A blog about gluten-free living and food

Let’s get this blog back into action for a change, shall we. I think that I’ve rested enough after the renovation we did to our home, it was surprising how hard it was and how long it took for us.

I have been wondering what to eat here now that the weather is so hot and humid that you feel a lot like melting, except when you swim in the sea, after that you are cool for about 10 minutes until you feel like you are in a sauna again.

We here in the North are not used to this kind of weather, so it really can take a toll on you. Some days ago it was reported that it was the hottest day in 50 years - can you imagine. I spent most of that day swimming in the sea, tanning on the beach was impossible for more than half an hour, that is, if you didn’t want to feel like you’re melting away into the sand.

Thai foods are a given when the weather gets really hot, curries and the likes are filled with veggies and spices, so you feel good when eating dishes like that. Salads are also a godsend when you feel like you just want to eat something light. I’ve been incorporating both of these things with Thai flavoured salads which are a lot like regular salads, but I flavour them with chillies, lime, coriander and fish sauce - it’s really easy, filled with flavour and it feels cooling in the heat.

Easy Thai inspired summer salad

serves two

-a head of lettuce

-a couple of tomatoes

-a couple of onions

-a bunch of coriander

-two grilled chicken breasts

for the sauce

-3 tbls fresh lime juice (or from the bottle)

-3 tbls thai fish sauce

-1-2 red chillies, seeded and cut into thin stripes (or some dried chilli flakes)

This is so easy and fast, if you have the chicken breasts ready. If you need to cook them, just add some spices to them (I use this dry rub I make, some paprika, oregano, thyme, salt, chili flakes, garlic powder and onion powder). Then cook them in the oven at around 300 F until done.

You can use fish too, some shrimp, beef, almost anything.

You can of course use any kind of veggies basically in this; the idea is in the fish sauce, the chillies, the coriander and the lime juice.

Mix the lime juice with the fish sauce and the chillies.

Wash and tear the salad, cut the onions and the tomatoes, mix them together, cut the coriander and add it.

Pour the sauce on top and add the chicken on top of the salad.

I get a lot of questions on where to buy quinoa flour, psyllium husk, things like that which I use in the recipes. I really never had an answer for this, until some time ago when I started ordering form Iherb. Some of you probably know it already, but I thought that I’ll mention it here too in a post and I will put up a notice in the sidebar about Iherb.

Iherb has an simply amazing variety of products for sale, I for example order all my hair and skin care products from there, some foods that are hard to get by here, and also all my supplements.

This is by the way not a paid advert for Iherb; I don’t think they know that this blog even exists. I have been very happy with them and I do think that it’s worth to mention how good Iherb is.

The site is not easy to navigate at first, at least for me it was not, but you can search for psyllium husk for example by simply adding the words into the search box, you can also search for gluten free products in the same way.

Something worth mentioning for celiacs is their range of probiotics for example; you can find them by searching with the term probiotics. The same goes for multivitamins, fish oil etc.

Using code JUH901 will get you 5 dollars off your first order.

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It’s been almost a year since I last wrote something here, so I thought it would be time for a small update on where this blog is going in the future. I have gotten a lot of e-mails on the subject and I haven’t unfortunately had time to answer all of them.

I have been really busy this last year, renovating our home etc. so I decided to take a break from blogging for a while, then that break just seemed to last for a longer time than I had imagined. I still don’t know if I’ll ever start blogging here again, just because it has been really nice taking a break and I am feeling maybe a bit lazy on the subject still. Of course summer is also coming and I intend to just read, relax, swim and maybe travel a bit.

So, there’s my thoughts on the subject, nothing really profound has happened that made me stop blogging (at least for a while), just circumstances like my work and renovating, also not feeling like blogging.

I am however going to keep this blog open still; you’ll still be able to use the recipes here as before. If I close this blog at some time, I’ll make sure to announce it here before I close up, so that everyone will have time to print the recipes they need.

I have also had some dreams of doing a sort of recipe index. I think a recipe index would be useful for me and all of you who are still using the recipes. My original intention for the blog was to have an archive for myself whenever I thought of a recipe and wanted it to be easily found somewhere, I am really bad with keeping things organized, so this solution was ideal. Then things just grew from there, I found out I liked taking photos and blogging in general etc.

The comments are still going to be closed because I can’t keep up with the spam. I am still saddened with having to shut down the comments, because they have been so useful, but the spam was just too overwhelming.

I wish everyone reading this a really great summer, let’s hope it’s a hot one with lots of sunshine (there are some fears here about a cold summer because of the volcano thing). And thank you everyone who has sent me e-mails, I might not answer all of them, but I always read them.

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