Tasty Tidbits  - The Allergiesandme.com Blog

Football is in the air and that means SuperBowl parties! This can be a little tricky for those with food allergies and food intolerances. I just added a new gluten free appetizer recipe to the site today, Gluten Free Minced Meatballs with Savory Ginger Dipping Sauce. That's a mouthful to say, but very tasty. This recipe was contributed by Terry Traub, author of "Food to Some, Poison to Others". Try it and let me know how many people ask for the recipe!
                                          

In honor of Valentine's Day, we added some wonderful Gluten,Wheat and Cholesterol free dark chocolate bars from Yamate Chocolatier:  Cocoa Nibs Dark Bar, Cranberry Walnut Dark Bar and Tart Cherry Dark Bar.

Now, I have made myself hungry...time for a snack!

Hope this finds all of you well and getting ready for the rest of the month's holiday events.

I found a great new group in my own "backyard" over the weekend. The Tampa Bay Celiacs had their Annual Gluten-Free Holiday Cookie Exchange on Saturday...and Allergiesandme.com was invited. I met several of the group's members and the leader, Janet. It was a really nice experience and I hope to attend some of their upcoming meetings to learn more about their individual issues and needs...and to get an even better understanding of the daily struggles that people living without gluten face. This helps me to provide the needed resources to my customers. For my contribution, I brought gift bags that included the Gingerbread Man and Snowman cookies from "Cookies...for Me?" and the Thai Chi Biscottea cookies...seemed to go over well!

I would like to mention some of the other vendors I met at the meeting that are providing local goods and services. Allergiesandme.com is always looking for resources and if you are in Florida, please check them out.

Mrs. Madewell Baker, www.mrsmadewell.com
Tina  Turbin at GlutenFreehHelp,  www.glutenfreehelp.info
Lynn with The Cookie Momsters,  www.cookiemomsters.com
Morty with Katz Gluten Free,  www.katzglutenfree.com
Viitals Cafe, www.viitals.com

Until next time......

Jamie

Hello everyone,

As you will notice in the coming months and years with me, I love cooking and love eating even more!

To this end, I am constantly searching for cooks and their favorite recipes to post for your enjoyment as well.

Today, I have just added a new cookbook author to the website. Her name is Jennifer Cinquepalmi. Her story includes having two of her three children diagnosed with Celiac Disease in 2001. She was then faced with the task of providing meals that were gluten-free, but were also great tasting for the rest of the family. From this, two cookbooks were born. You can read more about Jennifer and her cookbooks at www.aidantbooks.com.
You can check out our first recipe that appears in both of her cookbooks on our Recipe page:Dutch Baby Pancakes.

Try this one over the weekend and let me know what you think.

Have a safe and happy weekend with your families.

Jamie