I get to sit down now.

[kiya]

I have made wiredferret's wonderful Soup and stashed it in a container to bring with me this weekend, so I will be sure to have something to eat. And I have made dough for bageish, same, which is now rising.

My inability to judge volumes continues as normal, though at least time I overestimated needful volume rather than underestimating, which is at least a more manageable error.

My ability to not scorch myself on pasta, soup, pans, and other hot things appears highly limited.

I get to sit down now. Too much standing up yes.

Baking left to do, and putting things in suitcase, which will get done partially tonight and probably partially tomorrow morning before I head downtown.

Bwaah.

Sit down good.

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[larksdream]

What are you going to?

[kiya]

I'm doing my first training gathering with yezida this weekend. It's not "away" -- it's downtown -- but tenedreugan will be away and scheduling is fiddly enough with getting there that to minimise stress I'm staying in a hotel.

I'm a little worried about having sufficient food for self -- as you know, I am Not A Vegetarian, and I'm worried that there will be lots of raw stuff that I can't eat safely -- so I'm making bunches of stuff to bring with.

. . . oh. New Guide movie trailer. Yay.

[leanne-opaskar.livejournal.com]

keshwyn said you had been allergy-tested, and that peanuts and oranges were a problem? What other foods are a problem for you?

Not trying to intrude ... I keep track of these things because I always end up feeding people, and it's important to me. (: If it is intrusive, tell me to go away. (;

[kiya]

I'm allergic to . . . beech? birch? I forget which one is the one linked with this complex of things. Tree pollen.

Basically, that means that I also have allergies to carrots, celery, apples, and pitted fruits. (ardaniel and I were discussing this this afternoon, so the list is on top of mind.) Many of these things I can eat when they've been thoroughly cooked -- that breaks down whatever it is that I react to. I avoid carrots on general principle because my worst reactions have historically been to them. (I cannot *taste* carrot. It tastes like pure histamine itch. It *smells* like itch, and I have gotten throat swelling from peeling them.)

I also seem to have a mild intolerance for most raw plant matter; sometimes it will produce itch-reaction-response and sometimes not, erratically. I have not had this with berries; I don't know if that's because I don't eat them often (I am not a copious consumer of plant matter for what are by now likely obvious reasons) or because they're in a different family of related things. (I know rivka has a non-allergen but still health-risky reaction to things that are berries and not other things, so I know the related-grouping category is at least valid.)

There are a couple of things that will occasionally give me digestive trouble -- onions among them, more's the pity -- but that's controllable with other bits of diet and something that mostly I note because I'm keeping an eye on it. (Severe digestive tract disorders run in my family and may have killed my grandfather; my brother is at this poitn so sensitive to onions and so unwilling to give them up entirely that he will sometimes cook with them in big chunks so he can pick them out of the resulting dish and not actually eat the onion matter. I have no idea if this helps anything other than psychologically.)

Basically, I live on meats, grains, root vegetables, and dairy, for the most part, with occasional leavenings of well-cooked fruits and veggies, mostly in either soup or stir-fry. (And yes, I have put peaches in stir-fry. From a can, so I knew they were cooked through. Mmm, peaches. I bit into a raw one about a year and a half ago and oh, the pain and the sadness of it.) I will occasionally have a caesar salad when I want one enough that the risk of getting itchymouth is worth it. I wish the restaurants around here made a consistently good caesar salad. :P

I seem to be set up for an old Northern and Eastern European diet, basically, which, given my ancestry, is at least consistent. :}

[ardaniel]

http://www.allergy-clinic.co.uk/food_allergy_for_doctors.htm

Birch pollen allergies. It's a growing problem in Europe, as this article from Radio Netherlands notes:

http://www2.rnw.nl/rnw/en/features/science/climate011210.html

Not so commonly heard-of in the States, I don't think. I get mouth-itch but nothing really heinous from carrots; I'm ragweed-allergic and don't get weird reactions to bananas and melons, though, so I may not be typical.