I decided to make pumpkin pie for our family Thanksgiving dinner. The challenge: no wheat, no dairy, no egg. I found a recipe in one of my books, the consistency was great, the crust was good, the flavor not so good. I received a few recommendations: more sugar, more pumpkin spice. Back to the drawing board.
Tags: allergy, pumpkin pie
Many of you are quite familiar my dairy allergy by now and Jason’s food sensitivities. Of late, the makers of the drug Advair have been airing many commercials for the product. Over the course of this allergy, one doctor put me on Clarinex, Advair, Singulair and a rescue inhaler due to my breathing problems. She admitted that people develop environmental allergies and it’s difficult to track them all, so we would treat the symptoms. I took the first to three drugs daily and cocktail treated the symptoms quite effectively for the most part. I used the rescue inhaler as a last resort, a few times a month. At the time I was not aware of my true allergy, milk products. I was reading a forum that when I ran across a post that mentioned the milk content in Advair. (link to pdf from maker)) I had to laugh at the fact that I had treated myself with the allergen. Oh well!!
Yesterday I purchased some non-dairy based yogurt, many of you may remember that in the spring of 2007 I discovered that I am allergic to milk and milk products and have been for a very long time. I had a difficult time getting my doctor to listen to me and want to get to the root of the problem instead of treating the symptoms. Now I try to avoid milk products. There are several soy-based yogurts out there, but most of them still used milk cultures. Though I am trying to live locally, I’m not completely consistent yet. Yogurt called to me, yogurt from a national soy product company and purchased at a GR based superstore chain. Today I had the strawberry banana flavor for breakfast. It had an odd coloring and texture. It appears as if the company does not use food coloring so it the color was a light brown-gray color. The texture is not as creamy as milk-based yogurt and the taste was quite different. I don’t think I will try that flavor again. I have a couple more flavors in the ‘fridge including vanilla. If I were more addicted to yogurt, I could buy the plain flavor, purchase a yogurt maker and go to town. I don’t think I miss it that much. Stay tuned for details about the other flavoring