SAUSAGE ROLLS - FOOD ALLERGY SAFE

FREE from WHEAT, GLUTEN, DAIRY, EGGS, SOY, ALL NUTS... ..

INGREDIENTS
     400g Potatoes (aprox 2 Medium size)
     1 CUP Potato Flour
     1 TBS Olive Oil
     1/2 TSP Salt
     2 TSP Baking powder
     4 Gluten Free Sausages
   

Peel, chop and boil the potatoes until soft.
Mash Potatoes before adding, Oil, Potato Flour, Salt and Baking Powder.
Mix until it firms a smooth dough, it may be a little sticky. using wet hands while handling the dough will stop it sticking to your hands.

Wrap the Potato mixture around 4 raw Gluten Free Sausages, baking in a 180 Celsius oven for 20min

Caroline

BUCKWHEAT SLICE - FOOD ALLERGY FRIENDLY

Heard of? Made? Or Tasted Weetbix Slice? This is the Food Allergy Safe version. FREE from WHEAT, EGGS, NUTS, DAIRY and SOY.

Base Ingredients:

75g Toasted Buckwheat crackers blended/crushed

1 CUP Corn Flour

1 TBS Cocoa

1 cup Sugar 

155g Dairy Free Spread (Nuttelex)

Top Ingredients:

2 TSP Dairy Free Spread (Nuttelex)

1 1/2 CUPS icing sugar

2 TBS cocoa

2 - 4 TBS warm water (Enough to thin icing)

Base

Crush Buckwheat crackers and add to a mixing bowl, along with cornflour, Sugar and Cocoa mixing until well  combine.

Melt Dairy Free Spread and poor over dry ingredients, mix together.

Press mixture into a lined slice tray and bake in a oven pre heated to 180c for 20min.

Top

Melt Dairy Free Spread in saucepan, add icing sugar, cocoa and the water, mixing until smooth.

Poor over the top of the slice base.

Once cool remove from tin and slice.

Caroline

SILENT SUGAR COOKIES

Nap time at our house is the perfect time to get a few things done... But quietly!  Waking those little ones too early from their nap sentences me to an afternoon of over tired and grumpy kids.

That's why I love these "Silent Sugar Cookies" because I can make them without the use of noisy mixers or machines.

All you need is a bowl and wooden spoon (and ninja stealth skills to keep the noise down and the kids asleep until the cookies are done!).

These cookies are a dairy, egg, soy and nut free, soft brown sugar cookie that are perfect for adding bits of dried fruit or icing with sprinkles for a birthday party.  Best of all they are sooo easy!

Makes approx 15 cookies (I often double the recipe though and get over 30)

Ingredients:

125g (1/2 cup)  Dairy Free spread (Nuttelex)
80g (1/3 cup)  Brown sugar
1 teaspoon  Vanilla essence
225g  Plain flour *for a GF option simply substitute wheat flour for your favourite GF flour mix
2 teaspoons Baking Powder

Optional Extras: 1 cup of saltanas


Preheat the oven to 170 degrees and line a couple of baking trays with baking paper.

Cream the Nuttalex, brown sugar and vanilla in a bowl with a wooden spoon.

Add the flour, baking powder and any extras you want to add. Combine with a wooden spoon to form a soft dough.

Roll into small balls on your trays and press down with either the back of a spoon for a smooth look or a fork for a textured finish.

Bake for 12-15 minutes or until lightly golden, remove from oven and place on a cooling rack.

Enjoy!!

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CARBONARA - FOOD ALLERGY SAFE

Carbonara recipe FREE from WHEAT, EGGS and DAIRY!

INGREDIENTS
     1 CUP White Sauce Roux (Click for Recipe)
     5 Rashers Shortcut Bacon - Diced
     2 TBS Oil Oil
     1 TSP Crushed Garlic
     3 TSP Chicken stock powder
     Wheat Free Fettuccine Pasta

Fry Bacon, Garlic and Olive Oil in the Wok/Pan while cooking the Fettuccine Pasta
Once cooked add the White Sauce Roux and Chicken Stock powder, mixing well
Stir in cooked/drained fettuccine and serve.

