Cooking for children on a gluten-free casein-free (GFCF) diet can be challenging, especially when kids want the popular kinds of foods that their friends eat, or foods they see and hear about on TV. This instructional cooking DVD starring Jean Duane shows you how to make GFCF foods that kids will recognize and want to eat. They can enjoy macaroni and “cheese,” pizza, and homemade bread sandwiches with a variety of fillings, served with cream of tomato soup. Tacos are a kid-pleaser, too, and these feature marinated fish, coleslaw, avocado spread, and chopped tomato salsa. The Shepard’s Pie is filled with vegetables and a creamy sauce and served with warm, sweet apple crisp. To top it off, Jean makes Carol Fenster’s vegan chocolate cupcakes and vanilla “ice cream” made with cashews. These meals are sure to make your kids jump for joy. Remember, there is always an alternative! Recipe cookbook included.
Running time: 75 minutes
Jean Duane knows first-hand what it is like to live with food intolerances. She maintains a gluten-free, dairy-free, low cholesterol diet, and has been developing alternative recipes for 20 years. Her passion for cooking combined with her professional training have enabled her to create a series of instructional DVDs, cookbooks, and online videos teaching others how they can cook great meals with unprocessed foods, including beans, grains, vegetables, fruits, nuts, and of course, chocolate. Ms. Duane shows how to prepare fun and easy meals with alternative ingredients that rival those made with traditional ingredients.
Jean Duane is an award-winning entrepreneur, guest TV cook, author, food evangelist, and member of the International Association of Culinary Professionals. Join Jean’s epicurean adventures in her fun-packed, informative DVDs, cookbook, video streams, and on Comcast’s Video on Demand and PBS’s Life Wise series. Jean has written articles for Scott-Free Newsletter, Autism Asperger’s Digest, Gluten-Free Living, Celiac Disease Foundation Newsletter, Gluten Intolerant Group Newsletter, Denver Business Journal, and for her website (www.alternativecook.com). Thrive in knowing there is an abundance of gluten-free, dairy-free, low cholesterol foods and remember, “There’s always an alternative.”
“The thing I like about the DVDs by the Alternative Cook is that they are so beautifully and visually appealing to watch. It is like having a gluten-free, dairy-free, low-cholesterol cook in the kitchen right with you. … You can see what the food looks like, you can see it being processed and put together, and what the final product looks like, and even wonderful ideas about how to display the food on your plate. We all eat with our eyes, so when we see beautiful food, we are even more enticed to want to eat it. … For example, in Kids’ Meals, we actually make ice cream from cashews, and while you might not have thought of cashews as an ingredient for ice cream, it makes a wonderful, creamy texture, very much like cream. It is this innovation and creativity that I think these DVDs bring to people who only thought in terms of the realm of wheat, eggs, milk, and sugar, the typical things that we Americans cook with, which many of us cannot have anymore for various reasons. These DVDs show us how to work with many other healthy ingredients that work just as well, taste just as good, and look just as gorgeous.”
Carol Fenster, Ph.D.
Tracks on the DVD:
1. Pizzas and Salad with Ranch Dressing
2. Tacos (Coleslaw, Avocado spread, Tomato Salsa)
3. Macaroni and “Cheese” with Dogs
4. Sandwiches with Homemade Bread (Sunflower seed spread, Grilled “Cheese,” Cream Cheese)
5. Shepard’s Pie with Apple Crisp
6. Chocolate Cupcakes filled with Marshmallow Cream and Ganache icing with Vanilla Ice Cream
