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

January 15, 2011
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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
Sweet Pickled Cucumber

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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Cabbage with Fresh Dill and rendering your bacon fat

December 12, 2010
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First of all you can make this vegetarian, leaving the bacon out will slightly change the flavour but what makes this dish special is the fresh dill.  Dill is a nice enough herb but I find raw fresh dill can be a bully and overpower everything if not balanced, I wasn’t counting on how it mellows when [...]

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

December 10, 2010
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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
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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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Pears in Red Wine by Heston Blumenthal & Paul Bocuse – Which Was Best?

October 17, 2010
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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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Poaching Peaches

August 25, 2010
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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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Mixed Sweet (Bell) Pepper Sauce

July 30, 2010
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This is my oldest daughter’s favourite.  I make a big batch and then have it in the fridge for a few days and after school she will toast some of my semi-sourdough, warm some of the pepper sauce to top the bread with.  If I happen to have some around in the fridge I have [...]

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Double Strawberry Muffins or Cakes

May 31, 2010
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I first made these cakes last summer and had posted them in my old blog and since strawberries are now appearing everywhere it seems appropriate to transfer the recipe here.   I came to create these cakes because last year I went through a phase of trying to find a sponge cake recipe for my [...]

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Aubergine (Eggplant), Tomato and Herb Salad

May 23, 2010
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I came home with the 2 yr old from shopping at the supermarket…you see…what you have to understand is this was the third time I had been to the supermarket with her in the same week because if you don’t already know… a routine shopping trip turns into major negotiations of,  ‘…no I don’t what [...]

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Red Pepper Hummus / Humous

May 14, 2010
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Do you know the reason I ended up making this?  Because it’s one of my favourite flavours of hummus I buy in the supermarket…I know…strange to be inspired by the supermarket …but hey I’m never one to turn down a good idea.  Bikerboy says if he sees me eating hummus is because I’m on a [...]

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Gabriela’s Pesto – Two Ingredients

April 26, 2010
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In my house I live two separate lives with regards to food.  One part of my life is the food I like to cook, experiment, share and maybe post about and then there’s the second side of my food life where I need to feed as best as I can a child with multiple-food allergies. [...]

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Noodle Salad – Feeding Hungry Teenagers

March 29, 2010
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This noodle salad isn’t just to feed sixteen 15 year olds coming over to celebrate your daughter’s birthday, this is a good salad to make for family meals, pack lunch, to have in the fridge over the weekend giving you the answer to, ‘..what shall I snack on..’.  This was a one of very two [...]

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Lightly Spiced Spinach with Apricots

March 14, 2010
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Some dishes have personal memories attached to them and this is one of them.  About two years into our relationship Bikerboy decided to cook Valentine’s dinner for me, he had picked out a recipe from the recently bought Cinnamon Club cookery book and saw a picture of a cylinder shaped breast of chicken stuffed with [...]

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From Ordinary Mushrooms to Sublime Mushrooms

January 19, 2010
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This is a delicious dish, an intense earthy sweet mushroom dish which can be used any which way you so wish, lots of flavour for little money.  You can add stock to it and turn it into soup or make pasta sauce with it, you can evaporate the juice further and put them on bruschetta/crostini, [...]

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