Happy Mother's Day!

Happy Mother's Day to all the moms out there who frequent NoPeanutsPlease.

Not even Mother's Day went by without an allergy incident in this house. I made dinner tonight. I had a beautiful Chianti that I wanted to pair with a nice pasta dish. By now we are programmed to research before feeding anything to our daughter, especially when nuts or legumes are involved.

I love pesto. I was thinking that a pesto pasta would be nice and though we believe that our daughter is okay with pine nut I double-checked online to make sure that there was no specific issue. This is what I found:

"Peanuts are sometimes used as a substitute for pine nuts in food products such as pesto, so people who are allergic to peanuts should be very careful about eating foods traditionally made with pine nuts."

Oops. I opted for a creamy herb sauce with chicken and roasted peppers.