Oil free potato chips (french fries) We British eat these all the time. We reserve the term “french fries”, if we use it at all, for very thin ones. I recommend big “steak cut” chips, especially for this recipe. Traditionally, in Britain, these are sprinkled with salt and malt vinegar before eating. Since malt vinegar contains gluten, I now ( Read more... )

I've tried both these self-invented mushroom recipes out on Keltman, recently. He can't decide which is more delicious. you could probably improve them by using oil/fat, and more traditional cooking methods, but i daren't ( I got really ill, after risking sauteed sprouts recently :( . i used extra virgin olive oil, thinking that would be safest ( Read more... )

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As you guys, know, I have big problems with all the following foods: gluten, grains, legumes (except soya milk), all fats and oils, spices (if derived from seeds, i.e most of them); cocoa; various chemicals esp aspatame. For some reason, most ground/powdered foods affect me too (eg dehydrated potato!) maybe contaminated in processing? I'm also ( Read more... )

The Autistic Self Advocacy Network have asked for help in making the following short vid go viral.

Here goes:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mR37CvpPYUk

-Walkie

An aspie friend of mine posted this link:
http://www.donnawilliams.net/whatdoyouwant.0.html
I had to go away and think about this, because my my first reaction was like "Oh! I'm not autistic after all"

I mean: exposure anxiety. check

Am I like a cat? oh i wissssh, ( Read more... )

Somebody posted in the Asperger Group about her friend's careless attitute towards an animal she'd adopted and claimed to love. Everybody completely agreed with the woman's reservations about this. I was inspired to write the folowing reply. On reflection, I think i want to put my own observations out here, where everybody can read them, including ( Read more... )

hope that title isn't premature. I'm fairly confident that the mods of the aformentioned gaming forum will leave the following post alone, since it already got a private thumbs-up from the guy who called the mods on my back in first place ( Read more... )

Thanks to shahigai for inadvertently reminding me of Jeff Mangum (of Neutral Milk Hotel) the most extraodinary lyricist I ever came accross.

Warning: these anything but easy listening. The closest to easy listening is the last. Really upbeat for Jeff!

Oh Comeley
Two Headed Boy
Little Birds
In an Airoplane Over the SeaIt was my son, Damon, ( Read more... )

Since sucumbing to pressures to join facebook, i've been seeing a lot of petitions, which have opened my eyes to a number of issues. Here's the latest/ last straw ( Read more... )