I might steal some of those suggestions for myself...

Today's Strands taught me that Ukiah (a town in N Calif) is haiku backwards. I wonder if that has any historical significance

A favorite meal when I was growing up was pork chops cooked with cabbage and potatoes and sometimes apples. I think you can get lean pork chops, I might try substituting turnips or parsnips or yucca or something for the potatoes, see how that comes out...IIRC it was basically browning the pork chops a bit, nestling the potatoes or whatever in amongst them so they could brown up nicely in the rendered fat and quarters or eighths of cabbage on top of everything to steam and cook down

Ooh, I might try both of those cabbagey, roasty things.

Chat with recruiter went well, and she's forwarding me as a candidate. We'll see. No matter what, though, it was something in a big ol' sea of nothing much, so that's pleasant, anyway.

I went to throw sheets in the dryer, pressed start, was baffled why it didn't start, then realized the door was still open. I closed the door, pressed start, was baffled why it didn't start, then realized I didn't set the timer. (Wonder of wonders, the dryer started once I both closed the door AND set the timer.) I feel like today should maybe be over, or at least the part of the day where I have to use my brain should be over.

Glad for the something, Jen! Good luck with the next steps

You figured out how to start the dryer, Tep, you've done enough. Hit the showers.

You figured out how to start the dryer, Tep, you've done enough. Hit the showers.

Yessssssss!

Good luck figuring out how to start the shower.

Noooooooo!

Roasting bone-in chicken thighs on whatever veggies you can eat (carrots?) also would be very tasty. I do that basically once a week in cooler months. You can add dried herbs for more flavor if that would work for you.

During shelter-in-place (i.e., back when the Math Greek was here and I hadn't transitioned to a vegetarian kitchen), one of my favorite easy meals was getting fresh kielbasa at the Ferry Building market and doing this with various root vegetables.

A favorite meal when I was growing up was pork chops cooked with cabbage and potatoes and sometimes apples.

Also, this, but without the potatoes. Can confirm tastiness without potatoes. However, you'd want to render the pork first and get at least some of the fat out of the pan or it would be too fatty for you I think. Also, note that cabbage is a cruciferous vegetable so maybe that is why people suggest cabbage juice instead.

From what I've been reading a super strict diet isn't always necessary and people can figure out their triggers and then avoid them.

This is a great book for figuring out which FODMAP categories are issues for you and also providing recipes for the initial restriction and then reintegration phases. (That is not why I got it from the library, but strangely enough it made me realize why I have never liked certain nuts--every single one I tend not to eat is a FODMAP nut).

I have no idea what FODMAP means. Maybe I should learn. ETA my library does not have that book but I have been requesting things like mad and it seems like they then get them more often than I expected, so I'll try that with this....