pork chops with huckleberries and peaches
I haven’t been blogging much lately, but I have been eating a lot. The next few posts document our summer meals. My repertoire has been a little limited as being busy + bad headaches + late summer garden = lots of variations on simple dishes with tomatoes and zucchini. Lately, though, steel cut oats have been appearing on the breakfast table again, an indication that the weather has been crisping up and cooling down. With summer now on the wane, many of these recipes will soon be retired for the year – so they may have to serve as inspiration for next summer’s meals.
Here’s a taste of the migraine-trigger-free meals that you’ll see in the next several posts:
- spinach salad with rustic croutons, zucchini, tomato and corn
- pita with hummus, lamb patties and vegetables
- peach and cucumber salad
- pork chops with berries and peaches
- salad nicoise
- corn and peach salad with cornmeal griddle cakes
- wild rice with zucchini and zucchini blossoms
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I have just started the Prevention Belly Fat diet. I have been a migraine sufferer since I was a little girl and am very food sensitive. This diet includes hummus with tahini, and I noticed you have a pita with hummus on the lamb recipe. Is the chick pea safe for migraines? I was especially wondering about the tahini. There are many things on the belly fat diet that I can’t eat (olives, nuts and seeds and avacado). Hummus I am hoping is safe. Thanks for your website and also for the recipies.
There is conflicting information out there about seeds. They are not okay per David Buchholz’s book Heal Your Headaches, but they are okay per the National Headache Foundation. Chickpeas are fine according to both. I think you will have to test it out and see whether hummus seems okay for you. You would need to make it without lemon if citrus is a migraine trigger for you. I find that I can tolerate small quantities of citrus. If you can’t, I would try including sumac in the hummus instead of lemon, and see if that is an acceptable substitute. It is supposed to provide a sour, acidic flavor similar to lemon (it’s a powder, so you’d need to add a bit more liquid to your hummus to compensate for the lack of lemon juice). Sumac is available at Penzey’s Spices. It’s hard to find easy snack foods when you’re avoiding all of these things, isn’t it?!