response 10 of 15:

Jun 11 02:58 UTC 2002

I have made flat pancakes from rice or barley flour just poured into a cast
iron pan.  Chinese stores sell noodles made from rice flour and other things
(mung bean flour) in various shapes.  I don't see potatoes on the list of
foods to avoid.  How about the tropical starchy root vegetables (cassava =
tapioca, taro, various other starches that you can make into something called
fufu by mixing with boiling water and cooking a bit longer)?  Europeans used
to have to cook without corn, tomatoes, or peppers before 1492.  Sorghum,
teff, amaranth, quinoa, millet (we eat lots of that).  Rice flour or mung
flour or chickpea flour can be used as thickeners.  Try an Indian food store.
What other sour things can be used instead of tomatoes?  I can think of lemon
(unless it is a general citrus allergy), tamarind, vinegar, pomegranate syrup
(Middle Eastern food stores).

response 12 of 15:

Jun 12 03:18 UTC 2002

Is she allergic to all kinds of mushrooms, or just button mushrooms?

Does she eat meat?

response 14 of 15:

Jun 12 13:57 UTC 2002

that makes things slightly easier.