The cookies 6/17/12

Gluten free peanut butter chocolate chip cookies.
I used a recipe I found somewhere or multiple places and spliced them together. A cup and 2 Tbs of sugar, a cup of peanut butter, a dash of vanilla and a Tbs of milk. And ofc chocolate chips. Chilled then cooked at 350 for 7 min. They were amazingly greasy and tough around the edges. Next time I think I’m going to chill much longer, and use freshly ground peanut butter instead of jif.

SonOfAMonkiesUncle!!!

Journal from June 17, 2013

When I was researching this going gluten free thing, I read these crazy stories about how people reacted to gluten withdrawal or whatever it is. I shrugged it off. I mean, how bad could it be? It would be nothing for me. I’ve been through hellish problems with my health, and now I’m going to get through it easily. 

Boy was I wrong.

Way wrong. It is now day 6 and I’ve been in a funk all day. I decided to bake, because that is usually my sollution to stress. I bake and my neighbors love me. Because I’ve been craving bread, pasta, and basically gluten I decided to make some cookies for myself first, some flourless cookies that sounded alright. Whatever it was, I wanted chocolate.

If you’re a girl you know what I mean. CHOCOLATE!

So I found this wonderful peanut butter cookie recipe. Anything peanut butter can be made better with chocolate, so I thought I would put chocolate chips in it. Too bad I didn’t have any. Well, I had finished off my box of gluten free chex this morning, so I needed some of those too. I took myself off to the store to get these things.

Wow, when I was walking past the milk after going through the store it hit me. I suddenly felt like crying. For no reason. 

Now I’m baking cookies, hope everything looks up from here. 

Trash TV

Journal from June 14, 2012

As if I didn’t watch enough horrible TV yesterday, a friend and I get together once a week to watch trashy TV including Sister Wives, 16 and pregnant, the choice etc. It’s a wonderful thing we have figured out to do this summer to stay in touch… which is turning out to not be a problem for us! 

Food wise, today went really well.
Breakfast was gluten free chex yet again. Yummy :)
Lunch: i had some rice cakes as a snack then had some cold cuts wrapped in lettuce as a main thing followed by some melon.
Dinner: Chipotle Which was super good. And gluten free and vegetarian friendly for my friend.

Today I had a breakthrough moment. For the first time in a month or so I didn’t need a nap. For the first time since I contracted mono 14 months ago I didn’t fall asleep when I laid down to ‘watch TV’. It felt amazing. I had a afternoon. I completely wasted it, but it was great.

When you live a life that consists of questions like ‘how much does my head hurt’, ’ can I make it through work’. Every little bit of improvement in the quality of life helps.  

Pumpkin Chunkin

Journal from June 12, 2012

Yup, I’ve spend the last 3 hours of my evening watching a show about pumpkin chunkin. Wonderful show. I would love to go there this year and see the ‘world championship’.

Maybe if I were a sugar baby or a billionaire.

Day 2 gluten free.

I’ve almost stopped typing ‘glutin’ when I’m looking for recipes and such. I think spelling it correctly is a wonderful step in the right direction.

Food breakdown for the day:
 —> Breakfast: Gluten free chex
—> Snack: an Apple
—> Lunch: (not really lunch, but a pre-afternoon-nap snack): a bowl of melon and a yogurt
—> Afternoon snack: trail mix and rice cakes
—> Dinner: Rice and turkey soup thing with tortilla chips and more melon.

Dinner was difficult, I had planned on making some stuffed peppers. Then my friend Katie, who is really having a tough time with Calc II this summer, came over for dinner and some tutoring. She just had some teeth pulled Sunday (ouch!) so the challenge was making a soft dinner that she could eat and a gluten free / citric acid free dinner for me. That would be where the interesting soup comes in.

I am so thankful for all the cooking my mother made me do growing up. It allows me to just throw some stuff in a pot and make a meal out of it. I threw some ground turkey I found when I cleaned out my freezer Monday with some onion and cooked that up, I set about 2/3 of it aside to freeze for a different meal and then added some carrots to cook for a bit. Then I added a pack of seasoned microwave rice and some chicken broth to make it a soup. Yummy!

I also went to the local produce/health food store. It was nice to see how much gluten free food they had and I grabbed a loaf of gluten free bread to eat with some cold cuts I still have in the fridge.

Overall I think today went well, I have just felt shaky all afternoon. I woke up more alert from my nap and have had trouble focusing when talking to people, but with this CSF headache it’s kinda normal. I haven’t had a migraine in awhile. I’m not sure if it’s because I’ve been so careful with my triggers, the medicine cocktail I’m on or because I’ve been focused on this CSF headache.

Coke count: 1.5 (less whoop!)
Water: 2 liters (need to work on getting more in this, I don’t count what I drink in bed as I fall asleep, maybe that will up the count…)