Cybele Pascal

Allergy Friendly Father’s Day and Allergen Free Food Market Shows no Signs of Slowing

cybele — Sat, 15 Jun 2013 22:13:10 +0000

Dear Readers: I want to tell you about a few things. First, my food allergic son Lennon woke up this morning requesting rice cakes with sliced avocado and salt for breakfast. I am both thrilled and confounded by this. I’m thrilled that he leans towards the nontraditional, allergen-free option, but confounded by his lack of craving for protein. Getting enough protein into Lennon is a running problem. He will eat hot dogs, chicken apple sausage, occasionally a fried egg (he is not allergic to eggs, in case you are wondering “WHAT’S SHE TALKIN’ ‘BOUT?!”), and chicken in various incarnations. This week, he’s expressed a love of mild chicken curry, so I made up a pot of Japanese-Style Chicken Curry (recipe to come in the Fall edition of Allergic Living Magazine), to which he declared, “This is some GOOD curry”. I felt triumphant. But it is an ongoing battle to fill him with nutrients to keep him growing.

I wonder how many of you out there experience this too in your daily lives? What sorts of things do you feed your picky eaters? What do you do to fill the protein quota in your food allergic child’s diet? Should I come out with a breakfast protein cookie? Please let me know with a comment about both questions.

The good news is I just came back from the KeHE Distributor show in Chicago, and Free-From options were front and center, as you can see from the “Free-From” display that welcomed attendees the moment they walked through the door. This is a rapidly growing category, which is good for those of us who eat an Allergy-Friendly diet. More and more options will be made available to us, in the next few months, and years.

Upon my return h0me from Chicago, I got the following newsletter from New Hope, with the headline announcing:

Allergen-free food market shows no signs of slowing

I encourage you to check this article out. What other items would you like to see added to those shelves above? I’m listening, intently. And I promise, that what I’ll make you, will taste really really good!

Welcome back to Allergy-Friendly Friday! This week, we are celebrating Allergy-Friendly Father’s Day. Please add your best Allergy-Friendly recipe links for the father’s in your life.

Here are the recipe highlights from the last roundup. Remember, the featured recipes are also being featured on my Allergy-Friendly Friday Highlights Pinterest board, so check them out there, along with other featured allergy-friendly recipes from weeks past. If you have been featured, I encourage you to grab the Allergy Friendly Friday Badge from my right sidebar and share it on your blog, so others know you’ve got a featured recipe on Allergy-Friendly Friday.

Middle Eastern Couscous with Butternut Squash and Dried Apricots from The Fussiest Eater
Asian Lettuce Wraps from For This Season
Vanilla Cream Parfaits with Gingersnap Granola from Gabriela’s Health Coaching + Natural Skin Care

Please add your allergy-free and/or gluten-free recipe links to Allergy-Friendly Friday. PLEASE remember you have to link back from your post, for me to feature your recipe. That means link WITH A HYPERLINK THAT LINKS BACK HERE. When you link back to this post, you can share both your own and everybody else’s.And remember, I specialize in creating gluten-free recipes that are free of the top 8 food allergens, but yours do not have to be. They just have to be allergy-friendly in SOME way.

Just remember:

Please link back to this post so your readers can find all the recipes. This is a sharing page.
Link to your recipe, not to your homepage.
Recipes do not have to be completely allergen-free, just allergy-friendly in some way.
When you link, let us know who you are. For example, I might add Allergy-Friendly Halloween Cupcakes (cybele@cybelepascal.com)

Allergy Friendly Friday 5/31/13 and 6/7/13

cybele — Fri, 31 May 2013 19:13:03 +0000

I’ve been a very bad blogger. Very bad indeed. All I can offer, by way of explanation, is that sometimes life gets in the way. And boy, oh boy, does it ever. Without getting into the down and dirty details (kids, school issues, too much work, cookie business, out of town event almost every weekend, swamped… you get the picture), please know, I’m coming back.

In the meanwhile, if you just happen to be in the San Francisco area, please join me this SUNDAY, JUNE 2nd, from 12-1 at the Gluten-Free Grocery

Thank you for contributing to the last Allergy-Friendly Friday!

4-Ingredient Steak Marinade from Not Missing a Thing
Brownies (brownie-sin-leche-apta-aplv-sin-frutos secos, sin soja) from Cocina Amiga
Strawberry Rhubarb Chia Seed Jam from Live Free, Gluten Free

Just remember:

Please link back to this post so your readers can find all the recipes. This is a sharing page.
Link to your recipe, not to your homepage.
Recipes do not have to be completely allergen-free, just allergy-friendly in some way.
When you link, let us know who you are. For example, I might add Allergy-Friendly Halloween Cupcakes (cybele@cybelepascal.com)

Allergy Friendly Mother’s Day

cybele — Sat, 11 May 2013 02:25:52 +0000

I’m a mother. You probably already know that if you are reading this post. I am the mother of two wonderful boys, Lennon and Monte. And my primary identity is as a mother. First and foremost, that’s what I am.

But on Mother’s Day, I don’t think about myself, and my motherhood. I think about my mother, Susanna. I think of myself as the child, and my mother is the object of celebration.

My mother is turning 70 this year, the day after Mother’s Day. She is coming to visit me. I’m very happy to be able to share both Mother’s Day and her big birthday with her this year. Usually, she’s back East, and I’m here in LA. My mind is already turning, with “What are we going to eat, to celebrate?” I think I will make her a Key Lime pie. I don’t do this very often, because as they say, juicing Key Limes is like milking a mouse. But for my mother, I’ll bust out the old glass juicer, and squeeze those little key limes dry.

What will you be making for Mother’s Day this year? Calling all Allergy-Friendly and/or Gluten-Free Mother’s Day treats!

Thank you for contributing to the last two weeks of Allergy-Friendly Friday! SOMETHING A LITTLE SAD HAS BEEN HAPPENING, THOUGH. A LOT OF YOU, WHO HAVE GORGEOUS RECIPES THAT I’D LIKE TO BE ABLE TO FEATURE, AREN’T LINKING BACK. YOU MUST LINK BACK TO THIS SITE TO BE FEATURED. IT’S A SHARING PARTY

Zucchini Pizza Appetizers from Allergy-Free Vintage Cookery
Meat Cake from A Life Unprocessed
Easy Cauliflower Crust Pizza from Sandi’s Allergy Free Recipes

Just remember:

Please link back to this post so your readers can find all the recipes. This is a sharing page.
Link to your recipe, not to your homepage.
Recipes do not have to be completely allergen-free, just allergy-friendly in some way.
When you link, let us know who you are. For example, I might add Allergy-Friendly Halloween Cupcakes (cybele@cybelepascal.com)