I'm slowly working on eating dairy products again, so the other night I made one of my all-time favorite easy to make pastas with Parmesan cheese one top. It's a simple radiatore noodle with Newman's Own Pasta Sauce dish sprinkled with cheese. I served it with broiled swordfish (which, thanks to my crappy oven almost started a fire... I will not miss that broiler when we move, or the oven itself). Wanna hear something funny, though? The cheese didn't really taste as good to me as I thought it would. I could have left it off and enjoyed the dish just as much, if not more. Isn't interesting how our tastes change, especially after eliminating certain foods for a period of time?
Now that I have determined that whole grains and gluten are very important for my digestive process (gluten-free wasn't the way to go for me) I found a super tasty fiber-filled oat cereal, Mother's Cinnamon Oat Crunch, that is my new favorite breakfast. Served with rice milk and topped with berries- I prefer raspberries with the cereal, but only had strawberries at the time I took the pic- it is a filling and super healthy breakfast.
In my quest to stimulate my liver I have started to drink small amounts of coffee again. Hey, if the GB lady thinks I need to do a coffee enema to stimulate my liver, than why not give it some stimulation through a daily dose of "joe" in preparation? Ok, so my logic and reasoning may be flawed, but I do love any excuse to have coffee. Usually, I will drink a small cup of black coffee but I have been allowing myself to have the occasional Starbucks while I am integrating dairy back in to my diet. My new favorite? Tall/Grande half-caf non-fat vanilla cappuccino, though I still have a soft spot for my old favorite, the Grande half-caf non-fat hazelnut latte.
I'm also trying to eat more protein, though I still limit the kinds of protein I get. Searching for quick meal options I have started to enjoy my peanut butter and jelly sandwiches again. Since peanuts don't bother me- just the tree nuts, especially almonds- this is a great source of protein fuel for me on the go while I am still limiting dairy. I especially like my PB&J sandwiches for lunch on Wednesdays after personal training. My new favorite thing to do with PB&J? Toast the bread it is going on and eat it open face. Something about warm bread making the PB all melty makes it tastes so much better.
For Thanksgiving I made the Spinach Salad with Cranberries that I forgot to take a picture of and finally I remembered to take one! I've altered the salad to my liking by removing the pumpkin seeds (they were too hard to digest for me still healing digestive system) and adding in cucumber. The combination of cucumber and cranberry is a match made in heaven. The taste is completely refreshing, especially with the homemade cranberry dressing.
Ok, I think that is enough food "porn" for now. I will post later about the dinner I made last night, complete with cake!
1 comment:
Girl, that food porn is making my tummy growl like crazyyyyyyyyyy!!! I hardly believe those are your actual plates, but I know you're a food genius, so they must be. Anytime you wanna stop by and give Emma Jo a hypoallergenic cooking class, feel free -as long as I can reap the benfits of a yummy wholesome meal! Sean even asked if you were already married...apparently, he's already lining 'em up for round 2 after he gets rid of this starter wife. I don't blame him...I don't have the patience to slave over a stove for more than 10 minutes a day. Again, you really need to start a business of some sort. You know, you could make it, freeze it and re-sell it...I got a whole weeks worth of those kinds of meals when I was recovering from the car accident, and they were super helpful. You should definitely think about it. I'd pay for 'em!
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