surviving the food allergy apocalypse

Month: October 2013

  • Whatever Wednesday: Food Allergies – Time, time, time, see what’s become of me

    I could do a food allergy parody of Simon & Garfunkel’s Hazy Shade of Winter or Pink Floyd’s Time, but that would take an awful lot of effort and creativity, and frankly, I don’t have time as you will soon see from this post. When I first went off milk, hazelnuts and scallops, I thought…

  • Killer Chocolate Fudge-y Brownies

    So Mary Kate put up a recipe for brownies a bit ago, but it had almond flour, coconut flour and coconut oil in it, which are a big no-no for me.  So I wanted to see if I could do a brownie recipe I could eat, especially with some of my new restrictions. Keep in…

  • Creamy Broccoli Soup

    I love soup season. Not only is soup just really good food, but a pot of soup makes 4-12 servings, depending on the recipe, which usually gives me lunch for the week. In one recipe. I love that. I’m not sure exactly what I was going for when I started working on this soup —…

  • Whatever Wednesday: Food, Allergies, and Knowledge, a series of thoughts

    This is part one of a series I’ve been discussing with Denise talking about some of the many things we’ve learned via the “fun” of food allergy diagnosis and lifestyle. Some of what we’ve learned is about food and food production. Some is about psychology, some about culture, and there are probably some life lessons…

  • Baked Eggplant and Zucchini Fries with Spicy Mayo Dipping Sauce

    So my friend Mary, the kale whisper, managed to procure about 5 pounds of eggplants for me, or, in other words, a crap ton of eggplants, from her neighbor’s garden. Because she’s just that awesome and cool.  So I made and canned 5 pints of Eggplant Caponata and 6 quarts of a version of Ratatouille,…

  • Squash and Sprout Rice Platter

    I started working on this particular dish about a year ago when I discovered this branch of Brussels sprouts at a Trader Joe’s and had to buy it. How do you not buy that? I made a lot of different Brussels sprouts recipes to use them all up, but most of them involved roasting the…