Weight Loss and (too much?) Activity

So, posts have been a little thin on the ground, but then again so have I…
My diagnosis with Coeliac Disease around three years ago seemed to be the answer to my constant battle with maintaining a healthy weight. And for a while this was so, but 11 months after having my second baby, the weight [...]

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Gluten Free Mince Pies

In an attempt to keep the Tallest on the go today in the hopes of a relatively trouble free bedtime (it worked!). I decided to revisit my mince pie recipe as the pastry in such small quantities just hasn’t been surviving in the oven. Since my diagnosis with Coeliac my pastry making has been the [...]

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Quick and Simple Gluten Free Fruit Cake

Apologies for not having been around for the last few days, but I have been going through the controlled crying with the Smallest and it has taken up my time in the evenings when I would generally post…anyway, having decided that nobody in the family actually wants to eat a traditional iced Christmas Cake, I [...]

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Baking Day

Oh its good to be germ free again at last – I’ve had a hacking cough ever since, but managed to hold my breath long enough to do a bit of baking this week. Tallest lent me hand, as we needed to keep her entertained enough not to fall asleep after her first session back [...]

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Basic Biscuits

These are some biscuits that we made in preparation for halloween callers;
You need:
100gms (4oz) Butter
100gms (4ozs) Sugar
200gms (8oz) Gluten Free Plain Flour
1tsp Vanilla Essence
1 Medium Egg

Line baking trays with parchment paper
Cream together the butter and sugar, and add the vanilla essence
Beat in the egg and the flour bringing it together to form a smooth dough
Knead [...]

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Waste Free Week Begins

Today is the first day of Waste Free Week, I’m hoping to post things that we have done differently to usual, and make comments about whether or not I feel that the changes I make will be permanent or lasting, and whether they make a significant difference to our waste reduction.
I have already decided that [...]

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Gluten Free Sausages

Not having any of my own livestock, I have to get my meat from other sources. Namely my village butcher who makes me up my gluten free bangers. I buy them in lots of 5lb, to make it worth his while doing them.
They are the most economical way of doing it. I don’t have to [...]

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Coq Au Vin

This is just my Gluten Free variation on this classic dish.
Ingredients:
1 Chicken – divided into quarters or smaller
Chickens neck, heart and liver – if you have them
50g Butter
2 Tablespoon Olive Oil
4 Slices Bacon – chopped
2 Small Onion – peeled and chopped
50g Gluten Free plain flour seasoned with salt and pepper
500ml Red Wine
500ml Water or Stock
Bay, [...]

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A very versatile biscuit

This is one of a few posts that I had planned to enter before the Christmas holidays, but due to the vomitting virus – it just didn’t happen.
These are a gluten free version of Stonehead’s Buterscotch Biscuits

12oz Plain gluten free flour
2tsp gluten free baking powder
1/2 tsp salt
4oz unsalted butter
8oz brown sugar
1 egg whisked
1 tsp vanilla [...]

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