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
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
I've been to 3 events in the last 6 weeks or so. Two were events of about 300-350 people where we were fed morning tea, lunch and afternoon tea. At one of these events we even got dinner on 2 of the nights. The other event was a training event with about 20 people. At… Continue reading Special Dietary Requirements at Events
When my husband was first diagnosed with his food intolerances he was struggling to know what to eat. He usually had wheat in some form or other for breakfast, morning tea, lunch, afternoon tea and dinner. There was also a lot of dairy which is one of his intolerances but to a lesser degree. Sulphites… Continue reading What My Husband Eats – Then & Now
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
Lasagna was one of my favourite childhood dinners. For my birthday dinner, whilst growing up, I would either choose lasagna or corned beef. I used to make this dish quite regularly as an adult until my son and husband both discovered their food intolerances. I had worked out a dairy free white sauce but it… Continue reading Gluten free and Dairy Free Lasagna
Apparently it's Chicken Month in September, among other things. We usually eat a meal with chicken in it once or twice a week. This week we've had Chicken Pot Pies and then used the same chicken mixture to make Chicken Pasties. Other chicken dishes that my family enjoys include Grain Free Chicken Schnitzels with an almond… Continue reading Chicken Month (including a recipe)
Recently we celebrated my daughters birthday. We had an extended family dinner with 16 people in attendance. As well as the food intolerance's in our family my niece is Coeliac. All of the menu was gluten free apart from the lollies. I was too busy organising and enjoying the company so we only have photos… Continue reading A Birthday Dinner Menu
At one stage I was blogging regularly about the past weeks menu. Here's the link to the last one I posted, well over a year ago. I don't plan to start this regularly again but thought I'd share some of what's been on our menu in the last 10 days or so. Some of my… Continue reading Some Menu Offerings
The original recipe was in our Day to Day Cookery Cookbook. This was the cookbook we used for school Home Economics lessons at high school. My mother had a copy of this cookbook so I didn't get to have a newer edition. I remember visiting my friend (when I was in high school) one weekend… Continue reading GF Raspberry Coconut Slice
