Perhaps I should have mentioned this when I first started off, but I wanted my blog to be about cooking and be funny and enjoyable. In the summer of 2009, right after my freshman year of college, my doctor told me that I could no longer have milk. No milk? Me? The same guy that, by himself went through nearly two gallons a week? Well, as my doctor told me in her Indian accent, "Oh, no, no no. You can have too much of a good thing."
Well that was news to me.
So I thought, "No milk, that sucks. No more milk and cookies, no more cereal. Oh well, it's not going to be fun, but I'll deal with it"
What I didn't realize was that the no-milk, or dairy free, diet was broader than I had anticipated.
No chocolate. No butter. No cheese. I could not eat anything with those or any of these ingredients.
When the nutritionist handed me that list, my anger level was somewhere around here.
But after my splurging on one last large chocolate milkshake made with vanilla ice cream (easily the best type of milkshake), I said my goodbye to the dairy world.
Now, I have replaced cow's milk with vanilla almond milk (my personal favorite of the different milks I tried.)
Butter is easily replaced and has been the easiest adjustment from "real" to "fake", but the different chemical composition in butter and milk makes it difficult to bake with.
I realize now there are a lot worse things than being milk free (though the poor nutritionist that got an earful from me would beg to differ.) Taking my milk away from me was like taking a camera phone from Brett Favre. It might seem tough at the time, but it's for your own good.
So for future reference in my posts, all of my foods are made dairy free, whether I like it or not.
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