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I made a big batch of rice and vegetable stew last night with a dash of taco seasoning (chili powder, onion and garlic, oregano, cumin, paprika, black pepper, sea salt). It also contained a dash of cayenne that was meant to be a very small dash, for just a hint, but my dashing skills appear to have been compromised at the crucial moment.
So now the kitchen smells strongly of cayenne and needs to be scrubbed and aired out. I don't have time for that, though. (I'm running out of time to finish knitting a birthday sweater for my sister-in-law.)
After eating the stew my tongue felt numb, which I've now been told is a symptom of a food allergy, and I realized it wasn't the first time I've felt that. I suspect one of these spices is the source of the allergy, which would make sense because I frequently react to spicy food in varying degrees of severity, but not always; and I think the numbness thing can easily be camouflaged behind the tingling and burning that very spicy food produces anyway. I don't know which of the spices it was, though I can probably rule some out, leaving cumin, chili, cayenne, or black pepper.
Now I don't want to eat any more of the stew, and I made enough for like a week. It's a tragic waste of cooking effort and leftovers.
Possibly unrelatedly (it could have been caused by a piece of black pepper corn: that's happened to me plenty of times before...), I woke up with a particular sore spot in my throat, like a spice burn, not like a relapse of the cold I had last week. I suppose it could just be that the stew had too much cayenne and I burned my tender flesh with it or it could be the allergy again, but either way I've been eating buttered toast and bananas and sulking because I want a banana cream pie milkshake but I don't have the vanilla icecream, cookie crumbles, and whipping cream I'd need to make one. Instead I'm drinking blackcurrant and assam tea with honey, and contemplating mint chocolate cookies.
So now the kitchen smells strongly of cayenne and needs to be scrubbed and aired out. I don't have time for that, though. (I'm running out of time to finish knitting a birthday sweater for my sister-in-law.)
After eating the stew my tongue felt numb, which I've now been told is a symptom of a food allergy, and I realized it wasn't the first time I've felt that. I suspect one of these spices is the source of the allergy, which would make sense because I frequently react to spicy food in varying degrees of severity, but not always; and I think the numbness thing can easily be camouflaged behind the tingling and burning that very spicy food produces anyway. I don't know which of the spices it was, though I can probably rule some out, leaving cumin, chili, cayenne, or black pepper.
Now I don't want to eat any more of the stew, and I made enough for like a week. It's a tragic waste of cooking effort and leftovers.
Possibly unrelatedly (it could have been caused by a piece of black pepper corn: that's happened to me plenty of times before...), I woke up with a particular sore spot in my throat, like a spice burn, not like a relapse of the cold I had last week. I suppose it could just be that the stew had too much cayenne and I burned my tender flesh with it or it could be the allergy again, but either way I've been eating buttered toast and bananas and sulking because I want a banana cream pie milkshake but I don't have the vanilla icecream, cookie crumbles, and whipping cream I'd need to make one. Instead I'm drinking blackcurrant and assam tea with honey, and contemplating mint chocolate cookies.
