Category: Whatever Wednesdays
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WW: Learn Something New: Maple Syrup
The very first known instance of the word maple (though, at the time it was “mapul”) was in Chaucer’s The Knight’s Tale in Canterbury Tales where it is just part of a list of all the trees in the woods. Maple trees (genus: Acer, Latin for sharp, as in the points of the leaves —…
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Gluten Free Flour Mix for Waffles and Pancakes
Using method that the Gluten Free Girl and the Chef have provided on their blog to make an all-purpose flour mix, I made up the following flour mix to make the waffles and pancake recipes that will be posted for our Hangover Breakfast series. (These recipes will be posted on April 1st, keep your eyes out…
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Whatever Wednesday: Farmer’s Almanac Cough Syrup
So my mother discovered the Farmer’s Almanac a few years ago (or possibly re-discovered, I’ve never asked — I just assumed that city kids didn’t read the Farmer’s Almanac), and this year has a page-a-day calendar version. Despite living many states away from my mother, I always know what page-a-day she has because she mails…
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WW: Restaurant Review: Blue Ginger in Wellesley, MA
It’s Whatever Wednesday, and welcome to our very first restaurant review. This won’t be a regular feature on Surviving the Food Allergy Apocalypse, as we’re somewhat geographically constrained, and there are other websites that do this sort of thing, but when we find a great place to go out and eat with food allergies, we…
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Whatever Wednesday: DIY Acne Clay Facial Mask if Allergic to Coconut
Guess what? The clay facial mask I liked contains coconut too. (To see a list of coconut derivatives, go here, thanks to Becky at the Allergic to Coconut? blog). See how repetitive this whole coconut being in my products thing is? So I scoured the internet to look for DIY remedies for acne, and came up…
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Whatever Wednesday: Freshen Up
What do we most need for winter and cold and flu season? Vodka. Yup, vodka. The cheapest rotgut vodka you can buy, in the largest quantity you can buy, and you can deodorize your furniture, carpets, curtains, freshen up your air, and even sanitize your hands. Non-Chemical Hand Sanitizer Adapted from a few different online…
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Whatever Wednesday: Cleaning Screens and Polishing Wood
Detailed cleaning, for those times before company is coming over — or your mother is visiting. Get out your old pillowcases or t-shirts. We’re cleaning screens and polishing your furniture. Screens. If you have a TV from this century, it has some weird plastic-y screen, not a glass one. Which means, given that it’s a…
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Whatever Wednesday: Laundry Round-up, including coconut-free detergent!
WASH CYCLE And another thing, you can’t buy laundry soap without coconut in it either. (To get a list of coconut derivatives, go here, thanks to Becky at the Allergic to Coconut? blog.) Since I decided I wanted to try cutting out any coconut derivatives that touch my skin, laundry soap was a target too.…