Author: MaryKate
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Whatever Wednesday: Good Green Cleaning for People with Allergies
New Year, new resolutions, right? I have been transitioning to chemical-free cleaning for the past few years. When I moved into my current place, I spent some house with ammonia-based cleaner in the kitchen, and while it needed the heavy-duty, chemical-laden cleaner, I felt awful afterwards. Since then, I’ve been making my own. So we’re…
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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…
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Kiss Me if You Dare Onion Dip
If I’m completely honest, that mayo or sour cream based French onion dip (one package of dip mix plus a carton of sour cream, I think?) wasn’t something I made all that often or bought all that often in my pre-allergen days. But I liked it at parties, and maybe that was enough for me…
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Latkes
This season seems to be full of tradition on so very many levels, including food, food, and food. I think this can make the holidays difficult for adults with newly diagnosed food allergies. This was me last year — going to holiday gatherings where I could not safely eat anything. Missing traditional foods, wanting to…
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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…
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WW: Introducing Whatever Wednesdays with Travel Tips for the Allergic
Now that Denise and I have established what we think is a nice rhythm, and we have a few readers (HI READERS! WE ARE SO HAPPY YOU ARE HERE. PLEASE KEEP COMING BACK!), we’d like to introduce a new feature, our catch-all for things we want to talk about or share but that aren’t recipes…
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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…
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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 —…