surviving the food allergy apocalypse

Tag: Vegetarian/Vegan

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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 —…

  • Amanda and Ken’s Smoky Sweet Potato Soup

    Note (note 1): This post seems to have a lot of notes. My last year of grad school, my two roommates and I hosted somewhere in the neighborhood of 20 people for Thanksgiving.  We added all the leaves of my drop-leaf table (I’m the last of the grandkids to get it, and it seats 12),…

  • Happy Layers Nacho Dip

    This is that layered Mexican dip that someone always brings to a potluck.  I don’t recall being a huge fan of it in the pre-diagnosis days, but it was one of the random things I really missed when I suddenly couldn’t have it.  This version is only 4 layers (no sour cream and no olives),…

  • Wine Smoothies

    So, it’s Labor Day. If you have the day off, and if you imbibe alcohol, you might want to try some wine smoothies.  You might note that neither of these recipes contain bananas which many smoothies do.  That’s because I really, really HATE bananas.  I know, it’s a weird thing, but I don’t even want…