Food allergy scare

People need to learn to make a COMPLETE list of ingredients and post it right in front of the dish when they take anything to a potluck. Otherwise vegetarians and people with allergies have to go around asking who made what and what's in it, and it's a damn nuisance, to the point you eventually say f*ck it and stop going to potlucks.

Tom: Thanks for the offer, but good bread is just too hard for me to resist. It's even dangerous for me to go to the bakery.

I am lactose intolerant, but I've never had any allergies. My sister, on the other hand, has revolving allergies: she is allergic to most everything, by turns, but they come and go. The worst thing would be to be allergic to cats. That would be like a Christian being allergic to Jesus. Only worse, because cats are better than Jesus. They purr, and you can pick them up and press your nose into their side and a cat who's just washed himself smells fresh and clean like new-mown hay only better.

 

I have a simple, basic bread-maker --
Easy - throw in the ingredients that are listed in any bread-recipe book, press some buttons &, presto-change-o, it runs itself.

After following some recipes, I've experimented ... after all, it's just bread, and if I don't care to eat it, the birds & squirrels will.

Try it, octavia; It might ease your mind & body about all those seeds --
The bread-maker is much easier (to clean up) than a juice-maker, which I like also, but is a Royal Mess. (unless you're making juice with a pseudo-British accent on an info-mercial).

I'm allergic to pennicillin -- It's the 1st thing I tell a new Dr., but then, no one takes the time to read the "charts." .....

 

I have a variety of allergies, although thankfully I have been spared from food allergies. Octavia, I hope you don't think I seriously meant that comment. I like to play the hard nice person, but really I'm a softy. Mostly I like to provoke a reaction. Needling people is one of my favorite pastimes. :eyebrows:

Tom

 

Is this a recent photo of you?

Tom

 

You do know that they are covered with cat spit right?

 

Your new avatar!

 

Chickpeas is what I thought.

It's like an organic cleaning solution. Fresh as new-mown hay, but more so. Now, what you and I are covered with, I'd probably get banned for listing. :tape2:

 

Chickpeas, yes, and the other main ingredient is tahini, which is sesame butter. Hummus would kill Octavia if she ate it!

I must confess that I have brought hummus to many potlucks in the past. I know another person who is allergic to sesame seeds and he knows not to eat hummus. He also makes his own bread (without a bread machine).

I have been a long-time user of Breadman bread machines. I use King Arthur flour (on the above friend's recommendation).

 

Then you're the exact opposite of me!

I'm not allergic to anything, but I am overly sensitive to hot peppers.

 

Maybe she should use garbanzo beans instead. It's an easy substitution; all you have to do is turn the can around.

Tom

 

Humus & tahini are 2nd in line to being the national foods of Israel.
(Felafel is the natl. food)

They've all become acquired tastes for me, having spent a year there, ages ago.

Then, there's the oranges that we picked off the trees ...... .....

 

I think it was in Queenstown, New Zealand where there was this dinky little fast food place with the best falafel wraps I've ever had.