New Gluten & Dairy Free Informative Segments From Jean Duane, Alternative Cook on You Tube

By: - October 11th, 2011  Filed under: Chocolate Diet Recipes

Centennial, CO (PRWEB) December 19, 2008

Over 90 million Americans have some form of gluten sensitivity and one in every four are intolerant to dairy products – yet most are undiagnosed. Many who suffer with chronic illness may simply be reacting negatively to the foods they are eating. Gluten, a protein found in barley, wheat, rye, oats and spelt can only be traced back 10,000 years and humanity has been on earth about 1 million years. Humans didn’t evolve eating gluten. Casein is a protein found in dairy products. People who think they are lactose intolerant may actually be reacting to the protein rather than the sugar (lactose) in dairy products. Protein reactions can be severe and can cause long-term health problems.

These new video segments on You Tube offer help for people who need to learn more about this way of eating. “It isn’t too hard to do, once you learn a few things”, says Jean Duane, “and since I live this lifestyle, I am here to help.” Jean makes it easy by showing how to mix different flours, milk and egg substitutes that work well in recipes to make baked items that taste as good as their wheat and dairy counterparts. She shines a new light on this lifestyle – focusing on abundance and delicious alternative foods.

The Alternative Cook helps those who have been diagnosed with Celiac Disease, Autism, Crohn’s Disease, IBS, ADD, ADHD, gluten and dairy intolerance. Children with Autism reportedly improve on the Spectrum when following a gluten-free, casein-free diet. Nursing mothers can reduce colic in their babies when following this type of diet.

About Alternative Cook:

Alternative Cook offers cooking instruction on DVD, video streams and in a cookbook. The Mexican, Italian and Kids’ Meals DVDs provide 90 minutes of cooking instruction and show how to make six different meals. The Chocolate DVD shows how to make chocolate treats you may have thought were a thing of the past on this diet. Each DVD includes a recipe booklet, so you don’t need a DVD player in the kitchen! For more information, please visit http://www.alternativecook.com.

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Easy Steps to Convert Favorite Recipes to be Gluten (and Dairy) Free

By: - October 4th, 2011  Filed under: Chocolate Diet Recipes

Englewood, CO (PRWEB) December 1, 2010

Better Homes and Gardens Special Interest Publications – Christmas Cookies contains 101 holiday treats with beautiful photos and easy-to-make recipes. One of the recipes, Snickerdoodles is from Bake Deliciously! Gluten and Dairy Free Cookbook by Jean Duane, Alternative Cook. “I am pleased to offer a gluten-free recipe for this publication, says Jean, but why limit readers with allergies to one recipe when converting is so easy?” Below in this excerpt from Bake Deliciously!, Jean shares her secrets gleaned from years of trials and learning from (many) errors. What follows are general guidelines to convert a traditional wheat-flour recipe into gluten-free.

How to Convert a Traditional Recipe to Gluten and/or Dairy Free

1. Start with a combination of flours in these ratios: 50% grain flour (brown rice or sorghum), 25% starch (cornstarch, tapioca or potato starch) and 25% protein flour (navy, fava, garbanzo, soy, gafava flour) or a different grain flour. One cup of wheat flour translates into 1/2 cup of grain flour, 1/4 cup of bean flour and 1/4 cup of starch.

2. Add 25-50% more leavening (baking powder, baking soda or yeast).

3. Add 1/2 to 1 tsp. acid (vinegar, citric acid, ascorbic acid dough enhancer, cream of tartar or citrus juice).

4. Add 1/2 tsp. of either xanthan gum to the dry ingredients or guar gum to the wet ingredients for every cup of flour, or 1/4 tsp. of each. For smaller baked items, gums can be omitted.

5. Substitute butter with oil or ghee, cow’s milk with nut or rice milk (ideally with the same fat content).

6. Let the batter sit for a few minutes to absorb liquids before baking.

Sound easy? It really is. Here’s an example:

Brownies

Original Recipe

1/2 cup melted butter

3/4 cup sugar

2 eggs

1 tsp. vanilla

1/3 cup cocoa powder

1/2 cup flour

1/4 tsp. baking powder

1 tsp. coffee crystals

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Announcing Personalized Customer Support On Bake Deliciously! Gluten and Dairy Free Cookbook

By: - September 26th, 2011  Filed under: Chocolate Cake Diet

Centennial, CO (PRWEB) September 15, 2011

Going gluten or dairy free can be difficult, and Jean Duane, Alternative Cook announces personalized customer support to cooks who need help navigating through the challenges of gluten free (dairy free and allergy free) baking.

Gluten-free ?newbies? often feel lost and perhaps even desperate when trying to adjust a recipe to fit their unique dietary needs. Traditional recipes call for ?flour? (meaning wheat flour) but a gluten free recipe can easily call for 3 to 5 different types of flours. Since gluten intolerance seems to go hand-in-hand with other allergens, many find they need to substitute one type of gluten-free flour for another. But what substitutes for what? Trials can be costly, frustrating and time consuming. Ms. Duane makes it easier by categorizing the flours into three categories: grains, proteins and starches. Bake Deliciously! also contains detailed information on how to make and use milk substitutes, stabilizers/binders and fats and oils. Bakers who still have questions can rest assured they have someone to contact to think through dietary restrictions to customize recipes.

