We had some really good cookies today. Actually, my son took one look at them and said "that's not a cookie" but he had no objection to eating them anyway. The recipe (courtesy of the Queen of Butter and Cream, Nigella Lawson) called them Snickerdoodles but the cookies are ball shaped and look just like donut holes - taste like them too. Since I have yet to find a safe donut, and am totally unwilling to fry my own, these make a nice substitute.
Donut Hole Cookies
1 cup flour
2/3 cup white whole wheat flour (my addition, Nigella calls for all white flour)
3/4 t baking powder
1/2 t salt
Mix and set aside while you cream 1/2 cup butter (at room temp) with 1/3 cup sugar.
Then beat in 1 egg and 1 t vanilla (homemade from potato vodka, of course).
Add wet to dry and mix well (I used my hands.)
Roll into balls - Nigella says the size of a walnut. Now, if you make them the size of a walnut with its shell, they are way too big and only make about 10 cookies (the recipe says it'll make 32.) So I wound up making them about 3/4 of an inch in diameter and that seemed about right. I still don't know exactly what sort of walnut Nigella meant. Maybe using whole wheat made the dough more compact?
Roll balls in cinnamon sugar and bake at 350 degrees for 10-15 minutes.
This is way more butter than I'd usually use (maybe I'll substitute some apple butter next time) but I needed something to feed kids who are used to "normal" food. I literally didn't have one thing in the house that I thought a "regular kid" would put in their mouth. Plus it needed to be pretty fast since it was almost snack time. This recipe fit the criteria and everyone who tried them has really liked them.
Hmmm, writing about them makes me want some more. Excuse me...
Thursday, August 30, 2007
Tuesday, August 28, 2007
Corn Free Foods
It would be easy to start with a rant about all the things we can't eat, but instead how about a list of what we can eat? You can eat "normal" foods when you're allergic to corn and soy, you just have to find the right sources for "safe" ingredients. Well, and you also have to make the time to prepare everything from scratch... I'm trying very hard to resist ranting about how long I spend cooking every day. Women used to do this all the time, right? Before McDonalds and frozen foods? My husband says I've gone back about a century or so. He'll really know I've left this century when I make my own butter. Thankfully I have a safe source of butter (Organic Valley) so I haven't had to go down that road (tortillas, bread, cheese, pickles, ketchup, and ice cream, yes. But not butter... yet.)
So here are some of ds8's dinner favorites:
homemade chicken nuggets
Aaron's chicken (from Trader Joe's)
breaded with matzo meal (any brand that's only wheat and water) and spices
fried in a little bit of canola oil (Spectrum is safe)
fish and chips
flounder filets from Costco (apparently they don't use corn in their packaging of fish)
breaded in matzo meal and spices
sprayed with canola oil (with a pump sprayer you fill yourself, not a storebought spray)
baked at 450 for 5-10 minutes
potatoes lightly coated with oil and roasted also at 450
homemade tarter sauce with Delois mayo (from Whole Foods), yogurt lemon juice
pasta with meat sauce
Laura's ground beef (in original packaging-from Acme)
**Amy's organic pasta sauce (used to be at WF but they stopped carrying it. I have seen it other places)
Bionaturae pasta (WF)
tacos
ground beef
**365 brand tomato paste (WF)
spices
safe lettuce, safe cheese, homemade flour tortillas
salmon cakes
canned salmon from WFs (unsalted, since salt often contains corn)
safe onion, celery, parsley, spices, an egg and some bread crumbs
**Just a note to add that we've since removed the tomato paste and Amy's sauce from our diet. I haven't yet determined whether there is corn in those items or if we are allergic to tomatoes. So try them at your own risk!
It all sounds very normal, doesn't it? And yummy, and did I mention healthy? My son tells me that's the silver lining to all this difficulty with food - we'll live longer since we eat so healthily! I admire his ability to remain positive, despite the fact that he can't eat any food not made by his parents.
So here are some of ds8's dinner favorites:
homemade chicken nuggets
Aaron's chicken (from Trader Joe's)
breaded with matzo meal (any brand that's only wheat and water) and spices
fried in a little bit of canola oil (Spectrum is safe)
fish and chips
flounder filets from Costco (apparently they don't use corn in their packaging of fish)
breaded in matzo meal and spices
sprayed with canola oil (with a pump sprayer you fill yourself, not a storebought spray)
baked at 450 for 5-10 minutes
potatoes lightly coated with oil and roasted also at 450
homemade tarter sauce with Delois mayo (from Whole Foods), yogurt lemon juice
pasta with meat sauce
Laura's ground beef (in original packaging-from Acme)
**Amy's organic pasta sauce (used to be at WF but they stopped carrying it. I have seen it other places)
Bionaturae pasta (WF)
tacos
ground beef
**365 brand tomato paste (WF)
spices
safe lettuce, safe cheese, homemade flour tortillas
salmon cakes
canned salmon from WFs (unsalted, since salt often contains corn)
safe onion, celery, parsley, spices, an egg and some bread crumbs
**Just a note to add that we've since removed the tomato paste and Amy's sauce from our diet. I haven't yet determined whether there is corn in those items or if we are allergic to tomatoes. So try them at your own risk!
It all sounds very normal, doesn't it? And yummy, and did I mention healthy? My son tells me that's the silver lining to all this difficulty with food - we'll live longer since we eat so healthily! I admire his ability to remain positive, despite the fact that he can't eat any food not made by his parents.
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