Gluten Free the old style way

zippychick

Hi Tilly

Welcome to OS!!!! well done for taking the brave step of posting! I hope you stick around

I'm sure there are a load of threads to help you out

Ideas for gluten free lunches

Gluten and wheat free baking

Gluten free the Old Style way

Wheat/gluten free bread recipe?

Dairy/lactose free diet

Dairy free ice cream

Yeast and dairy free - help

Vegan biscuit or cake recipes - may offer some helpful ideas

Vegan and veggie food on the cheap - again may have some good stuff

wheat egg nut and dairy free biscuits

ok, that was a lot for my poor brain to think about, I'm off to lie down now after that but i'll merge this later on for you

Welcome once again!:j:j:j

Zip

mum2kathryn

mum2kathryn wrote: »

what about jelly, fresh fruit, gluten free muffins (these use oil rather than butter or marge), rice crispy cakes.

Sorry only saw the puddings bit!

Cottage pie, chicken rissotto (made with home made stock and meat left over from a roast), beef stew and mash, spaghetti bolognaise (made with gf pasta but don't know if this has soya in it?) are all favourites in our house. I'm struggling a bit with summer food as my kids aren't big on salad.!

tillymint1969

Hi everyone! Thanks for being so welcoming!

Spritzy - I have found the ONLY way to avoid gluten is to home cook everything ... even then though you have to watch for cross-contamination i.e. non-coeliacs using your butter/margarine. I make all the usual home cooked dinners like spag bol (with GF spaghetti), chilli, soups, meatloaf, roast dinners, etc .. it's just having some different ideas that I need. Watch out for your stock cubes, soy sauce, tomato sauce, vinegar and worcester sauce - they are usually not gluten free! Good luck and stick to the diet - I promise you, you will start to feel so much better!

Mum2kathryn - I haven't got the first book, but will look for it in the library and have read the Phil Vickery book - he is great! Will definitely put in a booking for the new one at our local library! [Summer foods for your kids ... um ... corn on the cob, quiche, home made burgers?)

Zippychick - gosh thank you so much for all the links - I will spend some time looking at them and see what I can glean! Thanks everyone Tilly x

tillymint1969

Morning! Have just spent an hour or so going over some of the links from Zippychick - there are some really talented bakers and cooks on here! So grateful for the links Zippy! I need to make a folder with all the recipes I like the look of!

Mum2kathryn - who wrote the book How to Cook for Food Allergies? Going to request it from the Library. Tilly x

mum2kathryn

Hi Tilly,

'How to cook for food allergies' is by Lucinda Bruce-Gardyne (the woman who started the Genius bread company),
ISBN 978-1-9057-4404-6

hth

Waxy_Bean

I make my 9 month old (soya and dairy allergic but not coeliac) sugar free flapjack. It's a bit of a hashed up recipe originally adapted from the ingredients of Organix soft oaty bars.

200g oats
175g raisins (or other chopped dried fruit)
50g veg oil (yes I weigh it for some unknown reason)
75g fruit spread (I use one of the varieties of this from H&B)
15g dessicated coconut
pinch of cinnamon or mixed spice
few drops of orange oil or zest of an orange

Mix together well, put in a greased baking dish (I use oil to grease it) and bake at 160 for about 15 minutes until lightly browned.

ETA - it doesn't quite taste like normal buttery syrupy flapjack, but is certainly very tolerable (I eat it as I'm on the same exclusion diet as DS while I'm breastfeeing him)

tillymint1969

mum2kathryn wrote: »

Hi Tilly,

'How to cook for food allergies' is by Lucinda Bruce-Gardyne (the woman who started the Genius bread company),
ISBN 978-1-9057-4404-6

hth

Thanks for that - hope it's not too long in coming in - I have requested it online. Just love how helpful everyone is here.

Waxy_Bean

I was thinking of you this morning as I was cooking breakfast for me, OH and our LO. We often have banana pancakes for breakfast, snack or dessert (they're like scotch pancakes). OH and I smother them in honey or syrup (as could you or older kids) but LO eats them as they are. Any leftovers can be toasted and served with butter (or non-dairy, non-soya vitalite!). The recipe is below:

Banana pancakes - makes 12 mini pancakes

4 heaped tbsp oats (sometimes I use half plain flour as it makes a lighter pancake but all oats works well too)
4 tbsp oat milk (I don't like this as a drink but it's great for cooking with or on cereal)
1/2 banana
1 egg

Blitz the oats to make a coarse flour - add the oat milk and stir to make a thick batter (you may need slightly more milk dependent on your oats). Add the banana and blitz again. In a separate bowl beat the egg until at least doubled in size, and then fold in the banana batter.
Heat oil in a small frying pan, and fry dessert spoon fulls of the mixture on a low heat until golden brown on both sides.

I also sometimes add extras to the mixture to make it a bit different - a handful of raspberries, a drizzle of honey (if LO not eating), a pinch of mixed spice and some raisins etc.

aless02

Waxy_Bean wrote: »

I make my 9 month old (soya and dairy allergic but not coeliac) sugar free flapjack. It's a bit of a hashed up recipe originally adapted from the ingredients of Organix soft oaty bars.

200g oats
175g raisins (or other chopped dried fruit)
50g veg oil (yes I weigh it for some unknown reason)
75g fruit spread (I use one of the varieties of this from H&B)
15g dessicated coconut
pinch of cinnamon or mixed spice
few drops of orange oil or zest of an orange

Mix together well, put in a greased baking dish (I use oil to grease it) and bake at 160 for about 15 minutes until lightly browned.

ETA - it doesn't quite taste like normal buttery syrupy flapjack, but is certainly very tolerable (I eat it as I'm on the same exclusion diet as DS while I'm breastfeeing him)

Ooo, that's a brilliant recipe! Have been trying to find/adapt flapjacky type recipes for my baby too (no allergies, but obviously need low sugar ideas). If you want a cheaper alternative to your fruit spread, try making apple curd. I use this recipe (http://www.cheap-family-recipes.org.uk/recipe-applecurd.html) but just omit the sugar and it still tastes great (instead I'll add a pinch of cinnamon and a splash of lemon juice to keep the apples from turning brown) - though you may want to make a smaller batch. It's also great to feed babas on toast/rice cakes/whatever.

tryingtoruletheworld

Risotto is a good option without dairy and gluten etc, as you can add lots of flavour with Kallo low salt stock/bouillon/hm stock and herbs etc. Beating a little vegan margerine in at the end can help make it a bit more creamy, and obviously white wine is good too!

You can make flapjacks with millet flakes, it's not quite the same but it is always nice to have something sweet that isn't just fruit! You can make fruit ice-creams/ice lollys by whizzing up raw/cooked fruit and freezing, and Booja Booja make gluten/dairy/soya free chocolate truffles as well as one of the most amazing ice-creams I have ever tasted! They make it with cashew nuts, and it is expensive, but you don't need much of it as it is very rich.

Pancakes made from gram (chickpea) flour are really tasty, and can be made sweet or savoury. You can also use it to make bhajis with a few spices mixed in. Cake works well with rice flour and veg margerine, just like a standard victoria sandwich recipe. Some vanilla essence or cocoa powder helps mask any potential rice flavour, and always worked well for me, just the usual 6oz flour, gluten free baking powder, 6oz sugar, 6oz margarine and 3 eggs recipe.

You can make very nice nut milks and creams, although obviously nuts can be expensive to buy, it is nice for a treat. Quinoa, millet and buckwheat are all nice, although buckwheat can be an acquired taste. (king soba buckwheat noodles are gorgeous!)

Can't think of anything else for now, HTH.