Oh, I wish I could have gotten the colors right for this picture. It was so bright a rich and beautiful! This side had been left for the bottom of the barrel. To be perfectly honest, it sounded like a textural nightmare. Spinach = slime, mushrooms = squeak. That’s in my mind, anyway. After a [...]
In almost six years of marriage, I have known that Hubby likes Brussels Sprouts. In almost six years of marriage, this might be the second time I’ve made them. This is another serious case of food prejudice. I don’t have any traumatic childhood experience that lends itself to an aversion. My parents never force-fed them to [...]
Cheese can go pretty quickly in our house. We don’t consider it a necessity or even a staple. The boys have some limited sensitivies to certain kinds of dairy, which is an improvement from severe restrictions on it- so we have come to hold dairy products with an open hand. It’s just not necessary for [...]
Mmmmm, deliciously green. I’ve gotta start at the beginning on this. Iz- who is very, very much 2.5 years old- love cucumbers. He could eat a cucumber in one sitting. Also- Hubby really doesn’t like squash in any form. Cucumbers and zucchini look strangely similar, it seems. As I was chopping this up, Iz came [...]
I love salads, but it seems that a crucial part of salad dressing is lemon juice. My first and clearest reaction during reintroductions (and accidents during elimination) was to lemon juice. I just can’t do it. After scouring both the internet and the cookbook, I found this Italian Dressing recipe that didn’t include lemon juice. [...]
After we decided that wheat is a reactant, I kind of took the weekend off. We were out of town anyway, and I really just wanted to not think about food for a couple of days. Turns out, you can’t really do that when avoiding wheat, but at least it was a bit of a [...]
The plan for today was Cream of Wheat in the morning (homemade, of course), Wheat Berry Pilaf with lunch, then burgers with sprouted wheat buns for dinner- assuming we weren’t reacting, that is. With breakfast- which was amazing, by the way- I got a slight twinge of a headache and some sluggishness, but it wasn’t [...]
I will be the first to say that I have not been exactly the model Candida Cleanse/Allergy Elimination citizen. I’ve been back and forth and up and down, and I’m probably doing trials too early. But, between the trials, I still have to be “good” so that I can get a clear picture of how [...]
This may have been the most satisfying dinner I have had in awhile. Typically, I go for white gravy. I’ve probably been turned off by the little packets of gravy mix or the brown, salty, weird stuff that restaurants call mushroom gravy. This was none of the above. Honestly, it wasn’t all that much work, [...]
