Category: Recipe
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Crumbed Chicken Drumettes
These mini chicken drumsticks are easy to make and fun for kids to eat as they can hold them by the “handles” to eat. Great as a main meal or a snack. Read more
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Tiger Toast
As I write this post Oscar is finally eating Cashew Paste. How did I get home to eat it? ……….. Tiger Toast!I was visiting my friend Krys, the one who makes the beautiful cakes for Oscar (here and here) and she told me about her discovery of Tiger Toast – toast with butter, Vegemite and… Read more
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Tuna and Potato Pasta
This is a really quick meal to make, especially if you have some left over mashed potato in the fridge (we always make too much!).Tuna and Potato Pasta (Amines, Low Salicylates, Low Glutamates) Sunflower oil 1 small leek, finely chopped 2 tspns crushed garlic 1 stalk celery, finely chopped 2 x 185g can tuna in… Read more
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Cooking with Quinoa Flakes
Recently I found some Qinoa (pronounced keen-wah) flakes at the supermarket, and thought I’d try adding them to a few recipes. I had read that they had a funny after taste, but none of us have experienced that, in fact hubby didn’t even notice that there was anything different. Pumpkin, Quinoa and Ricotta Muffins (Moderate Salicylates, Low… Read more
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Making Yogurt
A few months ago, frustrated by the lack of suitable vanilla flavoured yogurt at the supermarket again, I bought an Easiyo yogurt maker. I’d remembered seeing a post from Pip at Real Mealsabout making yogurt, so thought I’d give it a go. It didn’t cost much to start, about $30 (I think) for the yogurt maker and… Read more
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Chicken Pot Pie and Simple Fruit Tarts
It’s been a while since I’ve blogged about using roast chicken left overs, and since roast chicken and vegies is a weekly occurrence at our place I have come up with lots of ways to use them. I recently made this with a new pastry that I found at the Maxi supermarket – Borg’s organic… Read more
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The Final Birthday Post
We have been eating birthday cake for 5 days now, and this is my final post on Oscar’s birthday party. As well as his party on Sunday he also took a cake into his day care centre for a another “party” there. There are strict rules about taking food into child care centres. I can… Read more
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The Birthday Party
Oscar’s 3rd Birthday Party was a great success! We had wonderful weather, so the party could go ahead in the park and Oscar and friends had a great time. The food also went down well, although we do have quite a bit left over to take to work tomorrow. The menu included: Schweppes lemonade (no… Read more
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Birthday Preparations
Oscar’s 3rd birthday party is tomorrow and I have spent the last 2 days shopping for and preparing the party food. Its a train themed party with a Thomas and Friends birthday cake. Almost all the party food has had to be home made, including the cake. Since I couldn’t use natural food colourings for… 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
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Mochi
One of the reasons I love Allergy Train is that I am always finding new products to try. One I found a little while ago is this Brown Rice Mochi. Its a Japanese product made from sticky brown rice and comes in hard little rectangles, that can be baked or fried and served either sweet… Read more
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Test Driving my New Mixer with a Pear and Apple Sponge Pudding
We went on holidays last week and the weekend before leaving we had quite a bit of fruit – apples and pears – to use up. I had also had my new mixer delivered, so it was a good opportunity to try it out with this recipe I modified from Taste.com. Pear and Apple Sponge Pudding… Read more
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Bananas
When the cyclones hit Queensland’s banana crop there was no doubt that we would continue to buy them, no matter what price they reached. When you child can only eat 5 fruits – pears, red and golden delicious apples, bananas, paw paw and papaya, and loquats (I don’t even know what these are) – losing… Read more
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Pytt i Panna
A few weeks ago I was flicking through a Jamie Oliver cook book and came across his version of Swedish Pytt i Panna, which Jamie says means “little pieces”. I’m not sure about that, but I do know that pytt i panna is very yummy, and basically a Swedish version of bubble and squeak, using… Read more
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Chickpea Patties
This recipe was modified from one in the Coles Baby magazine. They are very easy to make and are a nice alternative to a meat dish, served with vegetables or salad. They can also be had as a snack (cold or warmed) on their own. or in sandwich or wrap. Chickpea Patties (Moderate Amines, Moderate Salicylates,… Read more
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The Birthday Party Project #5
This is the last of my practice runs for Oscar’s birthday party – the birthday cake. Given that there is going to be a lot of chocolate party food I decided to make a vanilla cake, and as natural food colours are out (experiment #1) I have a bought a Thomas and Friends cake topper,… Read more
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South African Crust-less Milk Tart
I enjoy looking for recipes from other countries that I can adapt for Oscar, and I found the original for this recipe on a site that no longer exists (called Ba-Bootie) by Arnold. I’ve had a few goes at this tart and think I finally have it right. The first mistake I made was to… Read more
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The Birthday Party Project # 4
This is one of those kids recipes that adults will love as well – Wagon Wheels. The recipe is from allrecipes.com.au. They tasted sooo good, and reminded me of the days when Wagon Wheels were twice as big as they are now. The main difference with these Wagon Wheels is that they have pear jam… Read more
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Pizza Pie
A few weeks ago we somehow managed to end up with three dozen eggs in the fridge, so rather than just make a quiche I had a search for something a bit different and found this Bacon and egg pierecipe on taste.com.au, which had the added advantage of using up the last of a loaf… Read more
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The Birthday Party Project #3
It’s fairy floss that make the cute little “Bunny Tails” on these mini cup cakes. This isn’t a recipe so much as the cup cake is a gluten-free packet I found at Maxi supermarkets. Why is that gluten-free cake mixes can be made additive free, but not regular ones? The fairy floss is from Allergy… Read more