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Grant &Teresa
Welcome to The Savory City. Follow our adventures on food, drink, travel & healthy living in the San Francisco Bay Area and beyond.
Love,
Grant &Teresa
Ever since we’ve been on the autoimmune protocol (AIP) diet, grains, dairy, and seeds are off-limits to us. So, I decided to make my own AIP-compliant bagels and cream cheese. The tapioca and cassava flour make these bagels a little chewier than traditional bagels, so I like making them a little bit smaller. The cream cheese is fantastic. It has the creamy, subtly tangy taste that I love.
I recently opened my Nextdoor app and found a new feature called Help Map. It allows people to offer their services to the elderly and other neighbors in need, whether it’s running essential errands or doing phone check-ins.
I wrote on Tuesday about having to postpone the birthday trip I had planned for Grant. He knew I was planning a vacation for us, but the location and itinerary were a surprise. Rather than cut out the trip completely from his birthday week, I decided to create a travel brochure of the trip I had planned and present the brochure to him as part of his gift. It’s a promise that we’ll take the trip as soon as it’s safe to do so.
Grant’s birthday was the one day when we could get a dispensation from the AIP diet and go hog wild with eating anything we wanted. So, what did we do?
It’s hard to surprise someone for his birthday though when you’re quarantined together. Still, I found a way to do it.
I wrote in our Day 14 blog post about our first experience ordering groceries from Amazon Fresh. I also promised that I would share information about local businesses that offer grocery delivery and pick-up services.
I wrote in yesterday’s post about a lightened laundry load being a silver lining of this shelter-in-place mandate. Another silver lining: I get a chance to practice cutting Grant’s hair, while knowing that if I messed it up, at least it would grow back by the time we have to see another human being.
Now, for the first time, I am absolutely killing it in the laundry game. I am the queen of laundry. I am a laundry ninja.
Being under a shelter-in-place mandate means I feel a little less guilty about movie marathons. Translation: We’re rewatching the Marvel movies in order.
I made AIP spinach pesto, AIP ranch, and AIP carrot ketchup. These recipes are dairy-free, gluten-free, nut-free and nightshade-free. We liked them all, but the carrot ketchup was Grant’s favorite and mine was the ranch. These also make great dipping sauces for chips, as I found out after we finished all of our chicken nuggets today.
We haven’t had chicken nuggets since we started our diet a couple of months ago, so today I experimented with the ingredients we had in our pantry. They’re pretty simple to make and they turned out wonderfully. We air-fried the nuggets in our Instant Pot air fryer, but you can also fry these traditionally in a skillet.
Bay Area health officials today extended their COVID-19 stay-at-home order through May 3. The announcement affects the six counties of Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin, San Francisco, San Mateo, and Santa Clara, as well as the city of Berkeley.
Grant and I ordered our first Amazon Fresh delivery the other night. Here’s how it went.
With the initial national social distancing guidelines set to expire Tuesday, the president today announced that the guidelines would be extended through April 30.
I discovered a great autoimmune protocol (AIP) recipe for cassava flour pancakes by Michele at Thriving on Paleo. I made a batch last Saturday and we loved it so much that I made another batch today. We topped our pancakes with some mixed berries and a syrup I made by heating honey and date syrup over the stove.
We also realize we have a lot to be grateful for even now in this strange, new, quarantine life we’re living.
We’re nearing the end of our second week of working from home, which means Grant and I have logged a considerable number of hours working two feet apart. In that time, we’ve discovered a lot about each other’s work styles. Here are some tips we’d like to share with other coworking couples.
Grant and I went out today for the first time since our mandatory shutdown for a chiropractor appointment. We couldn’t have picked a more beautiful day to go out. It’s been rainy and drizzly the past few days, which turned our hills a gorgeous shade of green. I’m really happy we got a chance to see the hills this way before they turn brown for the summer.
We’ve set phone reminders to take a two-minute fitness break at the top of every hour. As soon as the alarm goes off, we get out of our seats and do a mini fitness circuit. We try to mix up the routine every day, but it usually includes a quick set of crunches, push-ups, free weights and stretches. I’m not a huge fitness nut, so doing small bursts of workouts periodically makes exercising feel more manageable to me.
