Category: Amines & Salicylates
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Boba Fett Cake
While preparing to make Oscar’s upcoming 7th birthday cake, I realised that I hadn’t posted last year’s birthday cake. Last year we had a Star Wars themed party at a bowling alley (Healthways Recreation Centre) where we could self cater. The kids all came in Star Wars gear, and the cake was Boba Fett –… Read more
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Oscar’s Heart Love Cake
The commercialism of Valentine’s Day reached Oscar this year. Hubby and I usually ignore it, but Oscar insisted that we needed to have something special for dinner, so we made a “heart love” cake. I had shared some instruction on Facebook for a heart cake made from a square cake and a circle cake, but… Read more
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Fluffy Spelt Pancakes
It’s Oscar’s birthday today, so for his special day he will be having pancakes for breakfast. We make our pancakes with spelt flour now and they are much nicer than with regular flour. This recipe is based on my Fluffy Breakfast Pancakes recipe, with a few additional variations. You don’t need to have these for… Read more
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Lunch Box Wednesday #6
Well, we are halfway through the year and I haven’t run out of ideas for Oscar’s lunch boxes – yet! These mini frittatas are actually a very early recipe but as Oscar never took to them, I haven’t published it before. Now that he is finally eating eggs on their own I decided to give… Read more
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An old favourite updated
Today’s recipe is an old favourite, first posted almost 2 years ago. It’s had a few tweaks made to it since then, and now that I’m trying to avoid wheat for myself and not cook with it, is also gluten-free; made with buckwheat crepes. Read more
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Meatloaf in Sauce
Usually when my Mum cooks for Oscar he refuses to eat what she makes (except for cakes, biscuits and pancakes), so when she made meatloaf and he ate two serves then wanted it again the next night I knew she was onto a winner. This isn’t my Mum’s recipe – she used condensed milk (!)… Read more
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Fish Stir Fry
Fish stir fry has been a bit of a constant in our house. Not made every week, it is one of those recipes that I have been trying to perfect since the early days, so keep revisiting. I think I finally have it right now – thank’s to Failsafe Foodie’s Magic Sauce. Because this recipe… Read more
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Best Ever Carrot Cake
Best Ever Carrot Cake is a pretty big claim, but this is truly the best one I’ve made with Oscar’s food restrictions. The coconut pulp I had left over from making coconut milk was the inspiration for this recipe; I found the To-Die-For Carrot Cake recipe while searching for coconut recipes. I modified it quite… Read more
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San Choy Bau – Two Ways
Almost everyone has a recipe for San Choy Bau, so I thought it was about time I shared mine. Oscar doesn’t like his in lettuce cups, so I usually serve it in a large serving bowl lined with shredded lettuce instead. Read more
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Lunch Box Wednesday #4
Something savoury this week – mini calzones. These are just a variation on my savoury calzones recipe, but I wanted to make a non-wheat pizza dough as I’m trying to cut down on wheat. We had the big calzones with a potato, mince and gravy filling; and since there is always at least one ball… Read more
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Making Coconut Milk
Every time we crack open a coconut Oscar tells me he wants to drink the coconut “juice”, because he loves the juice! But when I give him the coconut water he won’t drink it because it tastes yuck! Last time I decide to try making coconut milk and found a simple food processor recipe to follow on… Read more
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Lunch Box Wednesday # 3
This month it has all been about Squeeze’ems. I haven’t been able to experiment with much else as Oscar has been obsessed with what I can put into the Squeeze’ems. Which is a good thing because I know he’ll enjoy having them in his lunch box, and the frozen ones will do double duty in… Read more
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ANZAC Biscuits
The 25th of April is ANZAC Day in Australia and New Zealand. For my overseas readers, ANZAC Day is the day we remember and commemorate the men and women who have fought for our country. ANZAC stands for Australian and New Zealand Army Corps. “The Anzac tradition—the ideals of courage, endurance and mateship that are… Read more
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Still Enjoying my Ice Cream Maker
Before it gets too cold to enjoy ice cream I thought I had better post these two recipes that we tried over summer – fig and apple pie (not together). The fig ice cream came about because of the abundance of figs on the tree that hangs over the neighbours fence. Last year I made… Read more
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Chicken Pancakes
I used to make these chicken pancakes on a quite regular basis but had forgotten all about them since the recipe had mushrooms in it. It is from a book called “50 Ways with Chicken” by Rosemary Wadey. With a few small changes it was Oscar friendly – and he ate it! Chicken Pancakes Read more