Updates

Hello all! I have taken the summer off from our weekly cooking nights. I know, summer is the time for fresh produce and some really great ingredients. It's not that I haven't been cooking, it's that said cooking has not been at all regular. Between a huge trip in May, a wedding in June, getting very sick in July, another trip in August, and a September for recovery, plus training for the last few months for a 5K run - well, my Tuesdays haven't been very consistent!

Luckily, the weather has turned for the worse in Vancouver again (no Indian summer for us!), so my mind is turning to new culinary adventures. But we have a bit of a change in direction this year. Last February, I discovered that I have a intolerance to gluten. I can live just fine with it, but I feel tons better and can run like crazy and get into shape when I avoid it. I know several people with lactose intolerance, and I know someone who is starting in on the Candida diet. I also know lots of vegetarians, and I try and eat vegetarian most of the time (I like to consider myself an "eco-tarian").

Thus, the Taste of Tuesday embarks on a new direction this year - meat-free, wheat-free, generally lactose-free, ideally yeast-free cooking. Whoof. It will be work to consistently find new recipes that meet all those criteria. Sometimes we may focus on one over the other, sometimes we may hit the bulls-eye. We also might throw some meat meals in there, if I stumble on some interesting things to cook up! Nothing will be run of the mill, that's for certain!

I'm also going to embark on a new website design, in an effort to learn Adobe Dreamweaver. So lots of changes in store for the next little while.

Look for the first new recipe post the first week of October!