Gluten Free Carla

Did you know that when you eat too much of one particular food that you can develop an allergy to that food?  I did that very thing by eating too many tomatoes over the years.  My mother cooked with tomatoes quite a bit, especially being that my father is Italian.  When I got married, I cooked many of her favorite recipes, along with new ones which mostly consisted of tomatoes.  Let’s face it, Italian and Mexican food, my all-time favorites, have tomatoes in most of the recipes.

Many years ago, after my daughter’s baptism, I had so much left-over lasagna, (I always over cook!), that I ate it for lunch and dinner for about 3 days in a row.  The third or fourth night my husband and I ate out at our favorite Mexican restaurant.  On the way home I broke out in hives which covered almost my entire body.  It was gruesome! Read the rest of this entry »