Month: July 2013

  • Summer Strawberry Spinach Salad

    So far this summer in New Hampshire, we’ve had sweltering heat interspersed with rainy cool weather. Given the quick changes, it’s been hard to grocery shop effectively — who knows when it’s going to be way too hot to cook? Part of my solution has been to buy things that I can cook ahead, sometime…

  • 15 Minute Salsa

    Since I also cannot buy salsa during this whole elimination torture thing (most have celery and onion, which are two no-no’s at the moment), I whipped this up so I’d have something to eat at my book group, since I’d gotten “regular” allergen-filled food for everyone else.  I wasn’t going for culinary genius, but just…

  • Lazy Summer Classic Smoothies: Creamsicle

    It’s summer. It’s too hot to cook, but you need a mid-afternoon snack to get you through until dinner. Or it’s breakfast time but it’s 90 degrees in your apartment and food seems, well, heavy. There is a super simple solution to this cooking dilemma: Smoothies, people, smoothies. I go through smoothie phases. I make…

  • Taco Beef for Tacos, Salads, and Nachos

    So I was going totally nutty because I’ve not been eating much except rice, salad, steamed or roasted vegetables and broiled beef and pork during this whole food elimination torture thing. I’m not good at eating the same thing all the time. And I love spice. I wanted something different to eat. Something that had…

  • Product Review: Beanitos Chips

    So if you’ve been following along, you heard about my (Denise’s) corn allergy positive scratch test result and my corresponding food elimination diet and challenge confirmation.  Very, very annoying.  Because that means no tortilla chips to go with my salsa or to make nachos, and no taco shells.  Again, very, very annoying.  A couple of…

  • Cashew-Chocolate Pudding Popsicles

    When we were trying to think up something festive for this holiday week, we considered that ice cream seemed the best way to go. July 4th is a barbeque holiday, yes, (though why independence and charred tubes of mystery meat are so closely inter-related I will never understand), but we’ve covered barbeque pretty well up…