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    Tonight is pub night with my buddies, so I might as well have some fries and chicken nuggets Last week I've been to a gluten-free convention with a friend of mine. Such conventions are great to find products that local stores don't have. I found chicken nuggets, hamburger buns, ice cream cones with vanilla and chocolate, a traditional "amandelstaaf": a roll...
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    Babi Ketjap Crunchy pork in a sweet sauce with a hint of salt. This recipe requires Kecap manis, a sweet Indonesian soy sauce. Some brands are gluten free, always check the label. There's also sambal, a paste of chillies available in several flavours. Try to pick up a mild flavour like Ulek if you're not accustomed to spicy food. Serves 2-3 Ingredients...
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    Beet casserole Serves 4 or 2 hungry students 300 grams of low fat beef mincemeat Hachee spicemix (see post above) 1 onion, chopped 1 apple, peeled and chopped into small cubes 400 grams of cooked beets, unsweetened and unsalted, cut into thin slices 600 grams of cooked potatoes, mashed with butter and milk OR the easy way: 4 portions of potato...
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    Spice mixes Traditional spice mixes used in several dishes, always handy to have in storage. Meatball spice mix: 30 teaspoons of salt 2 teaspoons of: Powdered coriander seed White pepper Ginger powder 1 teaspoon of: Mace (the nutmeg kind ) Powdered cardamom Powdered chillies Marjoram Hachee spice mix: 30 teaspoons...
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    Erwtensoep, traditional Dutch pea soup with smoked sausage and pork chops. A delicious and very nutricious meal-replacing soup for our wet and cold winters. It's so thick a spoon should be able to stay upright in it. Here's a pic of what it looks like: http://3.bp.blogspot.../erwtensoep.webp True, it looks like it has been eaten already, but the taste...
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    The Dutch kitchen is a simple but hearty kitchen with lots of fresh ingredients and oriental spices. A lot of foods are slow-cooked and need to simmer for hours. Imagine the smells in your house when a pot of beef stew is on. Yum! The oriental spices were introduced to our kitchen in the 1600s when the spice trade with Indonesia was started. When Indonesia...
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    We're having a friend over for dinner, so I'll do my BF a favour and make an oven dish with cheese. (I don't like most cheeses.) What I'm making today once happened as an accident. I tried to make a dish called Jachtschotel (hunting dish). This is a dish which needs red cabbage, but I accidentally bought red beets. I just used that and it turned out even...
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    Agree with Glutendude: it takes all the spontaniety out Also, I'm in constant fear of being glutened because my symptoms are so severe.
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    My symptoms occur very rapidly: within a few seconds. This is also a mystery to my GI because you'd expect this with an allergy, but an allergy has been ruled out. Within a few seconds my abdomen starts to swell up to very large proportions, I can go from a flat stomach to 6 months pregnant in less than a minute. This is accompanied by violent burping and...
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    Hope your day is going well!

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    When I got my diagnosis I called all family members personally. I told them that a hereditary disease was found with me and that they should be tested as well because the disease doesn't always manifest itself through GI symptoms. That got their attention. Then I went to explain what celiac disease was and how they might be affected. However, most of them...
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    Smart choice I misunderstood a part of this topic actually. I thought you still had to go to the hospital to get tested. What a weird situation: why would a family doctor want to re-do a test that a medical specialist has done? Sounds like a bad case of the egos, if you ask me
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    Thanks Next time I'll post another recipe for an absolute Dutch classic: hutspot. Hutspot is a dish made from potatoes, carrots and onions, traditionally served with either stewed beef or meatballs. I love winter in NL: simple yet hearty meals that really drive the cold away. People on a diet might want to skip these recipies, but I always say that one diet...
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    Eating in a restaurant is always a risk, especially if they don't know you have to eat gluten free. Try to find restaurants in the area that can serve a gluten free meal and propose this one instead.
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    I know that such tablets are still being developed here in the Netherlands, it should take at least a few more years of research before they can be used. Sorry, but I don't trust these tablets and I will definately not take them.
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    The results of the tests are influenced by a gluten-free diet: the results can be negative if there was a lack of gluten in the diet. Patients should be adviced to continue to eat gluten until the biopsy has been done. This was the mistake my doctor made. Please get back to gluten ASAP if you have tests planned in the near future, and tell your GI how long...
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    Erwtensoep, traditional Dutch pea soup with smoked sausage and pork chops. A delicious and very nutricious meal-replacing soup for our wet and cold winters. It's so thick a spoon should be able to stay upright in it. Here's a pic of what it looks like: http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_-1tqrsseXpA/R2lvtqvV-KI/AAAAAAAAApE/19SPuMnpyxo/s320/erwtensoep.webp True...
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    That's horrible, he would hurt his daughter in doing so I agree with the others here, he's posing a serious threat to her health. If he continues to act like this, I'd take strong measures too.
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    What an uncomfortable situation, it always makes you feel so unwelcome when people don't think/care about your diet My mother in law is very supportive and she always makes delicious things for me, she only occasionally asks me to bring something like a piece of cake because that's hard to come by where she lives. And that's not a problem for me, because...
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    I'm so happy for you that you found a good GI. Many family doctors are unaware of celiac disease (read my signature). There are many people without classic symptoms, mine were constipation and bloating. My doctors initial reaction to that was: you've just got IBS, without any further testing (also known as the "quit your whining"-approach). I've had to put...
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    Same here, even though in the Netherlands the air is usually very humid. At some point I woke up 3 nights in 2 weeks with a small scratch on my eye, because my eyelids were stuck to my cornea. After the third trip to the hospital in the dark of night my doctors proscribed something amazingly simple: an eye cream based on vaseline. I use a little bit of it...
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    It's the same test everywhere: they test for the antibodies the immune system makes when a person with celiac disease eats gluten. This blood test is then followed by a biopsy. Until the biopsy has been done the patient needs to eat gluten. My doctor made a huge mistake in this and put me on a gluten-free diet in advance, my GI couldn't test for anything...
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    We can all understand your frustration here. This may sound harsh, but you can't protect people from their own stupidity. After my diagnosis a lot of things surfaced: most female family members have GI problems, are too thin and have had multiple miscarriages. Oddly enough, my family simply refused to get tested, even though my grandmother always had GI problems...
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    One of the worst things I ever ate is actually considered a delicacy in our country. Terry Pratchett has something to say about delicacies: "Any seasoned traveler soon learns to avoid anything wished on them as a 'regional speciality,' because all the term means is that the dish is so unpleasant the people living everywhere else will bite off their...
  25. Ellie84
    Last month I bought quinoa flour, it has a strong, sharp smell which reminded me of liquorice. I tried to bake pancakes with it, but I started to cough while handling the flour. Somehow it irritated my throat. Maybe I'll try it in some other form (crackers or bread), but I won't buy the flour again.
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