o-bla-dee, o-bla-da, life goes o-on...

[boogieshoes]

well, i had a dental appt yesterday for a routine cleaning.  two small cavities fixed, one mouthful of grit, and an excuse for the state of my teeth referencing evolution later, i'm starting over on the 'keep the damned teeth clean!' project.  i must do better.  i am also going to look into a sonic toothbrush, which i had heretofore avoided because i was afraid it would hurt my ears and stuff (i can be oddly sensitive to sounds).  but the dentist suggested a child's sonic toothbrush, and i think it's a good idea to try, at least.  expensive stuff, tho.

in other news, i'm continuing my on-again, off-again campaign to get contributing cooks at barfly suites to write up lists of ingredients to set out beside their dishes.  the most common 'this will produce deadly anaphylactic shock' foods are nuts, mushrooms, and shellfish.  you can avoid cooking with those for one or two nights, but there are a host of other food allergies/ sensitivies and you can't account for them all.  it's not even really reasonable to ask cooks to modify their dishes too much, since one of those allergies/ sensitivities is wheat gluten, and flour is a common component in a heck of a lot of stuff.  however, putting together an ingredients list allows people to make informed choices, even when they're the only ones in the room, or no one else who is in the area knows what's in a dish.

lwj2 brings up an important speed-bump, that a lot of cooks vary the actual ingredients based on what's in their kitchen.  the best i can say is that they could throw in the phrase 'may or may not contain' at the beginning of the list.  even knowing that there's some uncertainty in what all is in a dish is at least *some* information.

lecture over.

in still other news, metafandom has been quiet since end of May, and i'm not sure why.

-bs

Comments

[strega42.livejournal.com]

It's not that hard to write down, on an index card, the ingredients one has used in a particular batch of food one has made. It's not like they need to write down the entire recipe.

I can't IMAGINE cooking any dish, and not knowing what went into it that particular time. Then again, I'm also used to substituting all the freaking time for my own family members. Or at least warning people, like "Hey, Jess, there's mushrooms in it this time for Scott and Brian, but I left them in big pieces so you can pick 'em out if you want!" or "Hey, Brian, don't eat X dish this time because I used chicken broth!"

Seriously. Not. Complicated.

At WORST, if I forget to actually write a card, anyone can ASK me and I can list the ingredients in it. I'll CERTAINLY be able to remember if there are any of the following in any particular dish I made: shellfish, nuts, mushrooms, dairy, onions, peppers, eggs, wheat, potato, and similar.

[boogieshoes.livejournal.com]

right. it's not that hard, really. you don't need to add measures, don't need to go into the ingredients on the bottle of worcesteshire sauce you used, etc. to my way of thinking, it's just another way to help people make informed choices when they're visiting the barfly suite. *shrugs*

and the theory behind putting the list out is that you know, sometimes John Ringo has a panel, and all the people who actually know what's in the dish are enjoying listening to him entertain the masses... :-p

i know, preaching to the choir.

-bs

[strega42.livejournal.com]

OH! Also, metafandom has been quiet since the end of May because May is Zombie Awareness Month, and now that May is over they've laid back down again. :-p

[boogieshoes.livejournal.com]

*giggles*

-bs