Egg Rolls - that's right , EGG Rolls

Good news and bad with today's RAST results. The good news was that the numbers for egg were low enough to justify an egg challenge, so we made egg rolls. Brooke passed the challenge. Maybe we will try a cake with eggs next. The egg rolls, by the way, were delicious - golden brown and delicious.



The bad news: The RAST positive numbers included garlic. This has to be a false positive.

Egg Rolls:

Brown Veal and or Pork. Add shredded carrot and cabbage. Add Rice Noddles (cooked) and ponzu sauce.

Depending on your food choices, egg roll filling might contain all sorts of ingredients: Bean sprouts, jicama julienne, fried scallions, etc.

Egg Roll wrappers are generally made from wheat, water, vinegar, salt, eggs, and cornstarch.

(Spring Roll wrappers are rice paper made from rice flour, water and salt.)

M,P,N,Se,Sh

Key: M,E,W,P,S,N,Se,Sh

Milk-free, Egg-free, Wheat-free, Peanut-free, Soy-free, Nut-free, Sesame-free, Shellfish-free

TAKO- The key to tender is the pressure...

If you enjoy octopus but have found it difficult to tenderize, I have two words for you: pressure cooker.

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Bring a large pot of water (enough to cover)to boil and add a 3-4 pound octopus. Boil for ten minutes. When cool enough to handle, rub off dark outer skin under cool running water, if desired. Some like the gelatinous texture.

Place octopus (now much smaller) in a pressure cooker with aromatics (onion, carrots, celery, garlic, etc. wine, water, etc.) Bring to boil, seal top and cook for ten minutes.

How to cut octopus.

The octopus that comes out of the pressure cooker is tender. Really tender.

You might marinade small cuts or slice thin and serve with hot toasted sesame oil, olive oil, fried scallion, fried garlic, scallion and togaroshi.

Sesame Garlic Chicken Salad with Pork Spring Roll

Separate the meat from the tendon with a pound of chicken tenders. (email chef@ brookeok.com for technique) Wet chicken meat in buttermilk, milk, rice milk, soy milk or water and coat with wheat, rice, or corn flour.

Fry in 325 degree Canola Oil until 170 degrees and golden brown and delicious.

Drain briefly on wire rack and toss in bowl with Sesame Garlic Sauce.

Served with salad and a pork Spring Roll.

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Nancy's Airfield Cafe

Sometimes when we go to a restaurant and explain our food allergy issues to the staff we can tell that they just do not get it. The number of times we have been served food we cannot eat after saying as clearly as we could what we could not eat...well, they just don't get it.

The folks at Nancy's Airfield Cafe get it.

Nancy has a book which lists the ingredients for every dish on her menu. Tell your server that you have food allergy issues at Nancy's and you can expect a completely professional response. They get it.

Thank you Nancy's Airfield Cafe in Stow, Massachusetts. Just follow the signs to the airport.

Brooke's Lego Mountain

The Pizza Formula

Sauté mushrooms with roasted garlic (saved from 40 clove chicken) and Canadian Bacon in EVOO. When the oil is almost gone, add a few ounces of chicken broth. Take the pan off the heat when the broth is almost gone.

Place some pepperoni slices on a paper towel or two and nuke them for 15-20 seconds.

Roll out your pizza dough and if you do not want to use corn flour, put the dough on parchment paper. Parchment paper will not burn in a 450-500 degree oven. Really.

Some Italian spices on the dough won't burn under the sauce and toppings. A ground beef mixture with a marinara sauce might need a bit of thinning to make a perfect pizza sauce. A thin layer of the tomato sauce topped with freshly grated mozzarella cheese and the mushroom, garlic, bacon mixture finishes the formula.

Into a 450-500 degree oven for about 10 minutes, rest for a minute before cutting and you have pizza bliss.

Everything is better with bacon.

Iron Chef

Manufactured in a peanut-free facility Iron Chef Products are made from all natural ingredients with no preservatives. No MSG.

Brooke likes the General Tso's best.

Crab & Shrimp Cakes with Asparagus and Jasmine Rice.

Your best local produce vendor for the asparagus.

Trader Joe's for the Crab, Shrimp, Lobster Bisque and Jasmine Rice.

The crab cakes are formed with crab, shrimp, Martin's Famous Potato Bread food processor bread crumbs salt, paprika, parsley and Vegenaise.

Freshly ground horseradish mixed with Trader Joe's Seafood Sauce is delicious and free of corn syrup. If you find another Seafood Sauce free of corn syrup, please let us know about it. chef@brookeok.com

Rock N' Roll Diner

Along US Route 1, near the beaches, Scarborough, Maine is home to the Rock N' Roll Diner. Fresh Maine Shrimp and extraordinarily tasty French fries made for a fine dinner in an allergy friendly atmosphere. Our server understood the issues associated with food allergies and made sure we enjoyed a great meal safely.



The Apple Crumble for dessert was Brooke's favorite.