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Egg, Bacon and Zucchini Pie
Apparently real mean don’t eat quiche, but they do eat egg and bacon pies. This recipe is a variation on my quiche lorrainerecipe with just added zucchini. Egg, Bacon/Ham and Zucchini Pie (Very High Amines, Moderate Salicylates, Low Glutamates) 150g organic/preservative free bacon rashers or ham, cubed 1 leek, finely diced 1 cup cheese, grated…
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Home Made Pizzas
Pizza’s used to be a pretty regular menu item in our house before the elimination diet came along – take away ones that is. From our very first week of the elimination diet, home made pizzas have been a bit of a staple. We usually make them after having a roast chicken (using the leftovers),…
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Chickpea Biscuits
I’ve got a bit of a chickpea thing going on at the moment and some time ago I bought some Besan flour but hadn’t got around to using it. I wanted to make some chickpea biscuits but most of the recipes I found were chocolate ones or had too many other ingredients I couldn’t use,…
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Chicken and Ricotta Fingers
This is another great recipe from the Better Health Channelthat’s very easy and toddler friendly and even better, it required little modification. I haven’t tried the steaming method as I don’t have a steamer, but baking them worked just fine.
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Caramel Pears
The summer weather in Melbourne is crazy at the moment, it can go from 30 degrees one day to 17 a couple of days later. Its those cold snaps that make me crave some comfort food and I got this quick and easy recipe from The Failsafe Cookbook. Caramel Pears (Low Chem) 10 pear halves…
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Chickpea Dip and the Day Care Experiment
I find it so much easier to eat healthy food in summer, and dips have always been a bit of a favourite. Oscar has recently shown an interest in eating large quantities of cheese when presented on a platter with an assortment of biscuits. He has also been asking to take carrots when I pack…
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Back to Day Care
Oscar went back to day care on Monday, so Sunday afternoon was spent putting together his supplies. He has a list of allowed foods that he can have at the centre and we provide 3 out of 4 lunches each week as well as some of his snacks.We made cupcakes (which go in the freezer…
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Vanilla Spiders
Oscar and I have just had a little holiday with his Nana and Pa in Shepparton, where it was 35 degrees plus all week. After a trip to the Kids Town playground one afternoon we all needed something to cool us down. Rather than just ice cream I made Oscar a spider (also called floats or…
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Chicken and Egg Pasta Bake
We had a period of 5 or 6 days a while back where Oscar was having nightmares, wondering if it was food related we decided to go back to a low chemical diet for a few days. For something a bit different I made up the following pasta bake, which turned out really well, which…
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Pear / Mango Ricotta Pie
Welcome to 2011 and my first post of the year!This recipe is based on the Pear ricotta pie recipe in The Failsafe cookbook. I’ve made it before with pear, but for New Year’s Eve I made it with some mango I had left over from Christmas. It will work with any fruit and is very…
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Home Made Sushi
One of my goals for this year has been to make sushi rolls for Oscar. Before we went on the elimination diet, one of our favourite things to do was eat a couple of Sushi Rolls whenever we were out shopping. The problems with sushi rolls is that the Nori seaweed is suspected of…
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BBQ Salmon and Scallops with Chips and Lentil and Rice Salad
Salmon is an Oscar favourite and almost a guarantee that he will eat something. Scallops we have never cooked before, but they are low chemical and were really easy on the BBQ. The BBQ recipes are my husband’s. I based the salad recipe on one I found on the MasterChef website. It went really well with the…
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Chocolate Treats
The first of these recipes is based on the traditional rum ball recipe (without the rum) and dipped in chocolate. The second is based on a Nigellarecipe. Oscar and I were watching her Christmas episode a couple of nights before Christmas and when Oscar commented that the fudge would be “yummy in my tummy” I…
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Tropical Pavlova Roll
I’ve never made a pavlova before, let alone a Pavlova roll, but I was watching Better Homes and Gardens the week before Christmas and was inspired to try one after seeing Karen Martini’s recipe. The fruit topping she used wasn’t suitable for Oscar, but I liked the idea of the marscapone filling. I thought mango…
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Buckwheat Pancakes
The original recipe, based on a Martha Stewart one, was at Cuisine.com.au. The flavour of these pancakes is really lovely. I made the mixture up the night before, stored it in the fridge overnight, then just re-whisked it a bit in the morning. Buckwheat Pancakes with Ricotta, Maple Syrup and Banana
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Homemade Skinless Sausages
Commercial sausages, even the preservative free ones are not on our allowed list because they contain herbs and spices. You can get sausages made up to a low chem recipe, but usually there is a 2 to 3 kilo minimum, which for 3 people is a lot of sausages. I decide to try making my…
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Christmas Scones
I saw this recipe for Whole Wheat Biscuits on Super Healthy Kids and thought it would be a good one to make with Oscar for Christmas. It was only as I was making it that I realised “biscuit” in America means scone in Australia. As scones they turned out pretty well, and better than scones they…
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Christmas Lolly Stocking
It was the day care Christmas Party last night and Santa arrived with lolly bags for all the kids. Luckily this was our second year and we were prepared with a special lolly bag for Oscar. I tried to buy some Santa lolly bags from The Little Lolly shop but they didn’t arrive in time,…
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Christmas Treat – Almost Gingerbread Muffins
While out shopping with Oscar today we found some Gingerbread Man muffin moulds, so wanting to make something Christmasy I decide to try the Gingerbread Muffin recipe in the The Failsafe Cookbook. The recipe was gluten free, so I replaced the gluten free ingredients with ordinary flour, but have listed both recipes here. There’s no…