Comments on: Ratatouille & Chickpea Pancakes

By: Amy

Amy — Thu, 03 May 2012 20:58:38 +0000

@zoe, Thanks, Zoe. Good point.

By: zoe

zoe — Sun, 29 Apr 2012 22:00:19 +0000

Hi Amy, I have been ogling your blog for a few months and am mustering up the courage to start making my own gluten free sourdough starter. Your recipes are fab and your pictures, scrumptious. I just wanted to let you know that for the “chickpea pancakes” it may be wise to use a higher smoke point oil for baking the bread because it is very bad to burn olive oil. As soon as it smokes it can produce free radicals that can be toxic to the body. I suggest you look into this further because I have only recently become aware of this fact myself. Again, I am vegan, gluten, and sugar free and I absolutely love your dedication to beautiful food.

By: Trish

Trish — Sat, 28 Apr 2012 20:35:25 +0000

@Amy, Thanks so much for your feedback. I have actually been following a dairy-free, gluten-free, and highly plant-based diet (my body actually requires turkey and fish however a few times per week) that is also in line with eating for my sensitive AB blood type for quite some time now…also went on an elimination diet to pinpoint my triggers. It actually is beans upsetting my blood sugar and giving me digestive issues (and I learned why after reading ‘Eat Right for Your Type’. Same with oats and pretty much all grains, even the ‘healthy’ ones. I do mainly organic when I can and local when I have the money. And I’m like many others–gained more weight after going G-free. I only sought to replace what I would normally eat, a sandwich here and there and a treat a few times week. The starches and rice and bean flours made me feel worse then eating the wheat counter-parts. So I decided to cut most of it out all together and when I’m craving a wrap or a sandwich, I have the ‘real’ thing and eat at places where everything is natural and organic if possible. I’m a pastry chef and still love to create great g-free and vegan goodies (it was required at my previous place of employment), but I just can’t eat them too often. Just goes to show how different every body is. There is no one-size-fits-all diet for anyone.
Thanks again, have enjoyed following your blog.
Hugs,
Trish xx

By: Amy

Amy — Sat, 28 Apr 2012 20:04:00 +0000

@Trish, I used to think that I had blood sugar issues but I recently started cutting out dairy and eating a more plant based diet and I haven't had the same problems. It's really interesting to see the difference.

By: Trish

Trish — Fri, 27 Apr 2012 16:49:42 +0000

Gosh, this looks and sounds amazing! And I LOVE garbanzo beans, but I don’t tolerate beans well (they mess with my blood sugar) and the flours seem to be even worse for me. I may have to figure out another healthy, grain-free alternative.