Well, the adventure continues. Daily smoothies (is this really MY life?). Daily soup--but not completely pureed. Vegetables. Vegetables. Vegetables. I am rotating my way through the zucchini, sweet potatoes, broccoli, kale, beets, carrots, cabbage, lettuce. I just discovered I can have PEAS.
It will be 2 weeks before I test nightshades--my favorite vegetable group (tomatoes, eggplant, peppers) and add things to soup that I actually love eating. Like my tomato escarole soup. Corn is one of the last things to test--very reactive. It just doesn't seem like summer without it.
My meals have been interesting and tasty. My rash came back last night but I can't pin point a food as the source (dates?). It could have been dirt. Dust. I was reading and tearing out interesting pages from a stack of very old magazines. And I could (did ) rub my eyes.
My new recipe yesterday was a "truffle" made of well ground sunflower seeds, Medjool dates, some EVOO and a few teaspoons of maple syrup (pure) to bind everything into a sticky mass. (or mess). Roll into 24 equal sized balls and roll in fine shredded coconut. I have them in the fridge. This was something new I ate yesterday and then the rash. So, no "truffles" today and we'll see if it stays or goes. When things get added, we get to eat them three days in a row to be sure. So, I may have to eat those delicious things--in the name of science.
I ordered the new Martha Stewart book from the library and will be picking it up after our meeting at the bank. Clean Slate with the lovely Shira Bocar as the author of the recipes. I love her videos on the Martha Stewart site. She also made a date and coconut "candy" in a video but she added walnuts to hers. When the walnut/pecan test time arrives I will try her recipe. Her recipe for the baked sweet potato was on a post (2 back). That was delicious. Her recipes dovetail with the Elimination Plan perfectly.
Watered the garden late yesterday afternoon (and will water again this afternoon). The summer squash plants are getting very big. That raised bed looks very rambunctious as do the cucumber plants. The herb bed also looks wonderful and I plan on cutting some herbs to make a Green Goddess salad dressing. My first homegrown zucchini is about 4 inches right now. Can't wait for the cucumbers. I have a grape vine now and can add grape leaves to my pickles like my grandmother and my mother did with theirs. So excited.
Today, I watered the front porch plants and got myself dirty repotting the small fig "bush" (it doesn't look like a tree) which is going crazy and needed a bigger pot. I had to water it twice or three times a day. When you have to water a lot to keep the plant from wilting--it needs a larger pot and more soil. The plants in containers are also getting a little "something" added to their water every three or four days. Blue stuff. Microbe stuff. Fish fertilizer. They seem to enjoy the blue stuff as much as they enjoy the fish emulsion.
I can't find rhubarb on any of the approved food lists. It would be nice to have some for snack.
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