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Practical articles on cooking, labels, FODMAP, histamine and life with food intolerances.
I love a good baking mix, don't you?
A few good gluten-free baking mixes in the cupboard mean you can always include your allergic family and friends — and no one will know the difference.
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DO YOU KNOW ABOUT FODMAP?
It’s an abbreviation of different types of fermentables and sugars, which for people with sensitivity and not least IBS (irritable bowe…
WAS IT A GOOD "ALLERGY"- SUMMER?
Yes, the allergies were doing great, me not so much. I love summer and warm weather. But the summer and grass pollen did not love me back. This year was pretty bad for Luxembourg. A lot of people even…
AN APPLE A DAY KEEPS THE DOCTOR AWAY - until it does not.
Life with food challenges keeps evolving. I know this. I have had years where, despite IBS and problems with fructose especially apples, I could still have ½ apple during the pollen season and be ok…
FOOD FRIENDS
The people who effortlessly include me in the plans for food. Where a 'sorry' is not needed. A …
Meal planning
During the last year of staying much more at home, food has been a challenge in most households. It’s either a matter of inspiration or interest. In our household, I normally go shopping every few da…
I didn’t- almost- did you?
I really did not vacation yet- except we spent a lovely long weekend in Champagne and had this- isn’t it beautiful? Clearly with wheat and sulfite allergy and sensitivity to yeast, this was NOT my be…
The season of allergies takes many forms
The allergy season is now at the highest. In preparation for this year’s season, we have had to say goodbye to our birch. We have had this for more than 20 years, but due to my allergies, which every …
(luxury) fight for allergy-friendly daily bread
It’s been a while, but I have been travelling and in preparation for that working on the ‘daily bread’ . Does it matter to bring flour mix and bread or could you simply eat whatever? You decide what …
Migration geese a sign of spring?
We got the most perfect early spring day yesterday and in the middle of the day a huge flock of migrating geese passed our garden. Such a sign of the start of Spring, so I immediately started thinking…
Histamine overload- is that a ‘thing’?
Over the past few weeks, I have had to dig into the subject of histamine overload again. It is not an allergy, but I started looking into a few of my January comfort eats and the histamines – and tho…
It’s cold outside- time for comfort food
Now we are hitting February with snow and cold all over the world. In my little world it’s been a week with Mary Poppins in the cinema ( Go see it: It is a great movie- the music, the hope and it is h…
Happy New Healthy Year
As we are heading for 2019, I am spending some of my day preparing food for tonight- inclusive something i do not eat- but my family love. Not everyone’s taste, but they did turn out great- pork scrat…
Happy any food allergy friendly Christmas
I find it hard every year to not become a food Grinch for Christmas and yet avoid allergy attacks. Where we celebrate, changing the general menu is a no-go, so I am baking additional bread today and b…
Reading food labels- don’t forget
I do not often use bacon because of the histamines, BUT once in a while for a good winter and venison pasta dish it adds a certain something. Yesterday was just such a day and not reading the label- I…
Wheat free Gnocci?
This week, i tried for wheat free Gnocci- well for the second time. I finally took advice from an Italian friend before this my second attempt- 3 eggs to 900 g potatoes and 300 g corn flour- a bit of …
Lesson learned this week: flu and baking makes happy birds
I learned a new lesson this week: You see, I get energetic, when I get high fever. Do you remember that old commercial with the pink bunny and the batteries? That’s me with a fever. I can not be in m…
Welcome
I am so excited to start sharing recipes with you. Technology unfortunately seems to be slowing me down rather than helping. Sorry for that- and hope you will follow me on that journey anyway. I deci…
Bitters for everything
Summer is signaling the lovely long days and open windows- and it signals the arrival of flies and mosquitos. I have found that getting enough bitter-tasting foods is helping. I had started looking in…
The story of a logo
This logo has my story: I love reality spiced with the absurd. I just had this picture in my head with the saying – ‘and pigs can fly too’- but I did not want a pig as my logo.
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