surviving the food allergy apocalypse

Tag: Fish/shellfish-free

  • Turkey, Turkey Stock, and Turkey Rice Soup with Kale – Denise’s Annual Insanity

    Thanksgiving makes me slightly insane. Somehow I channel my grandmother, who is still among the living so I’m not even sure if that’s possible metaphysically speaking, and I make vast quantities of food that bear no rational relation to the actual number of people for whom I am cooking. Our Thanksgiving dinners when I was…

  • Mini-Thanksgiving, Casserole Style

    This past summer, one of my co-workers went through a phase of making Thanksgiving dinners — I don’t think she was cooking a whole turkey, but part of it, plus dressing and cranberries.  I think it happened more than once, and the craving turned out to be transferable. But for me?  Turkey, eh, whatever.  I…

  • Apple Cranberry Crisp

    I think you’re an apple crisp person or an apple pie person.  Or at least I am, and I fall squarely into the apple crisp camp. I can pass up apple pie anytime because unless the crust is perfect and amazing, which it rarely is, I don’t want it. It just seems like a waste…

  • Winter Is Coming Chicken and Kale

    This recipe featuring lovely tasty kale is posted, in part, in honor of the last day of G.I.S.H.W.H.E.S. (the Greatest International Scavenger Hunt the World Has Ever Seen), which everyone who knows me has heard way too much about (and has likely been asked to participate in).  I am not sure why GISHWHES is obsessed…

  • Better Than Sex Vegan Rum Caramel Sauce

    So, one of the major bummers about a milk allergy is no more caramel. Or at least no more store bought candy with caramel.  And I miss that.  So by adapting a recipe that was used to make sticky buns, we developed this caramel.  The first thing we used it for was to dump over…

  • Awesome Cake Doughnuts — yes, gluten-free

    Now so far, gluten-free baking is still new to me.  I’ve had some utter disasters, so I’m still sticking pretty close to the recipes of other people.  So far, the majority of the recipes in this cookbook have been overwhelmingly winners.  I can highly recommend it as a good starting cookbook for gluten-free baking —…

  • Denise’s Really, Really Spicy Pea Soup

    This is a recipe that I began developing when I was younger and finally got it exactly where I wanted it somewhere between the ages of 16 or 17 years old. My parents do not like spicy food at all, and in typical teenage rebellion, I became a fire breather. Of course, back then, I…

  • Bat Signal Halloween Cupcakes

    Good Morning Gotham City! Do you feel you’re missing out on the sugar that makes Halloween special, given that everything is chock full of allergens?  You won’t after these cupcakes. This entire recipe is an excuse to play with marshmallow fondant, honestly, in my favorite baked goods format: the cupcake.  Since gluten-free baking is still…