...Kind Of, Pinterest!

You guys know that periodically, I like to test what I read on Pinterest. I do it all the time, in fact. Pinterest is a great site, with a lot of interesting information, but it's never quite clear how much of it you can believe.

I'm back to test another!

Meet the cast of characters that swear that in a mere 5 minutes, they can clean my microwave:

2 cups of water, 2 tablespoons of vinegar, and your preferred essential oil? YES. Let's do this.

And for whatever it's worth - I went tea tree because I was thinking about the antibacterial properties. Whatever scent you go with, make sure it's a scent that you're going to like just as much hot, because now my house reeks of hot tea tree oil. And as much as I like the scent of tea tree oil, it's not great hot.

At any rate, this tip goes - combine. Microwave the combination for 5 minutes, and the gunk will practically wipe right off!

So I combine:

I didn't stir. Stir if you want to, it's your party. ;)

I walk it to my microwave, which is so gross, that it was embarrassed to pose for this picture.

And microwave for five minutes. I even let it sit a little extra long, to give the steam extra time to work.

So did it?

Hey! Way to go Pinterest! You kind of nailed one! Of course, for my war zone of a microwave, it actually took three tries to get a mostly clean microwave, but it's so greatly improved from where I started! Way to go, clean microwave!

See you next time, lovelies!

Interested in seeing tips from Pinterest? Me too! I've already supplied links to a few, but you could, you know, follow me and stuff. ;)

Hard Candy Does The Best They Can...

...with terrible ideas.

Actually, let me back up.

Meet "Cheeks and Balances", the combination cheek color and highlighter from Hard Candy:

This color is called "Cheeky Pink", and it's a nice pinky light highlighter, with a deeper pink complementing blush, with a little light shimmer running through it.

The formula is nice enough. Goes on smooth and easy. Not terribly long lasting, but not awful. Easy enough of a product to use - truth? My husband went as a woman for Halloween, and needed to be able to do his own makeup, which is how I ended up owning this. Swipe, and blend so there's no obvious lines. Easy. No strange scents or random discolorations to speak of.

If you can draw, you can do this. Swipe:

Blend until there's no obvious lines:

And get on with your day!

I've never been a super fan of this product - as you probably guessed from the title - for one simple reason.

Just by using it properly, you're gonna mess it up. You're either using this as a highlight and contour product, in which case, your contour is way to high and way to pink (or purple - yes really, or whatever other random colors this comes in). Or, you're using this as a blush, in which case, the highlighting portion of the festivities is completely lost on you, cause you end up blending it away.

That said, I think that this product is about the best they could do at this sort of thing. The intention - as far as I can tell anyway - was never to make a perfect highlighting and contour product, which is good because they didn't. Sometimes, when you want to multitask, functionality is sacrificed a little. So you get a nice blush. You could do worse.

I recommend this product, so long as you keep your expectations realistic about what you're dealing with - good cream blush at a nice price point, check. The perfect multi-tasking highlight and contour? Nope. Keep looking.

Later, my lovelies!

Amazingly, I don't seem to have ever talked about blush before (it's my first time!)! But in the meantime, here's another post you may enjoy!

I Gave Freeman Beauty Another Try...

If you remember from the last time I tried a Freeman Beauty mask, I walked away a bit of a hot mess. I'm pretty much always willing to give it another shot though, and so last night I tried a new Freeman Beauty mask. Yeah, I didn't go back to the coffee eye mask just yet.

As I was going through a box of stuff last night, I saw this:

Freeman Beauty's "Avocado and Oatmeal Clay Mask". An avocado green mask, made for normal to combination skin, that promises to deep clean and purify your pores. Smooth consistency, no notable scent to speak of. And as I was currently shiny, with some visible pores around my nose:

I figured I had nothing to lose. Last time, the ingredients were a little strong for how sensitive my skin was, but how strong could avocado possibly be?

I slathered up, and watched The Imitation Game (Which, sidebar: if you haven't, DO. Great movie. Even my husband, who typically falls asleep when his head hits the couch, stayed awake for the whole movie...). At any rate, I didn't want to stop the movie, so I ended up wearing the mask the whole time.

My best "How you doin'?" face. Haha...

This mask came off clean and easy, probably easier than any I've used in a while. Well, mostly clean and easy - I had to work it a little around my nose.

