While I’m spending 24 hours staying up and playing games to raise funds for children’s hospital as part of the Extra Life Event I’m hoping some of you can attend what sounds like one of the best gluten free events to hit the New York City Metro area in awhile: The First Annual GF Oktoberfest. The Read More …
I hope everyone had a Happy Halloween Weekend! The Teal Pumpkin Project has certainly picked up momentum over the past two years, which is a great thing for youth (or youth at heart) with food allergens or other restrictive diets. You can’t scroll a mouse without seeing some great teal pumpkins, which have even been Read More …
**Scroll to the bottom of this post for giveaway details! Two Lucky winners will win a copy of Without Grain and its partner e-book Salads without Grain** We live in a time where cooking gluten free, or grain free, has been made easy thanks to dedicated individuals: Almost anything we may want to modify can Read More …
Are you participating in the Teal Pumpkin Project? Show me your pumpkins if you are! The Teal Pumpkin Project is an effort developed by FARE (Food Allergy Research and Awareness) to improve awareness of and promote inclusion of individuals with food allergies in trick-or-treating and other Halloween activities. The idea is simple: Put a teal Read More …
October’s potluck was an escape from our usual filling plates to something a bit lighter, or so we thought: Appetizers. Quite to my astonishment the majority of items were homemade AND gluten free. The one added bonus of this potluck, aside from the food was the addition of a chalkboard table cloth which is a Read More …
Our next day was spent strolling through the French Quarter, and of course a tour of one of the more well known cemeteries. We started in the French Market, a three hundred year old flea and farmer’s market located along the Mississippi River. Spanning for 6 blocks you can find a great variety of things here including Read More …
In modern culture ‘Basic’ implies that everything we do as individuals must be extraordinary and original if it is to have any meaning and value to us and others, right down to our coffee of choice. If we do anything remotely ‘standard’ there is this implication that we are boring and uneducated, we are #basic. Read More …
Raise your hand if you don’t like brownies. I doubt many hands went up, and with the exception of one friend of mine I can’t think of anyone who doesn’t love a good brownie. But, are you the type of person that loves the gooey inside or the crunchy outer pieces? Me, I’m the latter. Read More …
It’s been awhile since I did a potluck post. The reality is that while we are entering year three of our monthly potlucks I myself do not always have the chance to attend them. I was happy however to attend last night’s Middle Eastern Potluck though, which was one of our last outdoor hurrahs of Read More …
New York City is not lacking in gluten free food options. From 100% gluten free Italian to gluten free friendly Ethiopian you can always find something to appease your taste buds in the city, but sometimes you just don’t have the time for a low key slow paced establishment. A brief walk from Penn Station Read More …
