From Alice Enevoldsen
Green Tomato Pickles!
Brine (per quart)
Dill/Garlic Pickle Spice (per quart)
Curry Spice (per quart)
So I modified the recipe from Garden Betty.
Wash, dry, and slice your green tomatoes. Bring brine ingredients to a boil.
Put the pickling spice mix that you prefer in a hot,clean quart jar. Pack the jar full of the cut tomatoes.
Pour the hot brine over the tomatoes. Cover them completely and leave 1/2-inch headspace. Stir with a sterilized implement to remove any bubbles. Clean the rim, seal with a lid and band, and process in a hot water bath for 15 minutes.
The green tomatoes will be pickled in three weeks.
Please follow good instructions and in-depth safety precautions when home-canning. You want all canning to be perfect or you end up with dangerous bacteria and molds growing in your cans.
Raisin Mix
That makes 6 one-third-cup servings. (The currants end up packing in between the other fruits). That’s the recipe I used for my toddler
For adults (and other people who are good at chewing before swallowing) I’m adding:
Add this last, preferably at the very last minute before you head out the door. If you add it earlier these crunch bits will get soft.
Mix everything but the prunes and the corn or granola
Divide into 1/3-cup sealed serving bags (for toddlers) or 2/3-cup sealed serving bags (for adults). Be sure to toss the mixture as you’re bagging to get currants in every bag (they sink to the bottom).
Divide the prunes evenly among the bags.
Put in your pantry for snack emergencies or go hiking. It’ll keep at least a little while, depending on your climate, the temperature in your pantry, and how well the bags seal.
For people who chew
I may increase the ratio of soybeans and caramel corn/granola in the adult version. I’m happy with the ratio in the toddler “raisin mix.”
Chocolate chip cookies, non-chocolate non-chip cookies, and decorated non-chocolate non-chip cookies! Image © 2013 Jason Enevoldsen
From Alice
Optional
Preheat to 375 F (190 C)
Mix butter and sugars.
Add “eggs.”
Mix flour and baking soda. Add to butter/sugar/”egg” mixture.
Add chocolate chips if you want chocolate chip cookies. Don’t if you want frosted cookies. (Unless you want both.)
Scoop out half.
Add red coloring to the half in the mixer.
Take one small scoop (about a teaspoon) of the red and one of the uncolored. Roll them together and make a flattened cookie-ish shape on your baking pan. If it is too goopy to do this, chill the dough for a bit.
Bake 10 minutes, they should look a little puffy and not quite finished, this way they turn out soft.
Once cool you can frost and decorate them!
I wanted to make frosted Valentine’s Day cookies (hence the red food coloring) with my daughter, but our regular sugar cookie recipe is a little too crumbly. The chocolate chip cookies are stiff enough for even her, so I just left the chips out. Examples of all three styles are in the picture above.
From Jason Gift Enevoldsen
This recipe is a great way to consume large numbers of green tomatoes. Most of the flavor comes from the tomatoes and the bacon, so flavorful bacon is a plus (e.g. heavily smoked, dry-rubbed bacon). The idea is to cook the shallots and tomatoes hard enough that they start to carmelize a bit – that slight sweetness combined with the bacon fat balances the acidity of the green tomatoes. Sometimes I’ll skip the thyme if the tomatoes are particularly fragrant varieties (e.g. black krim). The amounts above are all my best guess – I never measure anything for this recipe since it’s always to use up leftover tomatoes that just won’t ripen.
To lower fat content (if not a fan of bacon fat), either cook the bacon and substitute olive oil for the bacon fat, or skip the bacon altogether and just use olive oil.
This and Green Tomato Bacon Sauce are similar but different.
From Alice Enevoldsen (this recipe is undergoing testing)
Combine in a saucepan, stir well. Cook at medium/medium-low heat until simmering. Simmer for 5 minutes, stirring to keep from boiling over. The last drips off the spoon should stay separate from each other.
Pour into heatsafe bowl to cool. Serve or refrigerate and serve.
(cut down milk and cook longer for a thicker sauce… but don’t forget it will thicken as it cools!)
Mix all ingredients until smooth. Pour into crust.
Bake 10 minutes at 425F, 50 minutes at 350F (until filling is set). Cool.
