Brownies!

So today I decided to bake again. This time I went for the brownies... from scratch! I found a wonderful recipe that uses no eggs (yay), no dairy (yay), and no nuts (yay)! They turned out alright. I have to say, I love my brownies to be more fudge-like than cake-like, but these ones turned out very much so cake-like. Which is fine. I'll have to figure out how to adjust baking time & ingredients to make them more fudge-y :)

I have been doing pretty decent at eating dairy-free, though I have been eating a lot of pasta. It's been difficult trying to balance my diet without cheesy goodness. I have figured out a few foods that definitely upset my stomach (chicken nuggets), and foods that sometimes upset my stomach (tacquitos), and foods that don't upset my stomach (everything else, for the most part). It's a slow learning process-- I have to eat something at least 2 or 3 times before I determine that it is, in fact, that food that is killing me (figuratively, not literally).

I'm still looking to expand my horizons, and am still waiting for my doc to let me know that I can start on a LOW lactose diet instead of NO lactose. That will make my life easier, though it will be hard to contain myself. Today on the way home from work, I realized that I was desperately craving Mac & Cheese, which I most definitely cannot have. I have found some dairy-free recipes, but I need to find Tahini paste (sesame seed paste), which has proven to be most difficult. Though Lucya did recommend I try it with the soy cheese that I have... I might have to look into that. I wonder how soy cheese + mac would taste. I guess there's only one way to find out.

Mac and Cheese is probably the next item on my food-creation list. Looks like a trip to Whole Foods is in my near future. While I'm there, I'll be sure to look for those dairy-free chocolate chips too.

I've been feeling pretty good lately, so I thinking that the new meds plus my super restrictive diet are actually starting to work! Now if only this annoying pain in my side would disappear, everything would be perfect.

:)