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Tag Archives: food

omnivorous

17-Aug-08

The Omnivore’s Hundred, as seen on Ultramundane: Copy this list into your blog or journal, including these instructions. Bold all the items you’ve eaten. Cross out any items that you would never consider eating (or eating again). Optional extra: Post a comment http://www.verygoodtaste.co.uk linking to your results. To make the filling out of this form [...]

grateful for food

13-Jul-08

Despite my new gluten-free diet, I still love food. Perhaps I love it more than ever now that I have to be more mindful of it. Tonight I am grateful for the importance of food in my life, and I celebrated it with a homemade meal of pasta (brown rice fusilli) with marinara sauce, and [...]

three months of salad

27-Jun-08

After three months of a gluten-free diet, I can safely say that I am tired of this brave new salad-riddled world and want to go home, my fluffy pastry home with the doughnut doorknob. Initially, I was more than happy to give up gluten if it meant feeling good again. There is no question that [...]

symptomatic

05-Apr-08

The last thing I want to write about is the first thing on my mind these days. For the past couple of years, I have suffered from a ghost illness I self-diagnosed as “stress-related”, with symptoms that include gastrointestinal distress, severe headaches, extreme fatigue, and inexplicable mood-swings. Though my two major sources of stress (my [...]

mandatory calm

22-Jan-07

I would do the “five things you don’t know about me” meme that is floating around, but after nearly nine years of keeping an online journal, I think you know everything about me I’m willing to catalogue. My farewell dinner was fantastic: hanger steak in marsala cream sauce with lentils. It smelled so good in [...]