I went to the Thrive Allergy Expo in Chicago this past weekend, and I had a great time. I met some of our Twitter friends, and I got to try some amazing free samples. I wrote a recap for a website I write for, Chicagoist.com, but I have a few more notes on products that [...]
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Thrive Allergy Expo Recap
April 21st, 2009 3 Comments
Tags: barbecue chicken pizza · bread · candy bars · chicago · chocolate chip cookies · crackers · gf beer · Glutino · Green's · jell-o · kit-kat · meister's · rhubarb · sponge cake · thrive allergy expo · toro
Thrive Allergy Expo: April 18-19, Chicago
April 17th, 2009 6 Comments
In case some Gluties happen to be in Chicago this weekend, come check out this massive GF convention! I wrote up a post about this on Chicagoist.com today, too.
The Thrive Allergy Expo will take place this weekend at McCormick Place, featuring speakers, events and activities all about celiac disease.
Free asthma screening will be available, [...]
Tags: Celiac disease · chicago · chicagoist · Events · gf convention · gf cookbooks · gluten free · green's beers · jules shepard · peaunt allergy · rock'o · thrive allergy expo · university of chicago celiac disease center
Willow Restaurant – Arlington, VA
March 15th, 2009 15 Comments
Friday night, fellow glutie Brooke and I decided to ditch our husbands and grab some grub in Arlington. After hemming and hawing over takeout or making some Bob’s Red Mill gluten free pizzas at my apartment, we decided to head out to Willow Restaurant in Ballston. It’s close by and we were hoping to split some [...]
Tags: arlington va · Bob's Red Mill · Willow Restaurant
Review: Chocolicious, but worth the cost?
January 11th, 2009 5 Comments
Recently, Enjoy Life Foods shared a box of its newest product, boom CHOCO boom bars, to get our opinion. We sampled the milk and dark chocolate as well as the puffed rice version that rivals a Nestle Crunch bar- a treat I certainly miss from my gluten-filled days. These allergen-free bars (Enjoy Life touts that its products [...]
Tags: chocolate · dessert · Enjoy Life Foods · Hershey's · Nestle Crunch
Shaker Apple-Cranberry Coffee Cake
January 4th, 2009 20 Comments
In the spirit of the new year, I was cleaning out some old magazines this morning and randomly decided to adapt this recipe from a recipe entitled “Autumn Apple Cake” in the October 2008 Cooking Light (p. 84).
It was my first baking experience with Bob’s Red Mill Gluten-Free All Purpose flour and I have to [...]
Tags: apple cake · Bob's Red Mill · Cooking Light · DC gluten free restaurants · DC Gluties · gluten free menus · Legal Seafoods · New Year's Eve · Outback Steakhouse · PF Chang's