Sometimes, life gets weird.

Now, if you're wondering about ME, you're going to want my other About page on my other blog. That's the blog I keep so you don't have to scroll through my personal diary entry to get to the recipe on this blog. I literally joined Pinterest the day it opened to the public from beta, I know what the ideal recipe blog looks like. And I came to Pinterest as a skilled cook already, with 17 years of experience cooking from scratch meals for my family, two years of formal culinary training, and enough time in commercial kitchens to know that I am a cook, not a chef.

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So, after I was diagnosed with allergies to five incredibly common foods in the standard American diet (and in most international diets, too), I was devastated that I had to give up cheese and red sauce on my pasta, but I wasn't worried about how I was going to feed myself. I had definitely lost the convenience of "convenience foods," and needed to cook everything from scratch, but again, I had been taught to cook from scratch as a child.

 

As an aside, tradwivery used to include home training, y'all. I could keep a kitchen and household at 13, in anticipation of my getting into the courtship market and finding a husband by 17-18, and being a SAHM by no later than 20. Absolutely none of that panned out, but my obviously asexual/aromantic self had some very marketable marriage skills as a teen.

 

Anyway, I had plenty of kitchen skills, and experience with cuisines from all over the world thanks to that Pinterest account and a few in-person cooking classes, so I knew I could modify any traditional recipe with ingredient swaps and know-how.

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I eat real good, even not eating my allergens. And my Notes app was starting to get hectic with all the recipes I was recording. So, this blog was born, for the sorting and searching capabilities alone.

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The Menu came from my love/slight obsession for planning occasion meals. Again, this was a rather unwieldy Google Doc until I transferred it to blog form. Being able to share these recipes with other folks with these allergies, or with anyone who wants to start eating a simple, clean, inexpensive diet is an added bonus for me and you! 

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Bon Appetit!