Category: Meal Type
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Strained Yogurt and Tzatziki
I’ve wanted to try straining my own yogurt for some time now. I’m not sure why, curiosity I guess! But then what to do with the yogurt? A little bit of research and I discovered that “Greek Yogurt” is actually strained yogurt, so I could turn my natural yogurt from the Easiyo maker into Greek… Read more
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Lunch Box Wednesday #1
I have set myself a mission this year to come up with some more snack and lunch box ideas for Oscar before he starts school next year. So to keep me on track I am going to post my new ideas on the last Wednesday of the month – “Lunch Box Wednesday”. This first post… Read more
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Quinoa Salad
With the weather in Melbourne still sweltering, salads are featuring frequently on our menu. One way to create variety with limited ingredients is to vary the grains used. The same vegetables, legumes, eggs ( if tolerated) with either rice, pasta, noodles, cous cous, quinoa, etc. creates a new salad. This week its a quinoa salad… Read more
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Cous Cous and Roasted Vegetable Salad with Buttermilk Chicken
This is my current favourite salad, it’s great for those milder summer and autumn days and is very quick and easy to make. Even easier if you have left over roast vegetables. Buttermilk marinades are very versatile and can be used on most meats. I’ve only tried it on chicken so far, but intend to… Read more
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Playing with My New Ice Cream Maker: Paw Paw Sorbet and Sweet Potato Ice Cream
For Christmas this year I asked hubby to get me an Ice Cream Maker. Which he did, and we have been having fun making ice cream and sorbet over summer. The first thing I tried (the day after boxing day) was Sweet Potato Ice Cream. We tried this in Japan and loved it; and wanted… Read more
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Best Ever Carob Cake (or Chocolate Cake without Chocolate)
Last weekend was my Dad’s 65th birthday, so the whole family was at Mum and Dad’s to celebrate. My nephew has recently started on the elimination diet, so my Mum wanted to make a cake that he could have and was thinking of a carob cake. I’ve been making chocolate cakes for my Dad’s birthday… Read more
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Three Recipes for the Kids over the Long Weekend
The Australia Day long weekend starts tonight, so I’ve put together three easy recipes that the kids can help make, and then eat of course! There’s a lot written about the dangers of letting children watch television, but I think all those articles are missing a key “danger”. The one where your child is watching… Read more
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Australia Day Green and Gold Bean Salad and Pear Slushies (kids and adult’s version)
Last week we had a fridge full of fresh beans (from our garden and my parents garden) so I decided to make my Green Bean Salad. This is one of my favourite salads and favourite ways to eat beans. It is also very easy and quick to make. We had both butter beans and green… Read more
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A Salicylate Challenge – Apricot or Peach Breakfast Oats
Summer would have to be the best time to do a salicylate challenge – so many delicious fruits that we have had to steer clear of are back on the menu (even if briefly). We have four stone fruit trees in our garden – apricots peaches and nectarines, as well as a mulberry tree that has… Read more
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Ice Cream Bombe
With Australia Day coming up and many Australia Day Barbecues happening round the country I thought it would be timely to post this Ice Cream Bombe recipe, as it makes a great dessert on a hot day (and there’s a good chance it will be hot). My inspiration for this recipe was Domestic Diva’s Ice Cream Bombe,… Read more
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Jelly and Jelly Slice
I wasn’t planning on posting any recipes this early in the new year, but as I’ve come up with quite a few new ones for summer it seemed a shame not to post them during summer. Today’s recipes are jelly and jelly slice. Not that special really – unless you can’t buy those convenient little… Read more
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Final Post Before Christmas: Finnish Christmas Stars
This is my last post before Christmas and my last recipe until at least mid-January. I’m going to finish of the year with some Finnish Christmas Stars (I didn’t realise that pun until just now 🙂 ) that I made to take to our street party. Finnish Christmas Stars (Joulutorttu) are very to easy to… Read more
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Christmas Baking: Sticky Golden Syrup and Chocolate Buns
I found this recipe in Notebook magazine some time ago, and thought it would be great for Easter as an alternative to Hot Cross Buns. Unfortunately I didn’t get to make it then, but it is just as good for Christmas. It was also lots of fun to make with Oscar (and messy), just don’t… Read more
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Christmas Gingerbread House
Last weekend I attended a Gingerbread House course at William Angliss College to learn how to make gingerbread dough and assemble a gingerbread house. The course was a lot of fun and we made the most gorgeous looking Gingerbread Houses, and the gingerbread dough was delicious. They are very easy to make, which was good… Read more
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Salads for Summer and Christmas
I’ve already listed a few salads for Christmas in my Christmas Menu post; but with the sudden appearance of the warm weather I have been experimenting with a few more that I thought I would share. The inspiration for this post came from the Orgran Vegetable Spiral Pasta that I recently tried on Oscar. He initially… Read more
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Lunch Box Week and Chocolate / Carob Yogo
Last week Oscar had lunch box week at Day Care on two days. He’s not going to school next year, but the younger kinder kids got to take part as well. I’d had a few weeks notice of this, so I thought I’d start trying some things out early. Luckily I did because each time… Read more
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Christmas Golden Syrup Cakes and Cashew Maple Syrup Custard
A few weeks ago I came across a recipe from Quirky Jo for Cashew Honey Vanilla Bean Custard. It looked and sounded delicious, so I thought I’d try a maple syrup version, sans Thermomix. But then I would need something to serve it with, so I decide to also make some of the Golden… Read more
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Lots and Lots of Christmas Biscuits!
I’ve been doing a lot of Christmas baking the last few weeks, trying out different recipes and decorating biscuits with Oscar. I have recently discovered Martha Stewart’s Basic Sugar Cookie recipe which is perfect for using biscuit cutters, and it is now my go-to recipe when I want to use cutters. These biscuits last extremely… Read more
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The Christmas Menu
Christmas isn’t that far away now, and even though I am writing a post about Christmas menus, I still don’t know what I’m doing for Christmas lunch! The location is still up in the air pending other family commitments. But I’m not worried, we’ve had three Christmas Days since we started the elimination diet… Read more
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Meatloaf for Christmas? Absolutely!
I’ve never made meatloaf before, in fact I don’t think I have every eaten it. I’m not sure why, but it’s just never appealed to me before. Domestic Diva posted a meatloaf recipe a few weeks ago, which I thought Oscar might like because of the egg inside it. But before I could try it,… Read more