Food intolerances suck.
Jan. 6th, 2010 09:24 amWe've drawn the conclusion that Tobermory is allergic, or at best intolerant, to garlic. Some cautious experimentation (and some accidental ingestion) have led us to that, and it really sucks.
Food CANNOT be cooked with garlic in it, on it, near it - that includes garlic, garlic oil, dried garlic, roasted garlic, "mysterious unknown spice mix" which subsequently ends up containing garlic as one of it's ingredients, etc etc.
We've slowly been discovering and removing all the things that contain garlic, and Tobermory's stomach has been much better as a result. Things we can no longer buy at stores: worcestorshire sauce* , barbecue sauce, in fact insert sauce in general there - hoisin, teriyaki, anything along those lines is out, many ketchups, any canned or jarred sauce for pasta ever, 99.99% of spice mixes or flavourings ever, pre made soups and soup packets, potato wedges (a lot of them have garlic in the coating!), sausages, meat patties, some hash browns, a lot of dips ...
Takeaways (or in fact eating out) is severely limited - Burger Fuel, which I love, apparently cooks with garlic oil on the grill, which rules them out even when you leave aioli off the burger, a lot of pizza places have garlic in the sauce, Italian food inevitably contains garlic (of course!), Indian food has garlic... It's immensely frustrating for my beloved and frankly it's a good thing I already enjoyed cooking.
Rant inspired by a discussion with my MotherInLawToBe regarding food for the wedding next... no wait, later THIS year (argh when did that get so close argh argh). Hopefully the caterer they're lining up will understand the concept of an allergy, and honour the request to LEAVE GARLIC OUT.
* Unless we buy really cheap worcestorshire sauce. For some reason that doesn't have garlic in it.
Food CANNOT be cooked with garlic in it, on it, near it - that includes garlic, garlic oil, dried garlic, roasted garlic, "mysterious unknown spice mix" which subsequently ends up containing garlic as one of it's ingredients, etc etc.
We've slowly been discovering and removing all the things that contain garlic, and Tobermory's stomach has been much better as a result. Things we can no longer buy at stores: worcestorshire sauce* , barbecue sauce, in fact insert sauce in general there - hoisin, teriyaki, anything along those lines is out, many ketchups, any canned or jarred sauce for pasta ever, 99.99% of spice mixes or flavourings ever, pre made soups and soup packets, potato wedges (a lot of them have garlic in the coating!), sausages, meat patties, some hash browns, a lot of dips ...
Takeaways (or in fact eating out) is severely limited - Burger Fuel, which I love, apparently cooks with garlic oil on the grill, which rules them out even when you leave aioli off the burger, a lot of pizza places have garlic in the sauce, Italian food inevitably contains garlic (of course!), Indian food has garlic... It's immensely frustrating for my beloved and frankly it's a good thing I already enjoyed cooking.
Rant inspired by a discussion with my MotherInLawToBe regarding food for the wedding next... no wait, later THIS year (argh when did that get so close argh argh). Hopefully the caterer they're lining up will understand the concept of an allergy, and honour the request to LEAVE GARLIC OUT.
* Unless we buy really cheap worcestorshire sauce. For some reason that doesn't have garlic in it.
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