I've gotten asked this question a lot lately. I've asked it of myself on many an occasion. So I'll try to explain. First of all, we've tried to replicate all of his favorite foods, just without any of his forbidden foods. I was a big fan of organic jarred spaghetti sauce. But then came the garlic taboo. So, now I've tried my hand at a homemade sauce. I used Alton Brown's Baked Tomato Sauce as a base recipe. I omitted the garlic, of course. It was so easy! Just chop up some veggies and spices. (I added basil as well, so it'd be sweeter). Sprinkle them on the tomato halves. Drizzle with olive oil. Bake for two hours! Then I ran it through a food mill. Then, because I didn't bother to see that the recipe called for the medium disk on the food mill and used the fine disk instead, I also ran it through a food processor. Here's the result!
And the first application: a pepperoni pizza - sans cheese and on a gf frozen pizza crust.
I used 5 organic roma tomatoes. I wish I had taken a picture of them as Brad pulled them out of the oven. They looked so good, Brad stole a half and ate it right there. (I made more roasted tomatoes last night, just for Brad and me to eat for dinner - with garlic). So not quite 5 tomatoes made enough sauce for two pizzas and one helping of spaghetti. That's about a week's worth of sauce. When I make his spaghetti, I'll add in some mushrooms and zucchini and red bell peppers. I've read that garlic is a preservative, so without it, the sauce probably won't keep longer than a week. So it's just the right amount. I found organic tomatoes at Target, but not romas. So I'll have Brad start stopping at the Sunflower Shoppe once a week to get organic tomatoes and onions and other veggies.
Here's what the oil at the bottom of the pan looked like. Brad and I sopped it up with some pita. Yummy!
So another food I've made at home is gf chicken nuggets and fish sticks. I use chicken tenders and tilapia filets. I dredge with gf flour and them dip them in this egg replacer stuff. It's a powder that gets foamy in water. It sort of has the consistancy of cornstarch.
I then coat them in a mixture of gf flour and whole-grain corn meal. Then pan-fry them in olive oil. I usually make big batches at a time. Yesterday, I spent 2 hours cutting up meat/fish, breading all the pieces, then frying them all up. Then I spent another hour making dinner. Then I ate. Then I passed out on the couch.
It's a lot of work, but now I have all this in the freezer, ready to heat up for a quick meal.
(Fish sticks on the left, chicken nuggets on the right).
This morning we went to Moms and Muffins (or is it Muffins and Moms? Anyway, it's the playgroup at the church). They had a - slightly belated - Mardi Gras party. The kids made floats, and filled them with stuffed animals and beads. Then they went on parade! Here's Noah with our friend, Melissa.
We made it down to the lobby where the kids threw beads at the people who were coming into the chapel to get their ashes. 
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