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Cooking with Eowyn
Oct. 1st, 2010 03:25 pmWhat the hell, we'll go with the old name for now.
Anyway, I managed to get off my ass and do some actual cooking last weekend - I reached a point last week where I was so totally out of food that I found myself pulling out hot dogs that had been in the freezer since God knows when (I generally don't eat processed meat anymore, which means they were probably almost a year old), and I decided I'd hit rock bottom and I needed to do something before I descended into dietary madness (not to mention the gross side effects from eating things I shouldn't).
I pulled out some oldies but goodies, including the Apricot Pork Chops and Asparagus with Parmesan, and then I tried a new recipe from my Crohn's cookbook. Which seems like more of just a regular cookbook, but with a consciousness of low fat, low dairy, and low preservatives, rather than being particularly Crohn's-specific. There's a LOT of stuff in there I won't eat and a focus on things that aren't a problem for me (like dairy), but Crohn's is one of those things that affects everybody differently, so it's probably hard to write a cookbook where any single person will be able to eat every recipe. I did find the introduction helpful, since it provides a summary of what your body needs and which foods provide it (so if you can't eat certain foods, you can substitute less troublesome ones). It also explains the different foods that are likely to cause digestion problems in normal people, and therefore will probably be worse for someone with Crohn's.
( Chicken Linguini with Tomato Cream Sauce )
Anyway, I managed to get off my ass and do some actual cooking last weekend - I reached a point last week where I was so totally out of food that I found myself pulling out hot dogs that had been in the freezer since God knows when (I generally don't eat processed meat anymore, which means they were probably almost a year old), and I decided I'd hit rock bottom and I needed to do something before I descended into dietary madness (not to mention the gross side effects from eating things I shouldn't).
I pulled out some oldies but goodies, including the Apricot Pork Chops and Asparagus with Parmesan, and then I tried a new recipe from my Crohn's cookbook. Which seems like more of just a regular cookbook, but with a consciousness of low fat, low dairy, and low preservatives, rather than being particularly Crohn's-specific. There's a LOT of stuff in there I won't eat and a focus on things that aren't a problem for me (like dairy), but Crohn's is one of those things that affects everybody differently, so it's probably hard to write a cookbook where any single person will be able to eat every recipe. I did find the introduction helpful, since it provides a summary of what your body needs and which foods provide it (so if you can't eat certain foods, you can substitute less troublesome ones). It also explains the different foods that are likely to cause digestion problems in normal people, and therefore will probably be worse for someone with Crohn's.
( Chicken Linguini with Tomato Cream Sauce )
