Category: How To Tutorials

Grilled Pineapple – A How To Photo Tutorial

admin October 8, 2013 3 Comments
Have you ever eaten at a Brazilian barbeque restaurant?  We went to one a few weeks back for our wedding anniversary.  Oh. My. Goodness.  Okay, if you are a vegan or vegetarian this is NOT the place for you.  But meat lovers...this is the place to go!  (By the way, I don’t consider myself a meat lover.  I eat meat, but it’s not my first food love).  However, we LOVED this place from...

How To Make A “Can” of Condensed Cream Of Chicken Soup – A Photo Tutorial

admin September 16, 2013 10 Comments
If you are wanting to make a casserole that uses condensed cream soups, you are out of luck if you are dairy or gluten free.   Or maybe you just ran out, don't want to run to the store, and would like to make your own.  Here is a step by step photo tutorial to help you out.  Making your own cream soups is much easier than one would think. 1.  Cook and cut up 1 to 1 1/2 cup chicken (use...

Produce Wash

admin June 16, 2013 2 Comments
It would be wonderful if we all could buy organic fruits and vegetables.  But for many it is not affordable or accessible.  Now I do not know if a produce wash is scientifically better than water for washing produce or not, but I do know that it eases my mind a little bit.      For strawberries, I usually mix a recipe of produce wash and soak the berries in it.  Then I drain them and rinse...

How To Know When Your Avocado is Ripe and Ready

admin May 15, 2013 2 Comments
Have you ever cut an avocado open and it’s just mush?  Or how about cut one open and it’s so hard you cannot scoop it out?  Do you struggle with knowing when an avocado is “just right” to eat?   I did until I found a great tip about avocado readiness.  I like to give credit where credit is due, but I have been using this tip for so long now, I am not sure where I read it or found...

Allergy Free Grocery Shopping – Part 3

admin March 2, 2013 2 Comments
In this last post about Allergy Free Grocery Shopping, I will address some ideas for those of you who do not have access to a Trader Joe’s or Whole Foods.  Here is what I would do.  Scour the internet for anything that is not perishable.  If I did not have a Whole Foods, I would probably purchase all my flours and starches online and probably even pasta.  Here are several resources for...

Allergy Free Grocery Shopping – Part 2

admin February 28, 2013 7 Comments
The last post was a summary of my grocery shopping for allergy free foods.  (You may want to re-read it as I added some new information). Today I will talk about my weekly shopping and how I keep costs down.   I hit two stores each week.  I head to Aldi and my list is pretty long for there.   At one point I typed up a list of everything I buy at Aldi for a friend.  While I still have the...

Allergy Free Grocery Shopping – Part 1

admin February 27, 2013 1 Comment
Allergy free eating is not cheap.  But that is okay; there are ways to make it more affordable.   By eliminating your food allergens you will invariably start cooking more whole foods and less processed food.  Processed food is expensive, so you will cut out that expense.  But you are also cutting out food that is chuck full of sodium, additives, gmo’s and so much more non-food food. Since...

How To Cut A Pineapple-Photo Tutorial

admin December 17, 2012 0 Comments
Pineapples have been on sale lately.  I never used to buy them whole because cutting one up seemed daunting.  But I have been buying fresh pineapples (only when on sale)  for about two years now.  Here are some pictures on how to cut a pineapple. It's that simple.  Buy fresh pineapple and you will never go back to canned!

The Whys and Hows of Making a Good Homemade Soup

admin November 20, 2012 7 Comments
I love making homemade soups; for so many reasons.  First, they are a great one pot meal.  Second, they are healthy.  Third, it is a good way to get vegetables into children.  Fourth, they taste so much better than a soup from a can, not to mention much lower in sodium. Fifth, they are fun and easy to put together.  Sixth, canned soups may contain food allergens.  Seventh, many...

Why You Should Make Your Own Caramel Dip and How To Photo Tutorial

admin November 3, 2012 18 Comments
Caramel dip with apples is an autumn treat that the milk allergic cannot enjoy.  Store bought caramel dip is loaded with milk, butter, cream and the like.  But I have come up with five reasons that everyone, regardless of allergies or not, should make their own caramel dip. It is easy to make. It has only 3 ingredients. The store bought kind has 17 (I counted them at the store yesterday)...