What are you doing to raise awareness of coeliac disease for Coeliac awareness week - The gluten free challenge? Find out more about the Gluten Free Challenge on the Coeliac UK website. This week, from 14 - 20 May 2012, is Coeliac Awareness Week and the theme, as discussed above, is The Gluten free Challenge. Well, I can handle that. Surely? As a hardened allegen avoider … [Read more...]
Delicious Gluten Free Freedom Cookies
A few weeks ago I made these cookies for my mum, who had just cooked my husband and I a delicious roast chicken dinner, with special gravy and stuffing just for me of course. I learnt how to make them at the Cookability cookery course in London and fell in love. I've never made cookies before this so it was a whole new experience for me. These cookies are made using hardly … [Read more...]
Delicious quinoa crackers – discovered in Portugal!
In a recent blog about Allergy lessons learnt on holiday in Portugal I forgot to mention these delicious new crackers I found in one of the supermarkets. I've never seen them in the UK but they're called Le pain des fleurs" and are produced in France . The ingredients are not in English so I hadn't tried them until today, wanting to translate each item to ensure it's safe. The … [Read more...]
A twist on gluten free cake-in-a-mug – mesquite flour!
One of my favourite treats on a cold miserable day is to cook cake-in-a-mug, which is quick, easy and tasty. You may have seen previous posts about this, both a normal version with plain flour and a gluten free version. I wanted to share with you a new amazing new flour that I've just discovered because it added a real zing to this clever, quick, cake treat. Today I made … [Read more...]
Novak Djokovic goes gluten free – unbeaten ever since!
Very timely that news should hit the broadsheets of Novak Djokovic's rise to success being down to his diagnosis with Coeliac Disease (CD) and subsequent change of diet to gluten free, right in the middle of Coeliac Awareness week! You can read one of the many articles in the Independent, "Is a gluten-free diet behind Djokovic's smash success?". In the sub heading the … [Read more...]