Coconut Flour Muffins

So, last night was baking night number 1 for SCD. Made these lovely muffins but popped in some crispy bacon and some lovely sage as our herbs. Very nice!
We shared one straight out of the oven after dinner with a cup of tea, and took one to work for lunch, as a replacement of the usual sandwich.
Don't let coconut flour fool you! Only a very small amount is needed.

So long pizza!

Went to all you can eat pizza pasta gelato night at my local last night. Ate 22 slices of thin crust pizza and a couple of desserts. It was my farewell to pizza as I embark on the SCD diet. This morning has been a bit tough as I went for a hard 2 hour ride, straight into work. Had a couple of bananas, dates and dried figs for breakfast but feeling pretty flat. My nut meals are being delivered today. Should be able to buy some muffin tins tomorrow night and be able to bake some higher carb breakfast and riding snacks.
My stomach is not stoked I ate so much pizza. But, just like an alcohol hangover, no pity as it's self induced. :-D

Coincidence?

Wow, it's a long time since anyone posted here... oops... I guess life has somehow gotten busy, and gotten away from us. So, when we started this blog, we jokingly called it "Food in Mouth Disease" because we are both obsessed by food and eating, and recipe books, and restaurants, and growing our own food, and farmer's markets, and watching cooking shows while we eat our dinner, and food holidays and a balanced nourishing diet... and we thought that our food obsession bordered on a disease. How were we to know that there would then come a diagnosis of ulcerative colitis in the family? And that suddenly, there would be a relationship between food and a real disease? So, UC has now been living in our house for around 2 years (maybe more - it's hard to tell really when it started), and being managed on meds, with flare ups and so on. Well, no-one wants meds to be a long term solution if it can be helped, so after much research, we're about to embark on the Specific Carbohydrate Diet, and see what happens. We are hopeful that it will induce a change for the better, and that gut health will be returned to something somewhere near normal, but at the very least, we're hopeful it will mean a reduction in meds to manage this disease. Full remission would be fantastic, but we are realistic! This week, we're waiting on the arrival of Elaine's book, saying farewell to some favourite illegal foods, and starting to identify where we can get enough carbohydrates into our diet, based on the 310g RDI for Australian (male) adults, given that all the easy sources of complex carbs are now going to be off limits. As there are only two in the house, we'll both be doing the SCD so that it's easier to stick to, and easier to cook and plan for. And given some of the beautiful recipes we've found so far, it's not a diet you want to miss out on!