Christmas table runner with mini Christmas tree and candles
Biscuits & Slices, Body, Lunch, Mains, Recipes

Last Minute Christmas Recipe Ideas

With Christmas just a few days away, I'd thought I'd share this round-up of last minute Christmas recipe ideas. Just in case you're still looking for ideas. Our usual Christmas Menu involves cold chicken and ham, with salads. Followed by plum pudding and other desserts. There are of course also lots of other Christmas snacks… Continue reading Last Minute Christmas Recipe Ideas

Gluten free trifle with layers of GF cake, peaches, jelly, custard and cream. Topped with almonds
Body, Desserts, Recipes

Gluten Free Trifle

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

dairy free flummery or jelly whip
Body, Desserts, Recipes

Dairy Free Flummery or Jelly Whip

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

dairy free chocolate fudge arranged on a Christmas plate
Body, Heart, Soul

Dairy Free Chocolate Fudge

A number of years ago I bought a cookbook from a local MOPS group that had compiled it to sell for fundraising.  The leader who sold it to me marked the Wonderful Chocky Fudge recipe in the book by putting a heart around the page number.  I've adapted the recipe to make dairy free chocolate fudge. The… Continue reading Dairy Free Chocolate Fudge

Body, Lunch, Menu, Recipes

Gluten Free Ham & Cheese Mug Muffin

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

Body, Mains, Menu, Recipes

10 Meals to Make in Under 40 Minutes

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

Advent & Christmas, Body, Recipes

Christmas Baking

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

Body, Menu

What My Husband Eats – Then & Now

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

Body, Menu, Recipes

5 Blogs for Recipes that we can use

I've been making dairy free & soy free recipes for about 8 years now, since my son was first diagnosed with his food intolerances.  And then we added gluten free & sulphite free recipes to that about 2 years later, when my husband was tested.  So I have had lots of time to find sources… Continue reading 5 Blogs for Recipes that we can use