surviving the food allergy apocalypse

Category: Main Dishes/Entrées

  • Rice Vermicelli Salad Bowls with Beef

    I love Vietnamese food. Seriously, I love it. Before the corn allergy, our local Vietnamese joint could recognize my voice before I even finished stating that I wanted to order takeout. The owner knew my name and my husband’s name, and what we generally ordered. If Shawn forgot what I wanted when stopping in to…

  • Crispy Duck

    Crispy Duck  1 whole fresh duck (or some duck legs or breasts if you don’t want to deal with a whole duck) 1 Tablespoon of sea salt 2 teaspoons of Chinese Five Spice a pair of good kitchen shears roasting pan that can fit a rack in the bottom oven safe cookie rack that fits…

  • Citrus-spiced Beef Short Ribs

    There are two times of the year when I want to eat like the midwesterner I am — dead of winter, and height of summer. And by that, I mean there are two times of the year when I think of meat, first, and then figure out what goes with it. In the summer, I…

  • Cottage Pie

    This recipe comes out of a birthday request. In my family, tradition was that on your birthday, you pick what we have for dinner. This weekend was a birthday, and the request was a cottage pie. I’ve never made cottage pie, so I did a bit of searching. So, here in New England, a meat pie…

  • The World's Best Cauliflower (aka Aloo Gobi in the slow cooker)

    I wish I could claim credit for inventing the following recipe, but I can’t. My former neighbor told me, as we were all sitting outside one evening, that he made “the world’s best cauliflower.” I don’t know about you, but cauliflower is not a vegetable I’d ever considered for a “world’s best” anything nomination. As a…

  • Slow Cooker Pork Roast

    It’s set-it-and-forget-it season! Actually, the crock pot is good all year, but because it makes pots of lovely hot food, I think people associate it more with winter than summer. I know I do. The first thing I thought when I saw pork roasts on sale was “slow cooker.” But I didn’t really want barbeque.…

  • Mung Bean Patties

    This recipe is actually perfect for coming out of last week, as, like so many things that happened last week it arose out of the ashes of me screwing something up because I did not know what I was doing and was not paying attention. Last week was just that kind of week. I need…

  • Cure your own Corned Beef

    You may remember that we posted a Stout Braised Corned Beef and Cabbage recipe way back in the depths of time. Well, that was in the time before my wheat and corn allergies were diagnosed.  At the time, since Mary Kate had issues with gluten, and a lot of our readers are gluten-free, I had…