I didn't get a fantastic after, but this one was the best of the lot. The large pores on my forehead and nose are tighter, the redness is eased, and my skin even seems a little brighter. Yes! This is a big time improvement, not only over the before picture, but over the last time I tried Freeman products, that's for sure!

Freeman Beauty has a bounty of masks (and other products!) available for purchase. The last couple that I've gotten, I've purchased in individual portions for around $2 each. And a quick scan of their website shows me that the full sized masks are between $4 and $8 each.

See you later, lovelies!

Fresh Food Friday - "Cheese wad" Edition

We're back this week, on another recipe walk through! Still trucking through Trisha Yearwood's "Georgia Cooking in a Oklahoma Kitchen", working on her Ranch Dressing Cheeseball this week, or as the header notes affectionatly describe it, the "cheese wad". Story goes, her sister made this recipe once, but didn't get the quantities exactly right, which made it more like a "wad" than a spread, and "cheese wad" was what their dad always called it afterwards.

Aaah, dads. Am I right?!

As always, as this recipe isn't legally mine, I can't reproduce it, but Food Network can!

So, these are the usual suspects:

Cheese, cream cheese, and mayo. The holy trinity. Or something.

At any rate, the gist is room temperature cream cheese and cheese, mix them up. So this recipe starts out, as almost all the recipes we've been through together so far have, looking like this:

Cream cheese. Shredded cheese, you know the drill. Now, for this one, I didn't make the entire recipe. Or, I didn't set out to. I basically ended up doing it. At any rate, I didn't use the whole envelope of ranch dressing, I just took a table spoon out of it, and it was still a TON of ranch flavor. Like, a ton.

I didn't show buttermilk in the picture (because pro tip? Use regular milk, whatever you've got in the house, and a splash of vinegar. Performs just like buttermilk in cooking), but after you get the entire mixture put together:

And you mix it:

You wrap in plastic wrap, and put it in the freezer to set. Or, if you're like me, you put it in the freezer to set, eat dinner, watch the entirety of the Bruce Jenner Interview on ABC, and then go "Aww, man! Cheese ball!" In which case, you remove the now frozen cheese mixture from your freezer, allow it to thaw until it's pliable, and then form into balls.

Decorate with the pecans, and serve!

Ta-daaaaah! Cheese ball!

The cheese mixture is actually very good, for as strange as it sounded like it was (I know when I think "cream cheese", my second thought is not typically "Ooh, I could go for mayo!"). But I halved the ranch seasoning, and still ended up with way too much ranch dressing flavoring in this. You need much, much less ranch dressing flavoring than this recipe calls for!

As for the picky eater test, my son had already gone to bed by the time I was done, but I got my husband to try it. He went "Hey, that's pretty good, for all the ranch dressing flavor..." Since it is fresh, I'm hoping that flavor mellows some, but yowza. That's some serious ranch, y'all.

Like these recipe walk throughs? Me too! I've done others!

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Welcome!

Radha Beauty Knows What's Up, You Guys...

I've been on a battery of dermatologist treatments for a few months, and I've got probably the best complexion I've ever had. Amazing.

I'd recently tried a different product (that shall remain nameless) for another company (ditto), and was dismayed to find out that pretty much all my dermatologists hardwork had been undone. In all of about 48 hours.

I panicked a little - if you've ever had bad skin, and then had it clear up, you know the feeling - and I didn't know what to do.

Enter my good friends at Radha Beauty!

Their skin clearing serum is that ever so rare combination of an anti-aging and anti-acne product. It's formulated with Vitamin C, retinol, hyaluronic acid, salicylic acid and niacinamide, to both clear your face up, and help with wrinkles.

Fortunately, the wrinkles part hasn't hit me that hard yet. But, I did have break outs across my forehead, and I needed help!

A sleek, masculine product that anyone would pick up. Clearly labeled, easy to understand. The product comes out to the thinner side, and you put it on under your other face products. It has a distinct medicinal property - it's got several essential oils, including tea tree oil in it. Tea Tree oil is pretty far down in the ingredients list, and I can even still plainly make out the scent of it. I mean, I secretly like the scent of tea tree oil, but even still.

I did actually find it a bit drying - which was fine by me. I'd actually broken out from increased oil production from the last product I'd tried, so drying out a little was fine.

I did drop the ball a little bit, and forgot to take shots for before and after pictures. Oops.

