Category: Low Chemical / Failsafe
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Easy Spelt Bread
I love baking bread, but rarely do it because it means planning ahead for rising time and kneading, which I am terrible at. So when Oscar asked if I could bake some bread I went searching for a no-knead recipe, and found this one at Barbara Bakes. The added bonus was that it was a… Read more
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Cornish-style Pasties
One of my tricks for making a limited diet less boring is to vary the presentation. For example, using a chicken pie filling to make these cornish-style pasties. These turned out to be great cold in Oscar’s lunch box (and mine!) as well. Read more
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Quickest pizza dough ever!
Have you ever had a request for pizza for dinner from the kids, but don’t have any pizza dough, bases, wraps, etc. in the pantry? This is the answer. It takes only 15 minutes to create 3 or 4 of these pizza bases, that’s too easy! Read more
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Spanish Omelette
After so many years of cooking FAILSAFE food, I hardly every come across something new that I don’t have to modify terribly much. I don’t know how I missed Spanish omelettes. With this recipe from BBC Good Food only needed to swap leek for onion and change the oil. It makes for a very simple… Read more
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Winter Comfort Food
This dessert is pure comfort food. There is nothing healthy about it! I found the original recipe for caramel apple self-saucing pudding on Food to Love, and planned to make it that way, but using pear. Of course, it can still be made with apple, as long as the salicylates are OK. Read more
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Quinoa Porridge
When I wake up early in the morning and everyone else is asleep, this is my favourite breakfast to enjoy in the peace and quite with a big pot of tea. Read more
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Potatoes another way
This is not my recipe, it has been doing the rounds on Facebook and Pinterest for a while, but I first saw it on Right to Be Alive last year. Potatoes are a staple on the FAILSAFE / Elimination diet and you can never have enough variations. Oscar loves these, so I’m sure they be’ll… Read more
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A variation on an old favourite
Chicken pies, of various persuasions, have been a staple of our diet over the last 6 years, but I had never thought of this version until I came across a Martha Stewart recipe for Chicken Pot Pies with Puff Pastry. This recipe is contains moderate salicylates and glutamates, but the vegetables can be easily substituted… Read more
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Pillow Biscuits
School is back, so it’s time to do some more baking for the lunch box. Oscar adores these biscuits – “Pillow Biscuits” as he calls them. They are also one of the best lunch box snacks for freezing and dropping into the lunch box in the morning. There are a lot of recipes for these… Read more
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More Buns for Easter
Last week I shared my hot cross bun recipes so that your families didn’t need to miss out the traditional Easter fair, but hot cross buns aren’t the only buns you can eat at Christmas. The Swedish have a great tradition of eating buns for all occassions (and no particular occassion). There is a special… Read more
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It’s bun time!
It’s that time of year again! That time when I buy a new tin of instant yeast and start making buns – starting with the hot cross kind. I will be making hot cross buns for Oscar this weekend. We gave him a chance to try some commercial buns last weekend while he was out… Read more
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Easy Granola
Granola is an american breakfast cereal, very similar to our toasted muesli, although it is often clumpy. I came across a granola recipe on Go Dairy Free (I can’t find the link to the original recipe) using maple syrup, coconut oil and spices, but I instantly knew with a few substitutes I would have a… 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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Beautiful Crystal Bay Prawns
Prior to Christmas I had read on one of the Facebook forums about Crystal Bay prawns. Most prawns are soaked in Sodium Metabisulphite as soon as they are caught. So even if you can tolerate amines, these are not suitable if you are trying to avoid preservatives. Crystal Bay prawns are the exception. They are available… Read more
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Last Minute Christmas Baking (and my final post for the year)
Four more days until Christmas! Are you ready yet? It’s been a bit of rush here, on top of moving, organising for our house to be demolished and finalising our building contract (the thought of my new kitchen keeps me going 🙂 ). We had a street party last week (our old street) and I… Read more
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Rye and Spelt White Choc Chip Biscuits
This is my favourite biscuit recipe at the moment. Since I cut down on eating wheat, I’ve found that I can’t eat very much at all. Even 1 biscuit gives me terrible pains in the stomach (I guess I’m “food intolerance” as Oscar says!). These biscuits are easy and very filling, so even though I… Read more
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Three Easy Desserts/Snacks for Kids to Help Make
Lately, Oscar has been showing an interest in helping in the kitchen to prepare the evening meal. It’s a great way for him to learn about food and we talk about the different ingredients we use. He’s learning how to chop vegetables, squeeze lemons, whisk eggs and stir things on the stove. These are three… Read more