Ask Cmac

question_markThis is a little section where you can ask me questions, or make suggestions for the blog. If you have any cooking questions that you’ve been wondering about, or would like to see me experiment with a specific recipe feel free to post a comment below and I should answer within 2-3 days. Also you can post comments, and suggestions for the blog.

Thank You,

Cmac.

  1. #1 by Sharon on January 21, 2010 - 11:36 am

    I saw your tourtiere recipe but didn’t know what TVP is ..? I love tortiere and am trying to be more veggie-oriented so would be thrilled if I can get started on your recipe. thanks, sharon

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  2. #2 by admin on January 21, 2010 - 1:42 pm

    Hi Sharon,

    TVP is short fort Textured Vegetable Protein. You can usually find it in the health food section of your local grocery store, or sometimes in the bulk section. The brand I use is Bob’s Red Mill.

    Hope this helps.

    Cmac

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  3. #3 by Maria on January 26, 2010 - 4:43 am

    Hi Colin!! so good to hear you are settling in to your wonderful new world. I have been out of work for 1 week as I got my tonsils out…. your website is making me hungry for things I can’t eat yet. Thank you for the dear card from Teagan. I was so sorry to miss your luncheon. I miss heading across the hall and knocking at your door when I visit Amanda….soon she will be outta here too! Can’t wait to follow your website and root for you in the culinary world you create….. miss you…Maria

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  4. #4 by Sandy on May 13, 2010 - 2:49 pm

    I saw that you mentioned your daughter was going on a ketogenic diet. I am trying to help a friend prepare ketogenic meals for her daughter who has 200 + seizures a day. This would be easy enough, except they are vegan and all I find is meat recipes. Are the meat substitutes acceptable on a ketogenic diet? I wish I knew more about it, and I don’t want to trouble her cause she has enough on her plate. I was hoping you could give me some insight? Thanks!

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  5. #5 by Cmac on May 13, 2010 - 3:05 pm

    Being vegan on the Ketogenic diet if at all possible would make it an extreme challenge. As a lot of vegan foods do not have the fats that are needed aside from vegetable based oils which are not quite palatable. Below is a link to a very good meal planner for the ketogenic diet which does all the calculations for you and includes alot of different foods.

    http://www.stanford.edu/group/ketodiet/

    I hope this helps.

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  6. #6 by Nina on the North coast on May 28, 2010 - 8:39 pm

    Hi there,

    I just posted a comment over on the bottom of a recipe for the ciabatta read., which looks great * I need to get off the net RIGHT NOW and get it started. However, I just wanted to suggest a recipe for you — or rather a fairly standard one with many vegetarians, which I actually love- Spinach-Rice casserole: wanted to see what kind of creative magic you could work on this
    to get it to taste “budget-oriented -gourmet” and if you would n;t mind posting it when you’re done. If you prefer I can e-,mail the recipe I often use, but I was kind of hoping you’d already have a recipe for this lovely dish of your own!

    I really like your recipes so far
    Thanks heaps,,
    Nina S.

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