At any rate, my forgetting to take pictures aside... the breakouts I'd experienced are long a thing of the past. This serum layers well, and plays nicely with my other skin care products. It is scented - and fairly heavily - but I actually enjoy the scent, so it doesn't bother me. A possible packaging concern is that I don't think this would travel all that well, there doesn't seem to be any way to close or lock the pump. Other than that, even the packaging is great. If you need that rare combination of anti-acne and anti-aging skin care, Radha Beauty has the ticket!

DISCLOSURE: The good people at Radha Beauty supplied me with this product in exchange for my opinions on it. All opinions are my own.

Intrigued by Radha Beauty products? I've talked about them before!

Ipsy, Ipsy, Ipsy!

I got my monthly Ipsy bag!

Ipsy, for those not in the know, is a subscription based makeup service. For $10 a month, they send out a makeup bag, filled with five makeup products. The products vary based on the survey you take when you sign up, and your favorable or unfavorable reviews of the products that you received each month.

This month, I'm quite pleased! The theme of this months bag was "Beautifully Bohemian". I'm much more a fan of some bags than others, but I love this one!

The gold tube that you see is Elizabeth Arden lipstick in "Red Door Red", which I tweeted was so pretty, that I practically want to pet it. Elizabeth Arden is famous for their Red Door to their spa in NYC, which is obviously what that packaging is a takeoff on.

The door is even engraved in to the lipstick. And I know I'm weird for saying I want to pet a lipstick, but would you look at it?! So pretty!

And then there was another product, that I'm more confused by than anything;

Mullein & Sparrow's Tinted Lip and Cheek balm, which everyone on Ipsy's Facebook page seemed to be really excited by. And I don't understand. Mine didn't seem to have any color what so ever, which is fine for my lips, but I own an awful lot of highlighters already. I'm pretty good there.

And the last product I'll give a shout out to is my "Fit" Nude Dude, from TheBalm:

Now, I think I misunderstood when it was advertised that these are full size. Because they're not. But the big deal about my Fit dude is that he's not available as a single. Anywhere other than last month's Ipsy bag. TheBalm has a eyeshadow palette that they produce, called Nude Dudes, and Fit is only available in that. So that's pretty cool. The light dimmed his sparkle a little bit, he's the color of a fresh penny.

And he's also magnetic, which means that he and the lip and cheek tint are stuck to each other, every time I open the bag. Hah!

Ipsy often negotiates discounts with the companies, so if you get something in your bag that you fall in love with, you can buy an extra at a good deal!

If you think you'd be interested in subscribing to Ipsy, please use my referral code! You can do certain things through Ipsy (like reviewing your products that you're sent), and you can later use the points to purchase full sizes of your favorites as well. If you use my referral code, I get 250 points! :)

Interested in Ipsy? Me too! I've talked about it before! I've also done more in depth reviews of a couple of the products that I've gotten!

Fresh Food Friday - This Time, With Black Eyed Peas!

This week, we're plugging on through Trisha Yearwood's "Georgia Cooking in a Oklahoma Kitchen", with her Black Eyed Pea Dip. I can't legally print the recipe for you here, but I can't actually find it online either, so we're gonna talk about it. All abstract like.

The police line up:

I jiggered with the quantities a little bit, and in at least one case, the ingredients. The recipe called pickled jalapeno, but knowing that I intended to third the recipe, I didn't want to fuss with procuring pickled jalapeno just to use one, so I went fresh.

The gist is, as the gist typically is...mix together. And at this point, I couldn't help but think that if you just stopped right here, you'd have a great chance at selling black eyed peas to your picky eaters who might not otherwise try them. Cheese. Cheese!

Once you've got the mixture otherwise together, add butter (which I'll spare you pictures of, cause that is not cute). And then for serving, the recipe notes say that she'll commonly serve this like during football parties and that sort of thing, so she'll often just put it in a crock pot, and leave it out with some chips. Or, simplified; heat and eat.

Which I did:

It doesn't come out quite so yellow, the lights in my kitchen are really warm, I guess. :)

I honestly can't make up my mind what I think about this dip! I think I liked it better as a little cold salad! Warm...it's like you lose all the flavors a little bit. It just becomes a buttery, cheesey...thing. Cold, all the ingredients retain their own flavor, and it felt kind of bright and summery. 

