It’s kind of funny that one of my earliest recipes has suddenly become one of the most searched, so I’m bringing it back to the forefront with a new picture and a printable recipe card. And it totally deserved this, because I had forgotten how really, truly delicious this icing is. Before I began doing…
3 Things You Need to Pack A Travelling Kitchen (Like a Boss)
After my son was diagnosed with severe food allergies, I became something of an antisocial hermit. I hated to eat at other people’s places, I hated dining out, and I really hated having to travel–it inevitably meant that I’d have to do one or both other things, and several times in a row. My family, bless their…
No-Machine Ice Cream
Creamy Vegan Four Grain Soup
I made an awesome vegan soup. One that you can feed to all your carnivorous friends and they will like it. I know this because my husband had seconds of this recipe. He is always “meh” about soup, especially if it includes “hippie things” like wild rice. So, I’ve been bragging about my awesome vegan dish….
Make Your Own Tahini
Tahini, a paste made from roasted sesame seeds, is one of those unusual foods that has gotten slapped with the labels “ethnic” and “vegan.” That’s no reason to give it the cold shoulder. The odds are that you probably have had tahini pass your lips, though, especially if you’ve ever enjoyed a hummus dip. I…
Fighting Food Allergy Bullying
There’s a lot of positive movement working against bullying right now. Unfortunately, there’s one type of bullying that many people haven’t heard of, and in it, food can be used as a deadly weapon. In a report released late last year, nearly half of kids with food allergies say that they were the target of…
The Why of Scratch
Chocolate Frosting
By popular request! I have duplicated my dairy-free chocolate frosting experiment, and better yet, this time I actually wrote down the recipe. I should point out here that you needn’t feel compelled to use this recipe, or indeed, any recipe I write exactly as written. All of my recipes are tested and designed to work…
BBQ Season Incoming
A new Epinephrine Auto-Injector
A set of twins have created a new type of Epinephrine auto-injector called the Auvi-Q (a.k.a. Allerject in Canada). The Auvi-Q’s highest touted feature is that, once removed from its protective case, it provides audible step-by-step instructions. The Auvi-Q will walk a person through activating, where to site the injection, and also provide a spoken…