IMPORTANT: Refrigerate overnight before serving. This is how you get that firm pumpkin pie without egg or milk.
Potlucks and snacks can be difficult when accomodating your food allergic friends. Here are some quick and easy (some are quicker and easier) snack options that work for us. We at least won’t have problems being in the room with these items. These may or may not work for your friends. Check with them about their allergens and list of safe snacks.
Here is a link to the general list of our allergies.
Most fruits are safe for us to be around.
You’re going to have a hard time finding safe bread, but as long as the bread has no direct milk or egg ingredients, we’ll be fine around it. Go for sub-style sandwiches with enough toppings that people won’t miss the cheese
Again, it is tough to find safe crackers, but we can be around them as long as they have no milk, egg, nut, cheese, or butter direct ingredients.
Notes to the host: If you really want us or your friends with food allergies to eat something, leave it sealed in the package until we arrive. Let us check the package ingredients, and then take what we want. Then put it on a plate for everyone else – this allows us to be in control of any cross-contamination. Please don’t be offended if we or your friends choose not to eat food your provide, especially if you worked really hard for it to be safe. Eating is so much more than an enjoyable activity, or something we do to be polite to the host. For us, ingesting food is always a life safety issue, and sometimes we just don’t want to take any risks at all. We’ll be gracious about declining, appreciate the effort, be incredibly thankful we can be in the room with the food without worrying, and just not partake. You can help by being gracious about our choice not to. Thanks!
If you really want us or your friends with food allergies to eat something, leave it sealed in the package until we arrive. Let us check the package ingredients, and then take what we want. Then put it on a plate for everyone else – this allows us to be in control of any cross-contamination.
Please don’t be offended if we or your friends choose not to eat food your provide, especially if you worked really hard for it to be safe. Eating is so much more than an enjoyable activity, or something we do to be polite to the host. For us, ingesting food is always a life safety issue, and sometimes we just don’t want to take any risks at all. We’ll be gracious about declining, appreciate the effort, be incredibly thankful we can be in the room with the food without worrying, and just not partake. You can help by being gracious about our choice not to. Thanks!
Chicken NuggetsImage © 2011 Jason Gift Enevoldsen
Preheat oven to 425F, and prep a (nonstick) cookie sheet. Cut chicken into nugget-sized pieces.
Mix fake eggs with water, and add the chicken. Let it sit.
Chop up the spices, mix with bread crumbs and wheat germ. Mix in the oil well. Dip each chicken piece in the seasoning and coat well. Spread out on the baking sheet and bake for 10 minutes. Turn and bake for 5 more minutes.
I have also made the seasoning ahead of time and refrigerated it or frozen it so all I have to do is chop the chicken and coat it. If you do this I would add the oil at the time of coating, not before you freeze or fridge the topping.
I always thought chicken nuggets were an insanely processed, always cross-contaminated product of the fast-food industry. The above recipe is for whole pieces of chicken, baked, and a super-yummy mode of transport for your favorite dipping sauces. So I suppose they’re just as healthy as your dipping sauces.
Earth’s Best Kidz Baked Chicken Nuggets I have also just found that (as of April 2011) Earth’s Best Kidz Baked Chicken Nuggets are safe for us, though they contain wheat and soy. And they’re not as healthy as the above home-baked ones which you have complete control over the ingredients for. But they’re frozen, cook up quick, and are a healthier vehicle for dipping sauces than french fries.
Earth’s Best Kidz Baked Chicken Nuggets
I have also just found that (as of April 2011) Earth’s Best Kidz Baked Chicken Nuggets are safe for us, though they contain wheat and soy. And they’re not as healthy as the above home-baked ones which you have complete control over the ingredients for. But they’re frozen, cook up quick, and are a healthier vehicle for dipping sauces than french fries.
Mix Together
Stir Together
Cut into Strips (if you want strips, I haven’t tried this with whole slices)
Mix liquid and dry ingredients in a plate. Coat (do not soak) only as many strips of bread at a time as will fit into your skillet. In cooking words I would say “dredge” the bread strips in the goop.
Place immediately into low-heat lightly-greased skillet, cook till done – a couple minutes on each side. Hopefully you can get to a point on side 1 where the bread seems to be drying a little on the top before you flip, and then the bottom side that you flip up will be golden-brown.
