Whaaaaaat?! I found both at Sobey's in Amherstburg. Yay! I can't wait to have one or both with coffee tonight! I'm so, super excited about this!
Friday, October 4, 2013
Cream of Asparagus Soup - lazy lunch
Today is a BEAUTIFUL October Friday, and I'm feeling lazy. The sun is shining, and in my old house, all the windows capable of being open are. The kids are at school, I'm refusing to change out of my pajamas, and even the dog is lazy.
The last time I went to the grocery store was last weekend, so I'm running out of clever things to make.
I went to my fridge and had quite a bit of wilting asparagus left from my trip to CostCo, and my bag of baby potatoes was growing eyes.
Tuesday, September 17, 2013
Pumpkin Chips and Jalapeño Lime Aioli - new favourite snack!
This snack is a crazy combination, but is amazingly good. I just don't quite understand how or why these taste combinations work, but they DO! A real foodie would understand the science behind it, but I'm not a real foodie. I just cook and eat what tastes good. :P
This snack is season appropriate because it has pumpkin. It's a little sweet, a little salty, a little spicy, a little bit of everything. It has egg yolks in the aioli, but they don't seem to bother me. The aioli is dairy free and gluten free. The chips are gluten free.
This snack is season appropriate because it has pumpkin. It's a little sweet, a little salty, a little spicy, a little bit of everything. It has egg yolks in the aioli, but they don't seem to bother me. The aioli is dairy free and gluten free. The chips are gluten free.
Broccoli Cheese soup - vegan & gf
You should know right off the top here that I am just posting my efforts and tweaks on someone else's recipe. Kelly M at www.foodiefiasco.com posted this recipe and I just printed it off and followed it. She looks like a real peach and I'm kind of fascinated by her. She is a complete geek in the best and truest sense of the word. Kelly is 15 and all kinds of passionate about food. For her it started with being heavier than she wanted to be at a very young age, developed an eating disorder, and learned how to love food again and keep a healthy weight. Our paths that lead us to a healthier diet are different, but here we are, in a similar place.
I've just discovered Kelly's site, so this is my first adventure in cooking her recipes.
Kelly's pictures are much prettier, but I'm putting mine up anyway. :)
Several pictures and narration after the jump:
Monday, September 16, 2013
Update
It's been about 10 months since my last post.
I would like to say life has been so fantastically busy in the last 10 months that I've hardly had time to breathe, much less take off my party dress.
I would like to say that I've been cut off from modern technology while spelunking in the Son Doong Cave in Vietnam.
I would like to say I've been hanging out with these ladies.
To be honest, I HAVE had some fun adventures in the past 10 months, and some sad adventures, and a lot of living happened. Husband and I were able to take a special, kids-free vacation to Mexico during the cold months, and we brought my mom and her beau along. My smart, funny, silly, youngest brother came to stay with us for about 3 months. We did a lot of knitting. We played a lot of games, like LOTRO. He helped me with my work. He helped take care of my kids while husband and I jetted off to Mexico, and again while I spent a few days in Vancouver to visit husband while he was working.
Brother and I:
Our three sons took a school year's worth of field trips all in the last 2 months of school, because the teachers had been doing some sort of work-to-rule thing until then. I always volunteer to chaperone every field trip, afraid that I will be an old woman who regrets not going on every. single. field trip. if I don't go on all of them. That was chaotic.
Summer was a whirlwind. Eldest went away to school in Chicago for 3 weeks. We all spent a couple weeks in Chicago on top of that. We had the opportunity to meet new friends, spend time with old friends, see some of my family in the Chicago area, celebrate July 4th in Chicago, experience Medieval Times, etc. It was a great time. All the boys spent 3 weeks in Texas with my mom, during which time husband and I took a last-minute trip to St. Thomas, USVI. The boys then came home to spend the last 3 weeks of summer at home. The 3 weeks at home were completely lazy. The boys spent about 14 hours/day playing games on the computers (mostly Minecraft), and about 1 hour/day eating. The rest was spent sleeping. Yeah, I totally let them gorge on technology time. No, I don't feel guilty, but I'm expecting some people will wish I did. LOL
Now the boys are back to school and I'm back to being a homebody with some excess time to research recipes and play with food.
In January I eliminated gluten and dairy from the boys' diets, but allowed them to continue eating meat. To be honest, I haven't seen a huge difference, other than they seem to be cured of the occasional bout with constipation and/or diarrhea. I was hoping for a more obvious improvement in their general well-being, because it would make it much easier to motivate them to stick to the diet. While they were gone in the summer they didn't attempt to stay away from dairy or gluten, and they didn't have any issues. Ultimately, it's a good thing they don't seem to suffer from consuming dairy and gluten.
