I have coaxed you with my review of Cookies for Everone! and enticed you with a giveaway of both the book and Enjoy Life Goodies on One Frugal Foodie (you can still enter through tomorrow, June 29th, so hurry over), but I have one last final tease ... recipes! Yes, if you need a little more incentive, then just try out a recipe for one (or all) of these tasty morsels. Like all of the recipes in Cookies for Everyone!, the following are free of dairy (yes, casein, lactose, whey, etc.), eggs, soy, gluten/wheat, peanuts, and tree nuts. Plus, they use relatively inexpensive ingredients (no xanthan gum or coconut flour found here), are easy to make, and all around kid-friendly. So get baking, and enjoy these gluten-free and food allergy-friendly recipes for People's Choice Chocolate Chip Cookies, Oat Chocolate Chippers, and Munchy Crunch Cookies ...

I am revisiting an oldy-but-goody from my blog for this Frugal Friday for a few good reasons. First off, it is summer, and I love quick and easy stove-top recipes that are fairly light and won't require a lot of (hot) cooking time. Second, did you see this awesome study on mushrooms in the prevention of breast cancer? Plain old, inexpensive button mushrooms nonetheless. Third, mushrooms and parsley can be found in abundance for a great price this time of year ... or perhaps you even have a fresh herb garden sprouting!

If you are planning ahead, prepare the mix for the Mini-Mushroom Parsley Patties sans eggs in advance. Let the flavors sit and meld in your refrigerator for several hours or overnight. Just before shaping into patties and cooking, fold in the eggs. If you are going it egg-free, or using an egg substitute, definitely allow some refrigerator time, as this will also help with the binding. Now, onto the Recipe!

There are so many wonderful food sites out there, but one of my new favorite is Nourish This, created by Kristin O'Connor. The site isn't specifically dairy-free, but rather addresses various food allergies and medical conditions with whole food recipes. I especially love how each recipe is labeled with these items accordingly, nutrition facts are included, and a special "Naturopathic Doctor Says" write-up tells you the benefits of the ingredients used.

The following Shredded Chicken Bake recipe was contributed to us by Kristin, and is free from dairy, eggs, gluten, wheat, peanuts, tree nuts, and soy. Not to mention, the Naturopathic Doctor has a few excellent things to say about the delicious artichoke hearts and fresh spinach baked within this easy and comforting meal ...

One of the most infamous flavor combinations in confection history has to be mint and chocolate; and for good reason, they just taste so darn good together! I think many of you agree. When I asked for your favorite ice cream flavor, Mint Chocolate Chip won hands down. When I asked for a cookie flavor you would like to see, Mint Chocolate received numerous votes. So, I thought it only fitting to ring in the cool and creamy dessert season with a naturally rich Mint Chocolate Mousse.  This deliciously easy recipe is from AllergyCooks (a wonderful food allergy recipe site). It contains just a few ingredients, and is gluten-free, dairy-free, nut-free, vegan, and optionally soy-free.

Yes, another salad dressing. It is summer after all, aaaaand they are just too easy and delicious not to share! Besides, fitting in that big bowl of greens is so much tastier when you have so many wonderful and healthy salad dressings to experiment with. I discovered this fabulously flavorful Sesame-Orange Dressing in the latest issue of Cooking Light. Their version seemed a bit too firey for our tastes, so I toned it down a bit, added some green onions (which melded nicely), thickened the dressing slightly, and doubled the recipe overall. To sweeten the deal, this recipe is low fat (less than 3g of unsaturated fat per serving!), vegan, egg-free, nut-free, soy protein-free, optionally gluten-free, and of course, dairy-free. It goes beautifully over a vegetarian salad of spinach, red bell peppers, carrots, and snow peas (as dished up in the mag) or as I discovered, over a light chicken salad.

We receive so many inquiries about dairy-free "cheese" that it seemed about time we put up a comparison review of the most popular brands. Each of the "cheeses" tested are dairy-free (that means casein-free, lactose-free, whey-free, etc.), gluten-free, and vegan. This review and comparison is from the popular vegan restaurant reviewer, quarrygirl.com.

PIZZA!! it’s the one thing i really miss as a vegan. i fantasize about one day in my future, when nondairy cheese is just as convincing as vegan ice cream—when the soy stuff tastes and feels like the real thing. until then, I am constantly looking for the best solution, even if that means ordering several vegan cheeses online and pitting them against each other in the ultimate pizza challenge. …so here it goes! ...