Guest guest Posted November 15, 2007 Report Share Posted November 15, 2007 It is nice to vent. I use my mom for this. Try to make things easy on yourself. I found a great way to make fried chicken. I cooked a whole chicken (because they always taste so good roasted) once it cooled, I cut off some nice thick slices of breast meat and deep fried it for twenty seconds in olive oil. Upon removing it from the oil, I immediately salted it with himalayn salt (fine ground). It tastes so delicious if you salt it immediately. The kids love it. After I realized that my twins didnt tolerate the nuts yet (we are six months into this), I came up with this idea. I even do a quick fry with some of our veggies after I have cooked them well in water and then let them drip dry before the quick fry. (again we are six months into this and my twins are able to tolerate sort of fried foods) I really realized though, if I was to keep my sanity, I wouldnt try anything too fancy. My kids now like most things as is sort of speaking. All the best Cindy Mom to and (4 year old twins...scd 6 months) Pitty Party > Ok I trying the best I can....but whoever said cooking is an Art, should > be a millionaire. I have tried and tried and have a few small success > P.butter cookies, jello, fruit slushies, meat loaf (more grease than my > husbands).... but I just can't cook. > Kids are having left over meatloaf b/c me and the fried chicken (almond > flour) didn't make a go of it. > I am dreading Thanksgiving!!! My husband will in charge of the bird, but I > think I'm responsible for pies and sides...UH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! > I'm the reason all this ready made preservative crap is out there!!! > Thanks for letting me vent! > Christy > Maegan 5yrs old ASD and SCD 7 wks > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted November 15, 2007 Report Share Posted November 15, 2007 At 05:20 PM 11/15/2007, you wrote: >I am dreading Thanksgiving!!! My husband will in >charge of the bird, but I think I'm responsible for pies and sides...UH!! Christy, If your husband is in charge of the bird, make sure he doesn't stuff it the traditional way, with lots of illegals! Pumpkin pie is not hard -- with or without a nut flour crust. What kind of sides is your family accustomed to having? If something similar isn't in my Turkey Day recipes, which are here http://www.pecanbread.com/recipes/thanksgiving.html on the Pecan Bread website, tell me and I may be able to come up with something that will work. (Be sure to tell me any restrictions you may have.) I've posted this before at holiday time, but it may bear repeating. My first Christmas, after a whopping two months on SCD, I was faced with the fact that I always cook the family Christmas dinner. My mother had a conniption over the thought of me serving this weird stuff I was eating at a FAMILY gathering. So Christmas of 2001 I did a full fledged parallel SCD / " normal " dinner -- Some of the foods were a bit too advanced for me, and I did pay for having them. I scaled back to my basic foods immediately after Christmas, and began a more sensible system (hah!) of adding things. (This is one reason I recognize the too much too soon problem!) I should note that despite my mother's fears, my weird food was eaten first -- and most of the " ordinary " food was left. (I sent it home with Mom since she'd insisted on it...) The thing which kept me with SCD, though, was something which my husband said to me Christmas night. ADD/ ADHD runs in my family. As my gut issues got worse, so did my ADD/ADHD. Doing Christmas dinner has always been a trial for me and I know entirely too well what's meant when Moms here on Pecan Bread talk about kids going into melt down because I have been there myself. During this first, chaotic SCD Christmas, hard on the heels of the hospitalization for the gall bladder and its issues, there were a number of things which went wrong. (Imagine trying to make up your recipes as you go along for a feast being served to the whole family, plus other couples invited at the last minute...). In other years, I'd have gone to pieces, had weeping hysterics, and the whole nine yards. On SCD, I swore, said, " Dammit, that didn't work, here, I'll do this instead... " and kept going. I never noticed. My husband, however, did. And pointed it out to me. And then added, " I like SCD. It's nice to have the woman I married back. " Obviously, there was quite a bit of gut healing taking place there, even though I had only noticed modest changes in rumbly gas and my perpetual soft, mushy stool and urgency. — Marilyn New Orleans, Louisiana, USA Undiagnosed IBS since 1976, SCD since 2001 Darn Good SCD Cook No Human Children Shadow & Sunny Longhair Dachshund Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted November 15, 2007 Report Share Posted November 15, 2007 {{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{BIG HUG}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}} Christy Herrera wrote: Ok I trying the best I can....but whoever said cooking is an Art, should be a millionaire. I have tried and tried and have a few small success P.butter cookies, jello, fruit slushies, meat loaf (more grease than my husbands).... but I just can't cook. Kids are having left over meatloaf b/c me and the fried chicken (almond flour) didn't make a go of it. I am dreading Thanksgiving!!! My husband will in charge of the bird, but I think I'm responsible for pies and sides...UH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I'm the reason all this ready made preservative crap is out there!!! Thanks for letting me vent! Christy Maegan 5yrs old ASD and SCD 7 wks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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