Tart shells are great for savoury and sweet fillings. They can be made large or small. Many of our family gatherings with either my husbands side of the family or my side of the family include caramel tarts. Usually small, individual tart shells but ocassionaly a large caramel tart. With this being one my husbands… Continue reading How To Make Gluten Free Tart Shells?
Potato Sausage Pie is a recipe from my mother-in-law. It's in the Mothers' & Others' Recipe book that my mother compiled. Potato Sausage Pie is a mixture of mashed potato, sausages, milk, eggs and a few others things. The ingredients are all mixed together and cooked in a pie dish, in the oven. Gluten Free… Continue reading Potato Sausage Pie
This recipe for Gluten Free Trifle is based on the recipe my mother used to make. Another recipe from my Mothers' & Others' Cookbook. I've made this trifle recipe gluten free. You can also easily make the trifle dairy and sulphite free. Growing up, my Scottish Gran often hosted a big New Years lunch. Lunch… Continue reading Gluten Free Trifle
What is flummery? Flummery is a lovely, light, creamy dessert that I remember from my childhood. Another name for it is Jelly whip. The ingredients are whipped up to make a light, fluffy dessert. Most recipes contain dairy but it is easy to make a dairy free flummery. Dairy Free Flummery made with vegan jelly… Continue reading Dairy Free Flummery or Jelly Whip
Recently we were given quite a few home grown sweet potatoes. So, I've been looking for Sweet Potato Recipes to use them in. We've give away some of the sweet potatoes but I'm still looking for recipe ideas that use sweet potatoes. A pile of sweet potatoes ready to use Sweet Potato Information We really… Continue reading Sweet Potato Recipes
Lemon Crunch Slice was one of the biscuits that we always had at Christmas time growing up. Two of the others were Mum's (Grandma's) Choc Afghans and Melting Moments. These recipes are in my mother's recipe folder. My mother used to make them for Christmas each year and I took over making them when I… Continue reading Gluten Free Lemon Crunch Slice
Are you looking for a quick and easy gluten free alternative for lunch? Recently I turned a sweet gluten free microwave mug muffin into a savoury Gluten Free Ham and Cheese Mug Muffin. Cooked GF Ham & Cheese Muffin, still in the mug Lately I've been making a lot of this microwave gluten free bread… Continue reading Gluten Free Ham & Cheese Mug Muffin
Earlier this month it was my daughter's 21st. Just like her 18th, my daughter wanted to make sure we were catering for special diet needs. We needed to cater for gluten free, coeliac, dairy allergy and intolerance, egg free, paleo and vegetarian. '2' cake on left is a normal vanilla cake and the '1'cake on… Continue reading Birthday Party Menu – Catering for Special Diet Needs
Are you looking for recipes or cookbooks that are useful for intolerances. This post shares some cookbooks that I've got that help us when catering for food intolerances. When we first started dealing with food intolerances it was hard to know where to start and what recipes could be safely used. Most of my cookbooks… Continue reading 6 Useful Cookbooks For Intolerances
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
