tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18299511681821822162011-07-28T23:03:00.785-04:00Just a couple of moms whose kids have food allergies.Cindyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04164869138286266144noreply@blogger.comBlogger251100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1829951168182182216.post-62498841833103672132010-09-07T22:41:00.004-04:002010-09-08T17:23:16.047-04:00

Dairy-free/Egg-free/Nut-freeThese aren't really matzah balls, but they're kind of like matzah balls, if you have your eyes closed. And you haven't had a matzah ball in a really long time. And you can't eat egg.After what seemed like an endless variety of substitutes and (what we thought) were clever ideas to replicate the fluffy dumpling-ness of an egg-laden matzah ball, all without success, our

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Egg-free/Dairy-free/Nut-freeThis falls way outside of the range of foods we normally blog about. But these tacos were awesome. So awesome, that one of us ate WAAAY too much and had to take the dog for a walk, just to move around a bit. This is an amalgamation of a bunch of recipes found online, so there's no one to credit. But thank you anyway.Ingredients:1 3 lb brisket2 to 3 garlic cloves,

Cindyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04164869138286266144noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1829951168182182216.post-51912894677134222982008-12-04T15:05:00.003-05:002008-12-08T17:32:49.861-05:00

Dairy-free/Egg-free/Nut-freeHoliday cookie season. Before we had food allergic-children, any day leading up to the holidays were easily among our most favorite times of the year, along with any one of the other 364 days on the calendar. Things are necessarily different now, but there's no need to despair. On a recent trip down the candy aisle at our local grocery store, as we were walking by the

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Dairy-free/Egg-free/Nut-freeBoot scootin'. As in, scoot your boot back to the kitchen to have another, and another, and likely yet another, of these really yummy, pretty, marbled biscotti.Remember a few posts back, in our Bella Biscotti post for cranberry and chocolate chip biscotti, we said to stay tuned while we perfected our method? Well, bake baby bake!  This recipe from Eating Well circa

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Dairy-free/Egg-free/Nut-freeWhat's scarier for you on Halloween?A) Your food-allergic kid getting un-safe Halloween candy from your otherwise well-intentioned neighbors. B) Not having something safe at the ready to trade for the 90% of Junior's Halloween booty you had to confiscate because it's not safe to eat. C) Having that confiscated candy tucked away in your house, just begging for you to

Cindyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04164869138286266144noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1829951168182182216.post-47666169501713215712008-09-22T16:58:00.006-04:002008-09-22T17:32:41.432-04:00

Dairy-free/Egg-free/Nut-freePeaNOT. Get it? Like Peanut, but NOT, because it's sunnut butter (or sunflower seed butter, if you're inclined to speak that many syllables, which we're not), so they're peaNOT butter cookies. Ah, life is one hilarious moment after the next.Truth be told, we made these cookies so long ago (four months!) that we can't remember much about them other than that they tasted

Cindyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04164869138286266144noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1829951168182182216.post-11055754113443953692008-06-24T20:37:00.002-04:002008-06-24T21:27:22.612-04:00

Dairy-free/Egg-free/Nut-freeHave you ever done an internet search for "vegan biscotti"? Not at lot out there, is there? We've searched six ways to Sunday to find a recipe, but mostly we find a lot of people lamenting that there are no good vegan biscotti recipes.We've been experimenting a bit, trying recipes for biscotti from a variety of vegan cookbooks, plus we've tried applying the techniques

Cindyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04164869138286266144noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1829951168182182216.post-80779569323498846122008-05-20T18:06:00.003-04:002008-05-21T08:37:21.234-04:00

Dairy-free/Egg-free/Nut-freeAs in "Meet the..."? No. The full name of this recipe is Matzah Bark, and it's something that we make annually at Passover (it's a Jewish holiday in the spring and for eight days, everybody gives up flour, bread, yeast, and pretty much anything that rises or expands). We made this again this year, and ate almost all of it before the kids got anywhere close to having a

Cindyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04164869138286266144noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1829951168182182216.post-23583373159450420292008-05-20T17:42:00.006-04:002008-05-20T18:04:26.802-04:00

Dairy-free/Egg-free/Nut-freeYes, we are the first to admit that our blog has gotten, ahem, stale. Very stale. Nasty-old-bread-that-you-don't-even-want-to-turn-into-French-Toast (if you don't have an egg allergy, and in which case you would use nutritional yeast) stale. In other words, it's been awhile.But, like our waistlines, it's back. Yes, the interminable time on the treadmill and fierce

Cindyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04164869138286266144noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1829951168182182216.post-70802111917836025832008-04-08T21:34:00.003-04:002008-04-27T00:34:56.373-04:00

Dairy-free/Egg-freeOur good friend and neighbor Darcie shared this recipe with us. She made it for her family at Easter; we're about to make it for one of our hubby's birthday. (Before you go thinking we've got more than one husband, remember that "we" isn't the royal "We" - there are two of us, and we've each got one husband. Still with us?) We confess that we haven't tried it, but she said it

Cindyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04164869138286266144noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1829951168182182216.post-43659469789720202782008-04-06T20:54:00.008-04:002008-04-08T23:49:34.493-04:00

Dairy-free/Egg-free/Nut-freeDear Diary,I know it's been a long time since my last entry, but SOO much has been happening! Today I wore my pink capris with the white vee-neck sweater, and yesterday I got a note from that cute boy in my biology class - oh wait. Wrong blog. Just kidding.  It has been a while since we last posted any recipes, but to be truthful we're trying to lay off the baked goods

Cindyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04164869138286266144noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1829951168182182216.post-22333337034178375602008-03-10T21:47:00.007-04:002008-03-20T10:46:41.705-04:00

Dairy-free/Egg-free/Nut-freeWhy are the hamentaschen so happy, you may be asking? Or you may be asking: what exactly is a hamentaschen? In reverse order, a hamentaschen is a triangle-shaped cookie with an exposed fruit filling, traditionally eaten during the Jewish holiday Purim - think Mardi Gras without the parades, liquor, beads, or boobs. Now to the first question: the reason that these

Cindyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04164869138286266144noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1829951168182182216.post-23176945528445211612008-02-11T11:58:00.001-05:002008-02-11T15:25:46.324-05:00

Dairy-free/Egg-free/Nut-freeYou can embellish just about any dry good with chocolate and rainbow or holiday-themed sprinkles, nonpareiles, colored sugar, cupcake decorations, you name it. We recently made chocolate-covered, rainbow-sprinkled pretzel sticks for a Chinese New Year celebration, and they looked like little firecrackers! So cute. We've also covered pretzel mini twists (well, pretzels

Cindyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04164869138286266144noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1829951168182182216.post-82544599334548466022008-02-10T08:48:00.000-05:002008-02-11T14:07:57.619-05:00

Dairy-free/Egg-free/Nut-freeThis recipe couldn't be simpler and is a variation on one that we've made loads of times before. The original actually started out as a Weight Watchers cake, but once we saw that it suited our food allergy requirements, we immediately turned it into an Allergy Foodies cake, and we've rarely gone back to old-fashioned (but food allergy fangled) baking. This particular

Cindyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04164869138286266144noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1829951168182182216.post-17436291763115954872008-02-03T23:27:00.001-05:002008-04-08T22:00:33.492-04:00

Dairy-free/Egg-free/Nut-freeOoowee! We like this cookie - it's fast and fabulous. If you don't have nut allergies, you can add the nuts that the original recipe (courtesy of Duncan Hines) calls for. If you're like us, avoid them like the plague. But, don't avoid this cookie. So, so good. You won't even believe it. And, they taste nothing like cake (which is a good thing).Makes about 3 dozen

Cindyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04164869138286266144noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1829951168182182216.post-27619263608202767782008-02-03T22:34:00.000-05:002008-02-03T23:11:52.567-05:00

Dairy-free/Egg-free/Nut-freeBlack and White cookie aficionados know that a true Black and White cookie is different from a sugar cookie with black and white frosting. However, we have not yet had luck reproducing the texture of a Black and White cookie in a confection that is safe for our kids. So we make our standard, allergy-safe Sweet as Sugar cookies in a round shape and top them with this

Cindyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04164869138286266144noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1829951168182182216.post-53661594293673528892008-02-03T22:24:00.000-05:002008-02-03T23:36:36.292-05:00

Dairy-free/Egg-free/Nut-freeLet's face it. We all look a little better with some concealer on. A little patch here, a blemish there... Evening out the surface a bit never hurt anyone. And when the cover up is as tasty as this, not too sweet, not too bland, no one really minds the fact that you're simply improving upon nature. Again, this recipe comes from the johnandkristie.com web site. Kudos to

Cindyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04164869138286266144noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1829951168182182216.post-46559018281017229962008-02-02T22:23:00.000-05:002008-02-02T22:42:05.295-05:00

Dairy-free/Egg-free/Nut-free Are we dating ourselves by borrowing that classic line from the Brady Bunch? You know the one, when Peter imitates Humphrey Bogart and says "pork chopsh and appleshaushe" in a very Humphrey Bogart-ish voice. No? Well, then, let's just move on.The brownies in the recipe we offered up some time ago are still really good, but they take a lot more effort than this recipe

Cindyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04164869138286266144noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1829951168182182216.post-45388075106686926392008-02-02T21:41:00.000-05:002008-02-02T22:20:48.906-05:00

Dairy-free/Egg-free/Nut-freeWe had a heck of a time finding a sugar cookie recipe that could be rolled out for use with cookie cutters, didn't bake up too hard but also didn't fall apart as soon as you took a bite. Oh, and it had to taste good, too.  Lucky for us, we found this on the johnandkristie.com web site. One batch bakes up into about 3 dozen medium cookies. Your mileage will vary (

Cindyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04164869138286266144noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1829951168182182216.post-12810753104881440062008-02-02T16:35:00.000-05:002008-02-02T21:41:03.332-05:00

Dairy-free/Egg-free/Nut-freeWe love this cake which we think tastes better than the Entenmann's version. We've made it a dozen times and our unsuspecting testers had no idea they were eating allergy-safe crumb cake. In fact, it's so good we've had to stop making it so often.  If you haven't had store-bought crumb cake in a while you would have a hard time distinguishing between the original and

Stacyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03761474403661979595noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1829951168182182216.post-5187883250415437062008-01-07T21:42:00.000-05:002008-01-08T18:16:43.704-05:00

Egg-free/Dairy-free/Nut-freeWe don't know who the genius is that thought up combining salty and sweet and popcorn in one awesome combination, but whoever they are, we owe this brilliantly wonderful person a debt of gratitude and a big kiss on the lips. Not only is this little dish among the best fair fare we have ever tasted, it is totally dairy-free, which is next to impossible to find at your

Cindyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04164869138286266144noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1829951168182182216.post-18736643341967632642008-01-05T22:12:00.000-05:002008-01-08T18:17:01.348-05:00

Egg-free/Dairy-free/Nut-free What a bummer these turned out to be. Other recipes we've tried for cake-mixes-turned-cookie-dough have been good, but not so much with these. To us, they tasted like cake mix, not cookies. Stay tuned, though, for a cake-mix-cookie recipe that is super simple (which makes it super brilliant!) that tastes truly terrific. Ingredients1 box yellow cake mix (read the label

Cindyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04164869138286266144noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1829951168182182216.post-83818961155547033402008-01-05T21:43:00.002-05:002008-07-02T23:34:34.954-04:00

Egg-free/Dairy-free/Nut-freeIn solidarity with our children, it's been a good, long time since we've had any nuts. So long, in fact, that while sampling one of these cookies today, we could swear we tasted a certain nuttiness to them. Knowing the ingredients that go into making them, and that the list included no nuts of any kind, was a huge comfort. These cookies, from the Quaker Oats website,

Cindyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04164869138286266144noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1829951168182182216.post-16296468419857379222008-01-04T12:18:00.000-05:002008-01-08T18:17:48.551-05:00

Egg-free/Dairy-free/Nut-freeThese are so good. The recipe comes from the Silk website, and we're giving it to you exactly as it was written by them. But, we used less chocolate chips than they did, with outstanding results. If you're looking for a crunchy cookie, this one isn't for you. It's soft and light, without being crumbly. Yummy.Ingredients1 cup unsalted butter or organic shortening (we

Cindyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04164869138286266144noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1829951168182182216.post-26478495517275129242008-01-03T21:39:00.000-05:002008-01-08T18:18:20.568-05:00

Egg-free/Dairy-free/Nut-freeThe first of many recipes we've found online, printed and tried. Apparently, it came from Theresa Kingma's cookbook - can't verify it because we got it from a bulletin-board post from someone who got it from this cookbook. But we can verify that it was really good! Our food allergy restrictions happen to include nuts, eggs and dairy (among others), so we use nut-free,

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