Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Money
So since tax day is almost here, MaryKate and I were talking about money. Besides more expensive food, you end up buying a lot of kitchen equipment, and if you have a corn allergy, you might end up buying a lot of food preservation equipment, freezers, and in my case, a house so you can…
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Reading Restaurant Menus: the despair and the glory
I just read this in an online menu: SHRIMP & GRITS spicy New Orleans garlic sauce, poached eggs, Cajun seasoned baked grits peanut-free, tree-nut-free, gluten-free, egg-free, soy-free. ALLERGENS dairy The menu writer appears to be working from the top 8 allergens list, which is fair, except they’ve failed to acknowledge two of the 8. Of the…
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When You’re Allergic to Conventional Feminine Monthly Supplies
Last week we said we’re heading in new directions with the blog. Besides the actual recipes, we said we’re going to talk about every day life issues, including how we cook, plan, and deal with personal care stuff, besides just giving you recipes. So this post is my first swing at bat. I’ve contemplating writing…
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Shaking it up: New Directions for Surviving the Food Allergy Apocalypse
Surviving the Food Allergy Apocalypse was born out of frustration-fueled conversations Denise and MaryKate started about 6 years ago. First we bitched about giving up foods we loved. Then we started talking foods we could still have; meeting, spreadsheet(s), blog. Logical progression, right? Denise is a lawyer. MaryKate is an historian. But we were both…
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Chai Spiced Granola Bars
I miss the convenience of buying a Nature Valley Granola bar, and calling it good for breakfast. Since they’re not safe for me, and since I needed to trial some cane syrup I bought, I went poking around the Interwebs and found this recipe that I modified. Sadly, the cane syrup was a big fail…
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Mango Slaw
I just spent a week in Hawai’i, the Big Island, and came home to cold and dreary weather. We hit avocado season there, which was amazing, but also found lots of fresh papaya, some passion fruit, and some interesting varieties of dragon fruit. But back here on the mainland, the tropical fruit variety is less…
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Curry Spiced Hot Sauce
Okay, I know I’m going to be sorry because this is my last “get out of jail free post” I had saved up in case I was in a bind, but I’m kind of in a bind. So here we go with another hot sauce. Plus, you can’t have too many hot sauces anyway. This…
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Warm Bacon & Kale Salad
This will be a quick post. This salad is really loosely based on some paleo salad recipe that I found and Jack made a while back. We really liked it, but this time it’s edited to use up whatever we had in the house this time around. The basis for that salad was sauteing the…
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