Mmmm.....donuts!

Hey look!! I made donuts. Geoff came home the other night from grocery shopping. Guess what he brought home? Yep, Crispy Creme donuts. So unfair. They looked soo yummy, especially the creme filled and custard filled ones with their sticky goodness and plump......oh, sorry for salivating on this post. A few weeks prior, he bought some buttermilk so I can make a buttermilk donut recipe. Of course I had not made them yet and the buttermilk only had a few days left until it expired. Geoff kept asking me when I was going to make them so the milk wasn't a waste.

When he came home with the Crispy Creme donuts, I asked him if this was his way of getting me to make my donuts. He started responding by saying no, to which I quickly interrupted to tell him that he needed to say "Yes, of course that was my plan all along". I didn't want to hear a "No". I really needed any enticement to get off my behind and make them.

The next morning, as everyone was eating their donuts, I caved and somehow got a sudden burst of energy to make some donuts. If found the recipe at www.food.com. They were actually not too hard to make. The donuts were not too bad either. Next time I make donuts though, I will try to pay a bit more attention to the oil because I think it was too hot and so the insides of the donuts were a tad undercooked. If you like cake-type donuts than these are yummy. I do like cake donuts but I really like the yummy plump raised type donuts better. My next donut recipe will be more of the other....at least I hope.

Now I can say that I have made donuts before. There is a first for everything, right? Have you ever made donuts before? How did they turn out?

Must eat NOW

What does your body do when you can't get it food and it needs it? I have learned lately that my body hates me when I don't get it food when it wants it. I get headaches and I begin to get dizzy and light-headed.

Before my diagnosis, when I could eat everything without a care in the world, not eating right away was not good but I could handle it. Now, if I don't eat right away, it doesn't take long before my body doesn't handle it.

The good thing, now I know. Now I need to plan ahead. It truly makes it that much easier if I do. The past couple of weeks I have been making weekly meal plans. Do I always follow-thru with what I had decided to eat that night? Not always but for the most part I do. Having weekly meal plans have helped me tremendously. I am not feeling at quite a loss anymore as to what I should make for dinner. In fact, I am actually making dinner more now instead of leaving it for Geoff. For those that don't know, Geoff is the cook in my family. Not to say that I don't like to cook....he just sometimes enjoys it more and sometimes I just feel like being lazy. Also, he is definitely a good cook. *sigh* I am soo lucky!

The other good thing, we are trying out so many new recipes now that I don't feel like we are eating the same ol' thing all the time. It is fun! I have found some new things I like that I probably never would have made before. Majority of the stuff I make are also naturally gluten free.

Now I am curious?? Does anyone else have weekly meal plans for their family? Do you do it just for dinner or for all the meals? I mostly do it for dinner...occasionally I will do other meals too.

I like Food and Food likes me?

Yes, I know that my blog name is long. When I was thinking of a name, I wanted something that was personable to me, of course. Growing up, I had a motto. It was, I like food and food likes me. It is silly but I I loved it. I have never really felt like I had to control my food, er...maybe consumption?? I could eat what I wanted to eat, when I wanted to eat it. Food is enjoyable, comforting, and down-right good.

Just over a month ago, when I found out I was being tested for Celiac's Disease, I honestly did not think that I had it. I believed there had to be some other reason why I was feeling the way I was. Well, that just shows how much I know. So now my motto has changed. Apparently food doesn't like me very much....certain foods.

What are some of your favorite foods that you don't think you could live without?

It happened

I experienced family not truly understanding what I have to go through the other day. Although, after the fact, Geoff expressed the possibility of it not being completely directed at me.

We were at my in-laws and my Father-in-law was making spaghetti sauce. His sauce is soooo yummy. Thank goodness I can still have it. I had my special gluten-free noodles so I could enjoy the meal too. I was cooking my noodles in one pan and he was cooking the "other" noodles in his pan. Without thinking, he grabbed his spoon that he had just used to stir his noodles and stirred mine. Dang! All those noodles became trash. Good thing I had extra.

So, I started again. My Father-in-law left the room and so I was hoping that he wouldn't even notice that I had to start over because I truly didn't want to be confronted about it for the fear and him not understanding. After washing everything, I got more water boiling. He came back in and my husband(whom I was hoping would be there when my Father-in-law inquired about it) and temporarily left the room.

I did get asked. Oh no, here it comes. He asked why I was boiling more water. I told him I was making more noodles. (I was secretly hoping he wouldn't go further.) Then the question, "Why?". Aww dang, I have to answer. "Because you stirred my noodles after you stirred yours.", answered quite sheepishly. Then there was the huff and the tsk. I wanted to cry, and guess what, when Geoff came back, I sort of did.....just a little. It was hard. This is hard sometimes. Trust me, I would love to be able to not to make a big deal out of things, but with this, I have to.

Geoff pointed out to me a few days later(after talking with his family) that he almost thinks that his dad's response was actually towards himself. It is like my Brother-in-law has said. He told me right away that he wanted to apologize right then because there will be times, probably many, that they will do things and not even think. Frankly, I don't blame him. They don't have this disease. They don't have to think about this multiple times a day. It would be easy to forget all the little things that I have to deal with.

I can't blame my Father-in-law. Truthfully, I don't. I do, however, can look at it from a different light now. That alone, is helpful.

Did you know that...........

Did you know that imitation crab often has gluten in it? I didn't.

The other night we went out to a sushi place for my Mom-in-laws b-day. It is called Fuji Sushi. Now, I will tell you right now, I am not a big fan of sushi or most fishy things. What I do like when it comes to fishy things is Tilapia. Yum! If I did like sushi and if I wasn't restricted on what I could eat, this place is pretty good. That is coming from my in-laws, whom some people could refer to as food snobs. (I do say that in a good way). :)

I basically figured that I would just have to resort myself in to eating just the edamames. There is definitely no complaining about edamames though, I like edamames. Steam them a little, toss some(*alot*) of salt on them and you are good to go. After talking with the waitress though and the family, I decided that I would give some sushi a try. It was the Mermaid Roll. Imitation crab, some fish eggs, some other stuff that I don't know what it was, avocado, all rolled in cucumber with some vinegar. The waitress said that she knew that particular roll was gluten free, the family, as well as myself was sure it was gluten free. Maybe it was.

No, I can tell you right now that I don't like imitation crab. Yes, I have tried it before, multiple times. Remember though, I was being brave. The first couple were not that bad. Not fantastic but not bad. The cucumber and the vinegar helped hide the fishy taste pretty well. The third or fourth roll,(can't quite remember which) I thought I was going to hurl. I was done.

The following day I got a headache. It kept progressing until it turned into a full blown migraine. Getting headaches for me is nothing too uncommon but getting migraines is pretty rare. I felt miserable, sick, and nauseous. I was useless.

A couple days later I came across this site, MyGlutenFacts.com. It is a really good site, might I add. On this site, one of the facts was about imitation crab. I was baffled. I had no idea. Now, I am wondering if that crab I ate(which probably only equaled about 1 1/2 tablespoons, at most) did in fact, have gluten. Could that be what brought on my migraine the next day?

Needless to say, I will not be having crab again. Oh Darn! Haha! I honestly don't think that will be a problem. Now I have a good excuse for when people say, "Oh come on, just give it another try. Your taste buds may have changed. This one was cooked differently than the last one."


.........Well, now you know!