Archive for August, 2010
Monday, August 9th, 2010
The new September VT has a spread of cauliflower recipes. At my house, cauliflower is an overlooked vegetable. Is it just me, or is cauliflower expensive? Plus, I have it in my head that cauliflower is kindof bland. Which is exactly what the recipes in the VT article make use ...
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Monday, August 9th, 2010
1. The appetite is not a myth. They were not making it up. I am actually hungry every 2-3 hours. Plus, my stomach doesn't hold as much because baby is pressing against it, so I can't eat as much in any one sitting. Which means I'm hungry more often.
2. Don't ...
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Friday, August 6th, 2010
One of my friends, L, has a sweet 13-month-old baby boy who is very sensitive to several foods, including eggs, milk (dairy), wheat, fish, beef, chicken, pork, corn, and lamb. Basically he has to be on a gluten-free, corn-free, soy-free, vegan diet. Eosinophilic esophagitis is the name of lil fella's ...
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Wednesday, August 4th, 2010
Iowa Businesses Face New Rules on Breastfeeding, from MSNBC...
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Wednesday, August 4th, 2010
A while back I bought some dry mung beans, not knowing what to do with them. I think I had read that they are in the same family as adzuki beans, which I love for their versatility and low-gas-producing factor. Mung beans are little green beans common in East Asian ...
Posted in Budget Eating, Food-related | 2 Comments »
Wednesday, August 4th, 2010
I don't usually post about dairy recipes. I don't usually make dairy-related recipes. But today when I came across ecoMILF's post about homemade ricotta and how easy it is to make, I had to give it a try. See, several weeks back, Hubs and I had a lovely tea at ...
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Monday, August 2nd, 2010
I had already planned to go grocery shopping this morning, but after my snapping from the Midwife this morning, I decided to high-tail it to Rainbow Grocery, in the Mission District in San Francisco. It's a worker-owned co-op grocery. It smells just like the co-op in Iowa City (Do all ...
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Monday, August 2nd, 2010
This morning Hubs and I had our first official appointment with the lovely Midwife we have hired. It was a fun visit, and baby I are doing great. Lovely Midwife is a very smart and experienced lady who shares my firm belief that the food we eat determines how healthy ...
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