Allergy Friendly Friday 7/22/11
Allergy Friendly Friday
(TGIAFF)
Thanks for your comments last week on Allergy-Friendly Friday. I was very interested to learn which foods people find it hard to live without. Seems like white bread comes up over and over! I am happy that the No Tomato Tomato Sauce from Real Food Forager aready came in handy for Sara! (more…)
Allergy Free Chicken Tenders
I’ve often said “you can work without eggs if you have wheat, you can work without wheat if you have eggs, but what do you do if you can’t have either?”. I spend my days finding ways to bake and cook without wheat (gluten) AND eggs. (and also without dairy, soy, tree nuts, peanuts, fish, and shellfish, but that’s not really relevant here!). I’ve gotten pretty adept at baking without these two mainstays of western baking, and actually delight in baking allergy-free, and vegan. But what about breading for our favorite entree comfort foods? Again, reliant on the wheat/egg duo of binding, and breading for the resultant crunchiness. Well, many years ago, when I was writing my first cookbook, The Whole Foods Allergy Cookbook, I discovered that I could make a “mock egg” for breading purposes, by emulsifying olive oil and rice milk. It worked like a charm, and I’ve been doing it ever since. Read on to find out how to make homemade allergy free, gluten-free chicken tenders, the ultimate in kid-friendly finger food. Enjoy!
Allergy Free Mac n’ Cheese
After a whirlwind weekend in Chicago, I’m back from a super fun time at the Gluten and Allergen-Free Expo, where I met up with many of my favorite colleagues in the world of Allergen-Free and Gluten-Free Cooking. It was fabulous to hang out with the talented Elana Amsterdam of Elana’s Pantry, (come back next week to enter for the giveaway of her brand-spanking-new book Gluten-Free Cupcakes). Also thrilled to meet the lovely Amy Green of Simply Sugar & Gluten-Free, the dynamo, Silvana Nardone, author of Cooking for Isaiah, Alisa Fleming of Go Dairy Free, Kelly Brozyna of The Spunky Coconut, Shirley Braden of GFE, Carol Kicinski of Simply Gluten-Free, the Living Without crew of sweet Alicia Woodward, Beth Hilson, and the sublime Sueson Vess (also of Special Eats), the legendary Carol Fenster of The Savory Palate, Kim Maes of Cook It Allergy Free (the app!), the Welcoming Kitchen ladies, Megan Hart and Kim Lutz, and many many more (if I keep going this will read like a verbose Academy Awards acceptance speech, let the cue music begin!)
This weekend I taught a class in which I demoed my Allergy-Free Red Velvet Cake and my Allergy-Friendly Old-Fashioned Mac n’ Cheese. Many of you who couldn’t be there this past weekend have asked me to post the recipe. I’ve done one better and am posting both the recipe, and the video, so you can follow along if you like. Enjoy!