This summer I did some experimenting with my own diet and found that my reactions were MUCH less severe than they were last year. Gluten still makes me look bloated, but doesn't make me feel as uncomfortable. Goat's milk products seem to have little/no effect on me in any way. Cow's milk products still cause me to break out and sometimes cause a slight headache, but no migraines anymore. Eggs are still iffy; sometimes I don't have a reaction and sometimes I do. I've been eating egg white omelets with no negative consequences. My weight has held steady for the last year, give or take about 3 pounds, depending on how much junk I've been eating.
In the future most of the recipes will still be vegan and gluten free, but I'm going to showcase some of the other things I cook for either myself or the kids. Just keep an eye on the ingredients to look for allergens you may be avoiding.
If you have a recipe you are interested in, but haven't had the time or energy to try it, let me know in the comments below. I have average cooking skills, so would be happy to try out recipes for you and blog about how easy/difficult they are, including sourcing the ingredients.
I would like to say life has been so fantastically busy in the last 10 months that I've hardly had time to breathe, much less take off my party dress.
I would like to say that I've been cut off from modern technology while spelunking in the Son Doong Cave in Vietnam.
I would like to say I've been hanging out with these ladies.
To be honest, I HAVE had some fun adventures in the past 10 months, and some sad adventures, and a lot of living happened. Husband and I were able to take a special, kids-free vacation to Mexico during the cold months, and we brought my mom and her beau along. My smart, funny, silly, youngest brother came to stay with us for about 3 months. We did a lot of knitting. We played a lot of games, like LOTRO. He helped me with my work. He helped take care of my kids while husband and I jetted off to Mexico, and again while I spent a few days in Vancouver to visit husband while he was working.
Brother and I:
Mexico (from the infinity pool - Can you tell where the pool ends and the ocean begins?):
Husband and I in BC:
Our three sons took a school year's worth of field trips all in the last 2 months of school, because the teachers had been doing some sort of work-to-rule thing until then. I always volunteer to chaperone every field trip, afraid that I will be an old woman who regrets not going on every. single. field trip. if I don't go on all of them. That was chaotic.
Summer was a whirlwind. Eldest went away to school in Chicago for 3 weeks. We all spent a couple weeks in Chicago on top of that. We had the opportunity to meet new friends, spend time with old friends, see some of my family in the Chicago area, celebrate July 4th in Chicago, experience Medieval Times, etc. It was a great time. All the boys spent 3 weeks in Texas with my mom, during which time husband and I took a last-minute trip to St. Thomas, USVI. The boys then came home to spend the last 3 weeks of summer at home. The 3 weeks at home were completely lazy. The boys spent about 14 hours/day playing games on the computers (mostly Minecraft), and about 1 hour/day eating. The rest was spent sleeping. Yeah, I totally let them gorge on technology time. No, I don't feel guilty, but I'm expecting some people will wish I did. LOL
Now the boys are back to school and I'm back to being a homebody with some excess time to research recipes and play with food.
In January I eliminated gluten and dairy from the boys' diets, but allowed them to continue eating meat. To be honest, I haven't seen a huge difference, other than they seem to be cured of the occasional bout with constipation and/or diarrhea. I was hoping for a more obvious improvement in their general well-being, because it would make it much easier to motivate them to stick to the diet. While they were gone in the summer they didn't attempt to stay away from dairy or gluten, and they didn't have any issues. Ultimately, it's a good thing they don't seem to suffer from consuming dairy and gluten.
This summer I did some experimenting with my own diet and found that my reactions were MUCH less severe than they were last year. Gluten still makes me look bloated, but doesn't make me feel as uncomfortable. Goat's milk products seem to have little/no effect on me in any way. Cow's milk products still cause me to break out and sometimes cause a slight headache, but no migraines anymore. Eggs are still iffy; sometimes I don't have a reaction and sometimes I do. I've been eating egg white omelets with no negative consequences. My weight has held steady for the last year, give or take about 3 pounds, depending on how much junk I've been eating.
In the future most of the recipes will still be vegan and gluten free, but I'm going to showcase some of the other things I cook for either myself or the kids. Just keep an eye on the ingredients to look for allergens you may be avoiding.
If you have a recipe you are interested in, but haven't had the time or energy to try it, let me know in the comments below. I have average cooking skills, so would be happy to try out recipes for you and blog about how easy/difficult they are, including sourcing the ingredients.
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