Rose's Kitchen Creations, The Beginning!

Hi, I started reading the "Julie/Julia Project" and thought, "I can totally relate with her". Then I thought, "Why don't I do something like that."

 January 4th, 2008 

So I gave it a bit of thought and realized, I may love to cook and I have tons of cookbooks. But with my food allergies, I could never follow the recipes verbatim, or even close to it. I would have to make revisions. Next I realized I have been doing this all along for years. I read a recipe, and I like how it sounds, then I carefully revise with ingredients that won't make me sick. I have come up with lots of tasty meals this way.

So here I decided to create my blog using lots of recipes from different cookbooks. The twist is, I am going to make them my way and post each revised recipe for those who also share my allergy problems. Things like homemade Macaroni and Cheese made with Sheep & Goat Cheeses for the lactose intolerant people. And my favorite is my Cheesecakes with a Greek Sheep Milk Cream Cheese called "Manouri".

Along with these revisions, I will give you links to places you can find these substitute ingredients. And for people in the local area (Richmond, VA) I will give you locations I go to buy some of my ingredients. Such as the Manouri, I can get this at several Russian Deli's / International Food Stores in the area. One is in Gayton Crossing near Good Foods. And at Good Foods I can find a really great Goat Milk Butter. It's wonderful for making sauces. And at Kroger you can get not just regular Goat Milk but a very nice 1% too. You can find it in the health food section. If your Kroger doesn't carry it, ask them to. They can get it for you.

Ok, so that is my proposal for a site. Every night I will come up with a new revised recipe. I will post pictures, the complete recipe and where to find the special ingredients used in them. I will have recipes for people with Lactose Intollerance, Gluten and Wheat Allergies and like me, allergies to Tryptophan. For those who don't know, Trypto is what makes you sleepy after a Turkey dinner or a warm glass of milk. It is actually in quite a few foods and for me it makes me terribly miserable.

If you have a special allergy like to peanuts or something, let me know I will see what I can come up with for tasty alternatives for you too. Let me know if it is just peanuts or all nuts.

Thanks and good luck everyone!