Eat Well, Feel Well: More Than 150 Delicious Specific Carbohydrate Diet-Compliant Recipes Author: Visit Amazon's Kendall Conrad Page | Language: English | ISBN:
0307590607 | Format: EPUB
Eat Well, Feel Well: More Than 150 Delicious Specific Carbohydrate Diet-Compliant Recipes Description
From Publishers Weekly
Although this cookbook, based on nutritionist Gottschall's "Specific Carbohydrate Diet," is geared toward people with thorny digestive problems like celiac disease or colitis, these recipes are tasty, simple and healthy enough to make you forget you're cutting out such staples as wheat, flour, milk and sugar. Fresh Spring Rolls with Spicy Chile Dipping Sauce are colorful little bundles of shrimp and mango wrapped in thinly-sliced cucumber, a compelling alternative to the usual deep-fried take-out version. Chilled Pea Soup takes about 10 minutes to prepare, but is creamy and decadent enough for a celebration. Aromatic Roast Pork Loin with Stewed Fruits is luscious, although the portion sizes are perhaps over-generous; the four-serving recipe calls for two pounds of meat. The author includes not only a handful of compelling wheat-free desserts-Lemon-Coconut Macaroons are particularly addictive-but also a list of exotic beverages such as spicy Blood-Orange Ginger Fizz and sweetly smooth Mango Lassi. The only drawback to this thoughtful, health-conscious collection is the lack of photographs or illustrations-although most of these recipes are straightforward enough that they beg no illustrating, only eating.
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About the Author
Kendall Conrad appeared with Elaine Gottschall, the author of the global bestseller
Breaking the Vicious Cycle, to share the story of her daughter’s near-miraculous recovery from a dangerous digestive disorder using the Specific Carbohydrate Diet. She lives with her husband and their two daughters in Montecito, California.
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- Paperback: 240 pages
- Publisher: Clarkson Potter; 1 edition (January 5, 2010)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0307590607
- ISBN-13: 978-0307590602
- Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 7.3 x 0.7 inches
- Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
I've only tried fifteen or so recipes in this book (and there are a lot)but what I've made has turned out so well, I'd definitely recommend this cookbook. I know where she's coming from as a mother who's had to keep her daughter inspired on the SCD. My younger daughter (who had Crohn's)liked fairly plain food but my elder daughter is very much a foodie and I feel I have to keep pulling gastronomic rabbits out of hats.This recipe book is top in terms of flavours and textures, which are fantastic. She also has a lot of condiments such as a wonderful mango chutney and a whole section on mock starches. She puts honey and vanilla with the SCD French cream for desserts. I know it's a simple idea but it didn't occur to me to do that until I got her book (Another SCD recipe book I have says, "Serve with a dollop of (SCD) French cream." No way -- it's much too sour on its own.)
The book is worth the price just for the tortillas. If, like me, you find the biggest challenge of SCD what to do about bread, it's a lot easier if you can master these. My elder daughter doesn't particularly like the pumpernickel bread my younger daughter liked -- she says it's more like cake (Sandra Ramacher's book)-- so lunch boxes are difficult. I totally failed with the soft white bread recipes from this book and also Sandra Ramacher's. This recipe I can do and use the tortillas to make wraps instead of sandwiches. My daughter said the wraps I made with these was the best SCD lunch ever.
I know that there was a problem re. the clarity of the instructions -- What's cashew BUTTER for instance? I was grateful to the person on this site who explained that you just grind up plain old RAW cashews. Also, what's a tortilla IRON?
Based on some of the reviews, I wasn't expecting much from this cookbook, and in fact bought "Grain-free Gourmet" instead of this one. But, after perusing its contents in a library, I was really surprised that I liked this book more, and I felt it delivered on the "gourmet" part. I fell in love with this book's recipes.
This recipe collection is NOT for everyone. It is a "gourmet" book. In fact, the Food Network's Barefoot Contessa brought the idea for Conrad's book directly to publishers (that should tell you it's definitely gourmet-oriented). It should also tell you how good it is, to get Ina Garten's stamp of approval.
That being said, I am a foodie, so I really dig the book. Being on a restricted diet, you can feel a bit deprived. Things "normal" people take for granted are off limits. That being said, these recipes make me feel that I can enjoy eating again. For example, there are basic recipes for soup stocks and classic tomato sauces, garlic and rosemary leg of lamb, roast pork loin with stewed fruits, spinach, lemon and basil pesto, zucchini lasanga(a basic recipe in most SCD books) and pizza margherita (with an almond pizza crust and yogurt-cheese bocconcinis for the mozzarella). And there are creative ways to make other basics like dijon mustard from scratch. (For those who might scoff at creating a mustard from scratch, many SCD'ers can't touch the manufactured stuff because of the sugars).
Where Conrad's book falls short: although there are beautiful photographs, there aren't many. And of course the recipes are time consuming and complicated (even if they are delicious). She doesn't include "notes" either on which recipe should be tried when. (For many SCD'ers there is a time line when certain foods can and cannot be introduced back into the diet).
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