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Product Description
A classic recipe book which excludes ingredients harmful to those suffering from candida, M.E., and allergy sufferers. Anyone with food allergies, candida or chronic fatigue will benefit from excluding wheat, gluten, yeast, salt, sugar, dairy products and saturated fat. The book explains how eating the right kinds of food at the right intervals can help with energy-lack, elimination, healing and weight control. The recipes also support the body's blood sugar levels to give us sustained energy. It suggests 6 small meals a day at the start of the regime Even those with immune disorders, and/or cancer or heart disease sufferers will feel the benefit. Over 100 recipes with colour photo section
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #20786 in Books
- Published on: 2000-07-17
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Binding: Paperback
- 160 pages
Editorial Reviews
About the Author
Barbara Cousins has been a successful nutritional therapist for 10 years. She first published Cooking Without in 1989.
Excerpted from Cooking Without by Barbara Cousins. Copyright © 2000. Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.
Sample Recipe - Sweetcorn and Onion fritters
Great finger-food with spicy oriental dips or try it as an accompaniment to a main dish. Serves four.
You will need:
One large onion (finely chopped)
114g/4 oz./ 2/3 cup sweetcorn kernels
70g/2 ½ oz./ 1/3 cup of rice flour
285ml/ 10 fl. oz./ 1 1/3 cups of water
1 large egg (beaten)
15ml/ 1 tbsp fresh parsley
Black pepper
Olive oil
Cook the onion in 30 ml./ 2 tbsp water until soft and then drain. Put the sweetcorn kernels in a bowl and roughly mash with the back of a fork until the kernels are just broken. Add the onion, rice flour, water, egg, parsley and black pepper to the sweetcorn and mix well. Fry as two large pancakes in the olive oil until the pancakes are set and golden brown, turning half-way through cooking.
Customer Reviews
Safe desserts at last
Having an allergy to dairy products & eggs, pretty much eliminates the pleasures of cakes, puddings & desserts. When I bought this book, I was hoping for recipes to satisfy my sweet tooth & am pleased to say I haven't been disappointed. Although the book eliminates use of sugar, I find it is ok to add your own quantities if your body is agreable to this, & therefore giving you a delicious, safe dessert just as I used to enjoy. Aside of the desserts which are easy to make & include things like apple pie & custard, strawberry & banana ice-cream & mince pies, there are also some good main course recipes.
Because the author is encouraging healthy eating the recipes are very selective in the ingrediants used & I found the recipes to be very natural tasting, which can at first seem strange as the palette has to adjust to the new pure & wholesome flavours.The main courses concentrate on 2 meats: chicken & lamb. Unfortunately for me I have an allergy to chicken, but on the brighter side I have successfully replaced other meats for the chicken & the recipes have worked well. So for those of us with certain food allergies I would say this book is a good helping hand to menu planning.
The author often explains where certain ingrediants may be exchanged for others hence allowing a dish for many of us that would normally have to avoid it. The menus can either be taken strictly as written & as the writer explains, this will promote improved health & energy. You would have to be very strict with yourself however, & probably adjust your eating habits in a big way. Or if like me you have certain allergies & just want to try & replace certain foods which you miss (ie puds') then this book will work for you too.
The recipes are very easy to follow & most of the ingrediants are readily available.
Although there are passages written which relate to Candida, Food Allergies, & ME, they are by no means in-depth, but merely there to explain how the diet can contribute to such conditions. An outline is also given about the foods which she has chosen to eliminate from the recipes, which helps us to understand why we should make these sacrifices!
Overall, I am pleased I have this cook book in my kitchen.
Lifesaver!
I have recently had a food intolerance test and am Dairy, Wheat and Yeast intolerant. I searched for recipe books which encompassed all three and thankfully found this book. I enjoy food and am so pleased to have found it. It has great ideas and lots of varied recipes which even my husband loves. I feel so much better already and I have even bought her other 2 books and they equally brilliant. Happy cooking!
Less can sometimes be more
This was the first of Barbara's books that I had and I started reading the introduction and could not put it down. So much she said resonated with me. For a book entitled "Cooking Without" I have found more wonderful recipes that in any other cook books I have owned. Perhaps it is making use of such good ingredients that makes the flavours in her recipes seem so rich and satisfying. The alternatives she offers mean I am not put off my something I don't like or don't know where to get hold of, and I think my tastebuds are finally growing up. And oh joy - recipes that I can eat without fear of piling on the weight - I can eat good food every day and not think I will have to make it up by "being good" tomorrow - a cook book without guilt that is not for "slimmers" only! I cannot recommend this, or her other two books, too highly. Do yourself a favour and buy it - and do read the introduction.
