A couple of years ago, I was on a restricted diet that excluded (among other things) sugar, dairy and yeast. I was amazed to find out that there are a lot of great resources for recipes that have very few ingredients. One such resource is "The Candida Albicans Yeast Free Cookbook" by Pat Connolly.
This book includes recipes for every meal as well as for salad dressings, and marinades, all without sugar or yeast. The nice thing is that instead of replacing sugar with something artificial, the recipes are designed around whole foods that are nutritious, and tasty.
One of my favorite recipes is for waffles.
Here's how it goes:
Ingredients:
3 eggs, separated
1/3 cup water
1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla
1 cup arrowroot flour or oat bran or rice flour or mixture of flour, bran, and polishings from rice. (I use 1 cup of Bob's Red Mill Organic Oat Bran).
Separate the eggs. Pour the yolks into the blender. Add water and the vanilla to the yolks. Spoon in flour and blend until smooth. Beat egg whites until stiff. Fold the blended mixture into the egg whites until lightly mixed. Spoon into waffle iron and bake until brown.
Serve with butter. Or if you're me, serve with butter, maple syrup and thawed and slightly warmed up frozen strawberries!
If you are used to eating a lot of sugar with everything, like most of us, these waffles may taste a bit bland at first. However, after two weeks on my restricted diet, this was like heaven! Also, I noticed that as I removed a lot of sugar from my daily routine, my tastes changed and I would not crave it as much. I have been told that sugar is an "acquired" taste, not unlike alcohol. Apparently when something tastes really bad to you when you first try it (assuming you have a clean system to start with) that means the body recognizes it as poison. That got me thinking about all the things I had to acquires tastes for: wine, beer, tequila, Quentin Tarantino movies...
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