What's wrong with this picture?

... nothing, you'd say. Perhaps "Some of the cupcakes are already missing - who ate them?"

I'll tell you what's wrong... last week my hubby came home and brought a newspaper (he gets it for free in the train). There was a special (click) in this newspaper about celiac's disease and that people should know more about it (a lot of people have it, without knowing). And there was a nice recipe for cupcakes - for cheap cupcakes - made with rice flour (glutenfree mix for cake of cupcakes is usally very expensive). So I thought: 'let me try that!'

Followed the instructions, added some lemon flavoring and put them in the oven. When time was up, I cut one open to see the structure of the cake and I was very pleased! But then I tasted one... strange taste... I had totally forgotten to add the sugar....

Ready for Christmas

Today I had a day off and I spend it well: lying on the couch, watching my favourite TV-series AND I made myself a glutenfree, tasty Christmas bread. Filled with almond past, pecans, cranberries and colored candied cherries. Yum!

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Celiacs: we are trendsetters!

I found this link to a news item on a blog from someone who has to follow a glutenfree diet because of celiacs disease, just like me. It looks like a 'fun' and 'cool' diet, but... see for yourself:

Trial for Christmas

Since december 2006 I have to follow a glutenfree diet and therefore there were many things I couldn't eat anymore. One of them was a typical "Christmas bread" filled with almond paste. So the last years I passed Christmas without it, but this year I wanted one on my table for breakfast again. So I searched the internet, found a recipe and tried to make one today - and it worked! It looked good AND it tasted good.

Now I know, I will have "Christmas bread" this year!

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Back in business

I am sorry it has been for almost a month since I have posted anything... there were so many things on my mind that I didn't have time to draw, to blog or to be on the internet. I also had a lot of visits in the hospital for several tests because I have not been feeling well the last few months. Last week I got my diagnosis: I also have Sjögren's Syndrome - next disease in my list...

But I'll learn to live with it ...

Yesterday we came back from a break and I am back in business - I'll start drawing again, posting new things in my blog and read all of your posts!

Gastroscopy

Vandaag mocht ik me weer melden in het ziekenhuis voor een gastroscopie: de arts wil de darmen even nakijken of het allemaal wel goed gaat ondanks mijn glutenvrije dieet. Dit vooral na mijn aanhoudende klachten van gewichtsverlies (ben al 8 kilo kwijt ...) en nog meer vermoeidheid dan anders.

Ondanks het roesje heb ik toch een deel van het onderzoek meegekregen en dat was geen pretje. Daarna de rest van de dag duf en flinke keelpijn. Over een paar weken de uitslag.

Today I had to go to the hospital for my gastroscopy. They wanted to check my intestines because of my continuing complaints about losing weight (I lost 8 kilos) and I am more tired then otherwise. Despite of a small anesthesia I was awake during a part of the procedure and that was no fun. Now I am sleepy and I have a sore throat. In a few weeks I will get the results.