I am a holistic chef and natural cooking instructor specializing in families with food-allergies, particularly those suffering from celiac disease or an autism-spectrum disorder. Nearly everything I make is both gluten- and dairy-free, and I'm now focusing on substitutions for soy and eggs. It's not easy, but I love every second of it. You can find me at www.GFCFkitchen.com. Desserts, hands-down. There is nothing more satisfying to me than being able to give a food-allergic child a cookie that has been specially tailored to his or her specific diet. For my husband and myself, though, nothing beats warm brownies, vanilla ice cream and chocolate sauce (the fact that the brownies are wheat-and-dairy-free and the ice cream and chocolate sauce are made with hemp milk makes no nevermind!) Assorted appetizers for Christmas dinner; corned beef hash and pineapple with scones and apricot butter for Christmas breakfast; cranberry mold and marshmallow yams for Thanksgiving; shasklik and potato salad for 4th of July; chocolate chip cookies on any occasion A good friend has an autistic son who is allergic to gluten, dairy, corn, soy, eggs and rice. Because of the rice allergy, he can't have any of the standard gluten-free pancake mixes out there, and he really misses pancakes. After a lot of experimentation, I finally came up with a pancake recipe that not only meets his needs, but tastes great, too. I couldn't believe it when my husband (the guinea pig) not only cleaned his plate, but told me to save the leftovers for later munching. Now I'm trying to find a way to make pumpkin-pancakes out of these, since many of my clients' children like pumpkin. Gluten-free bread. I've no idea why, but my formerly flawless gluten-free flour mix suddenly stopped working, producing something more like bricks than bread. It tasted great, but it sliced like play-dough! This happened right before a client consultation for which I'd intended to bring a delicious loaf of gluten-free quick-bread. I ended up pulling a loaf I'd whipped up using a different recipe out of the freezer and bringing that instead!