MC Safe Recipes from “Dee's Kitchen” — Now Available in a Cookbook

By Wayne Persky

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Anyone who has searched for safe recipes in the “Dee's Kitchen” category of our discussion and support forum is well aware of the dedicated efforts contributed by Dee Kandel, as she shared MC safe recipes with other members for years and years. Her recipes are not only safe, but they're also tasty — which, as most of us have learned, is difficult to accomplish when dealing with the severely restricted diets that many of us are on.​

Dee is a professional chef, and like most of us, she was devastated after she developed MC and had to undertake the distressing chore of discarding all the unsafe ingredients from the cabinets, shelves, and countertops in her kitchen. But fortunately, once she decided to come to grips with the disease, her valuable experience greatly simplified the process of substituting ingredients. And after she noticed that the rest of us were having problems keeping our diet clean, she started sharing recipes and ingredient substitutions. Unfortunately, family obligations eventually preempted so much of her time, that she had to stop posting, and take care of her personal responsibilities at home — but not before she had shared hundreds of safe, tasty recipes, that anyone can use.

The forum has been in continuous use for over 25 years.​

Discussion and support forums rarely last for very many years. Our discussion and support forum is by far the longest surviving MC discussion and support forum on the Internet. It doesn't see near as much use these days, since most people prefer to air their health problems on social media. And hackers and various security issues are frequent problems, raising the question of whether it's worth all the trouble required to keep it going, with such limited use.

AI seems to be everywhere these days.

Anticipating the day when it may become necessary to close the discussion and support forum, the Microscopic Colitis Foundation recently published an app for smartphones that used AI to capture the over 210,000 posts that had been entered in the database, and allow users to use an AI Search Assistant to search the vast database for answers to their questions.

Dee considered publishing an MC cookbook for years.

But, of course, with all the demands on her time, she was never able to do that. Since there's a risk that her recipes might be lost forever if the wensite disappears from the Internet, early this summer, I offered to format all the recipes she had posted into a book, if she would check them all for accuracy. To cut to the chase, she agreed, and the book was published in September.

The Microscopic Colitis & IBD Cook Book

is available on Amazon as a hardback, paperback, ebook, and audiobook, so now her recipes will be available for present and future MC (and other IBD) patients, for a long, long time. In addition to over 260 recipes, the book contains many ingredient substitutions that should allow most of us to convert some of our previous favorite recipes into safe recipes by making the appropriate ingredient substitutions. And Dee also notes that when she has served most of these recipes to her guests who are not on restricted diets, they often complement her on the outstanding flavor, never realizing that they were eating food formulated for a restricted diet. Here's a link to the book on the US Amazon site:​

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0FWBLGJRG