Space Fairy Blog

I love good food. I really love good food. I presently can’t cook much, but boy do I love to eat! (Ask my friends- my stomach is a bottomless pit aparently).

This diet thing is quite a challenge- not because of a lack of delicious gluten and dairy free recipes out there, but because I have to cook them myself (see above re. me and cooking). Everytime I go out with friends I end up breaking my diet. There have got to be suitable places I can eat at around Brisbane, but I don’t yet know where they are. And my kitchen isn’t exactly well stocked at the moment (in fact technically I don’t even have a kitchen).

So making the most of my present situation is challenging. I must say thank god for my best friend Adam though. If he wasn’t with me the other night I would have totally given in and bought pizza or nachos (mmmmm! *drool*). But despite my pathetic whining he helped me to stick to the plan, and in the process I discovered a new delicious gluten free recipe which I intend to make a lot more because it was so damn GOOD. (I’ll share the recipe here later).

I am also finally over my coffee cravings, and now I actually enjoy drinking my “fake coffee” (Dandelion root tea). Although I must admit that I snuck in a small Gloria Jeans mocha caramelatte with toffee the other day while visiting Renee. It had toffeee and choooocolaate in it *grin*. This could take me a while…

Well, I decided not to learn PHP from scratch. WHAT WAS I THINKING?! I did scan the basics, but only what I needed to get my ideas to work. I am a visual designer and creator, not a programmer. I’m definitely more right than left-brained when it comes to stuff. So I’ll keep making things pretty and outsource the rest.

UPDATE ON THE NO MORE COFFEE SITUATION: It sux. I’ve been so “bleh” the last couple of days without it. But I am cosying up to the idea of roasted dandelion tea. It’s the same colour and almost the same taste, so I figure I might be able to trick my subconscious mind into thinking there’s caffeine in it

Oh… here’s a new picture of yours truly enjoying my cousins’ gluten and dairy free birthday cake… and it’s pink! ;p

~ NEWS ~
I’m starting on a new diet, which involves eating foods which are supposedly best for my bloodtype. This is on the advice of my new natropath, who mum took me to see after his advice cured her of some seriously painful arthritis. I’m hoping it will help to improve my own health aswell.

Bad news= No more wheat & dairy (which is in pretty much everything I eat)

Good news= My mum has been on this same diet for a while now and is a goddess in the kitchen who is able to share yummy recipes and tips with me.

Just look what I had for dinner at her place the other night… and look, lemon meringue pie! -with a couple of minor modifications, but which tastes equally as grand as the pies mum made in “the good ol’ days”. Some diet! :))

“the Bloodtype Diet”

I’ll keep you updated on how it goes! ;p