Category Archives: Cooking
Re-Introduction of Food, Food Allergy, Food Challenge Process
Some of you may have read that we had a successful re-introduction of oats recently (blog post here) and celebrated with us. The all-out celebration was to be short lived. We’ve found our teenager’s tolerance level for oats is about 2 tablespoons before on-set of mild allergic symptoms. Unable to fully integrate oatmeal into our […]
Food Bloggers Against Hunger, Take Your Place
How do you stretch a grocery budget when specialty bread costs $5.99 a loaf? I’ve thought that many many times. However, I’ve not been in the position of choosing between going hungry or feeding my child. During Hurricane Sandy, I wrote about going to the shelters to see if there was anyone in need. Now, […]
Tapioca Pear Cake Allergy Friendly, Gluten-Free, Five Ingredients
This recipe grew out of my recent meeting of Jenny Sprague, whose blog is Multiple Food Allergy Help . Her food allergic child, who also has cancer, is on a low-foods diet as they try to figure out what foods he can eat. She explained this to me over dinner (dinner at The Strand courtesy […]
National Margarita Day!
Let’s face it, it’s Friday and add to that National Margarita Day and we almost have a party. Apparently everyone knows that I love Margaritas because as soon as California woke up this morning, my mailbox and text messages were buzzing with a fervor not seen since, well, you get the idea. Sloane Miller was […]
Roasted Chicken, Recipe, Cybele Pascal’s “Allergy Free and Easy Cooking”
This past month on Brooklyn Allergy Mom’s Facebook Page, I’ve been conducting a give-away of Cybele Pascal’s book Allergy Free and Easy Cooking (available Amazon or at any fine bookstore) published on Ten Speed Press, which, if you read my review of it, is a must-have book for any family looking to get food on the table […]
Epinephrine, Anaphylaxis, Kissing
I was lucky to have been a part of a blogger summit hosted by Mylan, makers of the Epi-Pen® autoinjector of epinephrine (a natural hormone) this week and to have met and listened to the informative research from Dr. Ruchi Gupta, MD, MPH www.ruchigupta.com and Ms. Sloane Miller, www.allergicgirl.com speak about a survey done on, of all topics, anaphylaxis on Valentines Day. […]
ENTER TO WIN ALLERGY-FREE AND EASY COOKING
During the month of January, I’ll be doing a cookbook giveaway of Allergy-Free and Easy Cooking by Cybele Pascal. Rules are simple: anyone within the United States may enter this conest. 1. Go to my facebook page (http://www.facebook.com/bklynallergymom) and click the “LIKE” button 2. Underneath the sticky giveaway announcement (and so I know you like […]
5 Ways to Encourage People With Food Allergies
….specifically teens, to cook and take care of themselves… It’s been a while since I’ve written about a glimpse into my life as a mom of a teenaged child. But, for those of you who are curious, I’m going to give you an inside look into how we’re concentrating on self care. We’re preparing our child […]
Allergic Solutions Waffle and Pancake Mix
There are very few mixes that I find work with my varied and restrictive diet. Allergic Girl Sloane Miller gave me some “Allergic Solutions Waffle Mix” and, not having a waffle iron, I decided to make them as pancakes. Knowing what I now know about egg replacers, I decided to use flax seed for the […]
Maninis Classic Peasant Bread Mix is Gluten-Free Delicious
As an allergy Mom, people assume I bake and cook everything. Not true. I’ve only recently starting baking yeast breads. Mostly for myself, as our allergic kid prefers a store-type bread (Ener-G). I was given the Manini’s Miracolo Pane Peasant Bread mix by a friend of mine, and I was really excited to try it. […]
