Welcome to the Blog:
A source of information about common food allergens and links to recipes which don’t contain them
Peppermint meringues
Since Thanksgiving I’ve been thinking about peppermint. Dreaming about peppermint. I wanted to find a holiday recipe highlighting the flavor, so I started searching…and found this colorful tasty peppermint treat.
Egg-free meringue cookies
A good meringue has a lovely crunch when you bite into it, then melts into sweet happiness in your mouth. Aquafaba absolutely shines as an egg replacement in meringue recipes, providing the lift, airiness, and melt-in-your-mouth quality required.
Baking with aquafaba
Numerous aquafaba recipes have popped up on the internet, and the first one that I tried was… muffins. Have I mentioned that I love muffins?
Allergen-free whole grain bread: Part 3
Remember the challenge I had using my old hand mixer to make dough for the first bread trial? Well, I decided that this bread-making enterprise was a good excuse to replace the old relic with a beautiful heavy-duty KitchenAid stand mixer. That’s reasonable, right? Right!
Making allergen-free whole grain bread: Part 2
For my second bread trial I approached the issue of allergens from another angle, by choosing a recipe free of any ingredients needing to be replaced, other than gluten.
Making allergen-free whole grain bread: An experiment
One of my dearest goals in life is to figure out how to make a decent allergen-free whole grain bread. And muffins. Especially muffins.
Allergen-free vanilla extract
One of the many problems faced by baked-good lovers with food allergies is that seemingly innocuous common baking ingredients contain hidden allergens. Here’s how you can make allergen-free vanilla extract using just two ingredients.