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Baked Apples with Quinoa
Baked apples are something I haven’t had for a very long time. Of course sultanas are out, so what do I stuff them with? Rather than try and come up with a fruit alternative I decide to try something with a different texture – crunchy and sweet. Quinoa puffs, cashews and a sweet mixture of…
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Roasted Swede and Chickpea Soup (Slow Cooker)
I love soup in winter and I’ve come up with a few soup recipes since we started the diet. This is an oldie from our elimination diet days, updated recently with some moderate salicylates. Coming Up Next Time: Baked Apples with Quinoa
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Caramel Popcorn
It’s a very long time since I’ve made popcorn, but when we started looking at high salicylate food re-introduction it was one of the first things that came to mind. I thought Oscar and I would have some one night while hubby was out and we were watching movies. I looked up this Perfect Popcorn…
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Creamed Rice / Rice Puddings
One of the earliest recipes I remember making at home as a kid was creamed rice. Since that time I have always made it the same way – long grain rice, milk and a bit of sugar. Recently I decided to expand my horizons and, inspired by a recipe in the Coles Baby Club magazine,…
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Chick Pea and Chicken Casserole (Slow Cooker)
Continuing on with the slow cooker experiment to get Oscar into bed earlier (which is working really well!) here’s another slow cooker recipe that can also be made on the stove top or in the oven. It’s nice and simple and is great with cous cous or rice. Coming Up Next Time: Creamed Rice /…
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Using Up Leftover Pastry: Custard and Pear Tarts and Fruit and Ricotta Pin Wheels
These are two very easy, quick ideas for dessert or a snack that the kids can help make (see my little helper !). I love fruit and pastry, so these are a variation on my Simple Fruit Tarts recipe that I use when I’ve got enough left over pastry, or just an extra sheet lying around.…
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Using Up Leftovers: Oven Baked Frittata
Frittata’s are a great way to use up left over vegetables and meat and those odd bits of vegetable you have sitting in the bottom of the fridge at the end of the week. Cooking the frittata in the oven rather than a frying pan means you don’t need to watch over it the whole…
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“Lemon” Delicious Pudding
I can’t believe that in the 3 years since we started on the Elimination diet I have never made Lemon Delicious Pudding! Well I finally have, using no lemons of course, and it was just as delicious as I remember it. Yummy cake on top, and gooey, lemony pudding below (a bit too lemony for…
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Pumpkin, Sweet Potato and White Bean Stew (Slow Cooker)
My slow cooker has been getting a real work out the past few weeks. Oscar has given up his day time sleeps (sob!) and is just a mess by the time he gets home from day care. One of our strategies to combat this has been to make sure we have dinner right on 6…
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Baked Donuts
I was inspired by the Baked Doughnuts recipe on Real Meals to give them a go myself; I’d always assumed there was something difficult about them, but these looked easy. It took me ages to find a doughnut tray, in fact I couldn’t find one at all, but I did come across a mini bundt tray with 12…
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Lentil and Sausage Stew (Slow Cooker)
In an attempt to get dinner on the table earlier and Oscar into bed earlier (he has given up his afternoon naps) we have decide to make use of the slow cooker on the days that I work. This means a little bit of effort the evening before to prepare everything and have it ready…
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Devil’s Food Cup Cakes
I just had to try this recipe when I found it. Devil’s Food Cup Cakes that had nothing in them – no dairy, no eggs, no sugar, gluten-free, soy-fee and corn-free! I was sooo impressed that I made them several times trying various combinations – carob/cocoa, milk/rice milk/almond milk, butter/nuttelex/oil, rice malt/maple syrup. I made a few…
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Savoury Pancakes
Pancakes can make anything taste good! I was inspired by this recipe on BBC Food to try them with Oscar during his fussy phase and they worked a treat. Although he was disappointed that when I said “pancakes for dinner” they didn’t come with maple syrup. This recipe is great for hiding foods, using up…
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Apple and Pear Pie
I love apple pie, always have. When we started the RPAH Elimination Diet apple pie become pear pie – which was also pretty good. So now we combine both and have delicious apple and pear pie, sometimes with just a little bit of cinnamon (high salicylates).
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Potato Wedges and Chicken Nuggets
Here a couple of quick, simple recipes ideas – Baked Potato Wedges and Chicken Nuggets. Serve them together for dinner with a few extra vegetables (beans, carrots, lentils, peas, etc.) or on there own as a snack. The potato wedges recipes was modified from this one at allrecipes.com. The cheese on the wedges is optional,…
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Pear Dessert Cake
This Pear Dessert Cake recipe is based on Jane’s Pear Dessert Cake recipe from The Failsafe Cookbook, with a few tweeks of my own. It’s quick and easy to make and is great served with custard or ice cream. A good one for cold winter nights. The leftovers make a great morning or afternoon snack.…
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No-Tomato Spaghetti and Meatballs
We went to Good Food and Wine show a couple of weeks ago and one of things I found, that I really loved was a range of wholegrain pastas from Pangkarra Foods in the Clare Valley. I bought some there (definitely not enough) and decided to try and make a no-tomato sauce for spaghetti and…
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The Best Ever Birthday Party Review and Give Away and Nana’s Yummy Yo Yo Biscuits
Today I’m having my first giveaway – a copy of The Best Ever Birthday by by Louise Fulton Keats, the grand daughter of Margaret Fulton. This review is a part of Product Talk by Nuffnang, and I have not received payment for it, but I did receive two copies of the book – one to keep and…
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Chicken and Bean Pasta, Pear and Roast Carob Muffins
Back to mid-week meals and baking this week. The first recipe is Chicken and Bean Pasta, which is another great recipe for using up left over cooked chicken. The second recipe is Pear and Carob muffins, which I modified from one on ninemsn, using carob powder instead of buttons. And since I had no eggs at…
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Easy Fig Jam and Delicious Lime Marmalade Recipes
These are not Oscar-friendly foods, however if Oscar wanted a taste I would let him a try a bit since these spreads are free of artificial nasties, and while very high in salicylates and amines would only be had in small amounts. I’m also not aware of any kids who like limes or figs (but I’m sure…