first mainstream publishing company to put out a grain-free cookbook. In April 2006, much to our surprise and delight, Whitecap asked for a second book -- armed with a mandate to push the boundaries of creativity and culinary indulgence, we set to work. A few months later, we had developed a set of recipes that we knew would rival those in our first book.

Coming up with the theme of this book was simple. After years of teaching cooking classes, being interviewed, and providing counseling, the most common questions still relate to mealtimes: What do you have for breakfast? What do you have for lunch? What do you have for dinner? Whether or not these questions are raised because people are curious or at a complete loss, we knew this was the topic that we had to tackle for our second foray into the culinary world.

In Everyday Grain-Free Gourmet: Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner, we not only provide entire meal ideas, but are also more adventurous (think lactose-free, grain-free sandwich wraps, gnocchi, peanut butter truffles, and cappuccino dacquoise). We even demystify fat and provide information about the Specific Carbohydrate Diet (SCD) that we gathered from the original research archives of renowned New York pediatrician Dr. Sidney Haas from the 1920s to the 1960s. We have also added a list of our favorite tools that will make life in the kitchen easier, and we include conveniences that received high praise from our first book, such as a guide for storing food, suggested substitutions for people who don't follow the Specific Carbohydrate Diet, and a list of cheeses that are virtually lactose-free.

We hope that Everyday Grain-Free Gourmet: Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner finds a prominent spot (next to our first book!) in your kitchen.

-Jodi and Jenny

Customer Reviews

Finally!

Found almond flour at the store, was looking for recipes on the net, discovered this book. Ordered it for the almond flour recipes, got so much more! The first section at the beginning of the book was informative, (had never heard of the specific carbohydrate diet) and helped me put together some missing bits of information about my food "allergies" and digestive problems. (After figuring out that I had issues digesting bread/starchy/flour products, I spent the last fifteen years trying to find out why. I was always tired, dragged out, and could not lose weight if I ate even one slice of regular grain bread. For that matter, I seemed unable to digest "gluten free" breads either. When doctors wouldn't test me for celiac, because initial blood tests didn't come back positive, I went the naturopathic/herbalist route. I was told I was allergic to flour, but nothing was mentioned about why, as in celiac disease, or IBS.) I have been following the Grain Free Gourmet book for two weeks, have lost 10 pounds, and feel great. Have not had a chance to try all the recipes, but my fave so far is the pizza dough. The last "flourless" pizza dough recipe I tried was not like pizza dough at all, it was more like a frittata. This recipe is like the real deal! I highly recommend this book.

A good cookbook for the Specific Carbohydrate diet
These are good recipes, well-tested - i.e. they work. I always consider a cookbook a good deal if I get one or two real "keepers" out of it; and the Roasted Tomato Sauce is amazing. Also very useful is the Standards section and the Menu Planning section. Along with their other book "The Grain-Free Gourmet" you have a wealth of information and options for eating very well.

good ideas for grain restriced diets
Like the many recipes ideas that the book has.

I am feeling better on the diet.