This morning during Analie’s first nap, I got inspired to finally add the latest dairy-free recipes I’ve been making into my cooking software.  This way they are much easier to take with me and share with others, all I have to do is print to PDF and email the doc instead of typing it out each time.

I am very persnickety when it comes to dairy-free cooking.  The recipe has to exclude all dairy ingredients (except in the case of pan sauces, I will substitute a few tablespoons of dairy substitute butter) or I won’t make it.  I feel like the chemistry gets all wonky if you start swapping almond milk for moo milk.  Plus, if a well loved recipe will taste mucho differento using dairy-free substitutes, and instead of being disappointed I’d rather just remember it how it was.

So I’ve been on a rampage to find new delicious things to make.

I put in 5 or 6 new tasty recipes this morning, then I went through all 259 recipes I have added to my software collection and tagged the ones with no dairy.  This way I can easily and efficiently filter what is dairy-free by just typing in the tag.

I found 56 recipes!  That’s ridiculous!  I was so glad I did that because about 45 of those I hadn’t realized were possibilities.

This really revitalizes my dinner planning for the next several months.

As much of a pain as it was to set up MacGourmet when Joey first bought it for me, it’s wicked awesome now.  I love it.  Love it.  Love it.  (Like, more than ketchup…so you know that’s saying something.)

Now all this talk of food makes me want hamburgers and french fries.  With ketchup.  On both.