Jessica Is So Hungry

Mozzarella sticks. Diner style, clearly defrosted, absolutely molten lava droopy cheese, with a little stoneware cup of marinara, and ideally some kind of orange frosty shake.

Being now reactive to chocolate, corn starch, vanilla, and dairy, I had to treat making chocolate frosting for cupcakes like a hazmat operation and leap out of the way every time i turned the mixer on.

Buckwheat sucks. I understand I should be grateful to have it, as I currently have no other grains left. But buckwheat is terrible. It tastes like someone once spilled a single drop of peanut butter on a pile of gravel. It is dry and dense and frigid. Buckwheat is the taste of sadness.

I guess tomorrow we find out if I can have buckwheat/if it is also full of lead.

Some Popular Gluten-Free Foods Contain Lead Levels 23 Times Higher Than Safe Limits, According to a New Investigation Though touted as a gut-friendly alternative, cassava may pose hidden risks. Consumer Reports tested 27 cassava-based foods and found several with lead levels far beyond what’s considered safe. The fin...

Since I am now reactive to rice, I made some cassava pancakes to eat. Halfway through them I looked up the nutritional info…. And well…

www.foodandwine.com/lead-contami...

Right now what I’d really like is so stupidly basic. Whole wheat bread with sharp sharp cheddar and mayonnaise. That would fix me!

I hope this doesn’t get grim fast, but I started reacting to rice today, and without it I’m a mess. Husband is at the store buying every alternate carb source we haven’t tried - buckwheat, couscous, anything - because I really will be starving without one.

Welcome to this accounts first medical crisis (less than 24 hours in, woohoo!) I have been suddenly hit with food poisoning from hell, mid work day! The culprits could either be my potato experiments, which always hurt my tummy a little, or inadequately reheated soup with rice (let’s hope not!)

Yeah the problem is nothing has come up positive (including regular allergy tests as well) so far but my throat is still swelling up when I eat, so… as I said, there’s disagreement.

It is 30% accurate

a breakfast sandwich with a big ol fried egg on a yellow plate

This morning was ok, because my husband Sean managed to make a FLUFFY BISCUIT using nothing but rice flour, tapioca starch, egg, olive oil, sugar, salt, and xantham gum. With a fried egg and homemade ketchup, the best thing I’ve had in weeks.

There is some disagreement between my doctors about that, but I think so

A slab of white-frosted coconut cake on a paper plate in front of a Pepperidge farm box

Did you know that Pepperidge farm makes frozen cakes?? Did you further know they make the best coconut cake, AS LONG AS you eat it while it’s still slightly frozen. It’s fluffy and the frosting is just a tiny bit slidey and the coconut is insanely sweet, and I want one so bad. A whole cake.

Chocolate cake, exactly four layers, with a soft and fluffy milk chocolate filling inside and a slightly sturdier chocolate buttercream on the outside, with fancy chocolate shards all over it. And a glass of red wine the size of the Lusitania.

I am Jessica! After being diagnosed with long covid, I developed a so-far untreatable reaction of itching and throat swelling to almost all food. As a lifelong foodie, I’m using this account to lavishly describe all the cravings I have and updates on my condition. Feel free to follow!