The Dairy-Free Kitchen: 100 Recipes for all the Creamy Foods You Love--Without Lactose, Casein, or Dairy

by Ashley Adams

While 4% of the population suffers from diagnosed lactose intolerance, it is estimated that a staggering 50 million Americans suffer from some degree of dairy intolerance/allergy.

Moreover, recent research has linked milk protein (casein) to cancer and autoimmune illnesses and found evidence that our bodies quit making the enzymes necessary to digest milk as we age--thus setting up those who consume a dairy-rich diet for IBS, allergies and other autoimmune and digestive difficulties. Dairy has become the "new gluten"--something that people are realizing needs to be minimized in our diet whether they have a formally diagnosed allergy or not.

The Dairy-Free Kitchen contains 100 delicious recipes for the foods you love without the dairy. It also provides you with a wealth of information on weeding out hidden dairy in everyday foods and getting adequate levels of calcium and minerals from a dairy-free diet. Going dairy-free isn't as complicated as you think. You can do it! The Dairy-Free Kitchen will help.

Genres: Food, Cookbooks, Nonfiction, Cooking

192 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2014

Reviews

[Punk · Rating 3 out of 5]

How to make non-dairy milk, yogurt, sour cream, and cheese from coconut, rice, almonds, soy, cashews, and Brazil nuts. Requires a high powered blender and probably a yogurt maker and maybe a slow cooker. The cheeses call for agar flakes as well as things like white miso, nutritional yeast, coconut milk, and tofu.

Breakfast, soups & snacks, dinner & sides, desserts, and "just for kids" recipes use wheat flour, eggs, flax seed, soy margarine, and call for specific non-dairy products—like hemp milk—or sometimes it lets you choose between two or three options. Measurements are in U.S. volume and metric (grams, mL and liters). There is storage advice for the non-dairy products, but not for anything else.

There aren't a lot of photos, and all the soy makes me grouchy, but if you don't have any other food sensitivities and you're only trying to avoid dairy, this would be an okay place to start, though it's not a great resource for understanding how and when to substitute things or what you can expect when you do. It's mostly just recipes and a little bit of "healthy" preachment.

There's a huge list of resources in the bibliography, which is arranged by chapter, and the index is okay.

[BookBec · Rating 4 out of 5]

I liked this more than many other dairy-free cookbooks. Why? For one, the section on making substitutes: different milks, cheeses, sour cream, etc. It's nice to have those collected in one place. For another, biscuits and gravy!

What didn't appeal to me was the sugar-dense desserts. Isn't it likely that many people who bother to eat dairy-free also eat healthfully overall? And yet here's avocado frosting with 7 cups of powdered sugar!

[Elizabeth · Rating 1 out of 5]

Not a cookbook. More of a "everyone needs to be vegan NOW" book. Not even going to bother trying any recipes from this book.

[Denielle · Rating 4 out of 5]

Good options for non dairy recipes. Excited to try some of them. But don't like the soy replacements.

[Sommer · Rating 3 out of 5]

I appreciate the sour cream and cheese recipes but it is a chunky thing regarding all the ins and outs of dairy

[Carol · Rating 5 out of 5]

Won this as a Goodreads Giveaway.
5 Stars
Ashley Adams
The Dairy-Free Kitchen 100 Recipes for all the Creamy Foods You Love -Without Lactose, Casein, or Dairy
2014 Fair Winds Press
Quayside Publishing Group Beverly MA
ISBN 978-1-59233-5723-2
The recipes are comfort food dishes that are dairy-free. I believe everyone can enjoy the food. The layout of the book is beautifully done. Pictures just invite you to sit and eat. There is a Resource Guide in the back of the book which may be very helpful. I want to thank the publisher for offering this giveaway. Ms. Adams as a child had digestive problems therefore in college she began to experiment removing dairy products from different recipes and that is how this cookbook eventually evolved.

You'll find recipes like::
Best Ever Banana Bread
French Toast Casserole
Dairy-Free Cheese Logs, Three Ways
Cream of Tomato Soup
Green Bean Casserole
Buttery Chicken Pot Pie
Lemon Meringue Pie
Chocolate Coconut Milk Pudding

If your month is watering I am sure you will find cookbook valuable.

[Jada Roche · Rating 5 out of 5]

Sigh. If I follow a strict lactose diet, and avoid the other things that make me bloated and not happy, I can eat....air. I can have air.

Recipes are enticing, but many I can't try anyway. And I'll just buy the coconut milk thanks.

[Cristin · Rating 3 out of 5]

Fun to read the recipes.