I think, if I were to make this again, it'd probably get made as a black eyed pea side dish - I do believe this is a crafty way to sell black eyed peas to people who might not otherwise try them, but if I had to pick one of those special, "I'm only making this cause it's your birthday" type of recipes...this wouldn't be it.

So I don't love it, I don't hate it. It just is what it is. Black eyed peas and cheese.

Like these recipe walk throughs? Me too! I've done more - like this one!

My Own Little Link Roundup!

Do you like Almay makeup? Because I sure do! Here's my own little mini roundup!

Almay Knows Their Blues! (Original Post Date: March 5, 2015)

Today I Learned... (Original Post Date: February 18, 2015)

Aww, I'm Such A Softie (Original Post Date: February 16, 2015)

Alright, Long Time No Chat! (Original Post Date: November 10, 2014)

I'm Really Conflicted This Week! (Original Post Date: October 6, 2014)

Almay Intense I-Color Liquid Shadow Reviews... (Original Post Date: August 4, 2014)

I clearly like Almay very much, and I hope you'll enjoy reading about their fine products!

See you later, lovelies!

You may have arrived here through a Link Party, hosted here! If you did, welcome!

Lotion...and vitamins?

Vitamin B is important. In fact, Dr. Oz brands Vitamin B12 in particular as "the most important vitamin you're not taking". Why is it important? Deficency can lead to "certain characteristics" of anemia, slower neural transmission and it's required for the replication of DNA - which means without it, we can not generate new healthy cells. Those three come together to mimic virtually all effects of aging. Lack of B12 is making you look old, Dr. Oz is saying. (Source).

And bad news for our Vegetarian and Vegan friends, most of the naturally occuring sources of B12 are meats - clams, trout, haddock, cheeseburgers and liver are just a few. (Source)

Fear not! My good friends at VitaSciences have got your back, with their Maxasorb B12 Cream!

A rich, emollient lotion that delivers your daily dose of Vitamin B12. If you don't want to look aged ahead of your time, but don't eat a lot of clams, don't worry.

The Maxasorb B12 Cream is a nice, rich, emollient cream that absorbs quickly, and provides your daily dose of B12.

Scent is always a big thing I notice from lotions, and there was no scent to speak of with this lotion, which is nice. So the fragrance sensitive will have no problem with this.

I did have a strange dilemma, in that I almost had to build a tolerance to this lotion. The first couple of times I used it, I itched! And I was panicked! Like, how am I supposed to say anything about this lotion, if putting it on makes me want to wipe it off?

After a few times, and a built up tolerance, I did like this a lot more. Emollient and moisturizing, not thick and greasy. I can't speak to the anti-aging properties - I didn't get nearly as awesome results as I did from the eye cream I tried a few weeks ago. But I'm sure with long term results I would!

I did not use this cream on my face either - my skin is more to the oily side, and a rich, emollient lotion feels nice and all, but I didn't want to push it. I used it on my chest and neck (which is where I experienced the itching) and my arms (which is where I did not experience any itching).

(Pictures coming in the morning, when there's better lighting at my house. In the mean time, go here!)

DISCLOSURE: VitaSciences generously provided me a container of this lotion in exchange for my honest opinions. All opinions are my own.



Like lotion? Me too! I've talked about it before!

Fresh Food Friday - Meatball Edition!

I had such a blast walking through a recipe with you guys last week - and you guys seemed to enjoy it, it's been one of my best received posts - so I thought we'd do it again!

We're again working out of Trisha Yearwood's cookbook, "Georgia Cooking in an Oklahoma Kitchen", making her "Sausage Hors d'Oeuvres". Which again, legally since the recipe isn't mine, I can't reprint. But Food Network can!

My son rarely takes interest in anything I blog about, but when he found out that these guys:

were all that stood between him and some meaty deliciousness, he wanted in. And kudos to the Easy Cheese for the photo bomb (right side, in the corner), I didn't see that until just now.

At any rate, the recipe is fairly straight forward. Mix the sausage (it actually took two tubes), cheese (it took a little less than this whole package), and Bisquick. Bake. Enjoy. The Bisquick was the real trip - the recipe calls for 3 cups of Bisquick, which is the entire box of the Gluten Free size. By about a cup and a half, I was having trouble continuing to mix the Bisquick in. So just go by feel a little bit. The recipe also suggests spicy sausage. If you have spicy fans, go nuts. I have fussy eaters, so I went with bacon, because even the fussiest eaters I know love bacon and cheese.

