Something other then cupcakes.

Well my mum came to visit from home last week. We ate out alot so really havent stuck to the gfdf diet too well and have suffered from it. Now for veggie, fruit and gfdf detox!

One night I did make dinner (or should it be day as it was in the slow cooker?) and was very impressed with how it turned out :).
It was a soup/stew as i call them. A stew with the very flavoured broth.
Lets see if I can remember the recipe...

3 pieces of osso bucco, fat cut off and diced (one piece was HUGE!)
few sticks of celery sliced, probably 4
2 large carrots diced
couple of garlic cloves sliced
large can of peeled tomatoes (tomatoes make me itchy but so hard to live without)
half a lemon that was mainly juiced cut into 8ths (the juice had been used for something else)
alot of mushrooms sliced ( LOVE mushrooms)
1 heaped teaspoon of cajun spice
1/2 tsp of lemon grass powder (i'm sure sliced lemon grass would be the same)
2 teaspoons of rosemary leaves

all in the slow cooked on high for aaaaaaages, 8 hours or something.
Came out delicious!!
No idea if thats the whole list but yeh... one day I'll try remaking it and that will be found out :)

Last night for dinner we had pasta. We use roo mince 1/3kg for 2 ppl and don't put tomato in it. Always grated carrot, onion, garlic, dried basil and mushrooms!!
Last night it was
1/3 kg roo mince
1 large carrot grated
2 small onions diced
6 good sized mushrooms diced
2 sticks of celery diced
2 large cloves or garlic grated
1 tsp beef stock powder
how ever much dried basil we felt like
1/2 a zucchini diced
1 packet of the rice pasta we get... cant remember its name but you can get it at Woolworths and Coles

The onions were browned and then the meat in with them. Everything but the mushrooms put in next and cooked it almost soft then the mushrooms put onto like a 'lid' as the Mr said.
Was absolutely DELICIOUS!!! The Mr did the cooking while I did the chopping. I'm very luck to have a Mr that can cook :)

Still fighting these cupcakes!!

We'll the girls most definately approve of the cupcakes though I'm still not sure of the recipe. Miss 7 gave me the most wonderful compliments on them and both girls helped with making the icing (they only had a short visit so i made cupcakes prior to their arrival.)




Unfortunately I had a bad reaction to the sunflower oil margarine I used after eating too much icing and one cupcake so the girls had some to take home with them. I also still have food colouring on my hand.....

I just realized I haven't even thought about the cake, oops!!!

Cupcake experiments

Well cupcake experiment #2 seems to have gone well... though it will have to be tested by the girls tomorrow. The Mr is definately liking my experiments.
#1 was a complete and utter mess!!! It was Mount Cupcake in our oven last night. A tasty mess though. My knight in skateboard armour saved the day as I find messes like that rather over whelming and he turned it into functional food :)
Tomorrow I shall omit the water from the mixture (too fluffy) and attempt to turn them into the original cupcake idea which was made from a packet mixture and some imagination, part mine, part someone on the net.Hopefully with a little magic and some not so burnt finger tips (the joys of touching the slow cooker in the wrong place) myself and Miss About To Turn 5 will make wonderful replicas.
If successful I will post the recipe.
Wish us luck!

Well here it is...

So I've decided to going into the blogging world to talk about my success' and failures with cooking.
My partner and I are both gluten and dairy free (including lactose and casein) which makes life interesting and what makes it even more interesting.... so are his two wonderful little girls. Miss 7 has a very complicated diet due to having moderate to severe Autism and Miss About To Turn 5 is gfdf (gfcf), low sugar and starch and major avoidance of anything artificial due to eczema and other issues.
We eat fairly well and try to not miss out on anything that we don't want to miss out on. Thanx to the internet and a great local health food shops and spice shops its making life a lot easier!

So Miss About To Turn 5 is well, about to turn 5! And at the moment I'm struggling with making vanilla cupcakes for her birthday party with us. I like to make things from scratch so while we do have packet mixtures on standby, I'm searching for recipes that all seem to fail on me!
So far we have plain potato chips, plain corn chips, gf marshmallows (that may endup on the cake), sprinkles for cupcakes and standby cupcake and cake mixtures. There may also be jelly with fruit in it and 'sports candy' with home made hommus. But I'm stuck on making these cupcakes! She requested cupcakes so I can't really back out.
Oh well my partner is going to be satisfying his sweet tooth by eating all my experimental cupcakes.
Its funny how I'm far better at making up my own recipes then using other peoples....