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lil_christian said:
I can have goat's milk as long as I'm careful (just about a month or so ago I discovered the wonderfulness of goat's milk ice cream), but cow's milk is a nightmare for me. Though, butter I've always been able to have. Butter is bae. lol But that sounds AMAZING. I've also had some with broccoli in it before. Spinach is pretty amazing. I don't have it often enough, and I need to make a habit of eating more of it! That'd be a perfect way to do that.
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If you can do butter, does that mean you can do cream? I make that crustless quiche sometimes that Cat mentioned and it's great! You can vary the cheeses, meats, and veggies - broccoli, spinach, kale - cheddar, swiss, etc...
The last one I made had feta and ricotta for the cheeses, spinach, and bacon (which I pretended was pancetta). It was awesome!

Can you do raw cheeses?
 
Lil'Christian: If you can do goat's milk/goat's milk ice cream, there is a whole WORLD of awesome cheeses you can have. Spinach, mushroom, onion and chevre (soft goat milk cheese) in a frittata or omelette.
You have to look, but sheep's milk cheeses are good too: Peccorino Romano is very much like parm... but you have to look closely, a lot of the domestic cheeses use a mix of cow and sheep milk.
Drunken Goat (a semi-hard cheese) is sweet like Monterey Jack, Arina, which is a Dutch Imported Gouda is maybe my favorite cheese of all time. I get a really nice goat blue from Rogue Creamery here in Oregon.

To make a quick frittata or crustless quiche, sautee your veggies ahead of time and put them in the pan as you are warming it for the eggs. SO SIMPLE to make healthy food quickly if you take an hour or so once a week. I do this for clients on occasion - just go in and prep stuff so they can be quick about it.

Going GF myself a few years ago really changed my relationship with food, but I like what I am eating so much better - mostly because I'm not in gastro hell anymore... but also because it made me rethink what I was putting into my body

Goodness. Don't get me started on food. I do go on.
 
Olerica said:
Lil'Christian: If you can do goat's milk/goat's milk ice cream, there is a whole WORLD of awesome cheeses you can have. Spinach, mushroom, onion and chevre (soft goat milk cheese) in a frittata or omelette.
You have to look, but sheep's milk cheeses are good too: Peccorino Romano is very much like parm... but you have to look closely, a lot of the domestic cheeses use a mix of cow and sheep milk.
Drunken Goat (a semi-hard cheese) is sweet like Monterey Jack, Arina, which is a Dutch Imported Gouda is maybe my favorite cheese of all time. I get a really nice goat blue from Rogue Creamery here in Oregon.

To make a quick frittata or crustless quiche, sautee your veggies ahead of time and put them in the pan as you are warming it for the eggs. SO SIMPLE to make healthy food quickly if you take an hour or so once a week. I do this for clients on occasion - just go in and prep stuff so they can be quick about it.

Going GF myself a few years ago really changed my relationship with food, but I like what I am eating so much better - mostly because I'm not in gastro hell anymore... but also because it made me rethink what I was putting into my body

Goodness. Don't get me started on food. I do go on.
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Oh, I know it! I have become a food nerd. When I was 13, I had to start going gluten-free (dairy wasn't an issue quite yet at the time) after a really bad illness. I started researching stuff then, but then I went off of being gluten-free for a year. It wasn't intentional...it was just a thing here, a thing there...and then it just became that way. Then I started learning about the non-GMO project. It just started off as me seeing those stickers and I don't know why I didn't think of it before, but it hit me...they're putting genetically modified foods in things I ate? And so on. So I've been gaining so much knowledge these past few years from all of that. Crazy stuff, but I'm so glad I started educating myself. The typical American diet is appalling.
 
CatHerder said:
If you can do butter, does that mean you can do cream? I make that crustless quiche sometimes that Cat mentioned and it's great! You can vary the cheeses, meats, and veggies - broccoli, spinach, kale - cheddar, swiss, etc...
The last one I made had feta and ricotta for the cheeses, spinach, and bacon (which I pretended was pancetta). It was awesome!

Can you do raw cheeses?
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I keep being told to try raw milk! Though I haven't tried. Same goes with raw cheese. The store just down the road sells raw mild cheddar. I'll have to try that!

Cream, I haven't tried, but I could see how well I do with it, since it is mostly fat.
 
evie, i'd be really curious how you manage with raw milk products. however, i will tell you that a lot of folks i know who have issues with milk are usually because they have problems with lactose. raw milk is stripped of the enzymes that seem to help digest that sugar.

however, because you're intolerant of casein, i am less optimistic that raw milk products are going to be problem free for you. because casein is so prevalent in milk, it's a harder obstacle. however, by denaturing the protein and culturing it, you might have more success, i.e. that is the process involved with yogurt making and kefir.

you've gotten some good ideas for quiche, but don't forget that there are a ton of Gfree pastry flours, which are usually a blend of flours like tapioca, rice, potato, etc. anyway, i've actually made beautiful pate brisee (pastry dough) that turned out as lovely and tasty as almost any i've made with gluten-ed flours.

also, if you don't have access to a flour blends, you can make your own as well. there are a lot of recipes to do just that.

p.s. you should do much, much better with cream, for example, since it's virtually free of casein.
 
