Europeans have long known the wonders of cheese-free pizza made with fresh and flavorful ingredients.  Yet, in the United States, deep dish pizzas loaded with piles of stringy cheese are more than the norm, they are practically the rule in many pizza parlors.  Nonetheless, as awareness of food allergies, intolerances, and health benefits emerge … and the rising cost of food nips at household budgets … the potential of cheese-less pizza is finally getting the attention it deserves.  But just in case you haven’t yet come over to the healthier side of pizza, or you would just like some more reasons and recipes to enjoy it, here is some cheese-free ammunition that you may find handy …

This month, two Go Dairy Free viewers will receive a $50 shopping spree courtesy of Namaste Foods.  Namaste Foods offers a great line of allergen-free baking mixes and pasta meals manufactured in a dedicated allergen-free facility.  Don't miss this chance to pick up the new Simple Pleasures Gluten Free Cookbook from Namaste Foods, which includes over 60 delicious recipes made with Namaste Foods products. Recipes like Cinnamon Espresso Coffee Cake, Hearty Minestrone Soup, Scalloped Say Cheez and Ham, and Lemon Poppy Seed Bread are just a few of the sensational variations you'll enjoy with this easy-to-use reference.  To enter to win ...

Hannah Kaminsky, Bittersweet and My Sweet Vegan ~ Talk about irony. A few short years ago, you wouldn’t have been able to get me to touch a block of white chocolate with a 10-foot pole, and now? Now it’s become an incredible luxury, a culinary diamond in my eyes, and I’ve become completely enamored with its simple existence. Simple indeed ... the white stuff has no actual cocoa solids, and thus remains pale as freshly fallen snow. Most manufacturers add dry milk powder, trans-fatty hydrogenated oils, and other undesirable elements to their white chips and chunks, to increase shelf stability and augment their supplies of pricey cocoa butter...

Erika Waz, Kids Cuisine and Tummy Treasure - I have tried many a pancake recipe over the last few years. It seems like I am always trying to find new ways to squeeze extra vitamins and nutrients into my kids, and pancakes are such an easy thing to change up on a whim. I’ve been playing around a bit with the perfect oatmeal pancake, because oatmeal by itself is a favorite in our household. This one, I daresay, is the hands down winner so far. We all love these pancakes — the lovely nutty-oat flavor combined with the sweetness of the banana makes it a perfect breakfast, lunch, dinner, or snack.

Enjoy Life Foods, the country’s leading allergy-friendly, gluten-free company, received an amazing Valentine’s Day gift today when it learned that its popular  Snickerdoodle cookies would be featured as the “Snack of the Day” on the nationally syndicated Rachael Ray Show on Monday, February 18, 2008.  Snickerdoodles, classic soft cookies topped with cinnamon sugar, are the most popular flavor among the company’s wide variety of allergy-friendly and gluten-free foods.  Like all of Enjoy Life’s delicious products, Snickerdoodles are specially made to be gluten-free and free of the eight most common allergens*.  Also, they are all natural, trans fat free and made in a dedicated nut- and gluten-free bakery ...