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More Hot Cross Buns
Today I made some more hot cross buns, fruit ones this time, with dried pear, paw paw and banana. I used the same base recipe as the choc-chip hot cross buns, replacing the choc-chips with dried fruit, a plain white cross and golden syrup for the glaze. The golden syrup makes a much stickier, sweeter…
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Roast Chicken in a Slow Cooker
We were given a slow cooker for Christmas and I got to use it for the first time a few weeks ago to cook roast chicken and vegetables. The chicken was extremely tender and full of flavour, and the vegetables, despite cooking for 8 hours were perfect, although the zucchini turned black but still tasted…
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Healthy Dips
I’ve been trying to eat a bit healthier, so I’ve been making dips to have as snacks with vegetables as dippers. I’ve also been trying to get Oscar interested in dips, so far no luck there, but that just leaves more for me! The sweet potato and cashew dip is from My Green Australia, but…
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Re-introducing High Salicylate Foods
Since our last visit to the dietician we have been introducing Oscar to high salicylate foods. The process is to pick a starting level (we’re supposed to start off at 25g every 3 days) and maintain it for 2 weeks. If there are no reactions you increase the level (i.e. 25g every 2 days) for…
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Preparing for Easter
Today I made Hot Cross Buns – a trial for Easter. Oscar can’t have commercial hot cross buns as they all have preservatives and “spices” in them. Last year I tried to make a failsafe version of Swedish Semlor (Lenten Buns), a custard filled bun, but something went terribly wrong and I ended up with…
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Banana Bread and Butter Pudding
This is a delicious and reasonably healthy dessert. Despite the title there is no butter in this recipe and it still tastes great, it also smells wonderful. This recipe is based on one from Coles.
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Yum – Chocolate Mud Cup Cakes!
I have my hubby to thank for this recipe. He has adapted the Amine Chocolate Mud Cake recipe in the Failsafe Cookbook and made these delicious cup cakes, which are surprisingly light for a mud cake, and very yummy. The original recipe comes with a low amine variation, which I have included here. Chocolate Mud…
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Japanese Food fun
Last month I read a post on Hear Mum Roar about Japanese sandwich cutters and immediately went to j-listto buy one for myself (for Oscar of course!). While I was there I found some other great food cutters and shapers – boiled egg shapers, a rice shaper (called a ONIGIRI Shaper) and vegetable cutters. They were all…
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Chicken Sausage Rolls
A variation on my sausage roll recipe, to use up some more zucchini!
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Golden Syrup Slice/Cake
This cake was a staple on our elimination diet, we used it for birthday cakes and whenever we had friends or family over. I’ve always made it as a cake rather than cutting it into slices. It is quite thick and moist and is best on the day it is made, although leftovers are delicious…
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Tuna Stir Fry
I had some frozen tuna fillets in the freezer that were getting close to their use by date, so I needed to come up with a recipe to use them. After a bit of searching I found a tuna teriyaki recipe on kidspot and substituted about half the ingredients. What I ended up with wasn’t…
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Zucchini Soup
Another recipe that uses heaps of Zucchini and can be frozen for winter.
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Zucchini and Yoghurt Cake
This cake is very moist and has a lovely flavour. I cooked it for the full 60 minutes but had to place foil over the top for the last 10 minutes. When I cut it it appeared uncooked, but it was just the soft banana and zucchini. The recipe is adapted from Zucchini Yogurt Cake…
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Zucchini Slice
A very easy Zucchini slice that is great for putting in lunch boxes and can be frozen.
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Carrot and Zucchini Muffins
Another Zucchini recipe! Once again Oscar thought the zucchini and carrot were “yukky” going in, but he had no hesitation in eating the muffins once they were cooked (or as we filled the muffin tray!). The recipe is adapted from one on the Sydney Markets Fresh for Kids site.
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Making Jam
As well as an over abundance of zucchini at the moment we also have a huge crop of nectarines. Normally we would also have had apricots and mulberries, but the crazy weather caused the apricots to split and the mulberries, the few we did get, were eaten by birds. Nectarines are high in salicylates when…
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Stuffed Zucchini Boats
The problem with growing your own zucchinis is that they go from being “normal” sized to enormous overnight and you end of with a pile of zucchinis that look like these 4kg beauties. It takes a lot of zucchini recipes to use these up, so I decided to make a stuffed zucchini, the only problem…
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Zucchini Fritters
I found this recipe at cusine.com.au, which uses lots of zucchini (we still have heaps), large ones at that, and was tagged as “kid-friendly”. To my surprise Oscar had no hesitation in tucking into his “zini cake”. I have to thank my husband for the photo of this one, I left him the batter to…
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Carrot, Zucchini and Apple Loaf
Our garden is overflowing with zucchinis at the moment, so you will be seeing a lot of zucchini recipes in the coming weeks. This one for Carrot, zucchini and Apple Loaf I have made as both a large loaf and as mini loaves. Oscar complains about the carrot and zucchini going into it, but has…