It is with my utmost pleasure to tell you that you can now get BUBBLE CHILD THE COOKBOOK online.
For over 200 pages of recipes, anecdotes, photography, “About Allergies”, cooking tips, and gluten-, nut-, dairy-, soy-, corn-, and egg-free ingredients:
Flip through it at Amazon.com here: Bubble Child at Amazon
Get it direct through the publisher here: Bubble Child through CreateSpace
Enjoy! And happy eating.
…and will be available to order online in less than a week!
Consider “Bubble Child” the BLOG the rough draft for Bubble Child 
the COOKBOOK.
Satisfy your entire palette with over 200 pages of allergy-free recipes (the vast majority of which have never been published on this site) and photographs* for every meal of the day (“Meat My Bubble”, “Graindiose Bubbles”, “Baked Bubble”, “Petite Bubbles”, “Sugar Pop” and “Good Morning”).
You’ll also find “Bubble Basics” where you can find fun things like making your own flax seed milk from scratch, preparing bread, preserves, frosting, dressings, stock, several variations of peanut butter substitute, and even a perfected version of “Notella– nut- and lactose-free.
Every recipe is marked where it has potential lingering allergens with some symbols that magically appeared in this book (so much better than color-
coding) to allow the most severe of Bubble Children to enjoy each and every plate served. If your cooking technique is rockier than Sylvester Stallone, don’t worry! There is a full “Ten Basics for Your Bubble Child Kitchen” in the front as well as a several-page cooking terms, technique, and ingredients “Glossary” in the back immediately following the “About Allergies” section by Joanna Pawlowska.
All recipes are nut- and gluten-free, with dairy-, soy-, corn-, egg-, and 
shellfish/fish-free modifications. Every photo you see and every recipe written comes from my Bubble Child kitchen, where I have been actively experimenting with “taboo” recipes for this book since 2009, and uses real allergy-free ingredients. (Meaning: you will see no glue subbing for milk in these photos, or any other hocus pocus!)
Hooray!!!
While you will be able to search for it and order it online at Amazon.com within days, it will be cheaper here on this site. …really, really soon.
It’s ready for you!!!
*Bubble Child got lucky with some noteworthy food photography from American Apparel 
photographer Carl Lindstrom and Inge Christopher photographer Lauren Jane Berger. They were fun to feed (see Miss Berger at right).–>
I am so happy to be able to (finally!) share my Bubble Child kitchen with you and your food allergic loved ones with this bound-paper piece of my heart.
Pop the Bubble,
Viva la Child.
Well, not entirely! But the wellness section has some pretty tasty muffin recipes. For those of you who have exhausted the Winter Squash Honey Muffins (see right) try these on for size.
“The Muffin Man Goes Gluten-Free” – New York Times
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<–It’s like magic. I bring in bread? They turn it into a brunch-time best-of.
Professional cooks will 99.9% of the time have French toast batter prepared, meaning, eggs, some sort of milk, and some sort of flavoring, as in cinnamon and spice. (which is all gluten-free.) If you bring your own GF bread, all they have to do is dip it in the batter, throw it on the flat top, and you’ve got yourself brunch to go along with your loved ones and the rest of the “tolerant” crowd.
Feeling limited? Never!! Bring in a few slices of your own bread, and leave the cooking to the pros while you sip on mimosasbloodymaryscoffee with friends.
Good morning!
As summer kisses us with its fresh rays, and the longest day of the year is a mere many hours of daylight away, it’s time for 
something bright, something refreshing, and something re-done to suit a Bubble Child’s palate.
Working at Gottino, the popular Italian wine bar and small plates bistro in Greenwich Village, our menu changed frequently, but there were a select few items that never missed that page: one being the Cavoletti e Pecorino salad. This uplifting salad was a vertical stack of shaved raw brussel sprouts, olive oil, sea salt, ground black pepper, and then walnuts and pecorino cheese. Two no-nos for Bubble Children with strong dairy and nut allergies.
Here is the salad re-invented, measured out, and made delicious for you and your Bubble Children to enjoy.
Buon appetito!!
6 cups shredded green cabbage (using mandolin or thin knife cuts)
3 tbs. extra virgin olive oil
6 tbs. whole flax seeds
1 tsp. fine sea salt (fleur de sel or sel de guerande preferred)
ground black pepper, to taste (about 1/4 tsp.)
Preparation time: 2 minutes
Serves 4
It’s delicious. Aren’t you glad you didn’t pay 8 bucks for it?
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After visiting Eliza Grimes for an interview and sample acupuncture treatment, I was not only feeling like my stomach had just been massaged by 101 kitten paws, but moreover blown away by the integrated method backing acupuncture’s effectiveness in relieving digestive issues.
How can sticking needles in someone cure their food intolerances??
Read on, my friends, for the exclusive Bubble Child interview: A(LLERGIES)CUPUNCTURE
LUCKY YOU BUBBLE CHILD READERS! Eliza Grimes will give 10% off initial treatment and consultation for all Bubble Child readers.