I’ve been searching for a good, functional egg-free French Toast recipe for years. Thank goodness for Jennifer and Alyce on the WA-FEAST listserv who turned me on to the idea of making a very thin pancake batter, and using that. It is very close to exactly what I need. There’s one more recipe through them that I need to try – it relies on Xanthan Gum. The recipes on the vegan websites that use bananas, egg-replacer, or cornstarch never turn out for me. I wonder if I’m using the wrong bread. This recipe is also shared with other allergy-friendly recipes at Cybele Pascal’s website.
I’ve been searching for a good, functional egg-free French Toast recipe for years. Thank goodness for Jennifer and Alyce on the WA-FEAST listserv who turned me on to the idea of making a very thin pancake batter, and using that. It is very close to exactly what I need. There’s one more recipe through them that I need to try – it relies on Xanthan Gum. The recipes on the vegan websites that use bananas, egg-replacer, or cornstarch never turn out for me. I wonder if I’m using the wrong bread.
This recipe is also shared with other allergy-friendly recipes at Cybele Pascal’s website.
From Alice Enevoldsen (modified from Kitty Gift)
Shoo-fly pie Image © 2011 Jason Gift Enevoldsen
Bottom:
Make pie crust, put in pie dish. Place pie dish on a non-stick cookie sheet (you’ll thank me later).
Make top crumbs by mixing flour and brown sugar, then cutting in palm oil until it loosely clumps together.
Measure Karo and maple syrup in 2 cup glass measuring cup (to get a more barrel molasses-y flavor put in more Karo, less maple syrup, and a tablespoon or so of Grandma’s molasses. Do not use blackstrap molasses). In 1 cup measuring cup, boil water. Add baking soda to hot water. Add water to molasses measuring cup and mix thoroughly.
Assemble pie by alternating layers of the liquid and the top crumbs – about 3 layers of each.
Bake at 375F for 35 minutes. (Don’t forget to have that non-stick cookie sheet under your pie, it will save you from any boil-over burning on the oven elements)
I’ve taken up the Gift family torch to pass on the cult of loving shoo-fly pie to as many as possible. So far I have at least a dozen converts. When it is described to you – “pie made with innards of brown sugar and molasses” – you have no idea what this will be like. You picture some sort of candy in a pie crust. Tasty sure, but how do you eat it? You’re completely wrong. It is a bit like cake in a pie-crust. But that doesn’t do it justice.
I’ve taken up the Gift family torch to pass on the cult of loving shoo-fly pie to as many as possible. So far I have at least a dozen converts.
When it is described to you – “pie made with innards of brown sugar and molasses” – you have no idea what this will be like. You picture some sort of candy in a pie crust. Tasty sure, but how do you eat it? You’re completely wrong. It is a bit like cake in a pie-crust. But that doesn’t do it justice.
This should be made with barrel molasses instead of Karo and maple syrup. Sometimes this is called Dutch barrel syrup (as in Pennsylvania Dutch – i.e. German). If you have access to this ingredient, first send me some, then make the pie with it instead. For the rest of us, the last sighting of barrel molasses was at a little Mom & Pop style general store in New Jersey. You had to bring your own containers. You’d think molasses would be a better substitute than corn syrup, but after many, many trials I’ve determined that the closest flavor is dark Karo. There is no bite to barrel molasses, though it has a depth of flavor lacking in Karo, which is why I put in half maple syrup also. The barrel molasses is aged in barrels – giving it the name and the flavor.
This should be made with barrel molasses instead of Karo and maple syrup. Sometimes this is called Dutch barrel syrup (as in Pennsylvania Dutch – i.e. German). If you have access to this ingredient, first send me some, then make the pie with it instead. For the rest of us, the last sighting of barrel molasses was at a little Mom & Pop style general store in New Jersey. You had to bring your own containers.
You’d think molasses would be a better substitute than corn syrup, but after many, many trials I’ve determined that the closest flavor is dark Karo. There is no bite to barrel molasses, though it has a depth of flavor lacking in Karo, which is why I put in half maple syrup also. The barrel molasses is aged in barrels – giving it the name and the flavor.
