Monday: Dinner with friend to celebrate her birthday
Tuesday: E presented at a conference which provided dinner
Wednesday: Minnesota Wild Rice Soup
Thursday: Leftovers
Friday: Black beans, roasted sweet potato,green rice
Quick note - we ate "out" twice this week. Once was at a Tex-Mex-ish restaurant called Illegal Pete's. I got a bowl. It was fine, but not spectacular. They were nice about my wheat intolerance.
The next night was for a conference. The menu was chicken piccata with manicotti and Caesar salad. Wheat (with meat) on wheat (with cheese) on wheat (with vegetables). E's boss was awesome and managed to get me a GF dish. It was really tasty, but there was no dessert for me. :'(
I went to a workshop last week about micro-affirmations/aggressions. They provided a table of little refreshments including fresh fruit (yum) and pastries with various toppings. The pastries were all traditional, wheat based (croissants, danishes, etc) but the toppings (honey, jam, butter) all clarified that they were Gluten Free. As if I were going to put jam on my watermelon or something. I thought it was funny that they tried to be inclusive - by clarifying what was GF - but failed in that they didn't provide a GF option with which to eat the toppings. Anyway, I guess I could have had some butter and honey on my fruit? (As long as I got there before anyone had dropped crumbs in the open containers, ha ha.)
I ran to the store to buy chicken at the last minute and also bought some fun apple varieties. I'm excited to try them. I got Snapdragon apples and Lucy Glo apples. The Lucy Glo ones are red-fleshed! It was an exciting surprise cutting into it. I also got some GF stuffing, "graham cracker crumbs," and fried onions. Yay for holiday food made wheat free!
I made the Wild Rice soup in the slow cooker. I looked up other recipes, and the consensus was that Wild Rice soup tastes better after it has cooked for at least 8 hours. Who am I to argue with the experts?
I did have to change how I made the roux, since I can't have wheat flour. I used this recipe. It worked like a charm. The first day we ate it plain and it was pretty good. The crockpot was legit OVERFLOWING with soup, so we brought some to our neighbors. It needed quite a bit of salt. After doing my best to mix it up with the roux and shred the chicken into it, I doled out two big tupperwares of soup and realized that a lot of the mirepoix was accumulated in the bottom. That may have been why the flavor wasn't as intense as I expected, ha ha.
I made the black beans, sweet potato, green rice dish the next day. Erik liked it but it tasted off to me for some reason. Win some and lose some, I suppose.
Tuesday: E presented at a conference which provided dinner
Wednesday: Minnesota Wild Rice Soup
Thursday: Leftovers
Friday: Black beans, roasted sweet potato,green rice
Quick note - we ate "out" twice this week. Once was at a Tex-Mex-ish restaurant called Illegal Pete's. I got a bowl. It was fine, but not spectacular. They were nice about my wheat intolerance.
The next night was for a conference. The menu was chicken piccata with manicotti and Caesar salad. Wheat (with meat) on wheat (with cheese) on wheat (with vegetables). E's boss was awesome and managed to get me a GF dish. It was really tasty, but there was no dessert for me. :'(
I went to a workshop last week about micro-affirmations/aggressions. They provided a table of little refreshments including fresh fruit (yum) and pastries with various toppings. The pastries were all traditional, wheat based (croissants, danishes, etc) but the toppings (honey, jam, butter) all clarified that they were Gluten Free. As if I were going to put jam on my watermelon or something. I thought it was funny that they tried to be inclusive - by clarifying what was GF - but failed in that they didn't provide a GF option with which to eat the toppings. Anyway, I guess I could have had some butter and honey on my fruit? (As long as I got there before anyone had dropped crumbs in the open containers, ha ha.)
I ran to the store to buy chicken at the last minute and also bought some fun apple varieties. I'm excited to try them. I got Snapdragon apples and Lucy Glo apples. The Lucy Glo ones are red-fleshed! It was an exciting surprise cutting into it. I also got some GF stuffing, "graham cracker crumbs," and fried onions. Yay for holiday food made wheat free!
I made the Wild Rice soup in the slow cooker. I looked up other recipes, and the consensus was that Wild Rice soup tastes better after it has cooked for at least 8 hours. Who am I to argue with the experts?
I did have to change how I made the roux, since I can't have wheat flour. I used this recipe. It worked like a charm. The first day we ate it plain and it was pretty good. The crockpot was legit OVERFLOWING with soup, so we brought some to our neighbors. It needed quite a bit of salt. After doing my best to mix it up with the roux and shred the chicken into it, I doled out two big tupperwares of soup and realized that a lot of the mirepoix was accumulated in the bottom. That may have been why the flavor wasn't as intense as I expected, ha ha.
I made the black beans, sweet potato, green rice dish the next day. Erik liked it but it tasted off to me for some reason. Win some and lose some, I suppose.
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