This is one of my newest tricks for getting around my body's newest list of things it refuses to digest, courtesy of the Crohn's, natch. Essentially, cottage cheese gets melted down with Parmesan into a sauce that quite reasonably mimics a standard cream sauce. My version, however, is less work, cheaper to procure all the ingredients for, and ( Read more... )

I need a break from linear algebra revision. I've gotten everything done except for canonical forms which are not easy, and I never learned before. Trying to teach oneself new, difficult material in an hour or two at a level of proficiency required by the Big Exam is madness, to say the least. Why didn't I start earlier this summer? Oh, that's ( Read more... )

And it tasted so good!

Super Tasty Polenta by NoraIngredients ( Read more... )

As the famous weary provost's call, this is a warning that this is a Non-Entry.

( Modified from '10 Healthy Poor Man's Foods', Los Angeles Examiner Online )

Stolen from jokergirl:

What is your favourite...

Fruit: Forest strawberries win for me too. They bring back memories of summers at home.
Vegetable: Spinach! My first solid food and one of my first loves. I will never let you go...
Fruit that disguises itself as a vegetable: Tomatoes. The sweet ones that taste like Italian sunshine in my CSA box are just ( Read more... )

Had another nightmare last night (yeah, yeah, what else is new?) and while it was disturbing and horrible and scary, the plus sides are that it had a lot less physical violence than the last few nights' nightmares and I woke up with a craving for rice pudding. Rice pudding, or Milchreis, is a staple children's and invalid's meal in the UK and ( Read more... )

I didn't have the time, energy, or stamina to make the tomato and anchovy sauce from Marcella that I wanted to (dang narcotics), but I made a tasty bastardization, and again, am recording for memory ( Read more... )

Today I had a really odd craving for carrot salad, which I haven't had since I was very small. Unfortunately, the recipe I used to love is in a cookbook that vanished in the Great Parental Divorce, and I have yet to replace it. Some internet searching turned up recipes that either obscured the carrots with other focus ingredients (cocoanut, ( Read more... )

For most people*, a picky eater is a person who has a long list of foods she won't** eat and another long list about how, when, where she'll eat them. Often this includes food separation, rules about food preparation, and it goes on and on and on and onBased on this definition, I have never considered myself a picky eater. There are very few foods ( Read more... )