Tag: vegetables
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Potatoes another way
This is not my recipe, it has been doing the rounds on Facebook and Pinterest for a while, but I first saw it on Right to Be Alive last year. Potatoes are a staple on the FAILSAFE / Elimination diet and you can never have enough variations. Oscar loves these, so I’m sure they be’ll… Read more
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A variation on an old favourite
Chicken pies, of various persuasions, have been a staple of our diet over the last 6 years, but I had never thought of this version until I came across a Martha Stewart recipe for Chicken Pot Pies with Puff Pastry. This recipe is contains moderate salicylates and glutamates, but the vegetables can be easily substituted… Read more
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An old favourite updated
Today’s recipe is an old favourite, first posted almost 2 years ago. It’s had a few tweaks made to it since then, and now that I’m trying to avoid wheat for myself and not cook with it, is also gluten-free; made with buckwheat crepes. 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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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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Okonomiyaki (Japanese Vegetable Pancake)
Okonomiyaki is one of my favourite Japanese foods, and since coming home from Japan I have been wanting to make it. Okonomiyaki is a Japanese vegetable pancake, made with cabbage and whatever else you would like to add. Okonomi means “whatever you wish” so it’s OK to make it with whatever ingredients you have and it is still authentic. Okonomiyaki is… Read more
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Ham, Carrot and zucchini Muffins
These are the muffins that I took on the plane with us to Japan. They freeze well and are ideal for travelling with or for putting in lunch boxes straight from the freezer. The recipe is modified from one in the Coles Baby & Toddler Magazine, I didn’t have any millet flour so used rice… Read more
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Mashed Split Pea and Spring Onions
This is a very old recipe in my collection and I thought I had posted it long ago, but when I wanted to put it in my book I discovered that I hadn’t. So here it is…… The inspiration came from this recipe on Dr. Ben Kim’s site. I originally made it as a mash… 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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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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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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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 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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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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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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Savoury Pancakes
Pancakes can make anything taste good! I was inspired by this recipe on BBC Food to try them with Oscar during his fussy phase and they worked a treat. Although he was disappointed that when I said “pancakes for dinner” they didn’t come with maple syrup. This recipe is great for hiding foods, using up… 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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No-Tomato Spaghetti and Meatballs
We went to Good Food and Wine show a couple of weeks ago and one of things I found, that I really loved was a range of wholegrain pastas from Pangkarra Foods in the Clare Valley. I bought some there (definitely not enough) and decided to try and make a no-tomato sauce for spaghetti and… Read more