Menu Swap: January 5th

Manda & Phil Watching Star Wars
Manda: -Updating Blog- Look! Isn't it pretty?
Phil: General Grievous is so cool..
Manda: You aren't looking..Isn't my asparagus .gif cute?
Phil: Oh yeah. Now shut up, Grievous is kicking butt.
Manda:...Asparagus..

We are SO meant to be together. But in all fairness, I'm totally ignoring him as I'm updating my blog and he didn't mean it. I got my stomach rub after Star Wars.

The reason for my lack of recipe updates is due to me being at Phillip's apartment in Arlington where I have no method to upload my pictures so they'll have to wait until I get back home. This past week I've participated in a lot of self experimentation and, of course am suffering from it stupidly. One fact that I've become more and more aware of is the lactose-free casein-free alternative dairy - wait, what? Yep.

According to numerous allergy-free cookbooks, nutrition articles, and reports, those suffering from a lactose intolerance may be able to digest goat's milk. The reason being is that goat's milk is more easily absorbed than cow's milk, minimizing the undigested bacteria that would lead to the usual unpleasant symptoms of lactose intolerance. If the individual is also casein-allergic, goat milk is also absent of the protein. Other attributes of goat's milk that aid in its digestibility are the the smaller sized fat globules and the general structure of its fatty acids. This, however, is all a theory and speculation and may not work for every individual. I have yet to try it for myself but if this means goat's cheese then bring on the liverwurst, goat cheese, and sauerkraut sandwiches baby! I finally found my brand of sauerkraut..hua..

In other news, I changed my major which shall better benefit my intended career and am now aiming for a bachelor's degree in Holistic Health. I am so excited because then I can specialize in allergy health as a dietitian. I also was assigned the task to cater a gluten free birthday party and to make a slew of gluten free goodies. Wee~! Fun stuff! Now I just need another job and I'm all set but for now - the 'ingredient' for the week, soup.



A Campbell's Soup Commercial from Malaysia

Cheryl at Gluten Free Goodness has chosen one of my controversial culinary categories. I hate soup and as irony would have it, I received a 400 recipe book of soup that I cursed out several times. I just..I don't like soup. It's too thin, too liquid, and I'm never satisfied after indulging in a bowl of thin flavored liquid. If I want a 'soup', I crave something large, thick, and chunky which would be classified as a stew. Therefore, I prefer stew over soup except for tomato since tomato stew doesn't really sound right and I always make mine thick and chunky.

And now, besides my desire to ride a flying mushroom, here is the menu for the week with a few forced soup recipes in honor of Cheryl.


Weekly Menu for January 5th
Dinner
Spanish Gold Stew
Mulligatawny Soup
Kare Noodles

Lunch
Shiruko (Red Bean Soup)
Salted-Olive Fried Rice
Clam Ragu

Baked/Others
To be determined

Oh and isn't my new layout purty? Asparagus .gifs!!