Food, cooking, eating, and me

Well! Where to start?

I just got back from an interesting vacation spent visiting my Mom while house-sitting at my sister’s. This gave me the opportunity to do a little cooking research.

I haven’t done all that much cooking research lately, for several reasons.
First, I live alone, and I don’t need to cook large quantities of food to keep other people from getting bored. I always fix my own lunches, using leftovers whenever I have reheating facilities. I’ve said in the past that I don’t get bored cooking and eating the same things repeatedly because I only cook things that are good enough to eat over and over again, and I still feel this is absolutely true. I design my meals to make good leftovers, and it impresses the heck out of everyone who eats in my presence.

Another reason is that I’ve been going through a process of understanding dietary limitations. So I can’t eat wheat, which has pretty much eliminated baking, a major topic for research for me until recently. And it has also pulled the plug on that seitan cookbook I was researching to write.

But who needs seitan, anyway? (Just kidding here, I used to love it, and I expect to be sharing recipes in the future.) What I did discover last week just before I went on vacation was the celiac disease support website Celiac.com. Thanks to reading the recipes and techniques they use there, I was able to start making bread-like bread again, and I even made chocolate chip cookies, all of which I will be posting as quickly as I can.

Questions? Leave a comment and I may write an article or blog entry discussing my thoughts on it.