Category: Meal Type
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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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Sausage Casserole
FAILSAFE sausages are very versatile and don’t have to be limited to summer BBQs. We love baking them in the oven and using them in casseroles during winter. I adapted this recipe from one on Taste of Home; it has a German background, so lots of cabbage and sour cream. Delish! 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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Toad in the Hole
According to Wikipedia, “Toad in the Hole is a traditional English dish consisting of sausages in Yorkshire pudding batter, usually served with vegetables and onion gravy. The origin of the name “Toad-in-the-Hole” is often disputed. Many suggestions are that the dish’s resemblance to a toad sticking its head out of a hole provides the dish… 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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Chicken Potato Topped Pie and Maple Roasted Vegetables
As the weather is getting colder I am enjoying cooking lovely warming winter meals, such as this potato topped chicken pie and maple roasted vegetables. Both are very easy and the vegetables go well with the pie. Read more
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Vegetable Stock Concentrate and Powder
I have finally gotten around to making vegetable stock concentrate. My friends have all done it – Frilly Pants and Rona in the Thermomix and Trish without. I’ve never bothered before because we have a second fridge with a big freezer so the liquid kind has always suited. But that may be coming to an end soon… 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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Individual Meat Pies
The heat wave in Melbourne is finally over and it feels like Autumn. So much so that I need to fish out my gloves and beanie for the morning dog walk! With Autumn comes all those wonderful, hearty winter meals. Which includes Pies. Pies aren’t new to our diet, but the method of making them… Read more
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It’s the Easter Long Weekend: Keeping it Casual with Hamburgers and Buttermilk Pancakes
The Easter long weekend starts today, and while this post is going out we will be eating pancakes for breakfast (actually I hope we get to sleep in a bit longer!). Pancakes are our favourite holiday/weekend breakfast. They are easy and can be adapted to almost any dietary restrictions. This recipe comes from the Martha… Read more
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Lunch Box Wednesday #2
Oscar and I have been busy trying out new snacks this month. His favourite was the Pear and Vegetable Bread (cake of course! – adapted from a recipe on Cooks.com. ), but he was also pretty impressed at having peeled apples in his snack box. When he asked for apple to be included in his lunch… Read more
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Buns for Easter, or Any Time!
There is a wonderful tradition in Sweden of eating buns for all occasions. All sorts of buns are available. I once tried to make Swedish Semla, which is a spiced bun made for lent that is filled with almond paste and cream. My yeast skills weren’t very good then and I ended up with a big… Read more
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Rice Bubble Easter Eggs and Other Ideas
Easter is fast approaching (it’s too early this year) and it feels like Easter eggs have been in the shops since Boxing Day. Easter is hard on the elimination diet and there aren’t a lot of non-chocolate options around. These cute little rice bubble eggs are super easy to make. Nestle White Melts aren’t chocolate… Read more
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Irish Apple (or Pear) Barley Pudding Two Ways
The second of my St Patrick’s Day recipes is Apple Barley Pudding, based on a recipe from European Cuisines. I made this twice using pears instead of apples, and a apple version with Red and Golden Delicious apples. The original recipe used tart apples, but the pears and Delicious apples were a lot sweeter, so I was… Read more
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Irish Potato Bread
St Patrick’s day is coming up this weekend and Rona from Domestic Diva suggested that we make a St Patrick’s Day issue of At the FAILSAFE Table. I didn’t have many “green” recipes, so I thought I’d try and find a few Irish ones to try. The first one is Irish Potato Bread. While this… Read more
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Maple Syrup Refresher
I shared a photo and recipe on Facebook earlier today from Easy to Avoid for a fizzy drink made with maple syrup and ascorbic acid. When we got home this afternoon after visiting my gorgeous new niece we were all in need of an icy cold drink, so I thought I would try it out.… Read more
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Japanese Breaded Pork Cutlets
One of the foods that Oscar really loved in Japan was pork cutlets. In fact it was the first time we’ve been able to get him to eat pork, so of course I had to find out how to make them. They are quite smple really, just meat coated in bread crumbs and deep fried.… Read more