In the United States, we generally use cups and teaspoons/ tablespoons to measure our ingredients. However, using a scale to measure your ingredients is far more precise. Lately, a lot of people have been asking me about substitutions in my recipes either because they...

Well, the past two weeks have been a little crazy. To say the least.

I found out last week that I am doing another book and that this one will be about gluten, dairy, soy, nut and egg-free comfort foods....

Well, the holidays are upon us. There's no turning back now, so I figured I ought to get out my spritz gun already. I have to admit that I strongly dislike using this Scandinavian device, for despite the fact that my mother can screw...

Notice that the peanut butter part of this recipe title is in quotation marks. You're probably a little confused right now, but not to worry. This holiday favorite really is nut free despite the fact that it tastes like peanut butter.

A few years...

In my family, the arrival of English toffee on the scene means but one thing: Christmas is on the horizon. So, with December upon us and all of my Christmas shopping ahead of me, I thought I'd show you an easy way to make a sure-fire, allergy-free crowd-pleaser. It makes...

I don't know about you, but as someone with multiple food allergies, the parties that I most dislike attending are those that only serve passed hors d'oeuvres. Inevitably, these are the parties that leave me starving and grumpy by the end of the night,...

That's right. That's not a typo. I really meant to say "stuffing cornbread" and not cornbread stuffing.

Sometimes, we with food allergies often have to get to our favorite dishes in roundabout ways. For example, I can't just eat a batch...

Have you thought about Thanksgiving yet? I think about it all the time. It's looming just three weeks away, and I am really sweating it out. In fact, I woke up last night in the middle of the night, shook my husband awake and asked: "How are we going to...

Well, Halloween is behind us, and if you are anything like me, you have been planning your Thanksgiving menu since August. OK, so that might be a little extreme, but maybe it's safer to say that you've been planning your menu since your latest...

I don't know about you, but sometimes my food allergies make me want to throw a pity party for myself.

I know, it sounds ridiculous, but I live in NYC and hang with a pretty foodie crowd, so sometimes it feels unfair that I've been dealt this egg-free, wheat-free hand....

Happy Passover everyone! This is a big week whether you are Christian or Jewish: Passover is tomorrow night and Easter's at the end of the week. This, of course, means that there is lots of cooking to be done.

So, I'm going to get right to it and hand over...

It's Sunday. It's pouring "cats, dogs and buckets," according to my six year old. We're all bored out of our gourds.

So, you know what I do when I get bored? I hit the laboratory, also known as my kitchen. It was not until I started baking full-time that I...

If there is one kind of food that I love more than anything in the world, it's easy food, and there is no easier food to make than plantain.

The other day, I walked past Flor de Mayo and recalled my love of fried, sweet plantains. Rarely, I forget and...

I'm a chocoholic. I cannot help it. I think about chocolate. I dream about chocolate. I eat chocolate. On my first ever trip to Paris, I didn't care about anything else but getting to the tour at Maison du Chocolat. I'm interested in where it comes from and everything about...

Yesterday morning, I woke at 5:00 AM to get ready for the TV segment about Allergy-Free Desserts for Better TV. I should have known from the moment that I woke up and heard rain drops tapping on our air conditioner that this day was going to be full of surprises.

It happens every year, and I'm not telling you this as a braggart: we go on vacation.

This should be a happy time. It's February in New York, and a blizzard swept up the Northeastern seaboard the night that we left. I, on the other hand, am on a beach...

Have you seen my Facebook profile shot lately?

If you have, then you know that I love whipped cream and that I am hooked on a great new gluten, dairy (casein), soy, nut and egg-free whipped "cream" called SoyaToo Rice Whip. Ever since I started baking allergy-free desserts, whipped cream...

I'm all for traveling. Or at least I was before I was diagnosed with food allergies. Now, if I am traveling in the US, I feel confident that I will not have a problem finding things to eat wherever I go. However, when I leave the country, all bets are...

The other day, I was having lunch with my friend, my cooking and baking-challenged friend. She told me of the argument that she had had earlier that morning with the architect heading the renovation of her apartment. My friend lobbied for a kitchen-free loft, while the architect countered that to...