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More Breakfast Ideas – Overnight Oats and Buckwheat Muffins
Some more recipes to put a bit of variety into breakfast. The overnight oats I actually came up with for myself, not Oscar. I love bircher-style muesli, but we consume a lot of dairy in our house, so I’m trying to cut down. I was searching for soaked oats recipes without milk, cream or yogurt and found…
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Breakfast Ideas – Crumpets and Fluffy Breakfast Pancakes
Breakfast is probably the most boring meal of the day in our house, especially week days when we have exactly the same thing each day. For Oscar it’s porridge with maple syrup and banana or pear – he loves it (thankfully!). So every now and then on the weekend we try something different. The fluffy…
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Scalded Rye Bread and Creamy Carrot and Red Lentil Soup
More orange food – the last for a little while, I promise! I have a terrible habit of not reading recipes all the way through before I start making them, which sometimes catches me by surprise. With the rye bread, however, not only did I not read all the way through, I didn’t translate to english…
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The Birthday Week – Two Chocolate Cakes
Hubby and I have our birthdays two days apart. Before Oscar came along we usually just had one celebration and never bothered with a cake. Now there is an expectation of a cake and “party” for each of us. Last weekend was birthday weekend, and it was a chocolate fest. To reduce the amount of left…
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Chicken Burgers and Sweet Potato Fries
Chicken Burgers (or burgers of any kind), are an easy, simple meal that can cater for people with and without a variety of dietary restrictions. Get everything prepared, then let everyone add what they can eat. It’s also a lot of fun for kids to be allowed to serve themselves. We had them with Sweet…
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Orange Food – Pumpkin Stuffed Chicken and Carrot Vitabrit Muffins
Ever since we told Oscar that eating carrots would help him see in the dark, he has been extraordinarily good at eating his vegetables. Not just orange ones (I haven’t corrected his assumption that all orange vegetables are carrots) , but green ones as well. To take advantage of this and maintain his interest, I’ve been developing…
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Easter Lunch/Dinner: Stuffed Roast Chicken and Chocolate Squidgy Log
With Easter coming up, I thought I’d post two recipes that we use for special occasions (lunch or dinner) – stuffed roast chicken and squidgy chocolate log. The squidgy chocolate log recipe is one of my husbands specialities, from before I even met him. It’s not his recipe though, it’s from Delia Smith’s Complete Cookery Course (omnibus edition…
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Saltine Crackers
I got this recipe from The Right To Be Alive, a blog by a woman who lives with (and survived a near-death experience from ) Idiophatic Anaphylaxis, triggered by salicylate sensitivity. The great thing about this recipe is that you can vary the toppings to suit your requirements and tastes. Oscar helped with this recipe,…
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Swedish Vanilla Buns
As a result of making hot cross buns for Oscar over the last few weeks, I have a large container of yeast that has hardly been used. Last year, in the same situation it didn’t get used and was thrown out when the best before date passed (in December!). This year I’m going to make…
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A Few Salads
We’ve finally got some warm weather again, so I thought I’d publish a few of the salad recipes that we’ve tried over the Summer months. Hopefully, we’ll have a bit more warm weather before winter sets in and you’ll have time to try some of them. The addition of pasta or noodles to salads has greatly improved…
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Fresh Rice Paper Rolls and Mango Fool
Well Summer is over (I can’t believe it’s March already!), and going by the weather this past week you would think it was Winter already. One of the things I love about Summer is the appearance of mangos, by the boxful, in the stores. Mangoes are one of my favourite fruits and as they are…
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Fiji and Sour Cream Banana Muffins
Two weeks ago we were in Fiji for an 8 night holiday. For most families this is not unusual, but travelling with a child with food intolerances has a few unique challenges. This isn’t the first time we’ve taken Oscar overseas, 18 months ago we went to Vietnam, and the success of that trip has…
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Chicken Souvlaki Wraps
Part of our strategy to get Oscar more interested in food, especially vegetables, is to get him involved in cooking them and serving himself. Wraps are great for that, and these aren’t really souvlaki, but you get the idea. They are also one of those meals, where you can cater for different dietary requirements…
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Asian Feast – Baked Spring Rolls and Chicken Vermicelli Noodles
I’ve never tried spring rolls with Oscar because, until recently, it’s been painful to get him to eat anything with vegetables in it. This made the fresh Vietnamese style ones out, and I’m not a big fan of deep frying, so I haven’t made the cooked ones either. With the vegetable situation improving I decided try…
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BBQ Whole Chicken and Potato, Egg and Bacon Salad
It’s been an interesting week food wise. On Sunday I went to a Thermomix party. I met R, the hostess, through Freecycle where I had used my Oscar’s Mum email. R has 2 kids on the RPAH elimination diet and her husband had recently found my website and R had found the book Oscar’s Lunch box –…
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No-Tomato Sauce & Nectarine and Sour Cream Cake
Welcome back for 2012. It’s been a busy time in the kitchen at Oscar’s house this summer. We’ve had a breakthrough with vegetables, with Oscar suddenly eating orange ones (carrot and sweet potato) without complaint, and even some greens ones! I’ve been putting them into more meals to keep his interest up – salads, sweet…
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Happy New Year!
So 2011 is coming to an end – a very hot end if you are celebrating in Melbourne. Happy New Year to all my readers, and all the best for 2012. Thank you to everyone who has followed my blog, facebook page, and twitter feed; left comments, emailed me directly and visited anonymously. I’m really…
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Christmas Wrap Up and Boxing Day Leftovers
Merry Christmas everyone. I hope you had a wonderful Christmas Day and have been able to have an enjoyable long weekend (apart from those enormous hailstones and storms in Melbourne). Our Christmas Day was very enjoyablel. Our Oscar-friendly menu went down very well, with the only things not suitable being the prawns (sulphates) and…
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Christmas Cake Decorating Part 2 – Royal Icing
I’ve finally finished my Christmas Cake and I’m quite pleased with it. The Royal Icing part was actually quite easy and I had enough left over to let Oscar help me make some Christmas Tree shapes to decorate the top. And as it’s Christmas we used a little bit of natural food colour to make…
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Christmas Cake Decorating Part 1 – Cashew Marzipan
I’ve never decorated a cake with anything more fancy than butter icing before, so I’m not sure why I’m tempting fate decorating Oscar’s Christmas Cake, but I am! The first step is the Marzipan. I’m not a fan of almond marzipan, but while researching options I came across some recipes for cashew marzipan, which seems…