I experimented this morning with making some pancakes I can eat. Here’s what I tried:
1.5 cups Barley Flour
0.5 cup Potato Flour
0.25 cup Tapioca Flour
3 tbsp Arrowroot Flour
2 tbsp oil
Water until it was a decent consistency
Oh man, it was BAD. I have never had anything like it. The inside of these would just NOT cook. At [...]
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Attempt at Wheat-, Corn-, Egg-free Pancakes Take #1: FAIL
Posted in Allergies, Cooking on April 20, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The Girl in the Bubble, Part 2
Posted in Allergies, Health on August 14, 2007 | 1 Comment »
So, after initially finding out about the allergies, I still had a lot of learning to do. It was a few years before I had most of it pegged. That was an uncomfortable few years. I carried an Epi-Pen during this time, because who knows? I can eat most lettuce (not baby spinach, though), tomatoes [...]
The Girl in the Bubble, Pt 1
Posted in Allergies, Health on August 2, 2007 | 2 Comments »
I’ve spent the last 5 days with the kind of fatigue that makes you consider whether it’s reasonable to attempt climbing the half-flight of stairs to get to the bathroom and makes even simple sentences difficult to formulate. The first three days I also had a persistent, bad headache.
Why? Because I have a kick-ass [...]
