It's a real challenge cooking for a little girl who has food allergies out the wazoo. We can't have corn (that's a biggie), green beans, oats, peaches, milk, wheat, eggs,.... well, it's shorter to list what we can have, which happens to include chicken, rice, and peas. There are only so many ways you can prepare chicken, and nuggets seem to be a hit, so we gave it a try. We also had to buy organic chicken breasts to eliminate the possibility of arsenic (go figure - the pesticides and other junk they put on chicken feed ends up in the chicken meat, and Katherine ended up showing high levels of arsenic on her tests). I have been geeking out about our new meat grinder, so it was great to get a chance to run the chicken through and see how well it would work. Of course, it did fantastic. One nice thing about the chicken we bought is that they don't add water during processing - the first time we tried grinding chicken it came out to a smooshy mess. We mixed in peas and a tad of salt, made patties, dredged them in rice bread crumbs, and pan-fried in some olive oil. I happen to think they were quite tasty, and fortunately, so did Katherine.
Hopefully we'll be putting together more recipes of gluten-free and casein-free foods. We'll share the ones that end up being good.
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