When your food allergies include tomato, the quest for gluten free, tomato free pasta recipes can lead you into some pretty tough territory. Which is how we found ourselves in pasta-and-nuts land. Willing to give anything a try once though, we strode forth into one of the stranger gluten free recipes we’ve tried. Here’s how … Read more
Due to a nifty bit of packaging by Tesco’s, I thought the beetroot was local. (The trick was they were in a bundle with no packaging at all, looking all dead ‘farmy’). But whether from Spain or Southend, the beetroots needed cooking, and in a gluten free style. On a lazy Sunday, Gluten Free Food … Read more
Our pal Stew came to visit recently and with the fishing season newly started, and our wee boat in the water nice and early, Stew and I hit the waves to catch dinner. Gluten free food wifie was in the blocks for a backup dash to the fishmonger. But (amazingly), our luck was in and … Read more
The other gluten free biscuits for the mums and toddlers fundraiser were Nutty Flapjacks. Again, this is no refined sugar, dairy free, egg free and but not soya free as I added some chocolate topping which contained soya lecithin…. Gluten Free Biscuits – Nutty Flapjacks 115g chopped dried dates90ml water115g dairy free margarine (or butter)2 … Read more
Feeling a bit yummy mummy, I made some Gluten Free Biscuits for a local mums and toddler group fund-raiser. Not just gluten free, but no refined sugar, dairy-free, egg free and soya-free. How right-on did I feel! My smugness started when a young boy with severe autism (following a strict gluten free diet) was actually … Read more
For me, roast lamb is the tastiest meat for gluten free curries. Which means that the day after roast day is lamb curry day, and that is a very good day indeed. Although tomato is a good base for a lamb curry sauce, my food allergies exclude this at the moment, so we had to be a … Read more
This is a light but satisfying gluten free lunch, which is pretty versatile so you can use what you’ve got in the cupboard / fridge. Gluten free lunch – Aduki bean salad 400g tin aduki beans – preferably in water with no salt/sugarA handful of crunchy leaf such as chinese leaves, pak choi or similar, … Read more
Not just a gluten free curry… a vegetarian gluten free curry! How virtuous do we feel after tea tonight? Using tinned beans, this is a quick curry to make. It’s very mild (baby Edie was partaking, although in the end she thought it was minging. Chaqu’un a son gout and all that). Actually, this was going … Read more
2 gluten free pasta salad recipes in one day? Have we gone pasta salad mad? Well firstly, we didn’t eat them both today, but you do get into a habit with your cooking don’t you? Don’t you? Well we do. Gluten free pasta salads are the order of the week. This one’s well tasty. Gluten … Read more
I used to hate salads, because lettuce just doesn’t fill you up. Then someone told me you don’t have to put lettuce in salads and kaboom! Filling salads are on the menu. Properly filling gluten free salad recipe 200g/7oz gluten free pasta (spirals or penne is best)400g/14oz tin of mixed beans – black eye beans, … Read more
