So I will make this short and sweet. I loved this book and enjoyed the entire thing. It was an easy read and I tried several recipes.
Since our adoption I have been so overwhelmed with life I have not entertained people in my home like I used to. This book really encouraged me to step out and start doing it more, and find a love for trying new recipes and making them my own.
My sweet Adanech has really bad food anxiety so every meal, morning, noon and night is filled with anxiety. She stares at me all the time and as the years have gone by I have grown more and more weary of it all. She always wants more and would eat until vomiting every meal if I let her. She counts her food and everyones food and worries about it and cries about it and when she hears me in the kitchen she has to be where she can watch me. It is so tiring and I do not enjoy meals ever in her presence. So I now have an eating disorder I believe. As I watch her love her food too much, I hate mine. I will not eat just so she doesn't stare at me. With that said I am not ok with that and I am working on eating three meals. I am having all kinds of health issues right now and more then ever I need to be having good eating habits. Pray for me ladies!! I want to teach Addie how to have a healthy relationship with food. And don't worry by not eat I mean I don't eat while she is around and then eat by myself. I eat plenty just not a healthy relationship with it all.
Ok now for the pictures of the food I tried.
Gaia Cookies pg.210 Love love them!! I used blueberry craisins and gluten free flour and they were wonderful. Everything else I used same to recipe. Yum so good in the fridge.
Breakfast Quinoa pg. 72 I love this so much!! I have made it several times and it will become a regular for me.
Annette's Enchiladas pg. 143 Loved this and it was better the next day. I will make it again but add more corn tortillas to add more substance.
Nigella's Flourless Chocolate Brownies. Yum so good and so rich.
I will be making many more of the recipes and cannot wait!!
Ok so our book for June is short but I think it will be great.
let me just add that at the beginning I was overwhelmed with compassion as I watched all three of my Ethiopian beauties cry at dinner time and try to eat like animals. As the years have gone on. Abreham and Petros almost have no food anxiety anymore but my dear Addie is still tormented by it all day long. The is going to be very hard for her to face when she leaves my home and I am not there to cook for her or help her stop. Pray for her please.
ReplyDeleteI mad the cookies again tonight for company and used dried cherries and the large dark chocolate chips by nestle. Yum they were even better!!! I use the gluten free flour from Costco and they were wonderful.
ReplyDeleteMy heart goes out to you, and I can certainly relate to the staring. We'll keep praying.
ReplyDeletePraying friend. Love all of you more than you know. Disordered eating is so hard. Praying as you battle on all fronts.
ReplyDeleteAlso, I'll be over soon to try all those foods you made. Just a heads up. ;)
Love.you.
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