The Dizzy Cook: Managing Migraine with More Than 90 Comforting Recipes and Lifestyle Tips

by Alicia Wolf

Overview

This cookbook features more than 90 delicious recipes and dozens of helpful tips to help combat migraine symptoms through diet and lifestyle.

From healthy living blogger and creator of TheDizzyCook.com, Alicia Wolf, comes the must-have cookbook for anyone managing migraines, as well as anyone who just loves to create delectable yet diet-friendly dishes. Author Alicia Wolf developed her recipes using the principles of Johns Hopkins neurologist David Buchholz's “Heal Your Headache” diet, one of the most recommended plans by health practitioners for treating migraines through diet. In this book, Alicia adds her own unique spin to the migraine diet, creating recipes that are both helpful and delicious. 

Inside the book you'll find:

• Ideas for every meal of the day
• Tips on how to get started
• The best supplements for migraine prevention and treatment
• Common substitutions
• Travel tips
• Meal plans
• And other indispensable resources

Learn to make Alicia's famous blueberry muffins, smoky carrot hummus, salsa verde chicken enchiladas, roasted curry cauliflower, chewy ginger cookies, and so much more.

The Dizzy Cook will inspire you to explore the infinite possibilities for healthy, appetizing, migraine-safe comfort foods.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781513262642
Publisher:	Turner Publishing Company
Publication date:	02/18/2020
Pages:	240
Sales rank:	145,499
Product dimensions:	7.40(w) x 9.10(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

Alicia Wolf is the brilliant voice behind The Dizzy Cook, a blog dedicated to improving the diet and lifestyle for those who suffer from migraine. After being diagnosed with Chronic Vestibular Migraine in 2016, Alicia went on a personal journey to incorporate key supplements and lifestyle changes. Her blog emerged from the experience as a way for her to share recipes and tips to help improve the lives of those who constantly experience headaches, dizziness, and vertigo. She has been featured on digital magazines and publications such as Clean Eating Kitchen, Digital Journal, Migraine Again, and My Chronic Brain. She is a partner of the American Migraine Foundation. Alicia lives in Dallas, Texas.

Read an Excerpt

RECIPES:

Breakfast

1. Overnight Oats 3 Ways - Basic, Turmeric Ginger, Cinnamon Pear
2. Faux-Yo Acai Bowl
3. Crunchy Buckwheat Granola
4. Green Eggs, No Ham (Shakshuka Verde)
5. Better-Than-Avocado Toast
6. Jennifer’s Famous Blueberry Muffins
7. Sausage Balls
8. Leek Goat Cheese Breakfast Casserole
9. Blueberry Vanilla Chia Pudding Parfait
10. Baked Bean Taquitos
11. Carrot Spice Smoothie
12. SB& J Smoothie
13. Nutty Pancakes

Kitchen Basics - Dressings, Condiments, Stock & Broth

1. The Easiest Dressing in the World
2. Italian Dressing
3. Honey Mustard Dressing
4. Ginger Sesame Dressing
5. Zesty Ranch Dressing
6. Celery Seed Dressing
7. BBQ Sauce
8. Pepita Pesto
9. Enchilada Sauce
10. Vegetable Broth + Chicken Stock
11. A Tale of Two Salsas- Quick Salsa and Salsa Verde

Salads + Soups

1. Maui Kale Salad
2. Corn and Farro Summer Salad
3. Pasta Salad
4. Sunflower Soba Noodle Salad
5. Poppyseed Chicken Salad
6. Mediterranean Pita Salad with Faux Tzatziki
7. Simple Tuna Salad
8. Burrata, Herb, Arugula Salad with Z Croutons
9. Curry Carrot and Sweet Potato Soup
10. White Bean Chicken Chili
11. Creamy Cauliflower Leek Soup
12. Lemongrass & Farro Chicken Soup
13. Fish Chowder

Snacks + Starters

1. Queso
2. Pumpkin Seed Protein Bars
3. Smokey Carrot Hummus
4. Bruschetta Board
5. Crab Salad Bites
6. Spinach Artichoke Flatbread
7. MSG-Free Party Mix
8. Migraine-Safe Cheese Board
9. Sunbutter Chia Balls
10. Crispy Taco-Spiced Wings

Mocktails

1. Canta-not-loopy Margarita
2. Pomegranate Nojito
3. Apple Cranberry Wassail
4. Golden Spiced Latte

Main Dish

1. Salsa Verde Chicken Enchiladas
2. Moroccan Meatballs
3. Banh Mi Inspired Crab Cakes
4. Roasted Salmon, Kale, & Potatoes with Dijon Dill Sauce
5. Mexican Stuffed Sweet Potatoes
6. Mini Meatloaves with Homemade BBQ Sauce
7. Anyone Can Cook Roast Chicken with Rosemary Gravy
8. Pumpkin Sage Pasta
9. Crock Pot Pulled Pork
10. Mediterranean Baked Halibut
11. Chipotle Steak Fajita Bowls
12. Hearty, Wine-Free Short Ribs
13. Roasted Chicken, Grapes, and Brussels Sprouts
14. Healthy-ish Beef Stroganoff
15. Lamb Chops with Chimichurri Sauce
16. Seared Scallops with Mango Salsa

