Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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WW: Living with Food Allergies – Making Unexpected and/or Unwanted Lifestyle Changes
So, food allergies can change your life plan a bit. When I (Denise) was young, my witnessing and participation in family dysfunction and associated drama made me decide that I pretty much never wanted to own real estate. I viewed it as a trap, because if you rented, you could bug out at any time,…
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Salad Dressing Recipe Theory
So, salad dressing. It’s one of those things that I can’t buy any more, my corn allergy pretty much blew any hope of being able to find a commercial product to buy out of the water. I don’t really use recipes any more, I tend to throw things in a blender and have at it,…
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Kitchen Sink Soup, vegan, gluten-free, allergy-friendly
One of the ways that food allergies have taken over my brain is that I’m always planning ahead — you have to. A lack of planning can mean not eating, which in my case leads to extreme crankiness or just a complete lack of functioning. I’m also completely incapable of deciding what to eat if…
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Rice Vermicelli Salad Bowls with Beef
I love Vietnamese food. Seriously, I love it. Before the corn allergy, our local Vietnamese joint could recognize my voice before I even finished stating that I wanted to order takeout. The owner knew my name and my husband’s name, and what we generally ordered. If Shawn forgot what I wanted when stopping in to…
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Chinese-Irish Baked Latkes
Hey, here’s an ethnic mash-up for you. My Irish family always celebrated St. Patrick’s Day rather traditionally, in part because my grandfather’s birthday was the 16th and he loved the traditional corned beef and cabbage. Personally, though, I would survive just fine without ever seeing that again (there was an incident involving snow, Georgia, a…
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Crispy Duck
Crispy Duck 1 whole fresh duck (or some duck legs or breasts if you don’t want to deal with a whole duck) 1 Tablespoon of sea salt 2 teaspoons of Chinese Five Spice a pair of good kitchen shears roasting pan that can fit a rack in the bottom oven safe cookie rack that fits…
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Making Vegan Gluten-free Thin Mints
My friend Corinne, of sparecake, decided to move out to Wyoming for a job. So I went down to spend a day hanging out with her before she left. We’ve cooked together a few times — Corinne isn’t gluten-free, but her mom is, so we’ve tried out some recipes. For this final attempt, we did…
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Citrus-spiced Beef Short Ribs
There are two times of the year when I want to eat like the midwesterner I am — dead of winter, and height of summer. And by that, I mean there are two times of the year when I think of meat, first, and then figure out what goes with it. In the summer, I…
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