I got in to the spirit of New Years a bit last night. I got off work, headed home, picked up the husband and two year old, and headed to a burger joint for dinner. We were all hungry, and the husband and myself had been craving a burger for a couple of days. Sprinkle in a bit of a festive spirit, and you have yourself a bit of a recipe for disaster.
That's right, disaster.
No, my disaster didn't have anything to do with alcohol on New Year's Eve. We were all home, safe and sound, by 730pm, in bed by 9, and I think I was asleep by 10. Early to bed makes it easier to get up early in the morning, and, just like much of the world, I greeted 2014 with a big, fat, whopper of a headache.
Except my headache isn't just a headache. It's a full-blown migraine.
The answer is really quite simple: eat whole foods. No, not the grocery story chain (though I love them for banning all things containing MSG) but simple, real, whole foods. Foods that haven't been adulterated by processing in a factory. Foods that come from a farm and straight to my table.
Foods that I like to eat anyway. It's harder, and takes a bit more planning, but, there's little we go without when we actually try. Including Chocolate Hazelnut Spread. This recipe is great (I don't know just how close I followed it as I'm not so great with the measuring things - I eyeball just about everything, even when baking - but it came out great, and turned me on to coconut sugar). I'm really loving it in just about everything, and can't wait to try another batch with cream. No offense to coconut milk lovers out there, but, my food issues do not disallow cream, and I like the taste of it better. So, next time, ganache with cream, not coconut milk, and don't forget the salt and vanilla extract (maybe vanilla beans?) and a lower ratio of coconut sugar.
I digress. Though my head hurts, I'm excited for the food I have planned out for the day (dhal with yoghurt and jalapenos and coffee for early breakfast, oatmeal with that lovely chocolate hazelnut spread for 2nd breakfast (snack for me, breakfast for the boys), humus and cucumber cupcakes for lunch, and I don't know about dinner just yet.
Meanwhile, I'll be directing the husband to make and do all the things today, as movement magnifies my head by about a billion.
Damn that MSG.
