Mmm, pizza.

Last night I had a dream that I ate a giant piece of Home Slice pizza, gluten be damned.  But I was so worried the whole time in the dream, I didn't even enjoy it.  Stupid dream.

Gluten-free

I'm on my third week of gluten-free.  Does this make a person tired?  I m so tired in the mronings I can barely function.  I am literally falling asleep at my desk.  this does not seem good.

Also, it's been a little harder than I thought it would be.  I mean, those headaches were AWFUL.  Why would I want them again?  But Monday night when we went to dinner with Jason's parents, Seth's cornbread looked really good.  I had a nibble.  Okay, probably about a tablespoon.  And on Sunday night, we were kid-less so Jason treated me to Melting Pot (happy hour discounts and a gift card) and it was super hard to not eat one of the marshmallows.  There are two coated in graham crackers and two coated in oreo.  I ate half of one coated in oreo.  This is hard!

I'm glad to say that yesterday I tried a new restaurant here in Austin called Blue Dahlia (new to me, not to Austin).  It's over on E 11th.  They advertise on their menu that they have gluten-free bread.  So I got an open-faced sandwich (a tartine) with goat cheese, olive tapenade, and red peppers, on gluten-free bread.  The bread was not crunchy and chewy like it probably would have been had I not gotten the gluten-free option (damn, it's going to be hard to go the rest of my life with no yummy bread!), but it also wasn't dense and hard like I expect from gluten-free bread.  It was actually light and crumbly.  Not bad!  The tartine was delicious.

My plans continue to formulate for when I go back on gluten to confirm the sensitivity.  Chocolate cake, corn bread, tempura shrimp, cinnamon rolls - what else should I have?

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