Safe Summer Root Mash

Delicious, light summer root mash. Apparently, the colors of this diet are white, yellow, and orange.
1 bag grape potatoes (found at Trader Joe's in a little yellow bag)
handful of organic yellow peeled carrots
handful of orange peeled carrots
sliced ginger
olive oil
salt
white pepper

Boil your roots. Add oil, salt, pepper. Mash with a fork. Enjoy alone, or as a side dish, or (now this is exciting!) spread over some ground beef and onions and bake into a Shepherd's Pie. Perhaps that's the destiny of these leftovers...

The Great Yeast Famine of 2009

So my acupuncturist thinks my bile nausea, bloating, fatigue, and neck-eye spasms might mean the candida are dying off. I've been depriving them of the yeast and sugars they thrive on. Interestingly, Wikipedia chooses to belittle my dear Angie. A quote:

Candida is accorded responsibility for symptoms as specific as hay fever, as vague as "brain fog" and as common as weight gain or flatulence. These symptoms are attributed by alternative medicine practitioners to the "overgrowth" of intestinal candida albicans, which they claim leads to the spread of the yeast to other parts of the body via the bloodstream.

Well, if my candida die off and with them go the brain fogs and eye spasms and blind spots and bilial nausea, perhaps I'll muster the nerd power to counter this judgmental crowdsourcing with a voice from the alt med choir.

Safe Dirt Carrot Date Muffins

Gluten-free, dairy-free, egg-free carrot, date, buckwheat groat muffins (modified from http://stanford.wellsphere.com/celiac-disease-article/cinnamon-carrot-muffins-gluten-free/304885 to suit my needs). Not entirely successful - middles are still pretty wet, overall taste is kind of dirty, edges are burnt. And by "not entirely successful" I mean "taste so much like dirt that they're now gracefully topping off my compost bin."


Recipe

1 cup sweet rice flour
1/2 cup buckwheat flour
1/4 cup buckwheat groats
1 1/2 tsp cinnamon
3/4 tsp baking soda (someone tell me if this is dangerous? there's some cornstarch in there...)
1 cup grated carrot
2/3 cup coconut milk
2 tsp tapioca granules
1/4 cup vegetable oil
1/4 cup agave syrup
1/2 cup unsweetened apple sauce

1. Preheat oven to 425 degrees Fahrenheit (next time I'll try a cooler oven, perhaps 375) and place 12 silicone muffin cups on a cookie sheet.

2. Simmer the coconut milk and tapioca for 12 minutes, stirring. Allow to sit while you put together the other ingredients.

3. In a large bowl, dump in the dry ingredients + carrots and stir together.

4. In a medium sized bowl, whisk together wet ingredients.

5. Pour the liquid mixture into the carrot flour mixture and stir. Take care not to over mix the ingredients. Then spoon the muffin batter into the 12 muffin cups.

6. Bake at 425 degrees for 12 minutes or until golden brown.

Safe Summer Squash Curry Noodles

Threw together a very satisfying dinner tonight - colorful, seasonal, simple.

Rice spaghetti

1 can coconut milk
1/2 tsp green curry paste
julienned yellow squash
julienned white onions
shredded carrots
salt
white pepper

Sautee everything together for about 10 minutes. Stir in cooked rice noodles and serve.

Next time: add basil, chicken

Buying pancake mix was an excellent decision

Today I used hemp milk in place of water and sliced in fresh bananas and chopped walnuts. Rich, nourishing, delicious.

Spot on after a late-night sushi feast prepared by a friend with awareness of my diet and my first brave foray into fearless raw fish eating, sleeping in too late to hit the DMV for my Washington state driver's license (which will not only cost money but also require a test!), reading a horoscope that says though my day may be an 8 I better avoid what's outside and watch my back, and finally allowing myself to read for pleasure, in bed, after over a month of headache-induced avoidance. Banana walnut pancakes, cedar incense, Djuna Barnes, Bill Callahan on the turntable - sounds like a prescription for Seattle's first rainy Saturday in months.

Safe Hydroponic Steak Salad

Delicious.

George Foremaned steak
avocado
radishes
hydroponic butter lettuce (seriously)

Dressed to the 9s:
fresh lemon
apple cider vinegar
$14 olive oil
white pepper
salt
pinch of cumin

One for today, one for tomorrow. Leftover elegance.








So long as I keep finding lettuce this alive and meat this perfectly Foremaned and avocados so intensely ripe and so long as my dressing shaking in jam jars continues to naturally flow sans recipe this whole foodless diet will be just fine. And with some natty dub on the turntable and a salty swim in my hair and a balance beam beach walk driving me forwards.

Thank You, Trader Joes

For the junk food!


Work has been a challenge this week - no Bakeman's turkey-cran sandwich to look forward to, no Twix at 2:30, no saltines for my queasy belly. So I went to Trader Joe's before yoga last night and blew $60 on safe junk food. My scores:

Larabar (cashew and cherry pie)
dried apricots
cashews
salted green bean chips
perfect bananas
sweet potato chips
dark chocolate almond bar ("low carb" by Simply Lite)

I also picked up some proper food that will come in handy, like steaks and sliced roast beast and herbed goat cheese and mini white potatos. Unfortunately, the fake butter mom recommended has soy in it and I only thought to buy one chocoloate bar - I sense frequent trips to Trader Joe's in my future.