Juliet

That's not that hard of a fix. You can make a buttermilk substitute by adding lemon juice or white vinegar to milk. For every one cup of buttermilk needed, combine 1 tablespoon or either lemon juice or vinegar with 15 tablespoons of milk (total liquid equal to 1 cup). You let it sit for about 10-15 minutes before you use it.

If all you're looking for is a baking book, "Gluten Free Baking Classics" by Annalise Roberts is a great place to start. I've personally adjusted her flour blends a bit (for the brown rice flour I do a mixture of sorghum and brown rice, and I often add extra flax seed for fiber for those things that aren't sweets), but all of her recipes have worked out...

There has been som more recent research talking about the adolescent brain (and from my experience with my 3 younger sisters and my niece, adolescence in girls really seems to start at 11) Open Original Shared Link One of the points that, I feel, is most interesting is the part about the pre-frontal cortex: "Undeveloped Brain Territory One part...

FYI - masa harina is not the same thing as corn flour. Masa harina is actually "corn dough flour", the corn is turned into a dough, dried out, then ground to make it. It's what is used to make corn tortillas, tamales, pupusas, many Latin foods in general. Corn flour is ground dried corn kernels, more like the way rice flour is made. Depending on the recipe...

Our son was 2 years 2 months old when he had his endoscopy. And it was far harder on us than him. They let us be with him until less than 5 minutes before they put him to sleep, and then the moment he woke up they brought him back. No IV's for him, and we left the hospital the moment he could walk without help and drink water without throwing up. We got...

Distilled vinegar is fine, as are distilled alcohols. It's malt vinegar that's a problem. So, you're good to go!

First - You're not a horrible mother!!!! You know, you have to go with what your comfortable doing. My son was diagnosed at 2, and it took a year for him to not eat everything he saw, and another year to get him to stop picking up everything and throwing it in the trash when we were out. My son is 6 1/2 and my daughter 4 1/2, both have it, but my son...

My son gets them really bad if he gets gluten. He soaks the sheets thoroughly, as if a bucket of water were splashed on him. In addition to behavioral symptoms, it's a tell tale sign for us.

My 6 year old son does the same thing and it lasts for about 5-7 days. It is no fun. I try to help him pinpoint where the anger is coming from (sometimes that's enough to get him to wind down when he realizes it's truly nothing and he's just angry), let him know he's better than the emotions that are controlling him, and that we love him. It's also sad...

We're dealing with this issue now in first grade. We didn't have it last year because our kindergarten teacher didn't have any "parties". The kids didn't have holiday or birthday celebrations, but I must say it was a lot easier than this year. Implementing the same procedures as we did last year, he's had 4 times the amount of contamination when he...

I found this recipe somewhere on the internet, and I just love it! They always taste great. I normally use Pamela's mix for the baking mix, and then omit the baking soda. I also like to add pecans, but that's just me: Pumpkin Spice Muffins

One trick that bakers use is also having steam in the oven. About 10 minutes before placing the bread in the oven, put an oven proof dish filled with ice at the bottom of your oven. Any time I make rolls, yeast or otherwise, the crust is nice and crunchy when I do this.

My son just completed kindergarten, and he never eats stuff he's not supposed to. That being said, he got gluten for about the first half of the school year, without playing with play-dough or any gluten art/school supplies. It is amazing how much kids stick their hands near their mouths (wiggly tooth, show off a tooth that's lost, poke a finger then suck...

Also the Hershey's Miniatures chocolate bars (plain, with almond, special dark) are not safe.

I'm the oldest of several, and it is a fact of life that particularly during the teen years (and sometimes for the rest of your life) you will be teased by your siblings. I was the oldest, so I did the most, but it was still given to me, too. I was vegetarian for years and for some reason every single person in my immediate family, including in-laws, thought...