Mistakes: I've made a few

Most of my mistakes have stemmed from my inability to properly follow instructions or read labels.

1. Pears - skin on, skin off!

Pears with the skin off have almost no salycilates.
The problem with tinned pears, however, is that they're often packaged in pear juice, which contains pear skin and there's no telling how much of the 'sals' are there. Making delicious-sounding things like 'No-Tomato Sauce', pear chutney or pear jam, recipes often call for pears in syrup. Unfortunately the only pears in syrup I could find were Coles snack packs. And unfortunately I didn't actually read the label - not syrup, but juice...

2. Tapioca - Take 1, Take 2, ....

So tapioca flour is fine. It's kind of expensive, however, so I thought, hey, maybe I should buy some tapioca seeds and grind them up*.

Uh oh. I notice - before I open the packet - that there's preservative in there.

Then I think, gee, maybe I should check the tapioca flour.

Oh.. yeah.... Luckily potato flour is a good replacement in my bread recipe.

 3. Cornfour/starch/maize/I'm confused

So apparently maize cornflour is ok, but maize flour is not. What's maize flour? Perhaps the fact that I don't know means I haven't used any..?

I'm guessing gluten free cornflour (i.e. not wheat-flour-dressed-as-cornflour) is ok. I hope.

4. Flavourful!

This was a deliberate mistake - Girl had a fever and was desperately miserable. I didn't have the heart to either seek out suppositories (much less administer them) or crush up paracetamol and figure out some way to make it palatable for her. So, yeah, I gave her this crap.

My biggest mistake, of course, was mating with a man with such a terrible family history of food sensitivities.



*I still have some half-milled brown rice. I gave up on that little experiment in my food processor.