Eliza Grimes, LAc, MSTOM, 928 Broadway, Suite 904 (between 21st and 22nd), New York, NY 10010.
914-450-6060, elizagrimes.com
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The cutest things I have ever eaten.
Sounds so sad. Tastes so good.
Since I didn’t feel like breaking the bank for my guy and my “Christmanukkah” celebration, a whole duck or goose was eliminated from the table of options. But I knew I wanted a bird. After making a trip to The Brooklyn Kitchen, we discovered… the Cornish Game Hen.
<–Christmanukkah Exhibit A: home-made Menorah/microscopic Christmas tree
<–Christmanukkah Exhibit B: roasted Christmas bird with a side of latkes.
These squawkers are tasty little buggers. Perhaps it is because their bones are so close to the meat. Perhaps it is because they are so small and adorable that they just must taste delectable. Perhaps it is because I pan-seared them first and them slow-roasted them with sage. Either way, 
it is something that must be shared for the holidays and beyond.
Short and sweet, this is a super easy recipe that yields fabulous results and takes about 1/4 of the time to prepare than a turkey. Naturally gluten, nut, and dairy-free, and void of any added chemicals or preservatives you’d find in something like a honey-baked ham, you can enjoy the flavor and succulence of holiday meat without the intense food coma that typically accompanies said type of meal.
HAPPY HOLIDAYS BUBBLE CHILDREN!!!!
Enjoy: Sage Roasted Cornish Game Hens
4 whole cornish game hens, washed and patted dry, and necks and guts removed
12 sprigs of fresh sage
2 tsp. sea salt
pepper to taste
4 tbs. high-heat oil, such as canola, grapeseed, avocado, or safflower oil
Preparation time: 2 minutes
Cook time: 2 hours
Serves 6-8
To make GLUTEN-FREE GRAVY with the drippings:
Simply combine the drippings from the hens in a saucepan over medium heat with about 1 cup chicken stock and 2 tbs. unsalted butter and slowly whisk in about 2 tbs. mochiko (sweet rice flour) or more until desired thickness is reached.
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That’s right. Duane Reade, Manhattan’s mecca of upscale drug stores, now has a gluten-free aisle.
As I entered the Upper East Side Lexington and 59th location, with the simple ambition of grabbing some drawstring kitchen trash bags (size Large), I got lost. Which seems to only lead to good things, of late.
Low, behold, and hark, I read three sweet words under the announcement of Aisle 3′s products and services: “Gluten Free Food”.
What?!
Looks like we’re making progress, America. Or at least our convenience stores are certainly getting all the more convenient for Bubble Children.
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<–Niantic, Connecticut, is great.
<–So is being able to eat the wrap at that cute cafe on their Main St. (yum.)
After the Thanksgiving marathon of cooking (11 hours total by yours truly whipping up a solo feast in a tiny New York apartment. We counted.), I was jumping at the bit to get out of the city for a little relaxation. Enter: Niantic, CT. A darling beach town with a calling for chilling out, grubbing down, and reminding ourselves that concrete was not around before the dinosaurs.
Neither was this cafe, nor tortillas, but I was slightly shocked, to say the least, when my guy and I went for breakfast at Cafe Sol, a tiny cafe on their Main Street. The menu housed sandwiches, wraps, and bagels. AKA- au revoir, choice. Buuuuuut, low and behold, we asked the owner if they had gluten-free, and the gorgeous magician of a hostess whipped out a package of Food for Life Brown Rice Tortillas.
If this local cafe in this tiny town could accommodate a gluten intolerance, 
I think that’s a huge ball of hope and inspiration for the rest of us Bubble Children.
If you ever make it out to Niantic, CT, chase seagulls (see left), and go to Cafe Sol. If tiny beach towns aren’t on your agenda, but you still want a Bubble Child-safe breakfast wrap, you can get your Food for Life tortillas here.
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Who doesn’t love a warm bowl of oatmeal on a cold fall day?
People with Celiac disease. Unless…..
It’s made with gluten-free oats! Try my favorite: Bob’s Red Mill Gluten-Free Oats. After finding them on sale at the local health food 
market, and perusing every aisle of The Brooklyn Kitchen, I ended up with quite the inspiration, and Sunday morning treat: Gluten Free Oatmeal with Maple Syrup and Goat’s Milk.
Super easy: simply boil 2 cups water and 1/2 tsp. sea salt, add in 1 cup GF oats, reduce heat to low, and simmer for 10-15 minutes, stirring occasionally, until no excess water remains. Remove from heat, top with 1 tsp. (or 1 tbs.) cinnamon (I use a lot– LOVE that stuff), stir, and spoon into two bowls. Top each bowl with 1/2 tbs. maple syrup, and desired amount of goat’s milk.
The beauty here? Goat’s milk is easier to digest for those with lactose intolerances, yet still has that creaminess and calcium that Dairy Bubble Children miss in their diets. Gluten-free oats have soluble fiber, the mineral benefits of whole grains, and are, yes, gluten-free. Maple syrup is a non-refined sugar, and is easier to digest than cane sugar.
Start your morning with something that’ll fill you up, body and soul.
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