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Gluten Free Homemade Mincemeat and Mince Pies

There is now a good selection of gluten free mince pies available in stores but there is nothing like making homemade mincemeat or mince pies to make your whole house smell like Christmas, that boozy, fruity aroma spiced with nutmeg, cinnamon and ginger is better than any seasonal candle to set the festive mood. Making your own mincemeat also gives you control over what goes in to your pies. If…

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Gluten Free Christmas Pudding

Yes it has been quite a while since I posted a recipe here but 2017 found me in a job I absolutely that took up a lot of my time and left me with very little time for cooking anything that wasn’t a tried and true quick dinner, usually something that could be served in a bowl and eaten while half asleep on the couch. Coming in to the winter the pace of life has slowed and I am getting reacquainted…

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Gluten Free Goats Cheese Cornbread

Gluten Free Goats Cheese Cornbread

There is something deeply comforting about a good cornbread, it has substance, is savoury but has a slight sweetness to it, the texture and flavour means it stands up well to thick soups, stews and chilli’s and on its own, still warm from the oven, slathered in butter it is a delight. Plain cornbread is great but on occasion it is nice to guild the lily a bit and add some extra flavours. I was…

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Homemade Easter Eggs

Here is a repost on home made Easter Eggs. The best way to make sure that the treat you eat or are gifting to a celiac friend is gluten free is to make it your self. Source some gluten free chocolate for the shell and gluten free treats, gf jelly beans would be my sweet of choice, to hide in the egg. I am not the biggest fan of chocolate, in terms of dairy based treats I am more of a cheese girl…

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Rachel Allen's Gluten Free Orange, Chocolate, Polenta Cake

Rachel Allen’s Gluten Free Orange, Chocolate, Polenta Cake

While I have no problem experimenting to find ways of adapting recipes to be gluten free it is sometimes nice  to find someone else has already done the work for and I can be sure the recipe is going to work without any trial or error. Rachel Allen’s cook books are reassuringly user friendly while still being full of interesting recipes. A great everyday book is  her Easy Meals, this is the book…

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Gluten Free Chocolate Chip Cookies

Gluten Free Chocolate Chip Cookies

If Valentines fell on the weekend you could go mad with hand made chocolates or an elaborate meal for the beloved in your life however it is a Tuesday and we are all either out at work or working from home while wrangling children, the bottom line is only a few  very committed people will have the energy or inclination to spend a few hours in the kitchen this evening prepping an intricate…

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Gluten Free Corn Bread

Gluten Free Corn Bread

My two weeks Christmas break from posting was extended due to flu, tiredness caused by the flu and a hectic return to work where two weeks break led to three weeks of manic catch up where I fell home every evening barely capable of putting a gluten free frozen pizza in the oven before collapsing on the couch. January has not been a fun month. To make things better and to use up ingredients in my…

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Gluten Free Trifle Sponge

Gluten Free Trifle Sponge

I can’t believe I almost forgot to re-post this very important Christmas recipe. I had a couple of grim years where there was no trifle for me as we couldn’t find a gluten free sponge that would stand up to soaking in sherry and being submerged in jelly. Proper old school trifle is my favourite desert, I don’t know why exactly but it ticks all the boxes required in a sweet to make me sigh…

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Gluten Free Mince Pies

Gluten Free Mince Pies

Once you have allowed your mincemeat to fully develop its flavour over a few weeks you can start on the mince pies. There is nothing like the smell of a baking mince pie, it is better than any Christmas scented candle for making your home smell festive. The pastry recipe here has always been my go to but this year I have been experimenting with psyllium husk instead of  xanthan gum and  I would…

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Gluten Free Mincemeat

 I should have posted this about two weeks ago but Christmas has just snuck up on me this year and I have absolutely nothing done, no mincemeat, no pudding and no cake. This means that the next few weeks are going to be busy but at least my kitchen will smell amazing.  Making your own mincemeat gives you so much control over what goes in to your pies. If you don’t like currants ( fruit of the…

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Gluten Free Pecan Pie

Gluten Free Pecan Pie

I had long believed  pecan pie to be a very complicated thing to bake but I am happy to report that I was very wrong. Using a recipe  adapted very easily for a gluten free diet from my go to resource for delicious food, Smitten Kitchen, I made what I think may be my favourite pie ever. The recipe  for the pie crust has an unusual proportion of butter to flour but creates an amazing pastry that…

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Gluten Free Pineapple Upside Down Cake

Gluten Free Pineapple Upside Down Cake

This post should be about a lovely warming ginger loaf, golden and studded with finely chopped stem ginger and glazed with ginger syrup, a bake that was beautifully soft on the day it was baked and then the next day it was fit only to be a doorstop, to say the recipe needs a bit of tweaking would be an understatement . While I work on that here is a repost of a very old fashioned cake but as…

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Rachel Allen's Rhubarb Crumble Cake Gluten Free

Rachel Allen’s Rhubarb Crumble Cake Gluten Free

We are properly into Autumn now so I am happily breaking out the big soft scarves, bookmarking all my favorite winter warmer dinners and planning all the deserts I can enjoy with a generous serving of warm custard as an extra indulgence. Stewed fruit, crumbles, pies, cobblers anything warm, puddingy and comforting that is what I am looking for to match this crisp cool weather. My boyfriends Mum…

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Chicken & Chorizo Bake

Chicken & Chorizo Bake

My Mum has been telling me about this Nigella Lawson recipe for quite a while now, apparently it is a winner every time she cooks it and is also a one tray wonder and I love those, the less washing up the better. When I looked this up online I thought the original recipe looked great but there were a few tweaks I wanted to make. Not that I would ever second guess the lovely Nigella I can’t think…

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Gluten Free Lemon Drizzle Cornmeal Muffins

Gluten Free Lemon Drizzle Cornmeal Muffins

  While I am a fan of luxurious deserts and cakes the Autumn does put me in the mind for something a  bit more substantial, cakes that are served with a pot of tea or a mug of coffee on a grey afternoon. I found the recipe for these lemon drizzle muffins while looking for things to do with the large bag of cornmeal I got while testing recipes for pizza dough which has been sitting in my baking…

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Gluten Free Raspberry & Pecan Brownies

Gluten Free Raspberry & Pecan Brownies

Yesterday was a truly miserable day that involved having to get off a bus ten minutes in to my trip because some eejit in an Audi TT decided to attempt to cut inside a bus while turning a corner, luckily no one was hurt but both vehicles were left wedged in place blocking traffic for hours. The rain alternated between a drenching mist and thundering downpour as I trudged home with my sneakers…

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Gluten Free Banana Bread

Gluten Free Banana Bread

My kitchen is suffering a plague of tiny, extremely irritating fruit flies and in an effort to get rid of them I have taken to keeping all my fruit and vegetables in the fridge, the downside of this is that I forget what produce I have and so I keep finding wrinkled old apples and weeping, leathery mangoes rolling around the vegetable crisper. This week I found three very black bananas and what…