Tag Archives: Peanut Free
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 […]
Asthma and Food Allergies: AAFA, KFA Merge
I have served as board chair of Kids With Food Allergies Foundation for the past year and a half, and it is with great pleasure that I’m finally able to blog about the news of the merger (press release here) of Kids With Food Allergies (KFA), and the Asthma and Allergy Foundation of America (AAFA). For those of us […]
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. […]
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 […]
Allergy-Free and Easy Cooking by Cybele Pascal
“Allergy-Free and Easy Cooking” by blogger and food allergy mom, Cybele Pascal, with excellent color photography by Chugrad McAndrews, will quickly become the essential guide for any parent dealing with multiple food allergies who wants to create family-friendly food within 30-minutes. Thanks to recent strides in food manufacturing, our community now has Daiya Cheese, which […]
Tacos, Tortas and Tamales by Roberto Santibañez
I first began my love affair with Roberto Santibañez’ cookbooks five years ago (click here for my 2010 cookbook review) when I was looking for Mexican food that I remembered from Los Angeles, and was unable to find it here in Brooklyn. Roberto’s previous cookbook, Truly Mexican, concentrates on sauces, the key to Mexican cooking, […]
Erewhon Cereals: Allergen-Free, Gluten-Free
Recently, I had the pleasure of revisiting Erewhon Cereals’ (now owned by Attune Foods) line of products that I had discovered fifteen years ago. Diagnosed at six months, you can imagine the challenge of finding our child the right allergen-free foods in order to help her grow and to thrive. Erewhon was one of the […]
English Muffins Top 8 allergen-free and gluten-free
In my previous post I reviewed Colette Martin’s book “Learning to Bake Allergen-Free” (you can order the book from amazon here) and wrote of a little gem in that book: her English Muffin recipe. With Colette and her publisher’s approval, I’m sharing her recipe along with my changes. Make sure you put aside three hours […]
Learning to Bake Allergen-Free by Colette Martin
Blogger and cookbook author Colette Martin is the Vice Chair (I’m Board Chair) for Kids With Food Allergies Foundation. So when she sent me a copy of her book, “Learning to Bake Allergen-Free” (published by The Experiment) I was happy to receive it, and promised to review it. The forward is written by Stephen Wangen, […]
Easy and Healthy Stir-Fry Top 8 Free
I blogged last March about a stir fry recipe I had created that was gluten-free, and top 8 free. Today, when confronted by my dear husband about a chinese meal, I dug it up again. It did not disappoint. Easy and Healthy Stir-Free Top 8 Free 2 boneless skinless chicken breasts 1 Cup Orange Juice […]
