Category: Recipe
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Another Birthday!
We had another birthday last month – mine this time. And my boys did a wonderful job making my birthday cake. They used the classic sponge recipe from the Failsafe cookbook and filled it with jam and whipped cream. The chocolate icing and lollies on top were Oscar’s idea (of course)! Classic Sponge Cake (Low… Read more
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Chicken, Leek and Potato Pie
This another recipe from our elimination diet, using just low chemical (or failsafe) ingredients. Chicken, Leek and Potato Pie (Low Chemical / High Amines) Serves 4 1 tablespoons sunflower oil 3 cloves garlic, crushed 3 shallots, chopped 2 leeks, trimmed, halved, washed, sliced 400g potatoes, peeled, diced into 1cm cubes 1/4 cup plain flour 1… Read more
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Potato and Leek Soup in the Slow Cooker
This is sooo easy, and potato and leek soup has been bit of a staple for us through the elimination diet and after. The original recipe cam from Belly Belly. Read more
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Slow Cooker Chicken Casserole
Continuing on from my success with the roast chicken in the slow cooker, I tried a chicken casserole. 20 minutes preparation and 8 hours later it was done. Very tasty, and easy. Chicken Casserole (High Amines, Low/Moderate Salicylates, Low/Moderate Glutamates) 200ml light evaporate milk 1 tblspn plain flour 3 large chicken breasts, chopped into largish… Read more
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Nana’s Moist Chocolate Cake
Yesterday was hubby’s birthday, so of course Oscar and I had a cake to make. A few weeks ago my mum reminded me about the chocolate cake recipe that I had in my Nana’s (her Mum) recipe book. Its a hand written journal of recipes that I got when she died. I used to make… Read more
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Pear or Rhubarb Stirabout
This is another very simple dessert based on one from the Failsafe Cookbook (Rhubarb Stirabout), and its a good one for using up pears when they are at the point where they are about to start going brown and floury. The original recipe is for Rhubarb stirabout, so I’ve included that here as well. … Read more
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Potato and Bean Salad
I know the warm weather seems to have disappeared from Melbourne, but I thought I would post this for my readers on the other side of the world, who are coming into spring. And maybe we’ll have another burst of Autumn sunshine yet! This is a good salad for taking on picnics. Both the salad… Read more
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Tuna Mornay Pie
I can’t remember where the original recipe for this came from, but its another quick and easy one. Tuna Mornay Pie (Amines, Low Salicylate, Low Glutamates) Oil or butter for greasing 30g butter 2 tablespoons flour 1 cup milk Salt 425g can tuna, drained 4 hard-boiled eggs, cut into thick slices 1 sheet frozen puff… Read more
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A Butcher and Sauted Sausage and Apple
Frillypants over at Real Meals posted about a Failsafe butcher she had found in Melbourne that was close to us: Ozzies Gourmet Butchery 55 Hamilton Place, Mount Waverley, VIC 3149 p: (03) 9809 5208 f: (03) 9809 5208 They takes orders and makes up failsafe sausages and preservative free bacon when he has enough orders. The bacon… Read more
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Baked Pears
Another simple dessert, courtesy of the Failsafe Cookbook, and prepared by my darling hubby. Read more
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Chicken and Vegetable Lasagna (2)
A variation on my chicken and vegetable lasagna, this time with less vegetables. I also included a small amount of tomato as part of Oscar’s high salicylate re-introduction. Chicken and Vegetable Lasagne (Low Chem/Amine, Low Glutamates, Low/Moderate/High Salicylates) Pre-cooked lasagna sheets (enough for 3 layers in a 20 x 20cm baking dish) 3 cups diced… Read more
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More Hot Cross Buns
Today I made some more hot cross buns, fruit ones this time, with dried pear, paw paw and banana. I used the same base recipe as the choc-chip hot cross buns, replacing the choc-chips with dried fruit, a plain white cross and golden syrup for the glaze. The golden syrup makes a much stickier, sweeter… Read more
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Roast Chicken in a Slow Cooker
We were given a slow cooker for Christmas and I got to use it for the first time a few weeks ago to cook roast chicken and vegetables. The chicken was extremely tender and full of flavour, and the vegetables, despite cooking for 8 hours were perfect, although the zucchini turned black but still tasted… Read more
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Healthy Dips
I’ve been trying to eat a bit healthier, so I’ve been making dips to have as snacks with vegetables as dippers. I’ve also been trying to get Oscar interested in dips, so far no luck there, but that just leaves more for me! The sweet potato and cashew dip is from My Green Australia, but… Read more
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Re-introducing High Salicylate Foods
Since our last visit to the dietician we have been introducing Oscar to high salicylate foods. The process is to pick a starting level (we’re supposed to start off at 25g every 3 days) and maintain it for 2 weeks. If there are no reactions you increase the level (i.e. 25g every 2 days) for… Read more
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Preparing for Easter
Today I made Hot Cross Buns – a trial for Easter. Oscar can’t have commercial hot cross buns as they all have preservatives and “spices” in them. Last year I tried to make a failsafe version of Swedish Semlor (Lenten Buns), a custard filled bun, but something went terribly wrong and I ended up with… Read more
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Banana Bread and Butter Pudding
This is a delicious and reasonably healthy dessert. Despite the title there is no butter in this recipe and it still tastes great, it also smells wonderful. This recipe is based on one from Coles. Read more
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Yum – Chocolate Mud Cup Cakes!
I have my hubby to thank for this recipe. He has adapted the Amine Chocolate Mud Cake recipe in the Failsafe Cookbook and made these delicious cup cakes, which are surprisingly light for a mud cake, and very yummy. The original recipe comes with a low amine variation, which I have included here. Chocolate Mud… Read more
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Chicken Sausage Rolls
A variation on my sausage roll recipe, to use up some more zucchini! Read more