Polenta is one of very few foods that I actually don't like, even though I always think that I should, since I like corn in just about every other form.
I can't eat really spicy stuff - have never been able to, so would struggle enormously with that dish. When I make a (meat) chilli the only chilli flavouring comes from using tinned red kidney beans in chilli sauce!
Yes, I can use basmati rice to a (very) limited degree pistachio - brown basmati rice is much more manageable. Do you have an actual recipe for your paella dish, or is it just bung stuff in a pan and hope for the best (like most of my cooking is)?
Ekka - I am avoiding seafood (but not fish) because ds may well be anaphylactic (sp?) to it. I made seafood risotto once which he had, and the roof of his mouth swelled up to below where his teeth would have been if he'd had teeth at the time! We suspect it was a mussel that he'd chewed that caused it, but daren't risk other seafood (except poss prawns, as he'd had them before) just in case. GP has given steroids to give him in an emergency to buy an extra few mins whilst dashing to hospital , but says to avoid seafood except prawns for him for now.
50ft - I couldn't have porridge even made with water and with nothing but splenda on it last time, so made with milk and with agave nectar falls into the 'not a hope in hell' category! I couldn't have any cereal at all, despite that being what they recommended. I also couldn't have the beans on toast that they suggested either. But I will absolutely not see the bitch dietician again this time. I saw her once last time and she reduced me to tears being so rude and patronising (I was obv a bit sensitive anyway as had just found out that I had GD). She told me off like a naughty schoolgirl for eating soft eggs. I was too upset to point out that salmonella has been eradicated from lionmarked eggs, but I think I did point out that her advice had nothing to do with the diabetes, which was what I was there for.
Right, shall try and skim read again to see if I've missed responding to any more points.
Oh yes, make up - all of mine is really old. I can't bear to throw it away - it will have cost me lots at the time. I don't wear it often so it lasts me ages. I suspect that the only thing I have newer than 4 or 5 years is my powder compact, and poss a lipliner and a lipstick or two.
I did use some eyeshadow for one of my nights out recently, and the spongey brush thing disintegrated on my eye .
What happens if it's old? Does it actually harm you in any way?