I love Pinterest. What’s Pinterest? It’s a social media site where you can pin photos and websites that you want to share with other people. One of my ‘boards’ on Pinterest is Recipes. If I am searching the web for recipes and I find one I like I will click the little ‘Pin It’ bookmarlet…
I love Foodbuzz. Whenever I am low on inspiration for cooking ideas or food photography a good dose of food porn always gives me a needed boost. This delicious looking cheesecake by Green Kitchen Stories caught my eye on the front page. I can’t wait to make it! Plus it uses almonds and is gluten free! Frozen Pink…
( Re-posted from my Illawarra Gluten-Free blog ) After indulging at the Sydney Night Noodle Markets in Hyde Park (part of the Crave Sydney) my husband and I were walking past a Thai restaurant in Pitt Street, Haymarket and spotted this cute Thai taxi and a selection of Thai desserts in a cold bar. Intrigued,…
Another recipe with almonds is marzipan. If you’ve ever watched Cake Boss or Ace of Cakes you would know some of the amazing cakes and decorations formed out of marzipan. I found a medieval recipe for marzipan that I have added to my files and thought to share with you. Gluten free and a great…
(Re-posted from Illawarra Gluten-Free) Lemon Polenta Cake For the cake: 130 g ground almonds (or almond flour) 130 g shredded coconut 130 g fine polenta (or yellow cornmeal) 1 t baking powder grated rind of 3 lemons 270 g soft butter 270 g caster sugar 4…
Filed under: Recipes: Gluten-Free I was reading about Grabyourfork’s food tour of Newtown, Sydneyand saw a reference to the Strawberry, rose and watermelon cake with a description of ” almond dacquoise layered with thin slices of refreshing watermelon and garnished with ruby red strawberries.” Yumm! Dacquoise is a term I had recognised from a Gluten-Free cookbook and decided…
Last year I saw an advertisement for Quorn mince in a magazine. It’s a vegetable mince made of Mycoprotein which is member of the fungi family (like morels and truffles. My young friend Siobhan is on a mainly-vegetable diet and I thought this would be a good high-quality meat-free protein to add to spaghetti bolognaise. It’s low…
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I was watching #GourmetFarmer on #sbs and they featured Tasmanian-grown Quinoa in their ‘local farm to plate’ menu. They travelled to Kindred, Tasmania and interviewed the lovely people from Kindred Organics who showed them the plants and gave them tips on how to cook it. ” Lauran and Henriette Damen are the first farmers in Australia…
Watching tonight’s Junior Masterchef ‘Mystery Box Challenge’ was really enjoyable. One of the ingredients was beetroot. One of my all-time favourite vegetables. There is a photo somewhere of me eating beetroot slices by a waterfall-fed river near Eden in the Eurobodalla region as a five year old. It is one of the things I…