Category: Meal Type
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Pear and Quinoa Breakfast Muffins
Oscar loves muffins so much that we make them almost every week. To add a bit of variety I decided to replace the Oats in this Muesli Breakfast Muffins recipe with quinoa. The muffins themselves are lovely, but the topping is a bit hit and miss, as it doesn’t really bake in and tends to… Read more
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Creamy Swede Bake
This swede bake is a really lovely alternative to mashed swede, although it does require a bit more effort. I’m a big swede fan, even before the diet, but hubby who is not a lover of swede was very complimentary of this one and Oscar ate all of his too (with just the usual anti-vegetable… Read more
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Caramelised Apple, Pear and Quinoa Crumble
The idea for this recipe came from a recipe for Ginger Apple Crisp with Quinoa Flake Crust. I swapped the spices in the filling for caramelising and used apples and pears. Very easy and yummy. This could just as easily be made with pears only. Coming Up Next Time: “Lemon” Chicken Read more
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The Birthday Party
The party is over, we’ve cleaned up, the jumping castle has gone and I’ve finally managed to have something to eat and a couple of glasses of champas. Oscar had a great time and his response to his Chuggington Cake was Wow, Wow, Wow! Not bad eh? The cake did take a while, but it… Read more
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Chocolate / Carob Zucchini Cake
Chocolate zucchini cakes are delicious. The zucchini makes the cake really moist and the little zucchini pieces don’t taste a bit like zucchini, it just melts away. I modified this recipe from one I found on Chocolate and Zucchini (where else!). It need very little modification and I tried a carob version which was just… Read more
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Potato, Swede and Sausage Stew
This is a low-chemical/Failsafe variation on my Lentil and sausage stew recipe. It’s just as tasty and easy to make. Coming Up Next Time: Chocolate / Carob Zucchini Cake Read more
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Coffee Cake / Cupcakes and Maple Butter Cream Icing
I’ve been looking around for some ideas for cakes with a different flavour – vanilla, pear, chocolate and carob have been staples in our house for sometime now. When I found this coffee cupcake recipe came from BBC Good Food I had a “d’oh” moment – why didn’t I think of that? The recipe was OK as… Read more
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One Pot Chicken Casserole
After having bought a Le Creuset cast iron casserole dish recently I thought I had better try it out. My Mum made a great chicken casserole a while ago which I shared here but have never got round to making myself, so I thought I’d kill two birds with one stone. Coming Up… Read more
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Baked Apples with Quinoa
Baked apples are something I haven’t had for a very long time. Of course sultanas are out, so what do I stuff them with? Rather than try and come up with a fruit alternative I decide to try something with a different texture – crunchy and sweet. Quinoa puffs, cashews and a sweet mixture of… Read more
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Roasted Swede and Chickpea Soup (Slow Cooker)
I love soup in winter and I’ve come up with a few soup recipes since we started the diet. This is an oldie from our elimination diet days, updated recently with some moderate salicylates. Coming Up Next Time: Baked Apples with Quinoa Read more
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Caramel Popcorn
It’s a very long time since I’ve made popcorn, but when we started looking at high salicylate food re-introduction it was one of the first things that came to mind. I thought Oscar and I would have some one night while hubby was out and we were watching movies. I looked up this Perfect Popcorn… Read more
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Creamed Rice / Rice Puddings
One of the earliest recipes I remember making at home as a kid was creamed rice. Since that time I have always made it the same way – long grain rice, milk and a bit of sugar. Recently I decided to expand my horizons and, inspired by a recipe in the Coles Baby Club magazine,… Read more
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Chick Pea and Chicken Casserole (Slow Cooker)
Continuing on with the slow cooker experiment to get Oscar into bed earlier (which is working really well!) here’s another slow cooker recipe that can also be made on the stove top or in the oven. It’s nice and simple and is great with cous cous or rice. Coming Up Next Time: Creamed Rice /… Read more
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Using Up Leftover Pastry: Custard and Pear Tarts and Fruit and Ricotta Pin Wheels
These are two very easy, quick ideas for dessert or a snack that the kids can help make (see my little helper !). I love fruit and pastry, so these are a variation on my Simple Fruit Tarts recipe that I use when I’ve got enough left over pastry, or just an extra sheet lying around.… Read more
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Using Up Leftovers: Oven Baked Frittata
Frittata’s are a great way to use up left over vegetables and meat and those odd bits of vegetable you have sitting in the bottom of the fridge at the end of the week. Cooking the frittata in the oven rather than a frying pan means you don’t need to watch over it the whole… Read more
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“Lemon” Delicious Pudding
I can’t believe that in the 3 years since we started on the Elimination diet I have never made Lemon Delicious Pudding! Well I finally have, using no lemons of course, and it was just as delicious as I remember it. Yummy cake on top, and gooey, lemony pudding below (a bit too lemony for… Read more
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Pumpkin, Sweet Potato and White Bean Stew (Slow Cooker)
My slow cooker has been getting a real work out the past few weeks. Oscar has given up his day time sleeps (sob!) and is just a mess by the time he gets home from day care. One of our strategies to combat this has been to make sure we have dinner right on 6… Read more
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Baked Donuts
I was inspired by the Baked Doughnuts recipe on Real Meals to give them a go myself; I’d always assumed there was something difficult about them, but these looked easy. It took me ages to find a doughnut tray, in fact I couldn’t find one at all, but I did come across a mini bundt tray with 12… Read more
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Lentil and Sausage Stew (Slow Cooker)
In an attempt to get dinner on the table earlier and Oscar into bed earlier (he has given up his afternoon naps) we have decide to make use of the slow cooker on the days that I work. This means a little bit of effort the evening before to prepare everything and have it ready… Read more
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Devil’s Food Cup Cakes
I just had to try this recipe when I found it. Devil’s Food Cup Cakes that had nothing in them – no dairy, no eggs, no sugar, gluten-free, soy-fee and corn-free! I was sooo impressed that I made them several times trying various combinations – carob/cocoa, milk/rice milk/almond milk, butter/nuttelex/oil, rice malt/maple syrup. I made a few… Read more