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posted Tuesday, 18 April 2006
If you happened to be in the kosher section of a certain grocery store tonight and happened to notice a strange woman doing a happy dance while hugging packages of margarine, let me explain . . .
Mother's Kosher Margarine is the best thing since gluten-free sliced bread, at least for my family. It looks like butter, it tastes like butter, and it acts like butter. Yet it is completely free of my daughter's allergens (including dairy and soy). Before we discovered Mother's Margarine, our baked goods sucked big time. Baking with oil instead of butter or shortening results in funky food. But Mother's makes our "free of everything that makes a baked goods good" muffins-breads-cookies into reasonable facsimilies of the allergen-laden forbidden foods.
The problem has been finding it. The local kosher market had it sometimes. The owner was once kind enough to even sell me what he had left back in his restaurant kitchen. But for the most part it was never in stock. I don't think I've had a stick of the stuff in the house since the fall. And I was making a pest of myself at the market. I left notes about ordering it, but got nowhere.
With Passover, I thought the time for Mother's had arrived again. But I couldn't find it, once again. I guess Passover has passed. Dejected, I was resigned to more blah baking.
My friend Carole had long ago suggested that I check a local grocery store that normally stocks many kosher items. Since the store was near us tonight we decided to stop by and check it out. I wandered around not believing I would find it when suddenly I saw a huge stockpile--HUGE. And, get this: it was half-price. I bought ten packages and may go back later for more.
Let the baking begin!
Mother's Kosher Margarine is the best thing since gluten-free sliced bread, at least for my family. It looks like butter, it tastes like butter, and it acts like butter. Yet it is completely free of my daughter's allergens (including dairy and soy). Before we discovered Mother's Margarine, our baked goods sucked big time. Baking with oil instead of butter or shortening results in funky food. But Mother's makes our "free of everything that makes a baked goods good" muffins-breads-cookies into reasonable facsimilies of the allergen-laden forbidden foods.
The problem has been finding it. The local kosher market had it sometimes. The owner was once kind enough to even sell me what he had left back in his restaurant kitchen. But for the most part it was never in stock. I don't think I've had a stick of the stuff in the house since the fall. And I was making a pest of myself at the market. I left notes about ordering it, but got nowhere.
With Passover, I thought the time for Mother's had arrived again. But I couldn't find it, once again. I guess Passover has passed. Dejected, I was resigned to more blah baking.
My friend Carole had long ago suggested that I check a local grocery store that normally stocks many kosher items. Since the store was near us tonight we decided to stop by and check it out. I wandered around not believing I would find it when suddenly I saw a huge stockpile--HUGE. And, get this: it was half-price. I bought ten packages and may go back later for more.
Let the baking begin!