Dairy Free

Raspberry Ice-Cream (Dairy free, Soya free, Egg free)

January 15, 2011

This dairy free ice-cream has the most delicious raspberry flavour, it satisfied my oldest daughter who can detect a non-dairy product miles away. From a flavour point of view you can not tell it’s dairy-free. The texture is not quite that of a rich velvety dairy one, it’s a cross between a sorbet and an [...]

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Sweet Pickled Cucumber

December 16, 2010

The festive season is upon us and this is a good side line to have to sit alongside any fish, smoked, raw, ceviche or even a spicy hot fish fillet would go nicely for me, I like contrast of temperatures. This is a Frances Bissell recipe and I’ve been serving this cucumber salad for [...]

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Gabriela’s Oat Cookies: dairy-free, soya-free, egg-free, nut-free

December 10, 2010

These are my 12 year old daughter’s cookies, she makes them all the time and in fact the ones without the raisins on this post are ones she’s made. The difficulty when having to find a recipe for egg-free, dairy-free and other exclusions is to find something that taste as good as normal ones. These [...]

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Lentil, Shiitake and Chestnut Soup

October 30, 2010

I’ve been thinking about this soup combination since last winter but failed to try it until now. It’s the sort of soup you can make a meal out of, perfect to warm your belly after a good long walk on a cold sunny day like today. The first time I made it last week it [...]

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Egg-free and Dairy-free Chicken Goujons (Chicken Nuggets)

October 30, 2010

When I made these goujons for my daughters’ lunch today I had the plate above by the kitchen window ready for photographing. When the oldest and middle daughter walked into the kitchen and saw them they both said, “Why don’t you serve a plate of chicken nuggets to us like this?” and then the oldest [...]

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Pears in Red Wine by Heston Blumenthal & Paul Bocuse – Which Was Best?

October 17, 2010

Paul Bocuse and Heston Blumenthal are not two chefs I think of putting together but that’s how it happen this week. In the past when I’ve cooked pears in red wine I have followed Paul Bocuse’s recipe from his book “My Classic Cuisine” published back in 1989. A book which now amongst the cookery book [...]

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Work In Progress: Gluten Free CornCakes

October 7, 2010

I’ve been obsessed with fresh corn throughout this summer, I have these food obsessions from time to time. It has coincided with my discovery that you can microwave fresh corn in its husks in just 3 minutes or if already peeled on a plate with clingfilm. This gives me the time to throw a salad [...]

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Poaching Peaches

August 25, 2010

The amount of times I look at a pack of peaches, they can look so attractive with dark peachy colour, fooling you into a sense of ripeness and of course they’re not. If you’re lucky enough and they ripen at home they still won’t have the natural sugar they should have if they were tree [...]

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Very Quick Coronation Chicken

June 13, 2010

I make my Coronation Chicken dairy-free but I remember the original recipe that I took this idea from had some crème fraîche (or substitute sour cream) which will make it even creamier. This is a very quick version but it doesn’t mean it’s somehow inferior to one that you spent time making your own spice [...]

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