Try as it might, fresh meat doesn't take a great picture. But we put the ingredients into a bowl, and went for it.

Bisquick. See how it just takes everything over? It was everywhere, and that was at half what the recipe called for!

Once you get them well mixed, pat in to balls, and bake.

Fresh and yummy! Mine didn't show up nearly as pretty and food styled as Trisha's did (plus, I'm new to these recipe walk throughs, I'm still working on the whole food styling thing, hah!), but darn it, they are tasty. I tried mine with a little dip of grape jelly, and could see them going well on any brunch buffet. My son thought the grape jelly idea was gross though.

As for the common allergen warning: Great Value Cheese is gluten free, as is the GF Bisquick, but Jimmy Dean does not guarantee that their sausages are gluten free. So you could swap for a guaranteed GF sausage, and be good there. No eggs, tons of dairy.

These little protein bombs are guaranteed to please even the fussiest eaters, I recommend them, for sure!

See you later, lovelies!

Like recipe walk throughs? Me too! I've talked about them before! Like here for example!

So...Not Quite, Pinterest...

I'm always perusing Pinterest, looking at all those seemingly perfect outfits, and spotless kitchens that were achieved in five minutes a day with nothing more than baking soda and a toothbrush, and I decided to snag one, and try it out.

Several Christmases ago, I was given a set of sheet pans from my aunt. They've been very well loved, and I'd always thought well taken care of. Regardless, they now look like this guy:

Well loved, right? Kind of depressing to look at too, right?

Enter Pinterest, with posts like this one, promising that these guys;

can have your pans looking like new in no time. It's almost too good to be true, isn't it? Let's find out!

Instructions say start with the baking soda, and add the hydrogen peroxide until you get a paste. Simple enough:

Catching the droplets made me feel kind of artistic. ;)

Apply to the pan, Scrub. The blog I linked above makes it sound like it's no big thing, done and over in a couple of minutes. I scrubbed until the baking soda paste started to turn brown, and then let it sit for a full 10 minutes, and got this;

So that's...better? It's hardly the miracle cure Pinterest would let you believe though. It upgraded me from "really well loved" pan to "pretty well loved" pan. Not that it took a ton of effort or anything, but this one wasn't worth the hype, I don't think.

Aah, well. Maybe next time, Pinterest!

Later, lovelies!

Like reading about Pinterest? Me too! Check out another Pinterest tip I've tested, here!

You can find this post here too!

It's Even Better Than I Thought!

Eye cream!

Aah, eye cream. My great love. It promises a lot of things I'm not sure it can deliver on (what is a peptide? Why is it important to my eye skin?), and yet, I can hardly resist one. I can think of five in my house, right this very second. Six, actually.

GoPure Naturals promises products that do what they say that they do, naturally, without any fillers like parabens and waxes. With consistent use of their eye gel, they promise that they can take two years worth of aging off your eyes in just two months!

Sold. Let's talk, right?

My eyes are...weird. Not baggy, necessarily. Like, anti-baggy. There's a hollow. And there's no crows feet, but I have a few wrinkles that go across the bottom of the eye. And no real dark circles to speak of.

GoPure Naturals "Youth Glow Eye Gel" promises to work on under eye circles, bagginess and puffiness, with noticeable results after one use, and removing 2 years worth of aging in a single month.

I happily ripped the package open right in my driveway, and slicked it right on. And I'll say - this pump is super high powered. One solid pump will dispense enough eye gel to do both of your under eyes, and the under eyes of six or seven of your friends! I've found pressing the pump down about halfway allowed for the amount of product that I needed, without any extra.

I smelled the smell of cucumber when I used this product pretty consistently. Which is funny, because I don't actually see cucumber listed in the ingredients. No dyes, or scents, other than the cucumber thing. The gel absorbs quickly, and wears well. I've tried similar products that dried to a shine (yes, shiny under eyes. That was what I was after...), but there's none of that here!

The official GoPure Natural website is here, and it can explain the science a lot better than I can.

I feel a little worried that I'm being a little vague with you guys, and I don't mean to be. If you can think of a question that you have that I'm not addressing here, leave your question in the comments section, and I'll be all too happy to talk about it with you!

But in the mean time, some pictures!

