Book Reviews
After previewing Sandra’s cookbook, my only wish is that Elaine Gottschall was still alive to see this beautiful creation. Sandra’s ability to organize the essential ingredients, appetizers, snacks, main dishes, weekly and monthly cooking plans, will give people the confidence they need to heal themselves.
Sick children always do better when the entire home is eating healthy. Sandra’s book will allow families to eat the most gourmet meals, without spending an enormous amount of time in the kitchen.
Thank you for this wonderful book and all your hard work. It was worth the effort!
Pamela J. Ferro, RN
President Hopewell Associates
Pam is a parent of a child with Autism and also the co-founder of Hopewell Associates, Inc., a nurse-owned and operated psychopharmacologic and biomedical practice specializing in the treatment of adults and children with developmental disabilities. She is the Director of the Children's Autism Program at Hopewell, as well as a DAN! Practitioner, providing intensive and highly specialized biomedical treatment for children.
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This book is an invaluable addition to the Specific Carbohydrate Diet library. There are many nutritious, delicious and imaginative recipes that will tempt even the most fussy eater. For example, the author goes to some lengths to include some very good recipes for children. The photographs are excellent, and accompany the text well. In particular, the weekly and monthly cooking plans will help those on the Specific Carbohydrate Diet to effectively manage their meals and their cooking. I am very impressed with this book, and I am happy to support its publication.
Matthew Jackson
Moderator of SCDOZ - an Australian & New Zealand support group for the Specific Carbohydrate Diet.
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Sandra Ramacher, from Australia has authored an exceptional SCD cookbook filled with one hundred beautiful photographs of her recipes. (nearly two hundred and all very appealing). Sandra, who follows SCD, has shared her book with me and invited me to check recipes for compliance and strict adherence to Elaine's legacy. She was careful to invite other dedicated SCD key people to review it so she could publish with confidence and assurance that the recipes are clear and ingredients legal. It's a large collection, prefaced with vital information related to cooking and SCD and will have great appeal even outside the SCD community in my opinion. The recipes are in keeping with today's trends in food - elegant yet simple to prepare. Each photo is worth a thousand bites!
Carol Frilegh
Celiac, on SCDiet for 7 years
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It's Jayne and Matt here. We've tried some of your recipes. Everything has been YUM!!!!!!
Matt: My health is improving after a bad flare up and I'm gradually introducing new foods at the moment, so some of your recipes are a bit advanced right now.
So far we have had
Zucchini Pasta -
Jayne: Very nice, I found it light and enjoyable. As it has a mild flavor it doesn't over-ride the pasta sauce and you can twirl it.I don't have a sensitive digestive system and I prefer it over traditional wheat pasta.
Matt: Closest thing I've had to pasta in years, great idea. It would lend it self to any sauce.
Soft Souffle Roll -
Matt: Nice light sliced bread substitute, easy to make and it was great to have sandwich size slices.
Pumpkin Gnocchi with herb cream sauce -
Jayne: This dish is easy to make, it takes a while to cook but it's worth it. what a delicious vegetarian recipe. the pumpkin gnocchi is great. Its moist and tasty. The herb cream sauce is so delicious and goes well with the pumpkin
Matt: Would have liked more sauce with the gnocchi but I love this recipe and we're having it again next week.
Jayne & Matt: Herb cream sauce - This sauce was so delicious on the gnocchi that we decided we'd like to try it on steak. It was the best steak and sauce we've had at home. It's a nice change from garlic butter.
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Seldom have I had the pleasure to reviewed a cook book that was researched and so well written for its intended purpose of providing healing and soothing food recipes for those with ailments like Irritable bowels, Crohns disease, Coeliac (Celiac) disease and colitis. This book is indeed a veritable treasure to all sufferers of these illnesses,furthermore the recipes are suitable for use by the whole family.
All of Sandra's recipes are free of grains,gluten.sugar and lactos. Sandra's book is beautifully presented with some 250 pages of delicious recipes for the entire requirements of family eating from sweets, salads,main courses,soups and beverages etc. All of her recipes are written with clear English directions and are accompanied by tempting full page coloured photographs. For its modest price this cook book is a must and should be on the shelf of those with delicate digestions (Reviewed by Alan Mannering from http://www.psoriasisanditchyskin.com/