The Reigning Queen of Pink was very upset tonight, and it devolved upon me to find out why.\u00a0 Since she’s allergic to chocolate and her older sister had made brownies earlier, this wasn’t really going to be a tough one.\u00a0<\/p>\n
I’ll digress here a moment: the brownies were dessert for the older two; the RQoP has her very own “chocolate pudding pops” that she had for an after dinner amuse bouche.\u00a0 SOBUMD makes these from bananas, avocados, agave nectar, carob powder, sea salt, and almond milk – and regardless of how that might sound, I assure you that they are, in fact, delicious.\u00a0 If you can’t have chocolate, this is a frozen heaven on a stick – plus you can have it for breakfast!\u00a0<\/p>\n
But no matter how good it is, the bottom line is that it tastes almost, but not completely, unlike chocolate brownies.\u00a0 Really, only chocolate brownies taste like chocolate brownies, and the Human Tape Recorder made these from scratch.\u00a0 (The only direction she asked for was “single recipe or double?”\u00a0 Atta girl.)\u00a0 So, the RQoP went upstairs not crying but certainly teary-eyed, and refusing to talk.\u00a0 To her credit, she didn\u2019t ask \u2013 at this point, she knows the answer.\u00a0 Life is tough, and hers is often tougher than most, so I give her a lot of props for not asking, and not just wailing.\u00a0<\/p>\n
So I followed her up to tuck her in and try to jolly her a little, and remind her that she\u2019s not alone in having allergies a little, and jolly her a little more.\u00a0 We had a brief discussion about the likely ability of the cat on her bed to eat her (high), and then I thought I\u2019d try opening with a Socratic parable.\u00a0<\/p>\n
BUMD:<\/strong>\u00a0 \u201cDo you like strawberries?\u201d\u00a0 Oh, snap.\u00a0 No, I should talk to my therapist.\u00a0 At least she got a good laugh in before bed!\u00a0 In the meantime, if you have a recipe for egg-free, dairy-free, soy-free, corn-free, carob brownies, I\u2019m all ears.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Anyone have a recipe for egg-free, dairy-free, soy-free, corn-free, carob brownies?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[61,42,3,40,10,4],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1048"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1048"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1048\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1050,"href":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1048\/revisions\/1050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nRQoP:<\/span><\/strong>\u00a0 \u201cHmmmph.\u201d
\nBUMD:<\/strong>\u00a0 \u201cNo, really, do you like them?\u201d
\nRQoP:<\/span><\/strong>\u00a0 \u201cCut up with sugar on.\u201d
\nBUMD:<\/strong>\u00a0 \u201cOh yes.\u00a0 Do you know, when I cut up strawberries for you and put sugar on them, I would love to eat one.\u00a0 Did you know that?\u00a0 I cut them up for you, and they smell so good, and they look so good, and I\u2019d love to just pop just one of them in my mouth and eat it.\u00a0 But I don\u2019t.\u00a0 Do you know why?\u201d
\nRQoP:<\/span><\/strong>\u00a0 \u201cHmmmph.\u201d
\nBUMD:<\/strong>\u00a0 \u201cBecause I\u2019m allergic to strawberries.\u00a0 They\u2019re not good for me, no matter how good they look or smell.\u00a0 But I still cut them up for you.\u201d
\nRQoP:<\/span><\/strong>\u00a0 \u201cWhy don\u2019t you just sneak just one?\u201d
\nBUMD:<\/strong>\u00a0 \u201cBecause I\u2019m allergic \u2013 they\u2019re not good for me.\u201d
\nRQoP:<\/strong>\u00a0<\/span> “Why are you telling me<\/span><\/strong> this?\u00a0 You should talk to your pediatrician!”<\/p>\n