Welcome to day one of the A to Z blogging Challenge. During April I'm going to be blogging through the alphabet. Since we deal with food intolerances in our house and that's how this blog started I thought I'd share an A to Z list of the foods we can still eat or foods that… Continue reading A is for Apple (A to Z list of foods we can still eat)
Six weeks ago today we packed up our kitchen to prepare for renovations. The renovations are nearly done. Although I've got a pretty good temporary kitchen set up in our garage I've been without an oven & hotplates for nearly 6 weeks. I've been working out how to bake without an oven. Breakfast, lunches &… Continue reading Baking without an oven!
We've been in our house for over 10 years now. During that time we've always talked about moving the laundry upstairs to be closer to the outside clothesline. Our kitchen is finally being renovated and there is going to be some changes to the layout in the house. We've gone through various places of where… Continue reading Renovations starting
Many of the meals that I make are quick and easy and can be made in 30 - 40 minutes. Here's 10 meals that I make when I want to make dinner quickly and there all gluten, dairy, soy & sulphite free: Quick Chilli Beef served as nachosTric's mince cookingheart shaped rissolesFried RiceCreamy Tomato Chickenporcupines… Continue reading 10 Meals to Make in Under 40 Minutes
It's mango season in Queensland at the moment. We had a mango tree which was given by husband's grandfather as a seedling in a pineapple tin, to his parents when they got engaged. When they built the house we live in they planted the tree. It died after a bumper season a couple of years… Continue reading Mango Recipes
We're going to my brothers house on Christmas Day. There will only be 12 of us for lunch. We've divided up what everyone is bringing. We're having prawns, cold meat and salad along with lots of other goodies. Since we're away at the beach until Sunday most of my baking is going to happen on… Continue reading Christmas Baking
This is a yummy sweet treat that is simple to make but effective. The ingredients are chocolate, marshmallows & smarties. Not dairy or gluten free but could be adapted. My Grandmother shared this idea with us years ago after attending an event where someone had made these. I'm not sure who named them "frogs eyes"… Continue reading Marshmallow Frogs Eyes
Today is Vanilla Cupcake Day.  When I was little cupcakes used to be called Patty Cakes here in Australia, as you baked them in patty pans. I just pulled a a box of the papers out of my pantry & they called them 'cupcake patty pan set'. Anyhow I thought I'd share a few links… Continue reading Vanilla Cupcake Day
October 22nd is Nut Day. Apparently is was started by the Liberation Food Company, a fair trade company, that wanted to celebrate the long and storied history of the nut, to advocate fair trade nuts & promote healthy living. I've always enjoyed eating nuts but use nuts even more since we've been mostly dairy free.… Continue reading Nut Based Recipes
Apparently the 18th of October is Chocolate Cupcake Day. When I first started cooking gluten free I found that chocolate or cocoa helped hide the gluten free taste. Hence I made a lot of chocolate slice and chocolate brownies. I also found that it was very easy to sub your milk of choice (eg., almond,… Continue reading Gluten and Dairy Free Cupcakes
