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Special Needs Podcast Roundup – Week of November 8, 2011

It is time for this week’s Special Needs Podcast Roundup. This is where to find brand new episodes of your favorite podcasts that focus on topics relevant to parents of children who have special needs. You may also find podcasts that don’t always focus on special needs, but have produced an episode that is relevant to this podcast roundup. Mayo Clinic has an episode that was released on November 3, 2011. This episode is called “The Impact of Epilepsy”. In this episode, Mayo Clinic Dr. Jerry Shih explains the far reaching impact of epilepsy. Special Kid School Talk has an … Continue reading →

Tips for Stress Free Entertaining for You and Your Spouse- Part 2

Here are more tips for stress free entertaining for you and your spouse. 4. Know Your Spouse Growing up I don’t remember my parents entertaining a lot and Mick said the same about this parents. We got to wondering if it was because our fathers where both quiet men who didn’t like a lot of people? They just liked to come home and relax after a hard day at work and not have to make conversation, and the same applied on weekends. 5. Do they Get Along? Consider too, are the people you want to invite mutual friends? Do the … Continue reading →

Simple Tips for Dealing with an Allergy in Marriage

Here are some simple tips for cooking when one person has a wheat and gluten allergy. If it is a pasta dish, I will put wheat pasta on in one saucepan for him and rice and corn pasta in a separate saucepan for me. The sauce that goes with the pasta will always be gluten free. If I’m making lasagna, I use just gluten free pasta rather than fuss around with two separate dishes. Visitors to our place have commented how good my lasagna tastes. If I crumb fish or rissoles it will be in rice crumbs. Any cakes including … Continue reading →

How to Deal with an Allergy in Marriage- Part 2

So, you’ve got an allergy or your pattern has. Allergies can be a problem when you eat out. We often come up against the problem when Mick and I go out. We often have to end up taking food for me to functions because it is not catered for. Recently at a party Mick stood guard over our gluten free sausages so they did not get mixed up with the others on the barbecue. And on Monday when we went out for Australia Day, lunch was provided for our choir but we learned the hard way the year before that … Continue reading →

How to Deal with an Allergy in your Marriage

These days many families seem to have at least one person who has an allergy. So, what difference does it make to a marriage when one partner has an allergy? If you or your spouse has an allergy, you might find the next two blogs helpful. Allergies have been on my mind a lot lately, partly because I recently reviewed a new book about allergy-safe family food and partly because I live with allergies. For years I struggled with pain so that I was unable to function at times. It took a long while before we discovered the cause was … Continue reading →

How to Deal with an Allergy in Marriage- Part 2

So, you’ve got an allergy or your pattern has. Allergies can be a problem when you eat out. We often come up against the problem when Mick and I go out. We often have to end up taking food for me to functions because it is not catered for. Recently at a party Mick stood guard over our gluten free sausages so they did not get mixed up with the others on the barbecue. And on Monday when we went out for Australia Day, lunch was provided for our choir but we learned the hard way the year before that … Continue reading →

Celiac Disease and Heredity

Some things that run in families, like Grandpa’s twinkly blue eyes or Aunt Mary’s dimpled cheeks are traits that we can look forward to seeing again and again in future generations. There are also genetic disorders that run in families, illnesses that we hope not to see in new additions to our families. Celiac disease, also referred to as Celiac sprue, is a genetic disorder that is characterized by an extreme immune response to gluten. At one time, Celiac disease was thought to be a rare childhood ailment. Today, however, as many as one in every one hundred and thirty … Continue reading →

A Book of Great Recipes for Slow Cookers

If you’re after recipes for your slow cooker you’ll want to rush and get a copy of Slow Cooker by Sally Wise. I received a copy of this book to review and it’s the best slow cooker book I’ve seen, filled with great recipes. It’s summer in Australia so I haven’t been using my slow cooker as much (I’m still a bit in holiday mode) but come autumn and winter this will be the first book Ill reach for. If you have a family who loves chicken like Michele’s family does then you will love Bedevilled Chicken (Aussie spelling here … Continue reading →

A Sweet Treat and a Hint for the Gluten Free

When visitors are around, it’s good to have a sweet treats that don’t take a long time to make. This one will only take about 15 minute preparation time, though it does take 30 minutes to cook Caramel Ginger Slice (Yes, it is gluten free!) Ingredients 1 and a half cups gluten free flour Half teaspoon G F baking powder 4 ounces margarine Another 2 ounces of margarine Half cup brown sugar Half cup maple syrup 2 teaspoons ground ginger Half teaspoon mixed spice 1 can 99% fat free condensed milk 500 grams dark cooking chocolate, melted Preheat oven to … Continue reading →

Pineapple Coconut Pie

Good recipes can result from experimentation and trying different things. They often come about by not having the correct the ingredients on hand and so substituting others for what a recipe says, or taking a little bit of a few recipes and combining them. The coconut topping for this recipe came from my mother years ago. Since then I have adapted it to lots of other recipes, all of different fillings in dessert pies. One of our favorites is Pineapple Coconut Pie. Here is the recipe for Gluten Free Pineapple Coconut Pie Pie shell 8 ounces of gluten free sweet … Continue reading →