Product shot! Light, easy to read, and clearly identifiable. The last eye cream I bought came in a bright red tube. Believe, when you put them next to each other, this stands out!

And the Before and After shot, which was even better than I realized;

You guys! You GUYS! The wrinkles under my left eye are GONE, and the ones under my right eye are half of what they were. And this is after maybe a week of use. Oh my word. I'm sold. Everybody needs this stuff in their life, right now. I knew I liked the cream, but I didn't realize the results were so awesome. I'm in love!

GoPure Naturals is running a promotion on their website right now where you get 50% off your first purchase if you sign up for their email list. It's totally worth it. Go Pure. Go NOW! Go here!

DISCLOSURE: The good people at GoPure Naturals were kind enough to supply me with this eye cream in exchange for my opinions on it, all opinions are my own.

Later, beautiful!

Fresh Food Friday!

If anyone reads my blog, you know that I do dearly love to challenge myself. Sometimes the results come out a little fair, sometime stuff isn't quite the challenge I thought it was.

Today, I'm reaching way outside the beauty box, and I'm actually going to try sharing a recipe with you!

I made the Cheese Straws that are on page 21 of Trisha Yearwood's "Georgia Cooking in a Oklahoma Kitchen" cookbook. I have made several recipes out of this book so far, and have greatly enjoyed them. Sometimes the quantities are seemingly a little off, but the recipes are always good. I cook for two pretty picky eaters, and they've even liked everything they've tried from her book so far!

Legally, as the Cheese Straw recipe doesn't belong to me, I can not reprint it. However, Food Network sure can!

Start with 30 ounces of cheese:

When I went shopping to make this recipe, I didn't remember that it called for a specific cheese. Oops. At any rate, two blocks of colby cheese...

...cut in to hunks...

...and fed in to the food processor! It occurred to me after the fact that I could have just bought shredded cheese, and saved myself the yelling at the food processor, but what fun would that have been? And food processor? I got my eye on you, man. I couldn't find any of the attachments. My husband walks in the kitchen, and the attachments practically throw themselves out of the cabinet at the guy. Can't get the thing to lock down. He looks at it, and it practically locks itself. Like I like the guy too, but come on. Why you gotta do me that way, food processor?

I split it in to batches for this next part. Once you've got the grated cheese, instructions call for you to mix it with butter, to the consistency of whipped cream. Which the recipe says will take a half hour. The food processor threw me under the bus before, but did me a solid on this one, because I had the largest, weirdest looking bowl of cool whip I'd ever made, in about ten:

Apparently that's what you get when you mix grated, room temperature cheese with butter. Good to know, right?

So, after you've done that, set that bowl aside, and turn to the dry ingredients.

Big ups to the good people at Bob's Red Mill for this flour, which does perform exactly as regular flour does. I'm not Celiac, but I'm also not supposed to have gluten. This flour seems to perform exactly as regular white flour. It's more expensive, but the convenience is worth it!

The afore mentioned flour was joined by salt, pepper, cayenne pepper and a little garlic powder. I've now got my "dry team" and my "wet team", as Alton Brown used to say.

Slowly add dry to wet, until you get a dough like consistency.

Pro Tip: If you're making a recipe that, like this one, asks for a piping bag, a Ziplock freezer bag with a corner cut off is an excellent substitute.

Piping didn't go super smooth - a couple of the lines broke up, but piped on to the pan, and ready to go.

Guess what I learned? The dough GROWS! So, first batch joins the not at all exclusive "So it tastes good, but doesn't look real pretty" club. In the recipe, it says that if you don't have the piping bag, round them out like a cookie...

...she's probably the professional for a reason, right?

Yes she is. Cause that is one gorgeous cookie. 

The recipe makes easily enough - you'll dirty a few bowls, but you were probably going to do that today anyway. If you round them out like a cookie, they make gorgeous. Light and buttery and cheesey. Might be a good appetizer for those without much of a sweet tooth. Passes the picky eater test, cause I just had to remind my eight year old to stay out of them, because he hadn't actually eaten dinner yet!

Using the Gluten Free flour makes them gluten free, obviously. And there's no egg, so if that's your allergy, you're good there. My dairy free friends will have to play around a bit more, because there's dairy at every turn in this recipe. 

Cooking with you guys is pretty fun, "Fresh Food Friday" may become a more regular event! See you next time, lovelies!