I am in search for the perfect pancake recipe. The catch? It must be egg free.
Everything must be egg free from now on. No, this is not part of our family resolution bucket. This is doctor's orders. E is allergic to eggs.
For those of you who have been following, you know that we have struggled with a dry, painful cough, red breakout blotches, hives, and almost blister-like diaper rashes on E since birth. I had eliminated all dairy from my diet, and we saw mild improvement. It was confusing though because I didn't know if it was the eliminated dairy making the difference or just the growing up and development of his digestive system. The doctor wanted to wait until a year of age before allergy testing him, as the test give false negatives at an early age. At ten months, I begged for the test. I knew that something more than dairy was causing E pain.
So in we went. My children have never seen a needle, and here I was voluntarily offering E's arm to be pricked for blood for a test that would probably come back as one big false negative. What was I thinking? I wasn't. My mommy-gut; however, was. And she was right.
Eggs.
E.G.G.S.
Seriously. Eggs.
I received the phone call explaining that E's allergy was undeniable. He has a severe egg white allergy and we do not know about the yolks. (As they were not tested) Without seeing a true allergist (which is the next step), we cannot be sure if his reactions from birth were all caused by this allergy, but we can assume. Between John, Scarlett, and myself, we take down over 2 dozen farm fresh eggs a week. We dip fish in them. We scramble and fry them. We make pancakes, waffles, fritatas. I bake cookies, brownies, and cakes... We eat EGGS.
I guess the bright side is that we found out there is a definite allergy. I was starting to feel crazy.
I'm also hoping that there were any false negatives to anything else on the test (ie: dairy).
So the recipe search begins. Throw me your best egg-less dishes. Especially breakfasts and desserts! PLEASE!
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