My sis The Granny, visits my site for the food!!! Let’s face it the Hamilton women live to eat! They also live to look at food pictures! And drool. I am happy to announce that since being on my limited diet, I’ve lost 30ish lbs and dropped 3 sizes. I’m constantly pulling my pants back on because I’m too cheap to buy new ones till they actually fall to my feet!
Since my anaphylactic incident in January, I’ve been living without and frankly that’s an understatement. It’s not been fun on the food front and as you know, my pictures of food have been few and far between!
I’ve been away from home for the good part of a month helping Mom care for Dad. And then to see him fly away Home on March 15.
While away, my Winter Greens turned into Spring Greens! Quite a treat to find under the hoops. I never get my Winter Greens in soon enough to enjoy them into the early part of Winter, BUT what an effortless celebration I have waiting for me in the Spring.
I’ve eaten the same thing over and over again while I was at Mom’s. The one thing she enjoyed the most was the Allergic version of Pho’.
Pho’ is Vietnamese Soup which is basically a bone broth with onion, garlic, greens, spices and rice noodles. I mix it up depending on what I’m in the mood for and with my very limited food selection, noodles or no noodles is usually the extent of the mix up!!!Ferments are off my list for the time being, so it’s also made without soy sauce or fish sauce, which I long for.
I’m sure I have it written down somewhere….but where I don’t know….but I do know this is Russian Kale and some type of Chinese Cabbage. Both of which taste like more!
Note To Self! Rinse more thoroughly, the grit does NOT add to the taste of Pho’!!!
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Melissa, I do pray that this surgery is it for you. I’m thinkin we can just continue reciting, “come Lord Jesus come” cause life here is just getting harder and harder. It can’t be far off.
What a lovely story Deanne!!! Thanks for sharing. It must be the broth, because there truly is something healing about it.
Oh, Diane! You crack me up! We’ll just keep praying each other through these tough days knowing that better days are on the horizon. I’m not sure that this last surgery was successful, but I’m hopeful. And if it wasn’t… well… come, Lord Jesus, come! And I, too, love greens. I’ve eaten my fair share of gritty greens as well. Blessings!
Pho is our go-to heal all: Sick? we have Pho, Sad? we have Pho, Cold? we have Pho
When the broth simmers with the spices it brings back so many memories, our younger two are adopted from Vietnam. Their adoption went so well until I was in-country and then it hit a huge halt (US government changes and an eathquake in Taiwan.) I spent many a day up at the top of Hoa Binh Palace Hotel consuming Pho Bo (my favorite), watching the servers pass the twins back and forth and carry them through the kitchen, wondering how on earth I would cope if the government didn’t approve their visa’s home. Leaving them behind was not an option, being away from my older two girls and husband for another few years was not an option (the month I was gone was hard enough to be without them), the only option was that everything work out (and it did.) Pho was my comfort food during that time and it was served mainly for breakfast and lunch.
I am anxious to go back and show the twins the people and the country that I fell in love with, after all it was certainly theirs first. I have yet to recreate just the right mix of spices and fish sauce and oh the fresh herbs they have to pile in, yum! I hope you and your mom find as much healing and comfort from it as we do!