Tag: kitchenwork

• September 21st, 2023 – little projects

  

  Gardening, as well as kitchenwork and animal-care, have taught me a lot about perfectionism and compromise. In my first couple years of gardening, I have had a lot of “failures”. In fact, I think I have maybe had a 20% success rate in terms of growing a plant and getting what I wanted out of…

  Dani

  September 20, 2023

  all topics, animal care, fermenting, garden & farmwork, grief, kitchenwork, mico, perfume, service dogs

  brewing, fermenting, food, gardening, kitchenwork, mico, service dogs, wildcrafting

• September 12th, 2023 – kitchen sink soup

  

  I make a lot of “kitchen sink” type dishes – I rarely follow an exact recipe and am always trying to experiment, especially if I have excess ingredients I need to use up quickly. This is a butternut squash soup I made! I roasted all my ingredients in a sheet pan for easy, hands-off work.…

  Dani

  September 12, 2023

  all topics, ARFID, eating disorders, ehlers danlos & the trifecta, kitchenwork

  ARFID, chronic illness, disability, Ehlers Danlos, food, kitchenwork, neurodiversity, paralytic ileus, the trifecta

• Small work – inspired by @appleturnover

  

  In a world of all-or-nothing, black and white thinking, I was taught that if you cannot do something perfectly, completely, then it isn’t worth doing at all. This kind of thinking was what kept me locked in place for a lifetime.

  Dani

  June 24, 2023

  all topics, disability, mental health, chronic illness, & neurodiversity, garden & farmwork, kitchenwork, nest building

  accessibility, accommodations, disability, gardening, kitchenwork

• ARFID, Cultural Impacts, and Self-Directed Safe-Foods Expansion

  

  Being a “picky eater” is a woefully inadequate description of ARFID (which stands for “Avoidant Restrictive Food Intake Disorder”). Most of the time, it didn’t even have to do with disliking certain foods. A food could look good, smell good, even taste good to me, but my body physically wouldn’t let me swallow it. It…

  Dani

  March 1, 2023

  all topics, ARFID, disability, mental health, chronic illness, & neurodiversity, eating disorders, food, kitchenwork, main works, published works

  accessibility, accommodations, ARFID, autistic, disability, eating disorders, kitchenwork, neurodiversity, sensory processing

• Accessible Kitchen Hacks

  

  Over time I have developed not only the skills to create food, but the skills to accommodate my disabilities in the kitchen. It has been a work in progress, and always will be, as my condition progresses and I go through new struggles in the future. But, for now, I would like to share the…

  Dani

  October 5, 2022

  all topics, disability, mental health, chronic illness, & neurodiversity, kitchenwork, main works, published works

  accessibility, accommodations, autistic, chronic illness, disability, kitchenwork, neurodiversity