Girl friend… Grass fed… French Guiana… Go figure… Gluten free.

Yup. Not me, but is the new way of the kitchen.

I now have the challenge of trying to prepare meals with food sensitivites. I have food sensitivities, but my “deadly allergic” doesn’t equate to having North American staples make you feel ill all the time.

And so, tonight I made Gourmet Pizza from Grain-free Gourmet with almond flour, and it was without a doubt the meal that made me decide not to give up. Not to throw in the towel and say, “If you can’t eat what I’m making you’re going to have to make yourself a salad or something, forever.” It was delicious. No pictures were taken and I’m happy to repeat that meal. Over and over and over.

The book was gifted to me by my (former) boss on her last day. I was stoicly devestated to see her go. We became friends, and I honestly don’t think the gap that I’m going to feel when I go in on Monday and see her office empty can be filled. I am super happy for her, and the reasons she has for leaving cannot be argued against. I just really want to go too.

But alas, I am here, studying for a final on a Friday night.

I am taking July and August off from school and hope to have a little time to be creative.

When I’m not working.

Or cooking without (wheat) flour.

Sigh.

I AM happy

It’s spring. It’s nice out. I don’t want to study. I don’t know why I thought it would be smart to take a condensed college course during spring. I should be following the not so secret message in the words: spring break. Instead, I have a midterm in a silly business math course in a few days that will be harder than I’m anticipating. I should be studying for that.

Instead I am

1. Making homemade pasta with homemade pasta sauce
2. Buying a picture frame for a 3 year belated Mother’s Day present for my Mum
3. Thinking about making microwave popcorn
4. Playing with my camera’s remote and also with Photoshop
5. Browsing new wordpress themes
6. Helping the boyfriend design a website for a friend of his
7. Thinking about movies I’d like to be watching… right now.
8. Wondering if there’s any Twilight fan fiction out there that I’d be interested in reading After a quick google, I can tell there definitely is not.
9. Thinking about ordering the new Jamie Oliver cookbook… I don’t own any of his other cookbooks but I also don’t know why I wouldn’t, so maybe I should. Is what I’m saying.
10. Contemplating whether or not reading the rest of “In Defense of Food” and eating microwave popcorn (it’s organic) would be incongruous and give me bad dreams. Maybe only if I put that Kernels “dill pickle” flavour on it.

So… I’m going to go do one of the many things that don’t involve studying. Is that really a surprise?