Adventures in Cooking and Eating

Hi Everyone.

I’ve been trying to write something about food and eating for weeks now and couldn’t get it in my head how to write it, so I guess I shall plunge on in and try.

I have a picky stomach and digestive system, sometimes on and sometimes off, mostly off kilter.  So it’s hard for me to buy, cook and eat food as I struggle to find things that I will be able to eat and so on.

During one conversation with shirlstars, she suggested I try tapioca pudding.  It had been a long time since I tasted tapioca so I thought it sounded great and a few days later I was at a store and found the pudding section.  first thing I noticed, the raw tapioca was $4.99, next to it a mix was $1.69 so I chose the mix.

Later that night I decided to make the pudding and I chose the microwave version.  I can hear your shouts of “no, you didn’t.”, trust me, I can hear them and I thought about it when I began.  Next I chose a 2 cup glass measuring cup, oh and yes I did give a moments thought to will it be big enough, but I quickly stilled that thought by deciding I would stand at the microwave and moniter the whole thing….what could go wrong.  Did I mention that said pudding required 2 cups of milk.

Everything went fine, for the first 8 min. or so, it was almost done and I hit the one minute button, and went to sit at the computer fully believing all would be well, as it was only 1 min.

After only 30 sec. I heard bubbling, squishing and popping.  Yep, you guessed it, the whole mess had boiled over and what a mess it was.  At the bottom of the measuring cup there was a teeny, tiny 1/2 cup left, I did eat it and it tasted pretty good, but most of the globules had settled to the bottom so it was a little gummy.  Oh so, so much for something to please the tummy.

Anyway I would love to have any suggestions for things to cook that may be pleasing to an erratic stomach, ….recipes appreciated.