It’s everywhere and it’s pollinating. We are not the worst city in the nation, but we’re competitive. And we’ve got a few days of this to go through. Despite an allergy pill, my eyes are watering and sounds and the rest of the world are at the bottom of a well.
Glug.
The dizziness has receded. I get a twinge now and again, but much better. First time it hit, I couldn’t even lock my vision on a point—everything was rotating, and if I hadn’t been sitting up in bed, I might have fallen over. The fact I fell back to stare at a ceiling fan just did not help at all.
On the other front, the reformation of our diet—I’ve found a real nice source for low-carb, high vitamin/mineral/veggie diet that also tastes good. It relies on making cabbage and cauliflower change their taste—which can be done. They can be conned into tasting like a whole range of things, with butter, garlic (which we can have!) and a few spices. So if you’re cooking for somebody that hates cabbage, just don’t tell them what they’re eating. Yes, it CAN taste like bacon or sausage.
I won’t give the recipes here, because, copyright! but I can tell you where to find the woman’s site and a batch of free recipes, besides adverts for her cookbooks. The name is Peace, Love, and Low Carb recipes and we have tried the peanut chicken (to die for); the no-wrapper pork spring roll dish, and are soon to try the cheeseburger in a dish and the smoked sausage casserole. I never follow recipes, but I am following these, because they’re different, and I’m trusting her sense of spices in transforming the tastes. I’ll say also, do not stray off out of the kitchen and leave these dishes cooking, particularly the peanut chicken: on that one, the difference between ‘swimming in fluid’ and ‘just-right gravy-thickness’ is about a couple of seconds, because the peanut butter (we use crunchy) serves as a thickening agent. And it goes fast. IE, these actually require some cooking skillz, like—standing there with a spoon ready to stir or having the plates ready when it needs to leave the hot skillet quickly, etc. I appreciate that degree of finesse. But it’s not rocket science, just having hot pads in reach, dishes ready, and proper utensils for getting it out of the pan. If you have to turn and search, possibly too late! Of such tiny details is a ‘skill’ composed.
Thankfully Costco is open today; I wasn’t sure because they have a very good policy about closing for holidays which I support. I need to go get 2-3 pans of their scalloped potatoes for the Saturday night herd. They are delectable, inexpensive and quick to prepare (nuke for 7-8 minutes and serve); I’ll check the ingredient list and see if there’s anything that would contraindicate you and Jane partaking. I think the worst thing would be the calorie count, yummy but rich.
I also must prod the pharmacy about the allergy inhalant I’m supposed to get a refill on. They promised to have it ready by Wednesday and call me, but nothing so far. The big allergen around here is usually mango pollen, but the mangoes are now setting fruit, so whatever is making me sneeze, that’s not it.
alas, we’re on a meat, eggs, dairy, cauliflower, broccoli, turnip, cabbage kind of diet, squash marginally allowable if not winter squash[ ditto tomatoes. Ie-if it’s watery when raw, we can probably have it, or if it’s a cruciform veggie. But no fruit, no potatoes, beans or peas. No salad dressing. No sugar. No bread in any form. We may get away with a tiny bit of breading on fish, but otherwise, nada.
Just looked at the low-carb recipes from that site; several look most intriguing, especially the ones for leftover ham. Easter breakfast this morning was scrambled eggs with ham and cheese, not from the site, but a quick fix when DH is ‘starving’.
Cumin is really good with cabbage.
Comment Its maple pollen followed by oak pollen here – a little town near Springfield in SW Missouri. No fun. It gets bad enough that you have to wip the pollen off your windshield b3fore you n se3e to drive if you’ve parked outside
First of all, and for everybody about dizziness, perhaps it may be an after-effect of a head cold. But perhaps it could be BPPV, benign paraoxysmal positional vertigo, which maybe rather simply, quickly, and easily remidied by “the Epley Maneuver”, q.v. I used it myself this morning–when my head is tipped forward, turning it to look aside, rapidly, is not a good idea.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benign_paroxysmal_positional_vertigo
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epley_maneuver
I’m getting a double whammy this weekend from both grass and tree pollen. Eyes streaming and sneezing despite allergy med. I may end up going to take a decongestant to try to dry my head up. Slush city. My poor kitty has been being very careful not to be in whichever room I’m in. The sneezy honky monster is loose. Hide!
I’m familiar with the Epley Maneuever, unhappily recently so…I will try it if it doesn’t abate soon. OTOH, it’s been really very good today. So we will see.
So the trees, who probably get no enjoyment from it, are having sex. There is very little sex in Ms. Cherryh’s books, although it is implied, so nature has to make up for it.
I sympathize with the dizzy problem – I sometimes experience it. I think it is a part of getting old.
At any rate, everyone enjoy Easter and don’t eat too many chocolate bunnies.
Jonathan up here in New Hampshire
“I think it is a part of getting old.” Well it is; it takes years for the otoliths to form. But if that’s what is causing your dizziness, you can treat it yourself in 5 minutes.
Although we get no descriptive passages, she tells us just enough that we can imagine the rest. Imaginary “implications” are the best. . .
CommentINg, you have my deepest sympathies. We’ve been dealing with brownish-Orange covered juniper in Arizona since early December– although this didn’t get ready bad until late January, but still two months earlier than it’s supposed to. It’s just recently stopped just in time for the oak to take over.
But I had an eye doc appointment recently fly and he recommended antihistamine eye drops, something I’d not heard of before. It’s OTC, he said Zaditor, but also said any generic with Ketotifen is what you want. One drop each eye twice a day has been a lifesaver! Has even helped limit how bad my sinus headaches get, which has been a real bonus. Husband who never has sinus problems during allergy season was affected this year, so my having manageable allergies in comparison I’m chalking up to the Zaditor.
Thanks!