The Alternative Gourmet

Elena Mehlman: The Alternative Gourmet

Deliciously Healthy, Low Glycemic and Anti Cancer Foods and Desserts

This blog addresses alternative cooking possibilities for the person who wants to cut out sugar or flour from their diet and still eat the way they did before, without compromising taste. After studying the chemistry of cooking in school, and spending many summers as an apprentice to one of the best pastry chefs in Italy, I decided to convert many of the recipes that I have mastered, into low glycemic foods and desserts for flour intolerant, diabetic and cancer patients. As I become more expert at creating health food alternatives to gourmet recipes, I use only natural substitutes to sugar and flour. This interest was developed over the past few years, when several family members and friends were advised to change their diets. Some approached their new dietary restrictions head on, but others floundered and eventually lost motivation and gave up. My blog aims to share my experience and recipes, by publishing them so that people seeking low glycemic, flourless gourmet foods and desserts can have access to images, ideas and recipes for delicious healthful eats.

Healthier alternatives to sugar and corn syrup are: agave syrup, honey, maple syrup and Truvia (which is the best tasting stevia on the market)

Healthier alternatives to white flour are kamut flour, buckwheat flour, spelt flour, whole-wheat flour, gluten free flour and corn meal.