I have a couple of decent egg replacers, so that sounds like a thing worth trying at some point. I expect to be going back on gluten mid-month unless something really surprising happens, but I will definitely be continuing to use almond flour in things like this. :D
But I've been baking anyway, and my god is almond meal awesome.
My mother makes a cake with pistachio flour. It requires folding in egg whites, so I don't have a vegan translation for it off the top of my head unless flaxseed, but I can recommend pistachio flour on general principle. Also, everything you make with it comes out green.
I don't know if I could trust a doctor who recommended a gluten free diet unless I had come to him with the unsubtle symptoms of Coeliac. You should be extra careful living in the same city as Andrew Weil. The quality of medical advice you receive could be suspect. Most health fads not supported by science, like the current gluten scare, are more or less harmless, but sometimes that stuff does damage. If your doctor doesn't feel obliged to learn if something is medicine, or public paranoia before he recommends it I don't know if he should be trusted.
Elimination diets are pretty legit, yo. She didn't recommend I give up gluten permanently, she recommended I try not eating it for two weeks so as to see if it changed anything about my digestion/comportment. I guess that could be dangerous for a hypochondriac, but it's how I figured out the nightshades thing, so I think it's legit.
The doctor I had in Boston was falling into quackery, though, and it sucked. She wanted to try to treat a sinus infection with lasers. :(
I know someone who wanted their sinuses cleared with a laser, but I think he was hoping for megawatt pulsed excimer, not milliwatt red dot diode. Dude had ROUGH allergies.
A friend recently made a pesto-infused vodka, which was surprisingly tasty! (As part of a box of 20 infusions paired with a d20, ranging from "cucumber pear" to "twinkie" to "miracle fruit" to ... "squid".)
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My mother makes a cake with pistachio flour. It requires folding in egg whites, so I don't have a vegan translation for it off the top of my head unless flaxseed, but I can recommend pistachio flour on general principle. Also, everything you make with it comes out green.
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That is awesome. I might have to grind some pistachios for my next baking adventure.
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The doctor I had in Boston was falling into quackery, though, and it sucked. She wanted to try to treat a sinus infection with lasers. :(
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