Cooking For Isaiah: Gluten-Free & Dairy-Free Recipes For Easy Delicious Meals (2010) - Plot & Excerpts
My husband just got diagnosed as needing a Gluten-free, Dairy-free lifestyle. Believe me when I say it has been life altering for both of us. Not only does he have to completely change his diet but I have to learn and entire new way to cook. I found this book and looked through every recipe. I LOVE IT! The author gives you the basic flour blends and pancake mix that comprises the base of all her recipes as well as all the cooking items you will need to make everything in her cookbook - which most people already own if they cook at all. I love that the recipes are appealing visually as well as to the palette. We are starting to make the recipes in the cookbook and amazingly, even our teenage kids are enjoying the meals. I was so excited when I heard about this cookbook. Gluten AND dairy free recipes? That's just like my diet! Count me in! So I finally picked this up from my local library to look through.I am glad I looked before buying, because I doubt I'll be buying this book. I have very mixed feelings about it. A lot of the recipes look terrific. They just also look terrifically sweet and not necessarily nutritious. Like the first recipe in the book, the S'mores Pancakes with Marshmallow Sauce. Sounds amazing, right? I get a headache and a toothache just thinking about all that sweetness. It sounds great--as a dessert. Not as a breakfast, especially for kids. Same with Bananas Pancakes with Warm Cinnamon Goo. There's even a chocolate dipped chocolate donut recipe in here. NOT my idea of a healthy start for my day. Many of the recipes definitely sound great. Great if someone else will make them for me. Perhaps they just sound complicated. There aren't that many steps for most of the recipes. But the same complexity of flavor that has me drooling over the descriptions makes me think twice about making the dishes. My husband and I are trying to transition to a plant-based diet, too, so the chapter of entrees wasn't useful to me. Everything was seafood or meat based. Same with many of the appetizers, salads, pasta dishes, and soups. Bacon shows up as a flavoring addition in many recipes, including in some I would not expect at all. I know it tastes good. But I still am trying to avoid it. So basically, there are a lot of recipes in here I'd like to taste, but not sure how many I will actually try to make. The Double-Decker Toasted Cornbread and Spicy Greens Stack might actually get copied out and tried. and the Peach-Maple Upside-Down Corn Cake. Most likely I'll just drool over the recipes for awhile, and then return the cookbook to the library. AUnrelated to the actual content of the cookbook--wow, there are a lot of personal stories and even more personal photos in this book! I am not sure how I feel about that. Or how her kids will feel about having been pimped out for a cookbook, when they are old enough to realize it. Isaiah may, someday, not appreciate that his mom shared publicly the story of his massive wart problem, for example. Also, this may not be a hideous family, but they're not exactly models either. I'm not sure I'd want to put pictures of a family like this all over a cookbook. If you have to involve your actual family in a cookbook, I prefer the Jessica Seinfeld approach, with cutesy cartoons of the family--you have a sense of each person, but it still preserves some anonymity on the part of the rest of the family, and it is more flattering to normal looking people. Just my preference. I guess they were going for a specific feel with this book, and it would seem they achieved it, for better or for worse.
What do You think about Cooking For Isaiah: Gluten-Free & Dairy-Free Recipes For Easy Delicious Meals (2010)?
The best gf df cookbook we have ever read! We have made 3 recipes and plan to make many many more!
—smbratz
Another great Gluten free cookbook that is a must have for gluten free families.
—hjhd
This is my go to cookbook for food allergies! Love it.
—beethebear
