Spring into Action! It’s Allergy Friendly Friday 4/12/13 and 4/19/13!
Happy Friday, Allergy-friendly Folks!
Hope everyone is enjoying these first weeks of spring. Has anyone found anything popping up in their produce section or farmer’s markets of note? Â I’m waiting eagerly for asparagus and strawberries. I would like to make a plea to all you fabulous cooks out there that we SPRING into ACTION, and start cooking up an allergy-friendly new produce storm.
This ALLERGY FRIENDLY FRIDAY LINKY PARTY WILL RUN FOR TWO WEEKS. I WILL POST THE HIGHLIGHTS ON APRIL 26th, SO LINK AWAY!
I will be in CHICAGO next weekend (Saturday and Sunday 20-21st), at the Gluten and Allergen-Free Expo giving out samples and COUPONS (yay!) for my Cybele’s Free-to-Eat Cookies, so for anyone in the greater Chicago area, please come visit me at booth #218!
 
Thank you for contributing to the last Allergy-Friendly Friday!  Please post your allergy-friendly and/or gluten-free Spring recipes.  Or  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.
- Chocolate Chip Cookies from Hope’s Kitchen
- Cranberry Pecan Chocolate Chip Cookies (sensing a theme, here?) Â from Fox in the Kitchen
- Gluten-Free Zucchini Bread from Plate it Safe
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 Free Recipes for the Chinese New Year on ABC7 LA
This week, I had the pleasure of a visit from Lori Corbin – The Food Coach from ABC7 here in LA. I’ve been hoping The Food Coach would pay me a visit since my last book, so was really thrilled when I got the call that Lori was coming over to check out my new Allergy-Friendly Asian recipes for Chinese New Year, from my new book Allergy-Free and Easy Cooking. For more about the interview, and the recipes featured in this video, plus tips on how to celebrate an allergy-free Chinese New Year, please see the article here.
To purchase, or find out more, Allergy-Free and Easy Cooking
Allergy Friendly Friday 2/17/12
TGIAFF, right? I’m ready to sleep in for a couple of days. And eat some comfort foods. February really is comfort food month, isn’t it? What’s your favorite comfort food? Mine is Shepherd’s Pie. (I’ve got a great new 30 minute Shepherd’s Pie recipe coming to you in my new book, btw) Let’s make the theme of this week’s Allergy Friendly Friday COMFORT FOODS. Allergy-free and/or gluten-free comfort foods. Bring on what you got! I want to sit in front of my TV and eat it!
Thanks for all your great recipe links this past week! I am putting on my nagging hat for a moment: Some great recipes were posted last week, that I would have LOVED to feature, but there were no hyperlinks back to Allergy Friendly Friday. Please remember that for me to feature your recipe, it has to link back to AFF. Okay, nagging hat is coming off again. Some great gluten-free and/or allergy-friendly recipes from last week’s Allergy-Friendly Friday roundup were:
- Spinach Artichoke Dip from Gluten-Free Cat
- Baked Garlic Tomato Salmon (I’m allergic to salmon, not severely, but enough so that I can’t eat it anymore. This has been the hardest of my food allergies for me to live with. I love salmon. This recipe looks beautiful!) from The Liberated Kitchen
- Leslie and Rick’s Homemade Yogurt (the name amused me!) from Sensitive Economist
- Gluten-Free Banana Oatmeal Muffins from PeanutButter, Passports, and Epinephrine (more…)
Allergy Friendly Friday 1/6/12
Allergy Friendly Friday
This is the first Allergy-Friendly Friday post of the new year. I don’t know about you, but I need to revamp my diet a bit after way too much celebratory eating and drinking. I don’t really fit into my pants right now. At least not my muffin top. Tomorrow, I go back to Los Angeles, and I am promising myself a little healthy restraint. Can you help me out by posting your lightest, healthiest, most diet-friendly allergy-free and gluten-free recipes? I would be so grateful! (more…)
Allergy Friendly Friday 10/7/11
Allergy Friendly Friday
(TGIAFF)
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 8/12/11
Allergy Friendly Friday
(TGIAFF)
I just found this picture from a reader named Morgane Lucas McAllister, who made my chocolate cake and buttercream recipes for her son’s 2nd birthday. It made me smile, so I thought I’d share it. She used a Wilton design from their website, and I think it’s adorable! (more…)
Allergy Free Energy Bars
I don’t know about you, but I could use some energy. And I’m not talking about the kind I get from the endless cupcakes and cookies I seem to consume. I’m talking about the kind of energy that comes in an Allergy Free Energy Bar packed full of protein, complex carbs, and healthy fats.
The trick to creating an allergen-free (and refined sugar-free) energy bar is in replacing the ubiquitous nuts. Luckily, as you may already know, I’ve been on a “hemp kick“. Hemp and Flax are fantastic sources of protein and Omega 3 essential fatty acids. To further increase the protein content, I swapped the traditional oats for quinoa flakes (a complete protein, and gluten-free grain), and increased the nutritional profile by using iron-rich molasses in place of sugar or syrups. Dried apricots provide additional fiber, and the healthy complex carbohydrates one needs for balanced nutrition in combo with protein. Last, but certainly not least, coconut oil contains the healthy fats that all growing kids (and hard working adults) need for optimum health. Oh, and one more thing: I’d been looking for a fun way to use Enjoy Life’s fantastic new Granola (other than shoving it by handfuls into my mouth!). It was the perfect centerpiece to build this recipe around. I used Cinnamon Crunch, but you could just as easily use the Cranapple Crunch, or Very Berry Crunch.
Allergy-Free Energy Bars
(Gluten-Free and Nut-Free) Makes 12 bars
These nutritionally dense bars are perfect for breakfast, or an after-school (or camp!) snack. They are easy to make, and will satisfy your sweet craving, without any sugar. In the words of my husband’s Grandma Lily, “WCBB?” (“What could be bad?”)
"Free For All Cooking" Review and BOOK GIVEAWAY!
Free For All Cooking is the third cookbook by renowned gluten-free cooking teacher, Jules E. Dowler Shepard, who is also the brainchild behind Jules Gluten Free, a line of gluten-free flours and mixes.
As you may already know, I’m a big fan of the “Free-From” genre, and am a champion of those furthering its cause. As a member of a household representing food allergies and intolerances to gluten, wheat, tree nuts, dairy, shellfish, fish, kiwi, and formerly soy and eggs, I know how hard it can be to find recipes that are safe for all. So hats off to Jules for answering that call!