Caroline

PEANUT FREE SATAY CHICKEN - FOOD ALLERGY SAFE

Even though this recipe is completely free of peanuts, as the mother of a child with a very serious peanut allergy I still second glance at the dinner table. Peanut free Satay! Yummy and Safe for those with Peanut allergies.

INGREDIENTS
     1 Chicken Breast (Diced)
     3 TSP Crushed Garlic
     3 TBS Olive Oil
     3 TBS Sunflower Butter
     1 CUP White Sauce Roux (Click for recipe) 
     1 TBS Brown Sugar
     Salt to taste


Fry Chicken breast  in Garlic and Olive Oil until cooked.
Add Sunflower Butter and stir until it has melted, then tip in the White Sauce Roux and Brown Sugar.
Salt to taste.
If the mixture is a little thick thin slightly with water.
Simmer for 10min.

     














Serve on Rice.

Caroline

WHITE SAUCE ROUX - FOOD ALLERGY FRIENDLY

A white sauce roux FREE from WHEAT/GLUTEN and DAIRY!

Our household caters to a Dairy allergy, often the substitute for cream and cheese in meals is coconut cream and Soy base products, unfortunately we also  have to work around a Coconut and Soy allergy. 

The White Sauce Roux recipe I am sharing is a perfect cream/cheese substitute for all sorts of meals, many of which are shared on this blog (or on their way!)
Recipes like Potato Salad, Creamy pasta, Lasagne all can be catered too with the white sauce as a dairy substitute. It is FANTASTIC!

INGREDIENTS
     2 TBS Dairy Free Spread/Margarine (Nuttlex)
     2 TBS Corn Flour
     2 CUPS Rice Milk

Melt Dairy free spread in a saucpan over a Med - High heat.
Once melted add Corn Flour while mixing with a whisk. The flour will absorb all the melted dairy free spread and form a paste. 
While continuing to stir the paste poor the rice milk into the saucepan.
From here you will have to very regularly stir your mixture, it may take about 7 - 10min to start to thicken, but once it does you will have to continue to whisk until you reach the thickness your after. 

Try adding Stock powders, Garlic and Herbs to adapt the White Sauce Roux to different meals and tastes. 

3 WAYS TO DEAL WITH PLASTIC BAGS

Most households know what it's like to have an abundant store of plastic bags - in an effort to "re-use" we keep them for bin liners, wet/dirty clothes and a cheap way to contain items that need transporting.

However most households who keep their bags know that the plastic pile grows out of control!

Here are my top 3 tips for dealing with that plastic bag pile;

1.  REFUSE

Use environmentally friendly re-usable bags or totes when shopping or taking items places. If you stop the bags coming in, then you wont have them piling up.

But then if you don't have them coming in you miss out on free bin liners you say? 
Well consider aiming to use re-usable bags anyway, how many of us know that we forget out bags at times or when we go to smaller shops at the mall or even kmart ? We didn't think to bring a tote so end up with plastic bags anyway.

I think you will find a half dozen bags enough to keep you going until the next lot slip through.

2. FOLD THEM

So you want to keep a couple of bags handy, perhaps in a child's school bag or even your nappy bag?

Here is a quick picture tutorial of how to fold a plastic shopping bag to store neatly - just like my mother taught me - keep them this way in bags or even a basket in a kitchen.

3. STUFF THEM

If your husband and kids are like mine, they are unlikely to bother with folding shopping bags! (or maybe even you thought "Ain't nobody got time for that!") Well, turn an old hot chocolate or formula container into a plastic bag dispenser.

I personally have used a small container, it can fit aprox 8 plastic bags into it, Plenty for our family. I am trying to change our "store up hundreds of plastic bags" mentality so we can more easily transition to a plastic bag free home.

To make my plastic bag dispenser I simply covered over the label of the container with paper and cut a hole in the top - and stuffed it with 8 plastic bags.  Yep easy and husband friendly.


How do you store your plastic bags? 

And if your house is plastic bag free, how do you deal with bin liners, soiled clothes and wet swimmers?  I feel like those plastic bags are still just too handy - would love to hear how you do it!

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