Tag: fun food
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Last Minute Christmas Baking (and my final post for the year)
Four more days until Christmas! Are you ready yet? It’s been a bit of rush here, on top of moving, organising for our house to be demolished and finalising our building contract (the thought of my new kitchen keeps me going 🙂 ). We had a street party last week (our old street) and I… Read more
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Christmas Gingerbread House
Last weekend Oscar and I made our Gingerbread House for Christmas. We made one last year for the first time and he loved it. The dough can quite easily be made without spices, making it FAILSAFE (we use only cinnamon) and can be decorated with suitable lollies or plastic decorations. It is suggested that the… Read more
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Simple Halloween Cakes and Biscuits
It will be Halloween in a few weeks time. This isn’t an Australian celebration, but it is becoming more and more a part of our culture. We’ve had kids knocking on our door at Halloween for years, although until Oscar started going to Day Care I usually had no idea when it was and had… 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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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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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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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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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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Paw Paw Pops
With the warm weather making a come back, it’s time to put some icy treats into the freezer. If Amines are allowed or you are doing the amines challenge, try these Paw Paw Pops. If you are on the elimination diet there are some suitable recipes here. Coming Up Next Time: Apple Jam Read more
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Sweet and Savoury Calzones (or “inside out pizzas)
These Calzones came about as a result of wanting to try Frilly’s pumpkin pizza dough recipe at Real Meals. I made the pizza dough and told Oscar that we were having pizzas and he could help make the dough. Big mistake! Apparently pizzas in our house can only be made with lebanese pita breads. So the… Read more
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Pita Bread and Tacos
A little while ago there was a frenzy of interest on the Sue Dengate Failsafe page on Facebook for home made pita bread. Like everyone else we made them that weekend and we had them for dinner as tacos. Making pita bread was much easier than making tortillas (even with a packet mix) and my… 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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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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Potato Wedges and Chicken Nuggets
Here a couple of quick, simple recipes ideas – Baked Potato Wedges and Chicken Nuggets. Serve them together for dinner with a few extra vegetables (beans, carrots, lentils, peas, etc.) or on there own as a snack. The potato wedges recipes was modified from this one at allrecipes.com. The cheese on the wedges is optional,… Read more
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Chicken Burgers and Sweet Potato Fries
Chicken Burgers (or burgers of any kind), are an easy, simple meal that can cater for people with and without a variety of dietary restrictions. Get everything prepared, then let everyone add what they can eat. It’s also a lot of fun for kids to be allowed to serve themselves. We had them with Sweet… Read more
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Fresh Rice Paper Rolls and Mango Fool
Well Summer is over (I can’t believe it’s March already!), and going by the weather this past week you would think it was Winter already. One of the things I love about Summer is the appearance of mangos, by the boxful, in the stores. Mangoes are one of my favourite fruits and as they are… Read more
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Chicken Souvlaki Wraps
Part of our strategy to get Oscar more interested in food, especially vegetables, is to get him involved in cooking them and serving himself. Wraps are great for that, and these aren’t really souvlaki, but you get the idea. They are also one of those meals, where you can cater for different dietary requirements… Read more
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Asian Feast – Baked Spring Rolls and Chicken Vermicelli Noodles
I’ve never tried spring rolls with Oscar because, until recently, it’s been painful to get him to eat anything with vegetables in it. This made the fresh Vietnamese style ones out, and I’m not a big fan of deep frying, so I haven’t made the cooked ones either. With the vegetable situation improving I decided try… Read more