Category: Amines
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Travelling to Japan
We arrived home on the weekend after two weeks holiday in Japan. Japan was a fantastic country to travel in (very easy despite the language difference) and the food was delicious. Our first few days there we stayed with an old friend of mine and got to have home cooked Japanese food – and lots… 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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Banana and Ricotta Muffins
These are sooo yummy, and they look very cafe-style in the muffin wrappers. Warning – these muffins do contain amines, which would make them great for an amines challenge. The recipe came from BBC Food and needed no modification, but I did swap the flour for half wholemeal. I also doubled the recipe since 6… 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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The Birthday Party
The party is over, we’ve cleaned up, the jumping castle has gone and I’ve finally managed to have something to eat and a couple of glasses of champas. Oscar had a great time and his response to his Chuggington Cake was Wow, Wow, Wow! Not bad eh? The cake did take a while, but it… 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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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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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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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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Devil’s Food Cup Cakes
I just had to try this recipe when I found it. Devil’s Food Cup Cakes that had nothing in them – no dairy, no eggs, no sugar, gluten-free, soy-fee and corn-free! I was sooo impressed that I made them several times trying various combinations – carob/cocoa, milk/rice milk/almond milk, butter/nuttelex/oil, rice malt/maple syrup. I made a few… 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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The Best Ever Birthday Party Review and Give Away and Nana’s Yummy Yo Yo Biscuits
Today I’m having my first giveaway – a copy of The Best Ever Birthday by by Louise Fulton Keats, the grand daughter of Margaret Fulton. This review is a part of Product Talk by Nuffnang, and I have not received payment for it, but I did receive two copies of the book – one to keep and… Read more
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Easy Fig Jam and Delicious Lime Marmalade Recipes
These are not Oscar-friendly foods, however if Oscar wanted a taste I would let him a try a bit since these spreads are free of artificial nasties, and while very high in salicylates and amines would only be had in small amounts. I’m also not aware of any kids who like limes or figs (but I’m sure… Read more
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More Breakfast Ideas – Overnight Oats and Buckwheat Muffins
Some more recipes to put a bit of variety into breakfast. The overnight oats I actually came up with for myself, not Oscar. I love bircher-style muesli, but we consume a lot of dairy in our house, so I’m trying to cut down. I was searching for soaked oats recipes without milk, cream or yogurt and found… Read more
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The Birthday Week – Two Chocolate Cakes
Hubby and I have our birthdays two days apart. Before Oscar came along we usually just had one celebration and never bothered with a cake. Now there is an expectation of a cake and “party” for each of us. Last weekend was birthday weekend, and it was a chocolate fest. To reduce the amount of left… 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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Easter Lunch/Dinner: Stuffed Roast Chicken and Chocolate Squidgy Log
With Easter coming up, I thought I’d post two recipes that we use for special occasions (lunch or dinner) – stuffed roast chicken and squidgy chocolate log. The squidgy chocolate log recipe is one of my husbands specialities, from before I even met him. It’s not his recipe though, it’s from Delia Smith’s Complete Cookery Course (omnibus edition… 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