Recently I trialed a few
recipes from Allergy Proof Recipes for
Kids by Leslie Hammond and Lynne Marie Rominger. I had really high hopes for this book, but unfortunately the
recipes I tried were less than stellar.
The ideas for the recipes sounded great, and I really wanted them to
taste excellent, but at the core they were flavorless and had a strange
aftertaste. The main dish recipe
that I tried (and consequently decided the test of the cookbook was over
because it was so bland) was the pastitsio. The pasta with meat sauce was easy (you just add some onion
and garlic to jarred tomato sauce) and then there is this white goo you make
that is meant to be a white sauce, but it is literally gooey and
disgusting. You paste it over the
top of the pasta, and it hardens so the pasta clumps together. All of the red sauce is absorbed in the
pasta, and so it’s pink pasta with a hard white shell on top. As a result this cookbook is not for
us. I wish it was, because I love
an allergy friendly cookbook, but I plan to look elsewhere for future recipes
for my family! If you still want to try it out, you can buy it on amazon on amazon here.
Tuesday, June 18, 2013
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See, this is one of the problems with dairyfree and sometimes gluten-free cooking that I tend to run into. The meals do NOT fit our taste palates at all. I'm always so scared to try new recipes especially when I need to fork out a lot more for specialty ingredients. You can't always go by reviews because a lot of people like the nasty stuff that our family won't eat. To me, if it tastes "normal" then we will eat it LOL It's just so hard to tell without wasting money on the ingredients that will go to waste. :/
ReplyDeleteI couldn't agree more Ila! Some people say some recipes are just to die for, and then I make them and I think "how could someone really like this that much?!" I know taste is very subjective though and people might think that about my recipes too, which is totally fine! I am like you though, my goal is always to try to get it to taste as close to "the real thing" as possible!
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