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teiBecause my NYR is to use dreamwidth more, and I want to post more to comms... here's a healthy eating story/recipe!
My mom gave me a bottle of folic acid supplements this Christmas. She did this because I told her that I'm trying to conceive, and making sure you get enough folate, which is required to copy DNA and RNA, is recommended during periods of higher cell division-- like, y'know, making a person.
Unfortunately, I'm one of those people who gets extremely anxious about swallowing pills. I can do it if I absolutely have to; but in the past I've taken medications to a compounding pharmacy and paid to get them as a liquid suspension because, y'know, not much point in taking a drug for anxiety if the thought of taking it gives you a panic attack.
So instead of taking the supplement, I looked up the list of foods highest in folate, intending to make sure I get enough in my diet. The highest by a significant margin is liver of all kinds, and I happen to have acquired a significant surplus of offal recipes for fannish reasons recently, so I decided to make liver pâté.
The basic recipe is to sauté onions and then the liver in lots of butter (the recipe called for calf liver as well as chicken, but I could only find chicken, so that's what I used), then toss with sage, salt and pepper and blend with basically an equal portion to the liver of butter and cream cheese. The liver smelled awful while it was cooking, but it worked out in the final recipe.
So, not exactly conventional health-food ingredients, but today for me healthy eating looks like eating pâté on crackers for snacks :D
How is everyone doing? Tried any new foods lately?
My mom gave me a bottle of folic acid supplements this Christmas. She did this because I told her that I'm trying to conceive, and making sure you get enough folate, which is required to copy DNA and RNA, is recommended during periods of higher cell division-- like, y'know, making a person.
Unfortunately, I'm one of those people who gets extremely anxious about swallowing pills. I can do it if I absolutely have to; but in the past I've taken medications to a compounding pharmacy and paid to get them as a liquid suspension because, y'know, not much point in taking a drug for anxiety if the thought of taking it gives you a panic attack.
So instead of taking the supplement, I looked up the list of foods highest in folate, intending to make sure I get enough in my diet. The highest by a significant margin is liver of all kinds, and I happen to have acquired a significant surplus of offal recipes for fannish reasons recently, so I decided to make liver pâté.
The basic recipe is to sauté onions and then the liver in lots of butter (the recipe called for calf liver as well as chicken, but I could only find chicken, so that's what I used), then toss with sage, salt and pepper and blend with basically an equal portion to the liver of butter and cream cheese. The liver smelled awful while it was cooking, but it worked out in the final recipe.
So, not exactly conventional health-food ingredients, but today for me healthy eating looks like eating pâté on crackers for snacks :D
How is everyone doing? Tried any new foods lately?
