Holy mole...

[primsong]

Seeking to please my DH who now can't have sugar and has missed the wonderful pollo en mole that our favorite restaurant makes, I tried making some sugar-free in the crock-pot today. Only problem - it made a LOT - good grief. I have a large crock pot up to it's lid - the plastic lid is actually floating - with sauce and chicken (mostly sauce). And then we stuffed ourselves on it and thanks to the large amounts of unsweetened chocolate in the sauce, we're all completely caffeine buzzed now. Thank goodness for freezers - I think we'd all be buzzing along on mole sauce for a week otherwise.

All this steer-around-the-ingredient stuff is coming easier to me with time - I've now learned to steer around wheat, sugar and salt. It is annoying how much prefab stuff is loaded with all of the above, I am terribly fond of lazy convenience when I can get it.

How's the food allergy situation in your house? Or are you one of the lucky ones who can eat anything they like?

Comments

[estellye.livejournal.com]

I had someone suggest to me that I avoid, meat, fish, wheat, yeast, dairy, sugar, malt, whey and any complex carbohydrate for six months to cleanse my body so I can be super-healthy and not have a nearly constant sinus infection. I ask you! What is left? I like tofu, but good grief!

Maybe when I hit the big time and can hire a personal chef. In the meantime I think I will keep the stuffy head if that is my only alternative.

The mole sounds like a total success! And now you know when you make that recipe to be prepared with freezer containers. Your own cooking is the ultimate convenience health food when you are clever enough to plan, cook in quantity and freeze. I aspire to that cleverness.

[primsong.livejournal.com]

I can be clever, but it gets cancelled out by my laziness. I just don't want to be bothered with having to cool it down and get it into all those containers, and then label all of them and tote them out to my freezer in the garage. :-P So instead I *think* about how I *ought* to do that and then cop out and want to open a can of soup instead.

Human nature. Ain't it grand?