Friday, February 19, 2010

I Learn A Little More Each Time

I have been cooking lately. Huge shock I know, but when your food is super limited because of a certain annoying allergy you don't have much of a choice unless you want to starve. I know, I know, the drama. Well when your favorite food like chicken fingers, cereal, peanut butter and jelly, macaroni and cheese and basically everything in this entire universe contains wheat and it is off limits you have the right to be dramatic. I am just hoping they have food in heaven so I can swim in a pool of sticky fingers from Wingers... with extra ranch. I bought a gluten free cook book on Amazon and can I just say it is the third best investments I ever made? The second would be Shelbie and the first would be my first pair of heels that had Nick hooked. I know I have mentioned that Nick does the grocery shopping so before you reached through the screen and punch me, hear me out. I have done some recently. A very small amount, but still. So I have now learned where the spices are located in the grocery store, how to not pick a potato, and that Harmon's has their own cheese man. I thought that was a lot of learning but other things I have learned are these...
-1/2 C. of grated Parmesan cheese does not have to be from the cheese man (even though I swear it tastes better.)
-Potato's are not supposed to be green.
-If it takes more than three pans, pick a new recipe.
-A flat top stove is completely awesome. (All you electric stove haters are crazy. I am now a gas stove hater for life.)
-Dog's don't like Rosemary.
-Never put your face in the oven right after you open it. The heat escapes and melts your mascara, rendering you blind when your top and bottom lashes glue together.
-Oil gets EVERYWHERE.
And lastly...
-When your recipe says to put the rice crispies in a food processor to grind them up finely don't worry because it isn't necessary. Putting them in a gallon sized bag and stomping on them in boots works perfectly.

5 comments:

Mae AJ and Conner said...

Amanda~ you make me laugh so hard!!
Love you Cous..

Stephanie said...

So when am I invited over for dinner?:0

Sarah said...

Hi there, I randomly came across your blog, and saw that you can't eat dairy. Funny, I was diagnosed 3 years ago with allergies to everything BUT wheat and fish. Not the point though, not sure if you know about this, but since I'm allergic to most of the top 8 allergies, plus some, I found a company that makes products without the top 8 allergies plus corn. You should check it out, the brand is called Namaste:

https://www.namastefoods.com/shopping/storefront/cgi-bin/news.cgi?Category=Home

The brownies are REALLY good (well compared to eating nothing!) They have mac and cheese (I didn't like it, but husband though it was good), waffles, pancakes, muffin mix (good with blueberries in it), etc. Also
Erewhon brand cereal is really good, I really like the rice cereal with berries (makes me feel like I'm eating sugar cereal)

http://www.usmillsinc.com/usmills/search.php?brand=1

Anyway, not sure how long you haven't been able to eat wheat, but it seemed like it was relatively new. If you want to chat about food allergies, email me at Sarah Carrido @ gmail (dot) com (without any spaces of course)

Sarah said...

oops, I meant wheat!

Jewelz said...

I'm allergic to gluten, and it can be difficult to cook. But in time, I have learned to adjust and even prefer a lot of things alternate to wheat. Good luck!