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  • Coffee Snobbery, a weekend coffee odyssey.

    Coffee Snobbery, a weekend coffee odyssey.

    Coffee. Coffee. Blog post. Coffee. Tea drinkers, go here. This post isn’t about the history or origins of coffee, but about making one great cup each weekend when mornings suck a lot less. Denise will laugh at the entire idea of ONE cup of coffee, but we do both love it in different quantities. Coffee…

  • Aquafaba Vegan Salad Dressing

    So with the corn allergy all of the vegan mayonnaise products are a big no-no for me, as canola is notoriously cross-contaminated with corn, and I started to react to my favorite product. I haven’t had a safe mayonnaise in over a year. When I saw the aquafaba experiments with mayo, it rang a bell…

  • Whatever Wednesday: The Citrus is IN.

    THE CITRUS IS IN! I assume, given that I’m in New England, that if the citrus is here, the citrus is everywhere (at least in the USA). I’m also assuming that there is some left. My fridge looks like I bought it all. In the photo, blood oranges, cara cara oranges, Meyer lemons, and some…

  • DIY Spice Mix Day – Montreal Steak, Creamy Peppercorn, Singapore, and Full of Flavor Herb Mix

    So one of the more recent traumatic events (okay, not really traumatic, but annoying certainly) was the purging of my spice cabinet of things I can’t use any more as a result of the corn and wheat allergies.  If you know me in real life, I’m a tad obsessive about my spices.  I have a…

  • Whatever Wednesday: Learn Something New: Camellia Sinesis, dba Tea

    Since we’ve focused this month on recipes inspired by cuisine from the continent of Asia (I know, we never said there was a theme, but there was.  We’re wily like that.), I thought tea would make another good subject for another research-based (some might say “nerdy”) post.  Tea is the second most popular drink in…

  • 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 —…

  • 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…

  • Whatever Wednesday Product Review: Earth Balance Mindful Mayo

      Mary Kate’s Take: I’ll start off by telling you that, as a midwesterner, I grew up on Miracle Whip, not mayo.  Throughout my pre-allergen life, I used both, pretty much inter-changeably, and never much thought about it.  I was never a rabid lover of mayo, nor was I a hater — mayo/MW had its…