And so the time has come in my life to expand my blogging horizons a little bit. I've run another blog for almost three years, but recently my life changed a lot when I found out my son was allergic to peanuts (one of the top eight food allergies and thus relatively easy to spot on packaging) and more importantly (I came to find out later) garlic.
Who knew that one little bulb would turn out to be so much darn trouble.
I quickly found a few things when it came to garlic allergies. One: They aren't exactly commonplace. Two: There are not a lot of blogs dedicated to garlic allergy friendly recipes (read none that I could find) and no cook books that were dedicated to it either and Three: Garlic was in pretty much freaking EVERYTHING and like every single recipe in creation, it seems, calls for 3 to 8 cloves of garlic (okay that last one might be a bit biased on my part ;).
Nothing quite makes you realize a need for a recipe blog like when you look down a list of ingredients on pretty much every single commercial based anything and find "All natural flavors", "natural ingredients", or just plain "garlic" itself in things that you couldn't even figure out why garlic was in it.
And so, I decided to create this little blog (honestly it was either that or write a cookbook, but I know that I'll be better at blogging than getting a book done) to just plain make a place for people to go who have garlic allergies and/or NEED some help with garlic allergies to go for a resource. I'll share recipes as I find them, share things that taste good to replace the aforementioned garlic in recipes and just plain try to help people muddle through garlic allergies with a lot less problems than I ran into when trying to switch our diet around for the sake of my son's garlic allergy.
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