Learning to cook all over again

I am trying to put this up periodically, in large part as a reminder to myself, for when I'm feeling down about my diet, or to remind me...

Fried kinda-green tomatoes...which I can no longer have. Waah. I go through phases in my cooking. I get stuck in a rut - a huge rut wher...

We dropped off my daughter's blood test today and we're doing a 24 hour urine test - the same one that diagnosed me with MCAD. I...

Today is a crying day. I think everybody who ever has to deal with something chronic has them periodically, yes? You don't even have to ...

It's taken a little over a week, but I feel like I can catch my breath now. It's a shaky breath, but not a defeated one, I don't...

This paper, right here:  http://www.mastocytosis.ca/MSC%20Patient%20Experience.pdf "...Typically, mastocytosis pa...

It finally, FINALLY happened. Two days ago I was diagnosed with a condition that explains EVERYTHING. Why I react to crazily small amounts...

I'm writing this mostly as a reminder to myself, about WHY I am as careful as I am. About WHY I need to listen to myself and not the peo...

I was reminded recently that there are lots of lists of what allergic folks can't eat, but much fewer lists of what we CAN eat. Our own ...

I constantly share information about Celiac Disease. I know this annoys some people. My friends are likely nodding their heads and saying,...

Yesterday, a friend mentioned that she'd been sick lately. A nasty flu going around. And she mentioned that it was a surprise how long s...

With all the food issues that my family has to deal with now, we've run into various reactions from others. Some people are curious, som...

When our reactions are life-threatening, it's very motivating to stay on the diet. But what about reactions that aren't life threate...

If you come to visit my house, something you will hear almost daily is "Here, taste this. How is it? What does it need?" More ...

Today I decided to try to make veggie burgers for the first time. I've been making Pecan Milk for my son, where you soak pecans for a...

I want to remember what this is like, right now, this one point in my life. Today, my husband has to study for school and I need to write....

I just found a blog called 100 days of real food . It was a lovely idea - a family was going to try to eat only whole foods, nothing process...

About a year ago, my Super Geek (aka hubby) got a new job that was in another state. We had a long discussion about it, but in the end, we d...

There's something to be said for learning to wait for things. Not that I'm not as impatient as the next person sometimes, but I...

The me of 10 years ago: mom of one and a self-taught mediocre cook of traditional American fair with a Mexican, Asian, or Indian meal thrown...