ZenSoy has just announced the first ever recipe contest for their organic puddings and organic soymilk. Throughout the month of December, you are invited to contribute your favorite recipes using ZenSoy Organic Pudding or Soymilk. In January, the recipes will be voted on, and two winners will be selected to win the following:

• Winner of the Best Recipe using ZenSoy Pudding: A 6-month supply of ZenSoy Pudding and an official ZenSoy “Pandas against Pesticides” T-shirt.
• Winner of the Best Recipe using ZenSoy Soymilk: A 6-month supply of ZenSoy Soy-on-the-Go and an official ZenSoy “Pandas against Pesticides” T-shirt

Both prizes are perfectly sized for packing in lunches to take to work, school, or while traveling.

To Enter: Sorry, the entries are now closed!

Expanding on our Thanksgiving leftovers post from last week, Ruth of Best Allergy Sites has some simple yet innovative recipe ideas that are great not only for leftovers, but really any day that you need a hot meal for your family. Ruth is a food allergy mom herself, and constantly on patrol for quick family-friendly entrees that use everyday ingredients ... 

Ruth ~ Are you still dealing with Thanksgiving leftovers? Tired of Turkey soup and sandwiches? Following are some inventive twists on how to make those dishes exciting again:

Asian Turkey Soup (pictured)
Liven up your turkey soup with an Asian twist ...

Levana Kirschenbaum could easily be labeled the queen of Kosher cuisine. She is well loved in New York for her restaurant and her frequent cooking classes, but here on the West coast, I love her online presence and her cookbook, Levana Cooks Dairy Free.

I can always count on Levana to come up with wonderful seasonal recipes, and this time of year is certainly no exception. Tonight she is hosting a Channukah Party class, featuring creative recipes like Bison Shepherd Pie and Potato Leek Portobello Soup. Throughout December she will offer many other classes from Natural Desserts to Healing Foods (gluten-free) to get a jump start on New Year's resolutions.

If you aren't in New York, you can of course buy her book for some great recipes. Below are two samples of Levana's style, and some recipes you should surely enjoy for this Hanukkah holiday ...

Sweet Sundays: Cookie baking abounds this time of year, but gifting is becoming increasingly difficult with the rise in food allergies and peanut-free zones. Fortunately, there are some great mom experts in allergen-free cookie baking, and one of the first I turned to this year was the blogger behind The Allergic Kid. Libby has proven her skills by creating the winning cookie recipe for the big FAAN / Divvies cookie contest this year. Her Choco-lot Brownie Cookie is now available from Divvies, but you can bake up her fabulous peanut-free peanut butter cookies (aka Sunblossom Cookies) today ...

Libby ~ This is an egg-, dairy-, tree nut-, and peanut-free version of a classic peanut butter criss-cross cookie that I developed for my son with multiple food allergies. For that peanutty taste, I used Sunbutter to substitute for the peanut butter. Bananas turned out to be a fantastic substitute for the egg, and let me take down the fat a notch. The chocolate chip version doesn't look like the original since the cookies aren't flattened with the criss-cross style, but they are just to die for ...