When asked why she takes this unconventional step to offer personalized service on a cookbook, she replies: ?I want anyone on a special diet to feel like they have someone to talk to for help on how to customize recipes.?

Bake Deliciously! Gluten and Dairy Free comes with customer service from the author. The cookbook contains over 150 recipes for appetizing muffins, pizza, pies, cakes, cookies, custards, breads and crackers that rival those made with traditional ingredients. Most recipes do not contain soy, yeast, cholesterol, refined sugar, egg yolks, dyes, or artificial ingredients. Recipes were designed to use the highest ratios of whole gluten free grains to maximize nutritional value and enhance flavors. For a video overview of the Bake Deliciously! Gluten and Dairy Free Cookbook, please visit http://www.alternativecook.com.

Bake Deliciously! Gluten and Dairy Free cookbook is available wherever books are sold.

Jean Duane, Alternative Cook, LLC produces instructional DVDs (Chocolate, Mexican, Italian and Kids? Meals), video streams, Bake Deliciously! Gluten and Dairy Free Cookbook (alternativecook.com) and The Complete Idiot?s Guide to Gluten Free Cooking (Penguin/Avery). She shows how to cook without gluten, dairy and other food-allergens. Ms. Duane has produced several spots for Comcast?s Video on Demand, made television appearances on PBS and has been a featured speaker at the 2009 and 2010 International Association for Culinary Professionals? Conferences. She has developed recipes for Betty Crocker, for Beautiful Sweets bakery and been featured in Better Homes and Gardens special Christmas Cookies 2010. A regular speaker and magazine writer, she won the national Kiplinger?s ?Dream in You? contest in 2006.

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Now Online: Fresh Information About All Things Dairy

By: - September 11th, 2011  Filed under: Chocolate Diet Recipes

Orlando, Fla. (PRWEB) August 30, 2011

Florida Dairy Farmers (FDF) launched its new website last week ? http://www.floridamilk.com ? offering more interactive and consumer-focused content. Site visitors can learn more about the health benefits of dairy?s nine essential nutrients and the Florida dairy farmers who work hard every day to produce one of nature?s most perfect foods for the state?s nearly 19 million residents.

Among the features of the new website are:

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Macaroni and Cheese Gluten and Dairy Free

By: - September 5th, 2011  Filed under: Chocolate Diet Recipes

Centennial, CO (PRWEB) June 15, 2011

A new video entitled ?Macaroni and Cheese GFCF? is available on the Alternative Cook Channel on You Tube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dVHflkqAPa8) to show step-by-step how to make it. Finally, a recipe that tastes just like the ?real thing? but without gluten, dairy and casein! Millions with Celiac disease, gluten intolerance and Autism avoid these ingredients and will find this recipe a delicious alternative.

Jean Duane, Alternative Cook has developed a combination of flavors using umeboshi plum vinegar, a salty condiment made from pickled plums. She also uses nutritional yeast, grown on molasses and pasteurized to ?kill? the yeast. It is full of B vitamins and adds a ?cheesy? taste. She uses raw cashews as the base for the cheese sauce. ?It is remarkable how much this tastes like the real thing?, says Ms. Duane. The recipe is embedded in the video, so it is easy to follow along on your portable device, or for a written version of the recipe, please visit AskJean blog (http://www.askjeanblog.com).

The Alternative Cook Channel on You Tube features many helpful video streams for people following a gluten or dairy free (GFCF) diet including Gluten Free Flour Alternatives, Milk and Egg Substitutions for Baking, Gluten and Dairy Amazing Facts, Cooking Without Gluten and Dairy (GFCF), Ethnic Cooking Without Gluten and Dairy, Thai Fried Rice and Macaroni and Cheese. Subscribe to this channel to be notified when more recipes are added.

Jean Duane, Alternative Cook, LLC produces instructional DVDs (Chocolate, Mexican, Italian and Kids? Meals), video streams (http://www.alternativecook.com) Bake Deliciously! Gluten and Dairy Free Cookbook and The Complete Idiot?s Guide to Gluten Free Cooking with over 200 recipes. She shows how to cook without gluten, dairy and other food-allergens. Ms. Duane has produced several spots for Comcast?s Video on Demand, made television appearances on PBS and has been a featured speaker at the 2009 and 2010 International Association for Culinary Professionals? Conferences. She has developed recipes for Betty Crocker, for Beautiful Sweets bakery and been featured in Better Homes and Gardens special Christmas Cookies 2010. A regular speaker and magazine writer, she won Kiplinger?s ?Dream in You? contest in 2006. AskJeanBlog has many more recipes and helpful hints for people following a gluten-free, dairy-free, allergy-free lifestyle.

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