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Pumpkin and Lentil Soup and Vegetable Bread Rolls
Still using up Oscar’s pumpkin I decided to make pumpkin soup and found and modified a recipe from Kidspot for pumpkin and lentil soup. Knowing that there was zero chance that Oscar would try it I also pulled out a recipe that had been in my “Recipes to try one day” folder for more than…
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Today’s Baking Project
A few weeks ago Oscar spent the weekend with his Nana and Pa. He helped Pa in the garden, picking pumpkins and putting them in the trailer of his bike, which he then rode around the neighbourhood. He also insisted that he take a pumpkin home. Luckily it was a butternut pumpkin which is moderate…
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Food intolerance symptoms
When Oscar was first diagnosed with food intolerances his main symptom was an inability to sleep. At 8 months old he was waking every 20 to 30 minutes all night long. Once we went on the elimination diet he started to sleep and his whole personality changed – but its impossible to say whether that…
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Pear and Parsnip Mash
This very quick side dish was inspired by Maggie Beer’s recipe on MasterChef a few weeks ago. I left out the verjuice and mashed both the pear and parsnip. I’m the only one in our house who likes parsnip, but even the parsnip doubters didn’t mind it. Oscar, however, didn’t even try – even though to…
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Apricot and Fresh Coconut Muffins
I modified my pear muffin recipe to make apricot muffins as part of Oscar’s High Salicylate re-introduction. The grated coconut is fresh coconut that we grate and store in the freezer. Apricot and Coconut Muffins (High Salicylates, Low Glutamates, Low Amines) Canola oil spray for greasing muffin pans 1 cup plain self-raising flour 1 cup wholemeal…
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Sweet Potato Soup in the Slow Cooker
One of my favourite things about winter is soup. I lovesoup, and its usually healthy, unless of course you eat it with half a loaf of bread and a slab of cheese! Now that I have my slow cooker its even easier to make yummy soups. And the extra vegetables we have to work now…
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Yogo Tarts
After making the Chicken, Leek and Potato pie, I had some left over pastry. Searching the pantry for something to do with it, I found some yogo that had reached its best before date and a few crushed teddy bear biscuits in the bottom of the biscuit tin. The result was Chocolate Custard tarts. …
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Another Birthday!
We had another birthday last month – mine this time. And my boys did a wonderful job making my birthday cake. They used the classic sponge recipe from the Failsafe cookbook and filled it with jam and whipped cream. The chocolate icing and lollies on top were Oscar’s idea (of course)! Classic Sponge Cake (Low…
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Chicken, Leek and Potato Pie
This another recipe from our elimination diet, using just low chemical (or failsafe) ingredients. Chicken, Leek and Potato Pie (Low Chemical / High Amines) Serves 4 1 tablespoons sunflower oil 3 cloves garlic, crushed 3 shallots, chopped 2 leeks, trimmed, halved, washed, sliced 400g potatoes, peeled, diced into 1cm cubes 1/4 cup plain flour 1…
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Potato and Leek Soup in the Slow Cooker
This is sooo easy, and potato and leek soup has been bit of a staple for us through the elimination diet and after. The original recipe cam from Belly Belly.
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Slow Cooker Chicken Casserole
Continuing on from my success with the roast chicken in the slow cooker, I tried a chicken casserole. 20 minutes preparation and 8 hours later it was done. Very tasty, and easy. Chicken Casserole (High Amines, Low/Moderate Salicylates, Low/Moderate Glutamates) 200ml light evaporate milk 1 tblspn plain flour 3 large chicken breasts, chopped into largish…
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Nana’s Moist Chocolate Cake
Yesterday was hubby’s birthday, so of course Oscar and I had a cake to make. A few weeks ago my mum reminded me about the chocolate cake recipe that I had in my Nana’s (her Mum) recipe book. Its a hand written journal of recipes that I got when she died. I used to make…
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Pear or Rhubarb Stirabout
This is another very simple dessert based on one from the Failsafe Cookbook (Rhubarb Stirabout), and its a good one for using up pears when they are at the point where they are about to start going brown and floury. The original recipe is for Rhubarb stirabout, so I’ve included that here as well. …
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Potato and Bean Salad
I know the warm weather seems to have disappeared from Melbourne, but I thought I would post this for my readers on the other side of the world, who are coming into spring. And maybe we’ll have another burst of Autumn sunshine yet! This is a good salad for taking on picnics. Both the salad…
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Tuna Mornay Pie
I can’t remember where the original recipe for this came from, but its another quick and easy one. Tuna Mornay Pie (Amines, Low Salicylate, Low Glutamates) Oil or butter for greasing 30g butter 2 tablespoons flour 1 cup milk Salt 425g can tuna, drained 4 hard-boiled eggs, cut into thick slices 1 sheet frozen puff…
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A Butcher and Sauted Sausage and Apple
Frillypants over at Real Meals posted about a Failsafe butcher she had found in Melbourne that was close to us: Ozzies Gourmet Butchery 55 Hamilton Place, Mount Waverley, VIC 3149 p: (03) 9809 5208 f: (03) 9809 5208 They takes orders and makes up failsafe sausages and preservative free bacon when he has enough orders. The bacon…
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Baked Pears
Another simple dessert, courtesy of the Failsafe Cookbook, and prepared by my darling hubby.
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Chicken and Vegetable Lasagna (2)
A variation on my chicken and vegetable lasagna, this time with less vegetables. I also included a small amount of tomato as part of Oscar’s high salicylate re-introduction. Chicken and Vegetable Lasagne (Low Chem/Amine, Low Glutamates, Low/Moderate/High Salicylates) Pre-cooked lasagna sheets (enough for 3 layers in a 20 x 20cm baking dish) 3 cups diced…
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Review: Oscar’s Lunch Box
This week we bought a new book for Oscar – Oscar’s Lunch Box. Its a fantastic book about a little boy, called Oscar, who has food intolerances. Oscar gets upset when he starts school and discovers that the other kids have much more colourful and interesting lunch boxes than he does. He hates that he…