Erika Waz, Tummy Treasures and Kids Cuisine ~ Peanut butter is one of our household’s favorite staples. We love peanut butter as a sandwich spread, dip, cracker spread, or occasionally in a sweet treat. Shoot, we’ve all been known to just dip in a spoon and eat the peanut butter straight up. More recently, though, I started wondering how it would work to change up our plain peanut butter for something a little more exotic. We’ve been to a sandwich shop that sells peanut butter in fun flavors like white-chocolate raspberry and honey-ginger, so we decided that playing with peanut butter was more than possible. With a few scoops of this and a few pinches of that, we quickly came up with an all-purpose peanut butter that will last for several weeks, although we have yet to have it last more than a few minutes ...

Cate O'Malley, Paper Palate ~ “Is there any more? The rice was really good.” Coming from The Husband, this is high praise indeed.  He thinks he makes better rice than I do. He probably does, but geez, it takes him f-o-r-e-v-e-r. So I was pretty happy to be getting rice praise from him on this new recipe. It comes from the newest (May) issue of Every Day with Rachael Ray, the celeb cook’s monthly magazine. A recipe created by Rachael’s “pal,” Daisy Martinez, it’s definitely one of those “everything but the kitchen sink” recipes. Have green pepper to use up?  Throw it in. A little bit of chopped ham? Why not? 

Alisa Fleming, www.GoDairyFree.org ~ To be honest, I had quite the pessimistic attitude when I first came upon these little pouches of fruit by Peeled Snacks.  Packaged dried fruit, so what is new? It is just dried fruit, so simple, no wow factor … but to my complete surprise so [counter] revolutionary. I used to be an avid dried fruit snacker, but with all of the added sugars and sulfur dioxide, I reasoned that fresh fruit was probably the only way to go.  But Peeled Snacks has taken a step back in time, serving up dried fruit without the preservatives and sugar.  That’s right, just fruit.  As I unfortunately discovered in a prior Peeled Snacks taste test, this means a shorter shelf-life.  But as long as you don’t hold onto these babies for several months, they are still pretty shelf-stable ...

New York, NY ~ Join Sloane Miller "Allergic Girl" for a Kosher Worry-Free Dinner at Mike's Bistro in New York City on May 20, 2008. The event will include coaching around issues of food allergies/food intolerances by Allergic Girl, Sloane Miller, MFA, MSW, LMSW; Group discussion tailored to your concerns; Networking with people who understand your issues; Chat time with Owner Mike Gershkovich; A delicious Worry-Free Dinner at a fantastic KOSHER NYC restaurant; and a Kosher, allergen-free goody bag worth the price of dinner. Read on for details of the event ...

Alisa Fleming, www.GoDairyFree.org ~ In June, three Go Dairy Free viewers will receive a prize package filled with baking mixes from Gluten-Free Essentials.  In honor of Food Allergy Awareness Week, Gluten-Free Essentials is offering up three gifts, which are free from milk, eggs, nuts, gluten, and yeast!  Each winner will receive one of three gluten-free and food allergy-friendly baking mix packages: The Cookie Assortment (chocolate chip, vanilla sugar, cocoa mudslide, cranberry-apple spice and decadent fudge brownie), The Deluxe Assortment (12 mixes, both savory and sweet), or The Speedy Bake Assortment (6 gluten-free mixes for kids). To enter to win ...