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Allergy friendly cupcakes for three

I didn’t end up making these for my little dude’s birthday party because I ran out of time and used an allergy free baking mix instead (Cherrybrook Kitchen), but they were great and P loved them so I figured I should share.  If you multiply the recipe by 4 you would have a dozen allergy-friendly-not-too-sweet-but-delicious-and-fluffy-vanilla-flavored muffins.  And if you add frosting they become cupcakes, so there you go. Allergy friendly cupcakes (for three) [gluten free, dairy free, soy free, nut free] Ingredients: 1 egg 2 tbsp sugar 2 tbsp canola oil 1/2 tsp vanilla 1/4 cup… Read more >

February 17, 2015 Uncategorized, Read more >

Dairy trials

A while ago I mentioned I got our allergist’s blessing to do some at home trials with P’s allergens.  For a variety of reasons I was optimistic that it would go well…First off, he was tested way back when he was 9 months old and so much time has passed.  But even more importantly, he had never actually consumed several of the foods he tested positive to so how do we know the blood tests were even accurate.  False positives and negatives are common and there’s also a large scale of immune responses so I didn’t… Read more >

February 13, 2015 Uncategorized Read more >

The weekly menu

This post is laaaaaate…ok, so I’m just going to do both the past two weeks in one post because I am so behind.  I have good excuses – my little man was sick all last week and then he got better and then had an allergic reaction (during a dairy trial) and then all of a sudden it was his birthday!  So I now have a two year old.  Crazy stuff.  How about some food peppered with my random thoughts? Holy crap this was a long time ago.  We went to our friends’ house for a… Read more >

February 12, 2015 Uncategorized Read more >

Warm and wet weekend

What a weird but awesome weekend we had.  Weird in that the weather was semi schizophrenic, Saturday was crazy warm and then Sunday was nothing but a torrential downpour. Fortunately I managed to give Kyle a hair cut on Saturday (we do them outside for easier cleanup) but his half marathon was on Sunday in the MOST miserable conditions ever.  P and I went to cheer him on and had a hard time tracking him because his waterlogged phone broke and he couldn’t communicate at all.  We saw him around mile 9 and then again at… Read more >

February 8, 2015 Uncategorized Read more >

My first plantain

I randomly decided I wanted to try plantains a few weeks ago and so I tracked one down (not hard actually…they’re at WFs) and then it sat in the fruit basket for over a week. I thought it would be good fried for breakfast, like a potato, since it’s a starchy kind of thing.  But I just never got around to it…and next thing I know it’s completely black and getting soft and (ack!) I needed to use it pronto. Thanks to the “paleo world” there are plenty of plantain breads and recipes and such… Read more >

February 5, 2015 Uncategorized Read more >