Seriously Good Sides

1. Smokey Sweet Potatoes
2. Winter Rice Pilaf
3. Mac & Fresh Cheese
4. Asparagus with Herb Vinaigrette
5. Pomegranate Couscous
6. Garlic Spinach and Tomatoes
7. Whipped Parsnips
8. Roasted Curry Cauliflower
9. Mexican Black Beans
10. Boursin Scalloped Potatoes
11. Basil Green Bean Salad

Sweet Treats

1. Snickerdoodle Cookie Dough Bites
2. Black & Blue Sunflower Seed Crumble
3. Grandma’s Chewy Ginger Cookies
4. Saturday Morning Cartoon Pudding (White Chocolate Pudding with Cinnamon Chex)
5. Gooey Blondies
6. Strawberry Shortbread Cups

The Dizzy Baker — Meet Jennifer Bragdon

1. Spiced Honey Apple Cake
2. Cream Cheese Sugar Cookies with Cherry Frosting
3. Ricotta Biscuit Cookies with Vanilla Bean Glaze
4. Carrot Cupcakes with Cream Cheese Frosting
5. Simple Watermelon Sorbet

Table of Contents

• Introduction - How I Became A Dizzy Cook
• The Heal Your Headache Migraine Diet (Food to Eliminate, Foods Allowed, Additives in Meat)
• How to Get Started (Reintroducing Foods, Tips for Reading Labels, Goodbye Caffeine, My Old Friend)
• The Dizzy Cook Approach to a Migraine Diet
• Common Substitutions + Tips
• Breakfast
• Kitchen Basics - Dressings, Condiments, Stock & Broth
• Salads + Soups
• Snacks + Starters
• Mocktails
• Main Dish
• Seriously Good Sides
• Sweet Treats
• The Dizzy Baker
• Meal Plans
• Vestibular Migraine - More Than A Headache (Vestibular Migraine Symptoms, Medications, Vestibular Therapy Diet)
• Alternative Treatments for Migraine - The Magic Pill Does Not Exist (Supplements - Types of Magnesium, B2, CoQ10, and Ginger, Move When You Don’t Feel Like It, Therapy/Mindfulness/Meditation, Sleep Schedule)
• Travel Tips
• Support

Interviews

"This book is the kind of resource I wish I had when I felt so scared and alone. Remembering that feeling, I put my heart and soul into it. Every ounce of helpful info that I have learned about vestibular migraine is included as well, along with travel tips, meal plan ideas, and research on migraine supplements. My hope is that it brings a little fun, warmth, and joy into the migraine community. It is a feeling we all need so much.

In 2016, I was diagnosed with Chronic Vestibular Migraine. I learned that some people are prone to getting them, but they can be triggered by many things – stressful events, hormonal changes, a head injury, etc. After a lot of research and trial and error, I started following a diet that strictly avoided migraine triggers of msg, nitrites, histamine, and tyramine and noticed that I could go longer between dizziness episodes. I was so delighted with the results that I began blogging to help others with my condition and this cookbook emerged from that. I hope that my tips, tricks, and recipes can also help you to get to a place where your migraines are being managed successfully.”

Editorial Reviews

"The Dizzy Cook is a great resource for migraine patients. Avoiding migraine food triggers can often cause culinary boredom for many migraine sufferers and their families. This cookbook helps migraine sufferers prepare delicious, interesting dishes while avoiding these triggers. It also provides ideas on substituting typically-used but potentially migraine-aggravating ingredients in well-loved dishes. While there are some migraine recipe books on the market, this is the first one specifically written for vestibular migraine sufferers."

Shin Beh

"Alicia has been an excellent resource for me and my patients. Her personal experience and carefully researched articles have helped many of my patients understand how to treat their vestibular migraine symptoms. I highly recommend her website and this book!"

Edward I. Cho

"Alicia was able to give a new mood, technique and voice to previously bland and boring elimination diet dinner tables. The menu and options that exist in the 'migraine world' have been changed for the better. This cookbook has navigated the 'do not eat' list existing in this space with ease and exploration. The recipes are self-contained packets of information that are tidy and aesthetically beautiful... not to mention, tasty and delicious! As a migraine sufferer myself, and for the countless patients in our clinic who use these recipes day in and day out, we can't get enough of this edition and can't wait for another!"

Brooke Pearce

"The Dizzy Cook brings the healing power of Heal Your Headache into your home kitchen with a banquet of deliciously healthy recipes and helpful dietary tips."

David Buchholz

"Vestibular migraine patients face enough challenges without having to worry about what they eat and drink. Unfortunately, many foods and beverages can be migraine triggers. In The Dizzy Cook, Alicia Wolf provides hope to people suffering from migraine. Hope that they can eat delicious food that won’t trigger their symptoms. Hope that they can cook meals the whole family will enjoy. Hope that they can live a normal life.

Learn from someone who has been there. Alicia’s migraine journey was full of pitfalls, including doctors who dismissed her symptoms and the loss of her career. A migraine-friendly diet wasn’t an immediate 'cure' for her, but she persevered and discovered how to test her triggers. This book is based on her trial and error experience, and validated by a registered dietician.

In addition to her mouth-watering photos, Alicia explains how to transition to a migraine diet, foods to avoid and embrace, as well as fancy beverage recipes so you don’t feel like you’re missing out. With plenty of variety and options for special diets – such as gluten-free and vegan – you’re sure to be bookmarking your favorites!

Many thanks to Alicia for being an 'Ambassador' for vestibular migraine. By raising awareness and normalizing these invisible conditions we can create a demand for migraine-friendly food, making shopping and eating out easier and more enjoyable."

Cynthia Ryan