Did I mention that it’s Food Allergy Awareness Week? Sorry to let you know so late into it. This week is brought to you by The Food Allergy and Anaphylaxis Network. FAAN has some great information on their website and I found that their FAQ page really breaks it down well into some digestible facts, including what a food allergy is, how to treat it, what the long-term implications are and how to move forward and live with this kind of condition.
Something particularly interesting I found was that currently, there are no medications that cure food allergies. Strict avoidance is the only way to prevent a reaction. Many people outgrow their food allergies, although peanut, tree nuts, fish, and shellfish are often considered lifelong allergies. This isn’t the type of condition that can be made better through allergy injections or any other treatment. The typical treatment for food allergies is avoidance.
Also, eight foods account for 90 percent of all food-allergic reactions in the U.S.: milk, eggs, peanuts, tree nuts, wheat, soy, fish and shellfish.
FAAN has some recipes online and even has a recipe book for sale. Go check them out!
This month Pearson’s Candy celebrates its 100th anniversary. In 1909 the Pearson brothers started the candy as a distributor and in 1912 began producing their own candies, starting with the Nut Goodie, which originally cost only five cents. Can you imagine anything costing five cents nowadays? Why, not even pennies are that cheap now!The Salted Nut Roll debuted in 1933 but changed names briefly to the Choo Choo Bar to distinguish itself from other nut roll products of the time. Since then, Pearson’s has produced other confections and has changed a bit over the years but still has its two timeless classics available, along with a few others.
See below the lovely gift pack we have for you. Six candies – a great sampling from Pearson’s offering. Here is what you have to do to win. Think about the legacy left by the Pearson brothers and all the fine products they have today as a result of the hard work they did 100 years ago. Tell us what you want your legacy to be when people look back at you 100 years from now. What should they say about you and your accomplishments?
All entries should be received by May 14th at 9 a.m. or whenever I get my morning coffee ready and sit down to determine a winner. Use the comments section of this post to indicate your answer. Good luck!
Candy by Carl Weaver.
We have solicited information from our member companies and gotten a list together of official statements. Please refer to this list when considering eating your favorite peanut butter-containing confection. Note that this list will be updated as I receive more information, so check back often, and keep your eye also on the FDA’s page on the issue.
Also be aware that a company not listed on our site simply did not return any information to us. This may be for many reasons, including ongoing investigation or even lack of peanut butter as an ingredient. If you do not find a manufacturer’s name listed anywhere, please contact that company directly for information.
As always, be vigilant with your choices in what you consume. Read labels and use your best judgment.
The story of peanut butter and salmonella is developing quickly, as you know, so expect this page to get updated often as things progress with ongoing investigations. Here is what we know so far:
- Peanut Corporation of America has issued a voluntary recall on some of their products because of contamination with salmonella.
- PCA is not the only supplier of peanut butter and paste but is the only one we know of with this issue.
- Peanut butter is a delicious ingredient in many candy products.
Given all this, we are soliciting and looking for information from candy companies that use peanut butter or paste in their products and will be posting a table of specific manufacturers’ information as soon as we can get it. Several of our members have already informed us they manufacture their own peanut butter or their peanut butter is sourced outside the factory but is completely safe. We will post a link here at CandyDishBlog.com as soon as we have more information. I know this is not very informative, but we wanted you to know that more information is on the way.
Peanut Butter by clada74.
Behold the pecan log – a summer road trip staple, nuts encased around the cherry nougat center, running as marrow through the breezy memories of my youth. Windows down, Dad speeding along the blisteringly hot highway and my brother and me taking a moment of respite to enjoy a taste of brown and pink goodness before returning to whatever we had been fighting about in the back seat of the car. It was a sweet summertime salve that helped us ignore the heat, if only for a little while, as if the dew of Hermon had descended right there in our car.
Folks, if you don’t have a Stuckey’s near you, you are missing out on a special treat. Have you had a pecan log? What are your memories of them?
Pecan Log by ThisIsIt2.
Okay, so it’s not New Year’s Eve quite yet. However, you don’t want to be the last one to get everything together for the big party you are going to. Here is a quick and easy snack you can bring to any occasion, or even horde and eat by yourself. Yes, they are that good.
Jaden Hair of the Tampa Tribune tells us how to make Rollo pretzel turtles. Basically, you put Rolos on square pretzels, heat them until they are soft and then press a nut into the tops. Jaden tells it better and even includes and interesting story, so go check out her version.
Martha is a good friend of all of us at NCA. She is seen at the office, at NCA employee parties and even on her own blog, Ladies of the Knife. This is a group of friends that get together to try new recipes and each month a different member of the club hosts the event. As I am not a lady, I am not in the club, but when I had Martha’s most recent creation at a holiday party last week, I just about lost my cool and screamed with delight, it was so good.
I think the secret is in the chemistry, or possibly the love she made it with. Of course, it doesn’t hurt that the crust has cocoa and the filling has butter and there are pecans on it. This is possibly the most delicious dessert I have ever had, not to mention one of the most beautiful. Martha had cut it up into little cubes for easy party consumption, but I gather it once looked like the image above – a pecan mandala, a graphical representation of the world of deliciousness. And I ate part of that world and loved it.
If you need a dessert to bring somewhere or simply to satisfy folks after dinner, I guarantee this one will be a winner. Give it a shot and let Martha know how it comes out.
What favorite dessert recipes do you have up your sleeve for the holidays?