Where I live there is a small dairy that I purchase milk from and it doesn't have all the chemicals in it and, it tastes so much better.
 
gypsygirl said:
evie, i'd be really curious how you manage with raw milk products. however, i will tell you that a lot of folks i know who have issues with milk are usually because they have problems with lactose. raw milk is stripped of the enzymes that seem to help digest that sugar.

however, because you're intolerant of casein, i am less optimistic that raw milk products are going to be problem free for you. because casein is so prevalent in milk, it's a harder obstacle. however, by denaturing the protein and culturing it, you might have more success, i.e. that is the process involved with yogurt making and kefir.

you've gotten some good ideas for quiche, but don't forget that there are a ton of Gfree pastry flours, which are usually a blend of flours like tapioca, rice, potato, etc. anyway, i've actually made beautiful pate brisee (pastry dough) that turned out as lovely and tasty as almost any i've made with gluten-ed flours.

also, if you don't have access to a flour blends, you can make your own as well. there are a lot of recipes to do just that.

p.s. you should do much, much better with cream, for example, since it's virtually free of casein.
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That is true! Casein is a bigger enemy than lactose is. I mean, it's not going to kill me to try...though if it doesn't work I won't feel very well... >.< Though, wouldn't the enzymes necessary to digest the casein be there in raw milk? Maybe? Not sure. Thought I'd ask, though.

And yeah, I do have plenty of access to gluten free flour mixes!

Yogurt I haven't had very much success with. Then again, I highly doubt yoplait should count as a yogurt. Actually, no, it shouldn't. It's basically milk with like...one probiotic strain stuck in it. lol The coconut milk yogurt I'll get has 6 different strains. I'll have to try kefir, though. I'll feed Mocha a little bit of plain, unsweetened kefir. He likes it well enough to eat it once a day (but heaven forbid he eat it twice a day).
 
Trying to think of something to post. I have something I actually want to post but I dont think I should post it. Its not offensive or anything, just one of those things where everyone will probably just roll their eyes at me and be like whatever. Its not something funny. Its something strange that happened yesterday.
 
Post it, Zero. We rolled our eyes at you not posting it already. ;) (I kid... I like strange happenings in lives)
 
zeroturbulence said:
Trying to think of something to post. I have something I actually want to post but I dont think I should post it. Its not offensive or anything, just one of those things where everyone will probably just roll their eyes at me and be like whatever. Its not something funny. Its something strange that happened yesterday.
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As Arnie would say: "Doooo eet!"
 
Olerica said:
Post it, Zero. We rolled our eyes at you not posting it already. ;) (I kid... I like strange happenings in lives)
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Ok. Well for the past few weeks I'd been watching all 4 seasons of the tv show Revenge and needless to say, I'd developed a very strong liking to the young woman who stars in it (Emily Vancamp, a.k.a. Emily Thorne/Amanda Clark) and wondered what it would be like if I ever saw her in person..

The night before last, I dreamt that I was at this formal party honoring the end of the show's run and the whole cast was there in attendance and she was there and I felt like we were old acquaintances so seeing her in person didn't feel like that big of a deal although she looked great in the dress she was wearing. She spoke to me briefly, just business stuff. I don't even know what was said. I just got the sense of it. I woke up in the middle of it and felt like I had really just met her in person. It was a nice dream...

Well yesterday I had to take someone to the ER and shortly after we were taken in, our nurse showed up and she looked like Emily! I couldn't believe it. She even had the same build. I could tell she was a little older but she even sounded like her when she spoke. She asked me some questions and when I was answering her I couldn't help but feel like I was actually talking to the actress from Revenge. It totally blew my mind. I even wanted to take a picture of her for proof in case I ever told anyone, but I couldn't bring myself to do it.

Anyway, that's what happened and I think I might know why. I've been going through a particularly rough time lately and I think that may have been God's way of giving me something to smile about..

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zeroturbulence said:
Ok. Well for the past few weeks I'd been watching all 4 seasons of the tv show Revenge and needless to say, I'd developed a very strong liking to the young woman who stars in it (Emily Vancamp, a.k.a. Emily Thorne/Amanda Clark) and wondered what it would be like if I ever saw her in person..

The night before last, I dreamt that I was at this formal party honoring the end of the show's run and the whole cast was there in attendance and she was there and I felt like we were old acquaintances so seeing her in person didn't feel like that big of a deal although she looked great in the dress she was wearing. She spoke to me briefly, just business stuff. I don't even know what was said. I just got the sense of it. I woke up in the middle of it and felt like I had really just met her in person. It was a nice dream...

Well yesterday I had to take someone to the ER and shortly after we were taken in, our nurse showed up and she looked like Emily! I couldn't believe it. She even had the same build. I could tell she was a little older but she even sounded like her when she spoke. She asked me some questions and when I was answering her I couldn't help but feel like I was actually talking to the actress from Revenge. It totally blew my mind. I even wanted to take a picture of her for proof in case I ever told anyone, but I couldn't bring myself to do it.

Anyway, that's what happened and I think I might know why. I've been going through a particularly rough time lately and I think that may have been God's way of giving me something to smile about..

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That's awesome, brother! God really does have a sense of humour. :)
 
Misty77 said:
Can't sleep. I feel sickened, panicked. The latest "Christian" news has triggered my PTSD.
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yeah, that actually has caused me some actual grief. i'm sorry you're having a rough time.

you know how to find me, if you need me. : ) *hugs*
 
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