YUM

[cjsmith]

Since stopping the antibiotics last week, I have eaten (among other more-usual things)

1 double cheeseburger from McDonald's
2 apples (thank you, tiger_spot!)
1 Mexican wedding cookie

aaaaand

two slices of pizza!

This probably reads as if I'm desperate for junk, and that's not it exactly. But oh man, it is so nice to think of the immense number of things that won't give me another nasty health problem. (I wonder if that would be an interesting exercise for random folk: pretend your doctor just told you that grains, potatoes, sweets, or fruits would put you in the hospital, and then tour a supermarket. It's like being SURROUNDED BY DEATH.) I suspect I'll go a little crazy for a while, and yeah, there'll probably be a bit too much junk during the craziness. Also good stuff. Mmmm, fruit.

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[mactavish.livejournal.com]

Meet at Kabul some time when you have a few minutes? I can give you a cat carrier, and watch you go crazy with the menu. ;)

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Oh man, that bread! Turns out Kabul is a lovely restaurant even when I can't eat the rice and bread. They give me more salad, and they'll even take off the dressing if I need them to. (Most salad dressings are sweetened.) But whoa, that bread is soooooooooo tasty.

[mactavish.livejournal.com]

The salad dressing at Salang Pass has cilantro. Gah.

They're good, otherwise. :D

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Salang Pass = restaurant somewhere in this area?

Fortunately, I actually like oil and vinegar. Especially once a friend taught me the trick of putting herbs in it. (Why I didn't think of that on my own I will never know.)

So you actually brought the carrier back? Seriously?

[mactavish.livejournal.com]

Salang Pass is good Afghani food in Fremont. It's slightly less formal than Kabul, and one degree less tasty, in terms of borani kadoo. But it's still very good. And yes, we brought both carriers back, they were borrowed. (The other one I borrowed from a nice freecycler in Palo Alto.)

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

I would be very happy to take you out to lunch at Kabul and snag the carrier. However, lunches on any day except Sunday are booked through the rest of the quarter (classes conflict with meals) and Sunday is, as you might expect, filling up far in advance. How's mid- to late Feb. look?

[mactavish.livejournal.com]

Looks fine. :) Pick one?

(Then we'll have to have lunch again in May or so, assuming Martin ever comes back. ;) )

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Pencil in for the 22d, with caveats about stuff like last-minute study sessions? (Seriously, our chem teacher has office hours on Sundays because that's the only time people can get there. But I don't know offhand which ones are immediately before exams.)

For all I know May will be nice and open, because if I take incompletes in these classes (in Japan during finals week), I won't be able to register for much in the spring. These are all prereqs, and I can't finish the incompletes until I'm back in the country, which is after spring quarter starts. :-)

[hitchhiker.livejournal.com]

oil and lemon juice makes a superb dressing too :)

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Kabul tomorrow? Noon? Earlier? Later?

(Chem review session starts 2pm, so I'll want to leave Kabul no later than 1:40.)

[mactavish.livejournal.com]

Oh boy! Thanks for reminding me. :D

Yes. Noon is fine. :D

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Awesome! See you there.

[billeyler.livejournal.com]

Your past enforced diet must have been grueling. No pun intended.

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

I did get rather used to it, after a while, which is amazing in itself. But yeah, it was basically a big pile of no fun.

[leback.livejournal.com]

It's great that you're getting to eat so many tasty things, and great that you're enjoying them so much! And now you're inspiring me to be that much more appreciative of whatever I wind up eating for dinner tonight, too. :-)

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

I too am much more appreciative of stuff. (Oddly, I'm also more picky about stuff. That Mexican Wedding Cookie didn't taste all that good, and I thought, why the heck would anybody bother to eat this thing?) I wonder how long my appreciation will last. Months, definitely; a year? Dunno.

[ladycelia.livejournal.com]

Oranges. Pomegranates. Potatoes au gratin.

Enjoy!

Yes indeed!

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Breakfast! Adding potatoes back into that bean soup recipe. Barbecue sauce, salsa, salad dressing. Anything Mexican, Italian, Chinese, or South Indian! Sopping up lovely yummy northern Indian curries with rice or naan. Eating fondue with something other than a spoon. Man, a year ago (before this Lyme stuff) I had no idea how good I had it.

I like food. :-)

[kent4str.livejournal.com]

As a gluten-intolerant, I'm extremely jealous.

Eat a slice of pizza for me!

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

You too can feel this wonderful! Give up all the OTHER grains for nine months, then give them back to yourself! Gee, rabbi, my house is so large now... :-)

Slice of pizza in your name, coming right up. Well, next time I'm near pizza. :-)

[wordweaverlynn.livejournal.com]

I look at celery with the same sick fascination ordinary people have for thousand-foot cliffs.

Have a wonderful time eating!

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Yeeeeeah, I guess I could see where that's exactly the reaction you'd have. Rob gets a bit of that, too, looking at what most of us call food. Not only does that stuff not register as food, it registers as Problem (and in your case, Danger).