Nut / Dairy / Egg / Soya Free

Chocolate Icing for Kids (dairy free)

January 7, 2013

This dairy-free icing is perfect for kid’s tastebuds or adults who have a sweet tooth. It’s the chocolate icing I made for my Dairy-free Easy Quick Light Chocolate Cakes here. You can increase the amount of cocoa powder, turning it less sweet and more of a darker-tasting chocolate. One of the difference when using dairy-free […]

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Doughnuts Yeast or Baking Powder? (dairy & egg free)

January 3, 2013

These two types of doughs were my first attempt at making egg and dairy free doughnuts for allergy kid yesterday. The base for these were taken from a recipe using baking powder kindly sent by Andrew using mash potato. Doughnut recipes whether they’re a yeast version or use baking powder contain eggs normally, eggs in […]

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Chipotle sauce – spicy smoky versatile dressing for meat, vegetables, salads

October 20, 2012

I gave this sauce to Nicola mixed in the black-eye bean salad last weekend, and to Monica to add it to her fish dish this weekend and both of them raved about this sauce. Monica who loves everything chili would happily add it to all her food. A very versatile sauce can be used to […]

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14 Today – Happy Birthday!

July 21, 2012

This is the face of a 14 year old, “no photos!” I had to go back to last year to find these photos I had managed to sneak in a “click”, otherwise looking through my library you would think allergy kid vanished from my life. She’s at that stage of what I call a proper […]

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In Search Of Yeast Cake For Allergy Kid

January 17, 2012

I want to make allergy kid a cake. I’ve made allergy kid cakes in the past and if you have various allergies this is a good blog, Eggless Baking, but the recipes for cake which don’t have egg will have things like nuts or soya. The recipes that don’t have any ingredient on her allergy-intolerant […]

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Dan Lepard’s Slider Buns with Buffalo Burger

November 11, 2011

Dan asked Luc, Fergus and I to do a home trial of his slider buns coming out tomorrow in his Guardian column, Luc’s results are here, and Fergus’ buns are here. What’s so different about these buns? It’s the method, using a roux method. I first heard about this from a blogger friend Sunflower […]

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Raspberry Ice-Cream (Dairy free, Soya free, Egg free)

January 15, 2011

This dairy free ice-cream has the most delicious raspberry flavour, it satisfied my oldest daughter who can detect a non-dairy product miles away. From a flavour point of view you can not tell it’s dairy-free. The texture is not quite that of a rich velvety dairy one, it’s a cross between a sorbet and an […]

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Gabriela’s Oat Cookies: dairy-free, soya-free, egg-free, nut-free

December 10, 2010

These are my 12 year old daughter’s cookies, she makes them all the time and in fact the ones without the raisins on this post are ones she’s made. The difficulty when having to find a recipe for egg-free, dairy-free and other exclusions is to find something that taste as good as normal ones. These […]

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Egg-free and Dairy-free Chicken Goujons (Chicken Nuggets)

October 30, 2010

When I made these goujons for my daughters’ lunch today I had the plate above by the kitchen window ready for photographing. When the oldest and middle daughter walked into the kitchen and saw them they both said, “Why don’t you serve a plate of chicken nuggets to us like this?” and then the oldest […]

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