Recipe Remedies: Blackberry Thumbprint Cookies

Good afternoon! My family is having some friends over for dinner tonight, and I decided to make some cookies for dessert. I’d been thinking about thumbprint cookies for some time and finally tried them out with SCD restrictions. Thumbprint Cookies 3/4 cup butter, softened 1/2 cup white sugar 2 egg yolks 1 3/4 cups all-purpose [...]

Quick & Easy Alfredo Sauce

While y’all are waiting for my next recipe remedy, I thought I’d share this recipe for an SCD-legal alfredo sauce my mom discovered tonight while looking for something different to season fully-cooked chicken. Quick & Easy Alfredo Sauce 8 ounces plain homemade yogurt (whole–don’t use non-fat) Parmesan cheese, to taste 1 tablespoon butter cracked pepper, to taste [...]

Recipe Remedies: Spicy Ginger Chicken

Good evening! Boy, am I stuffed. My recipe remedy for this week was a huge success, and I have a happy, full tummy to prove it. I also love that this is a crockpot recipe–not as much clean-up! The Original Recipe 12 chicken drumsticks and/or thighs (2.5 to 3 pounds total), skinned 2 14.5 oz. [...]

Substitutions

Hello, all! I hope your week has been successful in the culinary realm. So far, I’ve not had one opportunity to experiment in the kitchen, but I have done a lot of thinking. So rest assured; I will have a recipe for you by the end of the week! My topic for today is substitutions. [...]

LARABAR, anyone? Oooh, Yes…

My week was booked with homework and housework, so I am sorry to say that I do not have a recipe for y’all. While this makes me sad, I am taking this opportunity to rave about one of my store-bought, SCD-legal snack foods. I discovered Larabars when I was in town, having nothing to eat and [...]

Tuning In

Our bodies can tell us a lot about what we are eating. When I first began the Specific Carbohydrate Diet, I just ate what I was told and avoided what was “illegal.” This was exactly what I should have done, of course. However, with gastrointestinal disorders, sensitivities to certain foods can vary drastically from person [...]

Recipe Remedies: Blackberry Jam

Last weekend, my family and I hosted a couple of our friends from northern Texas. They love to cook and introduced us to homemade strawberry jam! Unfortunately, it had fruit pectin in it, which is illegal on the Specific Carbohydrate Diet. Still, I fixed this recipe with very few modifications. I figured that unflavored gelatin could [...]

Diet Experiment: A Lesson in Moderation

After four years on the Specific Carbohydrate Diet, I understand how tiresome the same foods can become (I wrote on this topic here). I also know how difficult it is to make yourself try new foods. I for one have always been overly cautious when I try something new (that is SCD legal, of course). Sometimes [...]

Pickiness Doesn’t Pay

If you are a picky eater, you know what it’s like to have to go on a restrictive diet. So many options that would be available on that restrictive diet aren’t because you “don’t like it.” I am (or rather, was) one of the worst picky eaters. Most of the time, I’d say that I didn’t [...]