Tag: WARNING – TREE NUTS

  • Sizemore Family Mac n’ Cheez

    Sizemore Family Mac n’ Cheez

    Is there anything better than good solid comfort food?  In this dreary mid-winter, I’m drawn again to this casserole that my friend Corianne gave me back when I needed just to go dairy-free.  The recipe is her mother’s, but it seems like food is a family affair — Corianne and her sister now run the…

  • Chicken Primavera Alfredo

    Okay, first things first.  My good camera’s battery hit the skids half way through cooking this recipe, so I had to resort to my cell phone camera. Which means that some of these pictures are more terrible than they usually are. Now on to the subject at hand. Alfredo sauce. Seriously, before the food allergy…

  • No-Bake Cookies Revisited — with a Nut-free Variation

    This was one of my favorites when I was a kid, and it’s also really fast if you were  supposed to bring something to a potluck/holiday party/family dinner and maybe you didn’t get it together because the holiday season is so crazy and if you have to find time to do one more thing you’re…

  • At Last Gluten-Free Brownies

    So the year before I got my allergy diagnoses, I spent time perfecting a brownie recipe.  Which was, of course, based on wheat flours, and which did not, of course, translate well to gluten-free.  It was my first attempt at my own gluten-free recipe — I replaced the flour in the recipe with a GF…

  • Ranch Dip Using a Cashew Base

    Ranch dressing. It’s one of those things that seems really, really hard to replace. And you miss that creaminess, salty, tart flavor, especially on salads, buffalo, wings, or just with a veggie tray at a party. When Mary Kate and I started this blog, we began a list of things we missed desperately (okay, so…

  • 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…