Hi, mi name is Angela
Three years ago doctors said to me that I had to stop eating food with plain flour , yeast (any kind), lactose, sugar (only permitted fruit sugar ) … needless to say that the world fell down apart around me!
Beginning was hard… but being a change I needed a while to adapt myself to another way of eating and cooking.
I didn’t want to famine or get me down eating rice crisps meanwhile everyone else eat and drink in my face.
As I make out quite good with cooking (I like cooking very much and I believe that I never poisoned my guests, until now…!)…sometimes some little mess…but I think to not be the only one!?!....I thought to make with my husband (he likes cooking a lot too) my version of each dish I wanted to eat, without excluding any kind of food…bread, pizza, pasta, cakes …and over.
Was it right that when I came back to Messina (Sicily) my home town, did I see everyone eating arancini (very gorgeous fried rice balls)?
And had I to stay seeing making my mouth water? having a fit?
Of course, no!
It’s already been three years …I was all set…arancini included.
Every time I wanted to make something, I went on Internet and I tried to change the recipe according to my needs.
First it was hard to find recipes , proper to my limits…now it is possible to find some but not without all the food forbidden for me…among blogs and cooking websites.
I like very much most part of them and they inspire me a lot.
I said to myself:” Angela, why don’t you try?”…I put aside my doubts (“are you joking?”) and my shyness and here I am sharing with you (above all who has same food limits, but not only them, you are all welcome) my experiences, my cooking experiments without any pretension.
It should be great for sure to help someone who think is too difficult to fit in or lose his heart cause so many limits…but you can do it! It is good even without!
I understood too late that…we eat always the same food in spite of we can choice whatever we wanted to eat, without interesting to new kind of food, new kind of cooking maybe tastier than usual ones.
It is true that there are some sacrifices.
There are dishes that you cannot do.
But there are also unexpected …equally good flavors.
Cooking changes in a work in progress…fantasy and creativity become our priceless allies.
In summary, I cook without plain flour , yeast (any kind), lactose, sugar …but my dishes aren’t light or low-calories for sure.
