Oh the dramas of Celiac disease. (Is it a disease? It’s not contagious or anything. It makes one wonder what qualifies something as a disease rather than a condition or syndrome. It’s definitely uncomfortable and complicated –putting the dis to every definition of ease I can think of.) The world is catching up slowly to [...]
Archive for the ‘gluten free’ Category
(No) Turkey Day
Posted: November 23, 2011 in celiac, food, food innovations, gluten free, holidays, humor, recipes, thanksgivingTags: allergies, celiac, family, gluten, gluten free, thanksgiving, tofurkey, turducken, turkey
This is the first Thanksgiving without Turkey for me. Celiac disease sprang a lot of dietary restrictions on me, not the least of which is a seemingly endless list of food allergies. No peanuts, onions, eggs, crab and, you guessed it, TURKEY. Very annoying especially since I have been jonesing for “Turducken” every since I [...]
Horny Goat’s Heritage meats
Posted: November 21, 2011 in celiac, farming, food, food activism, gluten free, heritage farm, holidays, organic, urban farmTags: farm, food, gluten free, grocery, local farm, online shopping, organic meat
It sounds like a porn movie. And not one I’d want to see. But actually Horny Goat Heritage Farm is something I found while link surfing one of my favorite foodie sites. Local Harvest is a great place to find local farms, community gardens, farmer’s markets no matter where you are or where you may [...]
Gotta give The Smart Cookie Cook a hand
Posted: October 25, 2011 in food innovations, gluten free, halloween, holidays, humor, recipesTags: candy, caramel corn, halloween, hands, humor, recipe, spooky, taste, trick or treat
http://thesmartcookiecook.com/2011/10/24/halloween-popcorn-hands/ If you’ve been searching the web for some ideas of tricky treats, look no further! At the top of my wordpress thinks you’ll like this blog list was the smart cookie cook and a Halloween spooky sweet that is both a brilliant holiday decoration and a treat for the morbid little sugar addicts [...]
One of the joys of celiac disease is constant changing allergies due to inadvertant exposure to gluten (cross-contamination in restaurants or mislabelling of products or my favorite: indifferent chefs or waiters) and the question of what can I eat today? Last night was grilled tuna steaks (overcooked by my lover who insisted that searing could [...]
