First harvest of the season! It's always so exciting to start reeping the rewards of all of you hard work all spring! My garden was going strong and then, overnight all of my brassicas started to wilt :(. I was so bummed, especially to see 3 heads of bok choy so wilted they had to be pulled. I figured out the cause (read about it here) and it was spreading so I decided to harvest the 6 heads of baby bok choy that were still looking perfect, then I had to decide how to use them. This was also a ...
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Dairy Free Corn Chowder; Gluten Free, Dairy Free, Soy Free, Nut Free Recipe
One of the best things about holiday cooking are not only the traditional holiday meals, but also the traditional after holiday meals. This one may surprise you but it's become a staple in my house both after Easter and after Christmas with leftover ham. My husband doesn't eat ham and bean soup that my family always made growing up to use the ham bone and leftover ham (I personally love it and have a ham bone in the freezer waiting) so for years I was left questioning "what can I make with ...
Easter Egg Fruit Tray; An Easy Gluten Free, Dairy Free, Soy Free, Nut Free Easter Dish
So, in usual style (which is late), Easter was yesterday. I made a few different spring themed dishes for our Easter brunch, including gf mini chocolate coconut donut bird's nests, a bouquet of flower cupcakes (for my grandma's 86th Birthday which she recently celebrated) AND a few Easter egg fruit trays. I was up early yesterday dunking donuts in chocolate, crafting mini eggs out of coconut and naturally dying icing to make my cupcake flowers when I remembered I had also told my mom I would ...
Bacon Braised Turnip Greens; Gluten Free, Dairy Free, Soy Free, Nut Free Recipe
One, two, three, four....turnip seed packets. Really? I don't even like turnips that much. What was I thinking ordering all of these seeds? I was delusional... mezmorized by these bacon braised turnip greens (specifically, these greens paired with maple glazed pork chops and homemade mashed potatoes). Honesty, you could probably make these with any greens AND if I wasn't so drunk on my new found turnip green love, I probably would have loaded up on beet seeds instead, because I bet the greens ...
Maple Glazed Pork Chops; Gluten Free, Dairy Free, Soy Free, Nut Free Recipe
I made the best meal on Valentine's day - a steakhouse quality meal at home (and with no steak). We always seem to lean towards grass fed filet mignons for special evenings at home but I decided I wanted to make something a little different. I chose to make pork because I decided I was going to make some turnip greens and they sounded good together. So here it is, Maple Glazed Pork Chops. I served them over homemade mashed potatoes with some bacon braised turnip greens. It was ridiculously good ...
Oven Roasted Cauliflower; Gluten Free, Dairy Free, Soy Free, Nut Free Recipe
I started some seeds yesterday, specifically cauliflower (amongst others). Since good organic cauliflower is like $5 per head and we eat it ALL the time I thought I would try and grow some. Whether you're growing it or buying it you need to try out this recipe! This Roasted Cauliflower is a staple at our house. The cauliflower is tender and the bottom gets slightly browned and carmelized. Of course, its wonderful because its naturally gluten free, dairy free, soy free, nut free and egg free. It ...
Elimination Diet Recipes; A Month of Allergen Free Food
I've been a bit MIA since Thanksgiving (other than some cookie posts)....didn't mean to I promise. I was neck deep in garland, and LED Christmas lights with a full fridge (and I mean FULL! ….Turkey, two whole chickens, green beans for an allergen free green bean casserole, and more) when I decided that I was going to help my father-in-law do an elimination diet. He's had a multitude of health problems for years and I can just tell a lot of them are related to food intolerances. Over the last ...
Allergen Free Toasted Coconut Shortbread; Gluten Free, Dairy Free, Soy Free, Nut Free, Egg Free Recipe
Ok, I'm including this Toasted Coconut Shortbread in my Allergen Free Christmas Cookie series of posts (after Christmas) because it uses the same gluten free, dairy free, soy free, peanut free, tree nut free, (coconut is a fruit you know) optional egg and corn free, basic cookie dough that I used as a base for all of the other Christmas Cookies in the series (try them all! Plain sugar cookies, gingerbread cookies, lemon sugar cookies, Raspberry Linzer Cookies and Chocolate Peppermint Drop ...
Allergen Free Chocolate Peppermint Drop Cookies
This is my second to last Allergen free Christmas cookie post for the year and it is definitely one you'll want to save! These Chocolate Peppermint Drop Cookies are reminiscent of those delicious girl scout cookies all of us folks with food intolerances haven't been able to eat (but have been dreaming about) for years. They're also gluten free, dairy free, soy free, and nut free (with options for egg free and corn free). In case you haven't been following my blog - yes, it is January, and yes, ...
Allergen Free Raspberry Linzer Cookies; Gluten Free, Dairy Free, Soy Free, Nut Free, Egg Free Recipe
Day three of my favorite allergy friendly Christmas cookies (after Christmas)! These Raspberry Linzer Cookies that are gluten free, dairy free, soy free, nut free and egg free! If you haven’t been reading my posts you might be confused - Yes it is January, see this post for details and do yourself a favor and pin these for next year...or do what I'm doing and make these sweet cookies for your sweetie on Valentine's day (it's only about 2 weeks away)! Funny but true, my husband didn't actually ...