New round

I am starting over on my food allergy diet. I am sick of all the dishes I've been cooking - I need new dishes. Some of the food in my freezer is way too old, so every meal is a process of tasting first, and then deciding whether or not it's edible (yuck). Plus I've been eating out regularly for a whole month, which means it's hard to get back to strict, especially given the two previous sentences.

For this round of strictness, I plan to focus on eating less meat. I can't have dairy, and I'm sick of nuts that aren't peanuts, and I can only have beans every other day. So there is no way to have a daily routine, which I usually find comforting and easy to follow. So on bean days about twice a week I plan to make a bean-containing-salad in the evening for dinner, and eat the leftovers for lunch the next day. For the other bean days I will make bean soup with or without small amounts of meat, and well seasoned ground meat patties I lovingly refer to "sausage." For non-bean days I will make pureed soups consisting of fish, and veggies and fresh herbs from the farmers market, and more "sausage." It gets a little weird, given I have to rotate my herbs and spices, but I have a "sausage" recipe for every day in the rotation. It's the only way to prepare meat right now that doesn't turn my stomach.

Being strict also requires a hefty supply of pancakes and muffins.

I have some ideas for entirely new things to eat. (The paragraph above, while newish, is all stuff I've done variations of before.) This summer I plan to seek out new green leafy vegetables I especially want to try escarole after having it braised in Las Vegas. I am also planning to take toasted nori sheets I bought at the co-op and try making sushi-inspired rolls with grains and fresh veggies. It won't taste like sushi. I will be satisfied with edible.

Also, I have decided this blog should be more casual. I am not enjoying the complete thought and sentence process I have been trying to sustain in previous entries.