but I guess it's flattering?
I was carded at a grocery store buying beer on Sat. This was WITH MAC! seriously? I told the checkout baby that she was sweet, I might have said "bless you" also.
I forgot to tell cute/heartbreaking mac story from last night. He got a note home from school again and then proceeded to be a PITA at afterschool. I was asking him what he thought his consequence might need to be (previous suggestions for punishment have been "take me into the woods and leave me?"), and he said "you could take me back and get a good student." He does not say this sad or pathetically, just matter of fact. I just told my brother via email and he called asking about the "Ethiopian Child Exchange Program." My brother is not ready for prime time.
True story: I was in a mall walking behind two girls who appeared to be about 12. We passed a Dippin' Dots stand, and one said, "It says that Dippin' Dots is the ice cream of the future." The other girl mulled that for a minute and said, "I hope not."
Man, I'm indoctrinated by wheat. All these things to try and add back up to it.
Well, yeah. Kind of the staple and basis of western cookery. (You could move to rural Mongolia! Unless the whole experimenting with rice milk means you also have a milk allergy.) It kind of blows my mind that wheat is one of those foods suddenly becoming more expensive, because,
staple food.
Those things are staples because they're always available.
ARGH!
I just spent four hours trying to solve a problem that didn't exist!!
Sorry. I just had to vent.
I just told my brother via email and he called asking about the "Ethiopian Child Exchange Program." My brother is not ready for prime time.
Hah! He clearly went through the same How To Be an Uncle program as my uncles did!
Kind of the staple and basis of western cookery.
Yet coeliac disease affects 1% of people in the US.
Wasn't wheat brought to the US with the colonists? I just wonder if there are situations where someone was experimenting with an alternate flour and found that the recipe was much-improved by using oat/rice/quinoa instead. But with the partial substitutions and the xanthan gum boosting it still leaves wheat as the king of the crops.
I always get confused about which vegetables were native to the Americas and which were brought over by Europeans. Corn is definitely Western Hemisphere, right? In which case, high fructose corn syrup may be slow-acting revenge for firewater and smallpox-y blankets...
Veganomicon has a who bunch of gluten-free recipes, including chocolate chip cookies made with oat flour. I've never tried them, though pretty much every else I've tried from this cookbook has been good. (Well, except the tofu dill salad, but I don't really like dill, so I'm not sure why I made that one to begin with.)
