Except that I’m an idiot who clearly doesn’t do any baking, because the Chairwoman’s crust has flour in it, which is, of course, wheat. Anyway, if you think the wheat is okay, here’s the recipe. This just does the bottom crust; you’ll need to double it if you like a two-crusted pie.

1 cup + 2 T flour
1/2 tsp salt (important!)
1/3 cup corn oil
2 T cold water

Mix flour, salt, and oil with a fork, then add cold water. Roll out between wax paper and press dough into pie dish. Poke all over with a fork.

Filling’s up to you…she does brown sugar, white sugar, cinnamon, lemon, apples, and a little more flour (to thicken the “sauce” that the apples make), but it’s highly idiosyncratic and (she claims) dependent on the exact kind of apples you get.

I hope he doesn’t have an issue with garlic or onions. It’s certainly not something the pediatrician told me to avoid, and he seems to be improving despite the fact that those two things remain pretty prominent in my diet.

Good. :-) I just mentioned them because I know some people who are really sensitive to ‘em. My mother-in-law has to leave the room when onions are being chopped (though she can eat cooked onions without much trouble).

The doctor suggested avoiding it for now, while we’re just trying to get the little guy to stop pooping bloody green slime (it’s sort of emergency-ish cut out everything measures, with food added back in slowly later to see what’s tolerated).

Fingers crossed that it’s either dairy or soy, but not both…

Beer.

I hope it doesn’t last long, too, for all of your sakes. Poor little tyke!

Mmmm… Apple pie sounds good. If I have that margarine tigrismus has described, I could also do an apple-crumble-type thing.

whatever you think Dash can handle?

I hope he doesn’t have an issue with garlic or onions. It’s certainly not something the pediatrician told me to avoid, and he seems to be improving despite the fact that those two things remain pretty prominent in my diet.

I never thought reading a statement like this would cause me any sort of excitement or joy, but here I am! I guess the big adventure for my birthday weekend will be a trip to Whole Foods (the nearest Trader Joe’s doesn’t have it, or I would have spotted it).

Hopefully the diet won’t be this restrictive for too long; when Dash wins his battle with the evil poo, I can begin re-introducing stuff back into my diet one by one until we find out exactly what the problem was from. Maybe I can at least get dairy or soy back by Christmas.

Let’s see…I think the Chairwoman sometimes does her apple pie crust with corn or canola oil. There are a bunch of hearty but non-dairy soups you could do–beef barley (if barley’s okay), vegetarian minestrone, etc.

Veggies…asparagus is probably a bad idea b/c I’m pretty sure the volatile compounds can be excreted in breast milk. Grilled veggies? Sauteed greens with lemon, ginger, garlic, whatever you think Dash can handle? I’d maybe skip the garlic and onion…hmm.

I know. Everything that I’ve ever made that is worth making contains butter. And the suck thing about margarine is that almost all of it has soy in it. Well, not the only suck thing about margarine, but among the suck things about margarine.

I suspect I can do something good with the cranberry sauce, so there’s that. Turkey and cranberry sauce and… stuff cooked in olive oil? Ideas? Anyone?

For a minute there, I thought I had something for you, but then I remembered: Butter. Every Thanksgiving recipe I have ever made has butter. Pounds and pounds of butter.

Is there anything edible that doesn’t incorporate one of those things? Steamed broccoli, maybe. Rice. Simple fare.

Sorry about the poo issues. This too will, er, pass.

Will post a new Dash picture either tonight or tomorrow – sorry for the delay (for the one person who asked), but it’s my first week back at work, and Dash is still fighting valiantly against the evil poo.

Since it’s sort of a food related thread, can people suggest recipes for Thanksgiving that don’t include: dairy, soy, eggs, fish, shellfish, tree nuts, or peanuts? And possibly wheat, if Dash doesn’t improve soon? I think I’ve got the turkey recipe covered, but that’s about as far as I’ve gotten…

Couple of times in HCMC I went for the 17,000 Dong specials,…

Wow. That’s a lot of dongs.