Bit of a downer lately. Nothing really wrong, just life has been super busy. As I said in previous posts, life has thrown us positive curve balls in the last few months and it's been taking a while to adjust. Some new health concerns have been taking precedence too.
So a few things from in the fold in the map (because folded up is also a bit like how I feel)
My friend Miss South - over at www.northsouthfood.com has 1) a book out, which is totally glorious. Lots of the recipes are wonderful and adaptable. Remember this book is written by a friend of fodmap, someone who GETS it. She also has 2) a new blog post up which lots of you fodmapper might find insightful and heartening.
I am still personally struggling with reintroduction. Partly because some of the test food are unpalatable in large forms (whether or not they react) and because finding three days without symptoms is difficult enough at any time, but given that stress is the fodmap I can't seem to avoid, getting to it has been hard. I am tired, I work wonky hours, so does my husband. Sometimes just getting a meal of any description on the table is the most I can do. I made a beef brisket on Tuesday though, which had onions in the gravy/sauce/wet stuff...I didn't eat the actual onion and I think I was fine. So I got the flavour, but not the potential danger. As we plan December's meals, I am considering going to Iceland for a bag of chopped onions and making some twice cooked onions to put in my dishes, and see if that works. Because that would be an easy thing to do.
I am hoping to find out how to de-gluten my Christmas puddings this weekend.
Be patient with me.
