Tag: vegetables
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Chicken and Bean Pasta, Pear and Roast Carob Muffins
Back to mid-week meals and baking this week. The first recipe is Chicken and Bean Pasta, which is another great recipe for using up left over cooked chicken. The second recipe is Pear and Carob muffins, which I modified from one on ninemsn, using carob powder instead of buttons. And since I had no eggs at… Read more
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Scalded Rye Bread and Creamy Carrot and Red Lentil Soup
More orange food – the last for a little while, I promise! I have a terrible habit of not reading recipes all the way through before I start making them, which sometimes catches me by surprise. With the rye bread, however, not only did I not read all the way through, I didn’t translate to english… 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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Orange Food – Pumpkin Stuffed Chicken and Carrot Vitabrit Muffins
Ever since we told Oscar that eating carrots would help him see in the dark, he has been extraordinarily good at eating his vegetables. Not just orange ones (I haven’t corrected his assumption that all orange vegetables are carrots) , but green ones as well. To take advantage of this and maintain his interest, I’ve been developing… Read more
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A Few Salads
We’ve finally got some warm weather again, so I thought I’d publish a few of the salad recipes that we’ve tried over the Summer months. Hopefully, we’ll have a bit more warm weather before winter sets in and you’ll have time to try some of them. The addition of pasta or noodles to salads has greatly improved… 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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BBQ Whole Chicken and Potato, Egg and Bacon Salad
It’s been an interesting week food wise. On Sunday I went to a Thermomix party. I met R, the hostess, through Freecycle where I had used my Oscar’s Mum email. R has 2 kids on the RPAH elimination diet and her husband had recently found my website and R had found the book Oscar’s Lunch box –… Read more
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No-Tomato Sauce & Nectarine and Sour Cream Cake
Welcome back for 2012. It’s been a busy time in the kitchen at Oscar’s house this summer. We’ve had a breakthrough with vegetables, with Oscar suddenly eating orange ones (carrot and sweet potato) without complaint, and even some greens ones! I’ve been putting them into more meals to keep his interest up – salads, sweet… Read more
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Chicken and Risoni Salad
Making mayonnaise is not one of my strong suits and the ones I’ve tried out of the Failsafe cookbook have been too sweet for my liking. Finally I’ve found a very easy, eggless mayonnaise recipe, which adapted well to a few changes. Combined with some left over chicken and vegetables, a can of beans and… Read more
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Potato Bake
I’ve always had trouble with potato bakes, the potatoes never seem to cook, no matter how long I leave it in the oven. But I’ve finally nailed it, with a recipe I modified from kidspot. It worked perfectly. Read more
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Herb and Chive Damper
Damper is a really quick, simple alternative to making bread. I found this recipe using chives and parsley at taste.com. And my little green vegie hater didn’t even bat an eyelid at the obvious pieces of parsley and chives. This is best eaten warm, but can be eaten cold. It can also be stored in… Read more
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Pumpkin and Lentil Pasta
This recipe is based on Butternut Pumpkin and Lentil Spaghetti by Frillypants at Real Meals. I found it ages ago, but never got round to trying it – until last week. The recipes at Real Meals are made using a Thermomix (a fantastic looking all in one cooking machine), so I had to try and… Read more
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Golden Drumsticks and Apple and Sour Cream Coleslaw
With the weather getting warmer, its time for salads and BBQs. I got the idea for this coleslaw from Better Homes and Gardens a few weeks ago. The drumsticks can be cooked in the oven or on the BBQ and be eaten hot or cold. Cold they are great to take on a picnic, and go well with… Read more
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Asian Style Dumplings
This is one of the first amines recipes I tried after Oscar passed his amines challenge. I bought some malt vinegar, but had no idea what to do with it (apart from fish and chips!) and decided to add it to the broth in this recipe – which worked. Oscar loves malt vinegar, it is… Read more
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Zucchini Carbonara
A variation on my carbonara recipe, using zucchini instead of mushrooms. Read more
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Gnocchi – and I didn’t have to make it!
Since cutting out artificial additives, preservatives and colours, I’ve been surprised by how many “fresh” packaged foods (the ones in the refrigerated section of the supermarket) we had been eating that contain these nasties. One example is gnocchi, which I have missed. Until now! I have finally found a fresh gnocchi that has no artificial… Read more
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Sweet Potato and Chicken Lasagna
This recipe has been a long time coming. It’s taken 3 or 4 attempts, but I think I’ve finally got it right. Read more
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Bubble and Squeak
Hubby had an emergency root canal yesterday, so something soft was required for dinner and I made Bubble and Squeak. Bubble and Squeak was one of my very first posts on this blog, so I thought it would be a good one to repost as my first post on the new site. Read more
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Pumpkin Muffins
The first time I made these muffins Oscar helped me make them in the morning. That night we were having a roast for dinner and while I was preparing the vegetables Oscar came into the kitchen. This is the conversation that followed. Oscar: what’s that mum? Mum: Carrot Oscar: I don’t like carrot………..what’s that? Mum:… 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