Allergy Friendly Friday 10/7/11

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Allergy Friendly Friday

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Our team in the Kitchen at the GF/AF EXPO Dallas: Chef Castano Penn, Chef Denise O’Dean SanFilippo, and Chef David Shaw

Last Friday, I traveled to Dallas for the Gluten and Allergen-Free Expo and Vendor Fair, which was a smashing success, with over 2000 visitors passing through the vendor fair, and all the cooking classes extremely well attended. I spent a good 10 hours baking and cooking in the kitchen you see pictured above, and quite literally never left the hotel once all weekend!  I walked through the doors at 4:00pm on Friday, and walked out at 1:00pm Sunday, got back in my rental car, and drove back to the airport. It was a great weekend, but a crying shame I never got to see a glimpse of the city, particularly since both my maternal grandparents were from Texas, albeit, Amarillo, which they always described as “dust-bowl”. (more…)

Allergy Friendly Friday 9/23/11 and 9/30/11

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UPDATE: PLEASE NOTE THAT ALLERGY FRIENDLY FRIDAY WILL BE UPDATED AFTER TWO WEEKS, JUST THIS ONE TIME, WHILE I’M IN TEXAS, SO KEEP ADDING YOUR LINKS!

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Suzanne Goin (My Favorite Chef)

On Wednesday, I participated in a charity event with Frigidaire and Jennifer Garner for Save the Children, called “Talk Turkey”.  Suzanne Goin, chef/owner of not one, but TWO of my favorite restaurants in the whole world (A.O.C. and Lucques) did a Thanksgiving Cooking demo for us. Here she is holding a slice of her Pumpkin Streusel Cake.  It’s sort of a pie-like cake, so she called it a “P’Cake”.  She was as lovely as her food is. Here’s a closeup of the P’Cake with crème fraîche and maple ice cream, drizzled with maple syrup.

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Allergy Friendly Friday 9/16/11

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I’m excited to have a lot of fun events coming up. Please see here for the fall schedule, and please come join me at any or all of them.  I’m also about to embark on a familiar journey: Single Parenting. My husband leaves Los Angeles next week for SIX MONTHS. He’s going to New York for work (he’s an actor), and I’m staying here, with my kids, so as not to pull them out of school and disrupt their life too much. I’ve been down this road before. After the birth of my second son, Monte, I single parented for 7 months. (that sucked with a toddler and a baby!) A couple of years ago, I was a single parent for over a year. There have been other stints, 3 months here, 3 months there… We always get through it, and I find myself falling into a whole new rhythm of family life.  But it’s not easy. I have so much respect for all the single parents out there.  Single parents, unite! (more…)