Doing without

Salted Texas Chocolate Sheetcake. Photo by Bon Appetit magazine

Doing without

#food intolerance

I wish recipe websites worked backwards. For example, being able to search recipes without the typical allergens such a tree nuts, dairy, soy, legumes, mold, berry seeds, or specific enzymes and sugars would be highly useful. It doesn't have to be too scientific even though the science behind healthy food is a serious business.
BBC Recipes and Jamie Oliver are two sites that allow you to find recipes with a specific ingredient. This is a great step towards food conservation as you only use what you have on hand and don't waste resources going to the store looking for perfection. Ok, maybe you do. I am not knocking the artistic integrity of preparing a "perfect" dish. I just can't see any justification for food waste.
After looking at the the healthy recipes supporting Food Revolution 2014 I am beginning to think about cooking now like I do about writing. All writing and cooking is in need of editing. There are certain structures to respect: short story, novel, novella, poem, haiku. I can dream of cooking up a novel about Thanksgiving dinner while I find the time to whip up a novella on the everyday family dinner, a collection of short stories on salads, a haiku on tea. Waste not a word, waste not an ingredient.
The Food Revolution Foundation is trying to make healthy food the norm and not some "too cool for room, " exotic, organic, over-priced and once again corporate-dominated, genetically modified conglomerated confusion. Cooking is the simple necessary art of feeding health, not wealth, waste or intoxication. At times, doing without.

The Salted Texas Chocolate Sheetcake looks quite literally "to die for." How can this recipe be adapted for no dairy and eggs?