Wheatless Foodie

Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.                                                                 ~ Berthold Auerbach Working in the kitchen is tedious sometimes.  I haven't always felt like this.  I used to love playing with food, trying out new flavor combinations, learning what worked and what didn't.   But after decades of  following recipes, developing recipes, or just throwing things together, I'm kind of tired of the whole thing. OK, I'll admit that being tired most of the time anyway doesn't help, but preparing food frequently feels more like work than the play.  Nevertheles...

I’ve been neglecting my blog for awhile now. It’s been a difficult, stressful, and amazing year for my family. Something I saw this week on our local news started me thinking about it all, sort of made me sit up and take stock of where we are and where we’ve been. The TV news segment was about the United Way of King County Hunger Action Week’s Hunger Challenge . The challenge was to spend only $7 per day on food, which is the food stamp assistance provided to needy families in the state of Washington. Hard as this would be for someone who could eat anything, I began thinking about the special challenges faced by those with dietary restrictions. And I started thinking about this past year. In January of 2009, my husband’s employer eliminated over 100 positions. Fred’s was one of the jobs eliminated. To say we were devastated doesn’t begin to describe what it feels like to live through this kind of situation. Suddenly, we were among the many Americans trying to figure out how to surv...