I loved it because this is real fuel that kept me going for hours and it was light and luscious. The latest test recipe was the multi-serving baked pancake pictured below. ‘Blended Cereal with a Boost’ is the best hot cereal I have ever tasted! ‘Blended Cereal with a Boost’ was pictured in The Gluten-Free Edge on January 20th right after my Pork and Beans in Pumpkin Sauce recipe. That is why when Ricki announced her new recipe ebook in development and put out a request for recipe testers I jumped right in there. However it is possible to share delicious food with people and cover many issues without treating them as a big deal. It has been pointed out to me that you cannot cover ALL dietary constraints with one recipe and I agree. When Ricki began designing gluten-free, vegan breakfast dishes for those battling Candida infections I knew that those were automatically good for folks dealing with diabetes. Vegan? I never thought to go that way until I realized that when family and friends mentioned egg and/or dairy allergy that the vegan recipes automatically cover those conditions. This recipe book is filled with wonderful healthy vegan dessert treats. Ricki’s first recipe book, Sweet Freedom, was published in 2009 and in April 2010 made it to Ellen DeGeneres ‘bookshelf’. Before long I was following along the trail that Ricki was blazing and gluten-free wasn’t so bland anymore. Somehow that first attempt was a winner and I began cooking more and more recipes from Ricki’s blog. I decided ‘what the heck’ I’ll just sub in some gluten-free flours and see what happens. Living in Toronto and backed by years of experience teaching, running a bakery, and veteran of television demos, she uses her imagination to create new and innovative recipes to nourish the body and delight the spirit.Īs I began to follow Ricki’s blog ‘ Diet, Dessert, and Dogs’ I drooled over the recipes, admired the photography, and enjoyed the saucy comments allegedly from said dogs, Elsie and Chaser. Can you imagine ‘tastes great’ and ‘healthy’ as describing the same recipe? Ricki Heller with her PhD in nutrition and love of good food manages to create recipes that do just that.
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