Ha!! I'm not giving you recipe oh. It's not mine to share. But excited that I did get one that got some critical acclaim. First of all. Hi blog!! It's been a whole 8 years???? Holy shit!! Another whole human being has been added to the mix, so much info and perspectives to food have been gained. Ermagad. Anywayssss. Here's a pic and some words. Until next time. Oh also we on IG
Had a cooking hang with Sabaa Zarena and learned how to make a dairy free creamy sauce that my kids did not reject. I didn't taste it, but the way they gobbled this enh? Before this I had had 2 attempts at trying to make diary/gf free creamy pasta dishes and they were not cute. So yay for learning this! Thanks Sabaa.
2 things: (beware a ramble)
1. I'm bad at following recipes. I mostly look up recipes to see if a potentially absurd idea I have about what I'm thinking to cook already exists, so I can validate myself lol. Or if I wanna make something I eat already but just never learned how to make. So I look up the recipe... and say ah OK... I see, and then just kinda take it from there. It's an adventure for me, you never know what you'll get.
This is why asides from cornbread, I do not bake.
2. I'm not a fan of alternatives to replace and represent something else. So asides from sweets/desserts. If I can't eat something, I just find other things.
But #Orachi react to gluten & dairy, and do alternatives (nut milks, gf free flour/pancake mixes, and fake shredded cheeses). I just smh.
Their father on the other hand eats everything (asides from horseradish lol).
Me personally I cunhnt. I like to know what's inside my food (unless I'm just going in on some snacks and fast food then give me all the mystery), and I like my food life simple.
Also dairy and wheat is not really a basis for my upbringing anyway so I'm not stressed. I didn’t even start eating cheeses, yogurts, pastas, real butter that heavy until I met Skye, a European white American who's making cheese and pasta, cheeses and yogurts and whatever else everyday.
But after years of suffering from sinus and inflammatory issues, I realized that it was fucking with my whole system and so I'm back to the basics... trying to tap into more ancestral food as the foundation for my eating. While trying to navigate a multicultural household and life in the United states.
It can feel like a struggle tho. Trying to raise children in mainstream culture US is like all 'kid food' is literally wheat and cheese
Pizza
Mac/cheese
Grilled cheese
Pasta & Alfredo
Quesadillas
Hot Dog
Nuggets
Especially when they were younger and we were sleep deprived parents at a restaurant trying to figure out what/how to feed them before we all exploded into a land blast of irate hunger.
But ya... where I'm 'from kid food is also just food. So definitely offering a wide palette in this household... and also fufu and egusi is over here.
