http://dianacooks.com Food & recipes for an autoimmune disease-free life Fri, 19 Feb 2010 00:48:53 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en One thing I really miss since the overhaul of my diet is crunchy food. Sure, carrot sticks and celery batons have crunch ... but it's a different kind of crunch. A wet crunch. When I'm sitting in front of Project Runway or watching the latest Netflix has delivered, I want ... http://dianacooks.com/2009/09/21/pizza-flavored-flax-seed-crackers/ As a biker and someone who often has to eat on the run, I love healthy handheld foods like granola bars. They fit nicely into my bike pack, they're easy to eat, and they give me energy when I need a boost, whether I'm tackling a steep hill or a ... http://dianacooks.com/2009/09/09/chocolate-flax-granola-bars/ I blame my mother: She's a quilting fanatic and it looks like her fanaticism has finally rubbed off on me. This is my first attempt at real quilting, and I have to admit, I'm a wee bit proud of myself. I've done other "quilt-like" projects, but none have involved batting, or ... http://dianacooks.com/2009/07/23/no-cooking-just-quilting/ Since I've radically changed my diet and stopped doing so much professional recipe development, I've been spending less time in the kitchen, which leaves a lot more time for my other obsession: sewing! I put my sewing machine away soon after my son started walking, a little over six years ... http://dianacooks.com/2009/07/09/of-baby-blankets-and-apron-strings/ Spring fever has hit me hard this year, and I've been spending whole days outside, digging out and fertilizing gardens, putting plants in my container gardens, and doing yard cleanup after a brutal winter. I'm hoping to avoid the produce section of my local grocery store as much as possible ... http://dianacooks.com/2009/05/02/golden-sesame-tofu/ Well, it's a long story (so I'll save the super-duper long version for the book ... no, really!) but for now I'll give you the long version. I've been having problems with sore feet for the past couple years -- blamed it on aging, wearing the wrong shoes, etc., etc.) -- ... http://dianacooks.com/2009/04/08/whats-going-on-with-me-and-my-cooking/ I was reading CNN.com this a.m. when an article about five ways to keep Alzheimer's at bay grabbed my attention. Here's one line that made me rub my eyes: "Small, who's 57, says that as he gets older, he might also try eating more foods with curry in them." Hello? Did anyone ... http://dianacooks.com/2008/11/20/avoid-dementia-eat-curry/ When my husband and I married, our friends Chris and Melanie gave us a waffle iron as a wedding gift. Waffle irons, along with toasters, are often the butt of wedding jokes, but for us, this was a perfect gift. We adore waffles and make them nearly every weekend. At first ... http://dianacooks.com/2008/10/11/weekend-waffles/ I've been shopping at Verrill Farm since I moved up to Boston from Connecticut over ten years ago. I used to work in Concord, so it was easy for me to slip over to their farmstand for corn or tomatoes. It's a little more difficult for me to get over ... http://dianacooks.com/2008/09/26/verrill-farm-will-rise-from-the-ashes/ ETA 11/20/08: My heart breaks to report this but I just learned that Lori Hall Steele passed away last night. My deepest sympathies to her young son, mother, and extended family and friends. Ok, ok ... I know this is a food blog, but I'm a food writer by trade, a ... http://dianacooks.com/2008/09/10/help-a-writer-in-need-lori-hall-steele/