Archive for February, 2012

It’s not easy being green

Sunday, February 19th, 2012

Unless you’re kiwi.  Then it’s frighteningly easy to be green.  Which is why it makes the greenest jam.

Yea, you heard me.  Jam.  Because sometimes, after you fly across the Atlantic to see the Emerald Isle, you just want to spend your Saturday morning making green jam.  Wait, you don’t?

This weekend has been a whole lot of nothing.  It’s been full of 2 year old birthday parties, board games, trips to the library, silly text messages, and reading John Green novels.  And jam making.  Duh.

Jam making doesn’t have to be this super intimidating task.  It can just be this thing you do on a Saturday morning because you don’t feel like working.  It can be this super rewarding time where you stir a pot of boiling kiwi pulp and dance around to your favorite Lenka song.  You know you want to…

Kiwi Jam

Adapted from Food.com

  • 3 cups kiwi pulp
  • 1 package dry pectin
  • 1 cup pineapple juice/crushed pineapple combo
  • 4 cups sugar

Peel and roughly chop about 10 kiwi fruits.  Then put them through a food mill.  If you don’t have a food mill, I’m sure a food processor or blender could do the trick.  Mix that pulp with the pectin and pineapple.  For the pineapple, I took a can of crushed pineapple and drained the juice.  Then I added whatever crushed pineapple I needed to get to a cup.

Bring the kiwi mixture to a boil.  Add sugar, bring back up to a boil.  Boil hard for a minute.  Then can according to directions that came with the pectin.

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… so I’m in Dublin

Sunday, February 12th, 2012

A lot has been happening.  First, I knew that Dublin was extremely celiac-friendly, but whoa baby!  I’ve eaten every single meal out, and haven’t had any problems (until tonight, unfortunately).  We walked into a coffee shop the other day and they had GF brownies.  Today, I had a GF bagel sandwich at a museum cafe.  Servers have been happy to tell me to leave the gravy off of my bangers and mash and double check to be sure the celery root soup was truly gluten free.  It’s been a blast not having to worry about food so much.

All of that said, eating in large groups is tough, and I think your odds of being able to eat a gluten free meal go down dramatically when you’re at a table for more than 6 people.  I’ll post in detail about food later.  Since I’m going to be eating in larger groups over the next couple days, I’m going to try to be more conscious of this.  We’ll see how things go.  Hopefully tonight was a fluke.

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Roll with the punches

Thursday, February 2nd, 2012

I’ve had a pretty crumby week. I’m not going to say it was the crumbiest week. It wasn’t. People have had crumbier weeks, I’m sure. My friend, for instance, got herself a boyfriend and then promptly got asked out by the hottest guy on earth. Crumby week!

I can’t compete with that. Probably because absolutely no one is hotter than my boyfriend. But all of that said, I still had a pretty crumby week. So what do you do? A couple things:

1. Make this soup. It’s divine.

2. Make chocolate ice cream with peanut butter chips.

3. Take your computer breaking as a sign that you need to sit on your butt tonight.

4. Watch How I Met Your Mother while sitting on aforementioned butt.

5. Listen to Lenka while dancing in your kitchen.

6. Mostly, though, you’ve got to roll with the punches.

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