My dog, Jaques, died in August 2022. He was 13 and had been my constant companion since he was eight weeks old. I’m dedicating this blog to him. He was only a few months old when this photo was taken. It captures his sensitive spirit, which I miss every day.
I started this blog a few years ago when my children began leaving home. I thought they might, from time to time, want to make food I cooked for them while they were growing up. My nest is empty now (my youngest child is in college), and I no longer need to cook for a trio of allergic children. I still cook without gluten, but I eat dairy now and then. (All my gluten-free, dairy-free recipes are saved in this blog. )
The current focus of my cooking is creating sweet, delicious desserts and other good and good-for-you snacks that are satisfying, but contain no refined sugar. This is a huge challenge to me, as I’ve been trying to kick refined sugar out of my diet for decades. I’m older now, and my body is less forgiving than it was in my youth. Sugar makes me achy and bloated and gives me headaches, but I keep eating it because I’m addicted to sugar.
I can’t take it any longer. So I’m trying again.
Will I succeed in getting this monkey off my back? I don’t know. Follow my journey, and we’ll find out together.
(BTW, I no longer have time to take photos, so to illustrate my posts, I’m using (free) stock images I found on Pixabay. Most are nice photos, but they don’t depict the actual recipes I make.)