cooking Archives - Living with Scleroderma https://livingwithscleroderma.com/tag/cooking/ Reflections on the Messy Complexity of Chronicity Mon, 19 Jan 2026 21:14:50 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 31053421 A-Peeling https://livingwithscleroderma.com/a-peeling/ https://livingwithscleroderma.com/a-peeling/#comments Tue, 20 Jan 2026 13:00:19 +0000 https://livingwithscleroderma.com/?p=10877

Prepping vegetables for meals is one of those tasks that I often find challenging. I need to wear latex gloves when I cook so I don’t infect my finger ulcers, and this makes handling food difficult, because my fingers have been shortened by both resorption and surgery, so the tips of the gloves always flop […]

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This past weekend here in New England was bitter cold. As in negative teens, even before the windchill factor. Not my kind of weather, not by a long shot. Fortunately, it passed quickly. But winter, regardless of an unwelcome Arctic vortex, is time for soup in our home. So, Dear Reader, here are two wonderful […]

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As of today, I am two-thirds of the way through my HBO treatments: 20 dives down, 10 to go. Last week’s mishegas about another potential infection was doused effectively with medical grade bleach soaks for the recalcitrant graft and a visit to Dr. S, who reassured me that the finger looked fine. Thank goodness! Meanwhile, […]

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I’m writing on Sunday night, as the Egyptian potato soup simmers on the stove and our community radio station plays a Middle Eastern mix. I’ve been cooking all day for our Monday night Passover seder, and I’m feeling good. A lot better than I anticipated this morning, when I woke with pain in my ulcers, […]

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]]> https://livingwithscleroderma.com/skirmishes/feed/ 2 2420 Feast of Freedom https://livingwithscleroderma.com/feast-of-freedom/ https://livingwithscleroderma.com/feast-of-freedom/#comments Tue, 10 Apr 2012 12:00:05 +0000 http://www.livingwithscleroderma.com/?p=358 My hands are in pretty good shape today. A blessing, because I spent all of last Thursday and Friday cooking our annual Passover seder—a five course extravaganza that I manage to pull off each year. I’ve evolved the menu over decades, based on what works, what doesn’t and what everyone asks for and complains about […]

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