I’m going to break my own rule today. Unusually, I want to tell you about a couple of cafes I visited that aren’t in Sheffield. I wish they were though, as I fell in love with both of these places and can’t wait to go back. We took the boys on a magical mystery trip to … Continue reading
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
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
8th – 14th May is Coeliac Awareness week. This year, Coeliac UK is using the week to focus on eating out, with their ‘Gluten Freevolution’ campaign. This year, Coeliac UK are aiming to encourage the availability of gluten free food options in restaurants, pubs, cafes and takeaways. They are also targeting companies selling pre-prepared food, … Continue reading
The brasserie and bar chain Browns recently launched a Coeliac UK accredited gluten free menu, giving us coeliacs another go-to food option in Sheffield! I took the boys for a posher-than-normal-for-a-Wednesday pub tea before we went to see the excellent Fantastic Mr Fox at the Lyceum. I booked a table online and put in the … Continue reading
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
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
