Oh it’s been too long! The past couple of weeks have been busy busy – I turned 27, threw out my back (peep the Advil in that first pic), and cooked LOTS. So here we are, coming back together on the blog for the first time in a few week. Welcome home 🙂
With all the cooking we’ve been doing, I’ve found myself more deeply engaged in conversations about our Allergy-Friendly Home much more than usual. Celebrations tend to do that – they bring about the big questions. “Can you EAT that?” “Isn’t it so hard?” “What do you even eat every day?” “I don’t think I could ever celebrate without *insert specific nut dish*.” Allergies are a big deal in our house and we aren’t quiet about it. We bar major allergens from our home, and that includes all nuts, peanuts, melons, etc. We do all we can to make our space safe, not only for our little family, but also for the people we love who share time and food with us in our home.
Food is community and I want everyone to be welcome in our community from the moment they walk in the door. Hate peppers? I got you. Celiac? I got you too! We hope for the same from the people who love us and care about us, and there’s no better way to set that example than to show people what a rich, joyous, and delicious life we have with food allergies in the mix. All 60 of them and counting.
Maybe this is a good time to mention that allergies impact our lives not just in our home or our kitchen. They impact work in shared office space, shopping in stores, travel, experiences. They make us ten times more aware wherever we are. We’ll come back to all this in time, but suffice to say – when folks can come into our home and feel at peace, especially around food? That’s the very best thing.
Alright friends, let me tell you what we’ve made these past weeks – GF sunflower butter chocolate chip cookies (recipe by Terry Walters), preserved lemon roast chicken, my special (and newly developed) tzimmes recipe, GF apple and honey cake, enchiladas verdes, carrot cake with cream cheese frosting, noodle stir fry, parmesan garlic meatballs, and countless absolutely banging farmers market bowls.
The above paragraph is my answer to any assertion that our culinary lives must be boring. In fact, I think our end results are just that much better because there’s a bit of a challenge to overcome on the path to delicious. And isn’t that challenge worth overcoming when the people you love are the reason you try?
The Noshers Nest 
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