If You Can Eat It, Wear It (and other eczema wisdom)
The Bean suffered from some nasty eczema on his face and legs for the first eight months of his life, and I tried to use steroid creams only as a last resort. That stuff has some pretty harsh side effects. Dr. Belinda, of Belinda’s Clinic for Children at Mount E. Medical Centre – who is [...]
Have Your Cake And Eat It
My daughter Boo is intolerant to dairy and soy, although the saving grace when it came to cake making was that she could eat eggs. I adore baking, and it may sound rather silly but when CJ was born I was really looking forward to having a proper first birthday cake – one with butter, [...]
Hey Ho… Birthday Parties
Ah, the birthday parties… and in fact any social gathering that involves food, children, and adult company. I used to love them. Now I still do on the whole, but I can’t say that I find them particulary relaxing or stress free. To be honest, I was beginning to feel a bit like a miserable [...]
Mistaken Tart: Turning an Egg-free Disaster into Something Fantastic
If you have attempted to do some egg-free baking using those powdered egg replacers, you know what a complete and utter failure these products typically are. We’ll blog later about egg replacement options that actually do work – but this is a recipe that leverages the failure of the egg replacer itself. I was trying [...]
What The Peanut??!
I’m sure that everyone thinks along the same lines – I never thought this would happen to us. Let alone CJ. As a family we had some (albeit rather limited) knowledge of food allergies; our daughter Boo is intolerant to dairy and soy, and some of our friend’s children have allergies. They have allergies… that [...]
Have Hotplate, Will Travel: In-Room Dining For Allergies
Every second year, we join our friends from KL on their annual Chinese New Year holiday at Cherating, a seaside village in Malaysia’s Pahang state. Cherating village is full of backpackers, beach lovers and a slew of colorful local restaurants with dubious kitchen hygiene. A trip to the bathroom out behind one one of these [...]