Another short post this week! (I need to get out more…) Tilda have a range of single portion, pre-cooked pulses and rice sachets, which are great for a quick lunch for work. They only take a minute or so in the microwave and are nicely flavoured. There are several flavours, all of which are gluten … Continue reading
Category Archives: Eating in
Nairn’s black pepper crackers
I was pleased to pick these Nairn’s black pepper crackers up from the supermarket. (Sainsbury’s, I think, although I couldn’t be 100% sure!) The crackers don’t seem to have appeared on their website yet. Quite often, I find gluten free crackers can be a bit bland, and we usually have a stash of oatcakes in … Continue reading
Gluten free hoisin duck with special fried rice
In the years BC (before coeliac) we used to get a takeaway from our local Chinese on a Friday night sometimes. We always really looked forward to it but it was generally a bit disappointing. I can’t really put my finger on why, but I guess there was a lot of MSG and I distinctly … Continue reading
Pieminister gluten free pies
We had a lovely meal testing out these Pieminister gluten free pies. One was chicken, leek, ham and thyme (Ranger), and the other was a vegetarian pie containing goats’ cheese, sweet potato and spinach (Heidi). What’s to say? Once heated, the pastry was excellent – lovely and crunchy round the top edge and not remotely crumbly. … Continue reading
Little Moons ice cream mochi balls
I discovered a new favourite treat that I wanted to share. These ice cream mochi balls by Little Moons are VERY good indeed. For those not in the know, mochi balls are a Japanese dessert. They consist of balls of ice cream (or other confectionary) wrapped in a layer of soft, pounded, sticky rice cake … Continue reading
Mini puds
We had some friends round for tea a few weeks ago and I fancied doing some mini desserts to nibble at in the evening. After a lot of wasted time looking through recipe books and failing to find quite what I wanted, I managed to get some better inspiration from the good old web. I … Continue reading
Cannelloni
Pre-coeliac diagnosis, I used to make cannelloni using either the dried pasta tubes you can buy, or latterly by rolling them up in fresh lasagne sheets. Neither of these were totally satisfactory as the tubes were always too small and fiddly, and the lasagne sheets generally split. So it’s been on my mind for a … Continue reading
Banana bread
Bananas generally get scoffed in our house. I like them a bit under-ripe, so they have a bit of bite, then there’s usually a window of opportunity of a few days when the boys will eat them, before they start to go brown. After that, we usually keep them to make pancakes at the weekend. … Continue reading
Home made southern fried chicken
I spend quite a lot of time looking for nutritious recipes to cook for the family, but it’s also nice to make comfort food. I’ve been meaning to try this for a while now as I had some buttermilk in the freezer, but there are hundreds of recipes to choose from online. I chose this recipe by … Continue reading
Waffle experimentation
I was very excited to get a waffle maker for Christmas – I’ve been after one for quite a while as part of my breakfast diversification programme. 😀 My waffle maker is this Cuisinart one that makes two square waffles at a time. I can’t give the lowdown on any other machines as mine was a … Continue reading