“Do you have any allergies?” It’s the question you know you have to ask any guests before they come over, but sometimes, when the answer is yes, it’s tough to come up with recipes that work well for everyone while accommodating allergies. I often…
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Sometimes when we are having some friends over and they have kids in tow, I will slice up an apple while they wait for me to get dinner ready. I am usually astonished at how quickly the apple vanishes, and how soon they ask…
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British flapjacks are a gluten-free oat bar (much like a granola bar) traditionally made with just oats, fresh or dried fruit, butter, brown sugar and syrup (golden or maple). This recipe calls for oats, nuts, dried apples and cranberries, applesauce and maple syrup. Find…
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When peaches are in season, there’s few things I crave more than peaches and cream in various forms: peaches and plain yogurt with a dash of vanilla or a sprinkling of vanilla granola, peaches on cereal with milk, peaches and ice cream and just…
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During the recent heatwave, some friends were commenting on Facebook about how they notice they get headaches more frequently during the heat. I also experience this, so I was interested to see the remedies people suggested. One person mentioned that heat headaches can be…
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When strawberries are in season, I know I just want to eat them every sweet way possible – on crêpes with Nutella, with shortbread and vanilla ice cream, in a smoothie or sorbet…the list goes on. But sometimes strawberries can really hit the spot…
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My son turned two last week, and while we did make him the obligatory cake, he was way more interested in the new toy helicopter and raspberries that topped in. In fact he ate ALL of the raspberries off the cake and only licked…
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I recently watched the movie, “That Sugar Film,” and was inspired once again to cut out hidden sugar in my diet and to re-start my low-sugar lifestyle.. The filmmaker in the movie, who had normally been on a low-sugar diet, decided to up his…
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Not that long ago, the temperatures were in the 90s, and all I wanted to do was eat or drink things that were FREEZING COLD. However, as I now look out my window at the dreary day and torrential rainfall, those days seem long…
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I have recently traveled from Pennsylvania to south Florida. South of Maryland, I started to notice that the restaurants we stopped in had only one kind of tea: sweet tea. It’s the classic drink in the American south, a refreshing antidote to the thick…
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