tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-68378887090051785462024-03-13T12:45:53.701+00:00Something TastyThe Wallace family recipe bookIanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14544162121863350560noreply@blogger.comBlogger14125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6837888709005178546.post-13098426178488103182011-05-31T23:57:00.002+01:002011-06-01T00:25:21.140+01:00Tired of rice and spudsI've been looking for a few carb alternatives of late, as rice for lunch and dinner, main and dessert can get a bit tedious and spuds are traditional but unexciting. Quinoa is a good alternative for pepping up lunchtime salads at work, polenta left to set provides a reasonably interesting texture to go with cooked chicken and veg, but the allure of amaranth, for all its super-grain properties, Ianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14544162121863350560noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6837888709005178546.post-3652929551791661452009-09-09T20:57:00.004+01:002009-09-09T21:09:16.054+01:00Gluten-free suppliersIf I'm going to list prescription suppliers then I may as well list non-prescription suppliers of gluten-free foods too.Tilquhillie Fine Foods - very good for GF porrige oatsGreen's Gluten-Free Beers - an excellent variety of GF beers of all sorts of strengths. I was a frequent orderer at first but I think my taste for beer, and tolerance of alcohol in general, has taken a nosedive.Mrs Crimbles -Ianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00961794896220387109noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6837888709005178546.post-28927188449772226652009-08-07T10:33:00.002+01:002009-08-07T10:49:04.394+01:00Prescription listsHere are the various prescription lists for the various gluten-free food providers:Coeliac UK Prescribable Product ListFree-from list of all prescribable foodsOrgran prescription listJuvela prescription listDietary Specials prescription listLivwell prescription listIanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00961794896220387109noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6837888709005178546.post-79087234903188025262009-04-30T18:12:00.003+01:002009-04-30T18:26:30.448+01:00Spicy Dipping SauceThis is a Paul and Jeanne Rankin recipe from their little Hot and Spicy book. Sharon made it to go with some chilli chicken puffs but I used the leftover sauce as an impromptu stir-fry sauce with some chicken and it was spot on.Ingredients1 tbsp rice wine vinegar1 tbsp sugar1 1/2 to 3 tbsp chilli sauce2 tsp finely chopped garlic1 tsp white pepper3 tbsp Worcestershire sauce100ml fresh orange Ianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00961794896220387109noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6837888709005178546.post-15193957795121823582009-01-16T21:32:00.002+00:002009-01-20T21:49:20.142+00:00That bloated feelingSince the New Year I've definitely felt a change for the worse. The bloated, bagged-up feeling that I used to have before being diagnosed seems to have made a return. The two main changes to diet I can think of are:I'm now eating loaves made with the Juvela fibre mix - could the gluten-free wheat starch (within the Codex limit) be a cause?I've almost cut out sweets and chocolate since before Ianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00961794896220387109noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6837888709005178546.post-24612856198880963272008-09-30T21:42:00.005+01:002008-09-30T22:29:39.541+01:00Gluten-Free Fish and ChipsSharon had left early to go through to Kilmalcolm, the boys were bored and annoying each other (and me) and I had to ccok fish for the tea. I really fancied fish and chips, one of my favourite meals of pre-coeliac diagnosis days, did a quick search on the Internet and came up trumps with this recipe for a battered fish that really did the business. It's great when the Internet can be used for Ianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00961794896220387109noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6837888709005178546.post-33057005663947821862008-08-09T10:45:00.003+01:002008-08-09T10:53:36.740+01:00Pork Belly and Aubergine in a Tamarind CurrySharon and the boys are in Ireland this week so I've been fending for myself. I'm no stranger to doing that but Sharon had taken all the good curry cookbooks with her so I had to trawl the web to find a variation on the Sri Lankan pork belly and tamarind curry that she recently cooked from the fabulous Australian Women's Weekly New Curries cookbook. I found something that was close and amended itIanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00961794896220387109noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6837888709005178546.post-734662677983732712008-04-08T13:04:00.002+01:002008-08-09T09:42:52.715+01:00Warbecks RestaurantAs I mentioned in a previous post, the bane of my life when eating out is the double header of having to ask the "is it gluten-free" question and then having to decide whether or not I trust the answer.We ate at Warbecks in Falkland, Fife, the other night and it made a pleasant change for the chef to seek me out and explain their approach to storing, preparing, cooking and serving the gluten-freeIanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00961794896220387109noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6837888709005178546.post-36567196192818577682008-03-31T16:43:00.008+01:002009-12-07T12:50:04.188+00:00If you are cooking for meWhen eating out or eating unlabelled food there are two aspects to establishing whether or not the food is safe for a coeliac to eat. One aspect is to ask the question "is this gluten-free?" of the server. The other, trickier, aspect is whether or not you trust the answer, especially when it is "yes".People generally don't know what gluten-free (GF) means, so here is a quick guide to the obvious Ianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00961794896220387109noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6837888709005178546.post-64307405110172719292008-01-29T13:37:00.001+00:002008-08-09T09:48:11.920+01:00Do you keep a cow?We seem to be approaching something of a milk crisis in our house. Every second day breakfast can be a fraught affair as the last drops of milk are shared out between the cereal bowls. Why do we never have enough milk in?You cannot underestimate the milk consumption of three growing boys and two adults. So many were the plastic cartons I was depositing at the dump one day last summer that an old Ianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00961794896220387109noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6837888709005178546.post-69592916741885280082007-12-18T13:35:00.005+00:002008-12-11T05:32:10.497+00:00Fish with Green Papaya SaladWhen I was young, salad was never an attractive proposition. In our household it featured a few lettuce leaves and some tomatoes. That was the extent of it, undressed and usually as an accompaniment to cold chicken. I can even remember the first time I tasted cucumber, on sandwiches, in the back room of the hut at Meikelriggs, home of Ferguslie Cricket Club, where we had been invited to sit down Ianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00961794896220387109noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6837888709005178546.post-24812719277807686272007-12-16T11:10:00.001+00:002008-12-11T05:32:10.932+00:00Thai Fish CakesSeeing as Sharon trailed this recipe I may as well put it up. I can remember the first time I saw Rick Stein make these on TV and saying he reckoned they would become one of his most popular recipes. I immediately tracked down the recipe!Tod nam pla as these small, moreish fish cakes are known, are often absent from the menus of Thai restaurants or, more frustratingly, written down but scored outIanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14544162121863350560noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6837888709005178546.post-18381326491854917272007-12-14T11:05:00.001+00:002008-08-09T09:49:22.800+01:00Whats for tea, Muuuuuuhm?The usual war cry from Finn! Sitting here thinking about what to cook the boys for lunch today when I get them home. With Ian's coeliac disease and Sean's ongoing problems, I think I am more aware of the amount of wheat in the boys diet, cereals, sandwiches, rolls, pasta, etc. So I am trying to avoid sandwiches (again) for lunch.More importantly, I am very excited about dinner tonight! Ian is Sharonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09239276998810984227noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6837888709005178546.post-82551931500780711112007-12-13T21:03:00.001+00:002008-08-09T09:50:39.274+01:00What would you like for dinner?"Something tasty!" is the glib answer in our household.Does the world need another food blog? Probably not. This is really an extension of our family site, TartanShamrock, and an attempt to digitise the little black book that indexes and contains recipes we've tried and tested over the last few years.Increasingly I am finding the Internet is a more convenient source for locating new and Ianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14544162121863350560noreply@blogger.com0