Nightguard is still really uncomfy when I first put it on. But the painful tightness seems to ease as I am wearing it so I am trying, trying, trying to wear it a couple of hours per day. Once I can get more used to it, I can try to wear it before bed and eventually sleep with it.

Aims, I think I would do almost anything to get to see Em in the Nutcracker.

Nora, what is trinity?

Not Nora, but in Cajun/Creole cooking, the trinity is celery, onion and bell pepper. In most other forms of cooking it's celery, carrots and onion.

I am walking away from the WedMD sites, because according to them the only reason for nausea/vomitting with no accompanying diarrhea or other symptomps might be an ulcer. Clearly they don't know long-term vegetarians. I'm gonna assume someone stealth dosed me with chicken stock and assume I'll be fine tomorrow.

I cannot believe you get dark circles with dairy or chicken. Wow. That's like something out of CSI.

I think what you need to do is drink plenty of fluids and get some vegetable broth. If you have no intestinal problems you need to get this crap out of your stomach soon. Drinking clear fluids that don't aggravate the problem would be good.

Ginger ale and veggie broth.

Cass,

last night I tried the guard that erin (?) I think recommended. It seemed to work out okay. I still have jaw pain though. thank goodness for advil.

le n, yeah, it's a mild allergy/intolerance i've had all my life, and one of the many reasons going veg was so easy for me (chicken has always been off the table for me, even when I ate turkey and pork.)

so all we have left to use up is cauliflower, broccoli, turnips, and sweet potatoes. Any suggestions?

Steam the brocolli and cauliflower and drown it in a buttery cheese sauce. Or a butter mustard sauce.

Turnips and sweet potatoes can be cut up into cubes and roasted. You can do it with olive oil and thyme or whatever you like to do on your root beggies.

Hi Omni. If the noodles did not swell in cooking, does not sound like a good brand. Maybe too old. Or maybe not cooked enough. Whole wheat pasta requires longer cooking time. Normally even bargain whole wheat pasta swells.

But part of the problem is whole wheat pasta is denser which has both good and bad points. It absorbs more liquid before it swells which makes it easy to undercook and also tends to use up more flavor just sponging, so that you need more spice and flavorings to get the same flavor strength as with regular pasta. Also whole wheat pasta has a nutty flavor of its own that does not go well with everything. This happens to be my recipe tonight to make a little over six servings:

Six tablespoons lime juice. 4 tablespoons soy sauce. 1 tablespoon honey (would have used molasses but out of molasses). 1 tablespoon sesame oil. 1 tablespoon olive oil. Garlic lots and lots. Cilantro Lots and lots. Ginger lots. White pepper lots. (Would have used black pepper, but one guest has allergy to black but not white pepper - same plant, different part or processing different chemicals composition). Would have use hot pepper but again allergy. Mushrooms, broccoli, mung bean sprouts, onions, sweet basil. Eight oz of whole wheat linguini (sp) cooked in excess liquid from the stir fry then added back to the stir fry. remaining liguid thickened by startch from the noodles makes a good sauce people can add to taste.

The point is not the particular recipe (though it is a good one) but that I'm using strong flavors that are also compatible with the slight "nuttiness" of whole wheat.