Food Allergies

I haven't posted anything in a long time, but I feel like I need to get these anxieties off my chest a little bit, so here goes.

After nearly a year of gluten-freedom, I decided to have a standard allergy test. The kind where they poke your back with different allergens and note the results after 15 minutes.

Here's the list of things that I am "allergic to" according to the prick test:

- cats
- grass pollen
- birch pollen
- "Tree mix" (not sure what that is)
- grass
- corn
- oranges
- soy beans
- cabbage
- carrots
- celery
- tomatoes
- peanuts
- almonds
- cashews
- pistachios
- hazelnuts
- pecans
- walnuts

No sign of wheat, milk, or egg allergies, even though they tested for them.

They told me I have "Oral allergy syndrome." This basically means I'm allergic to the things I'm allergic to because of how they get pollinated. Looking at the list from wikipedia, this means I'm allergic to:

Birch pollen: almonds, apples, apricots, avocados, bananas, carrots, celery, cherries, chicory, coriander, fennel, fig, hazel nuts, kiwifruit, nectarines, parsley, parsnips, peaches, pears, peppers, plums, potatoes, prunes, soy, strawberries, wheat; Potential: walnuts

Grass pollen: fig, melons, tomatoes, oranges

Sounds about right. Not sure about the whole CORN thing.  How the hell am I supposed to avoid corn and soy and ALL nuts? Not sure about the whole avoiding gluten thing too. I know that has made me feel better.  I should probably continue that unless they want to run another celiac test on me.  Time to see a nutritionist and in the mean time, eat rice and meat.

Time to be gluten, corn, soy, and nut free.  O_o

Coconut Cake

http://www.ibreatheimhungry.com/2012/03/coconut-frenzy-cake-lc-sf-gf.html

Bacon-peanutbutter-cornbread

http://bacon.wikia.com/wiki/Tantalizing_Bacon_Peanut_Butter_Corn_Bread

Need to make this. No flour!

(also - 200th post!)

Andrew Bird- Fever Year

Another useless - I need to watch this post.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1800665/

Andrew Bird TED Talk

Need to watch this later:

http://video.ted.com/talk/podcast/2010/None/AndrewBird_2010-480p.mp4

Gluten-free cake (kidney beans)

Something else for me to experiment with...

http://spoonofeverything.blogspot.com.au/2012/02/its-your-birthday-well-mine.html

Gluten Free Quick Breads

http://www.elanaspantry.com/gluten-free-recipes/breads/

Saving for future reference.