Soup

As the weather has been colder mum said that for dinner I could cook soup....I LOVE SOUP!!!

We didn’t actually have a recipe as we thought we could just use up what was in the fridge.

I started off by chopping and peeling carrots, sweet potatoes, parsnips and leeks into chunks as we would whizz it up after cooking. When mum got home I had to re-chop all the vegetables as apparently they were ‘too big’. We cooked the veg with coconut milk, vegetable stock and garlic. Near the end we added a tbsp of ‘Simply Add Chilli’ which is a sauce/ chutney, which would add even more flavour to the soup.

It was served with Gluten free rolls for me and baguette for the rest of my family.

Coconut cake with Lime icing

CAKE!!!!

Everybody loves cake, well in my house they do. So I thought to myself, why not try baking your first gluten free cake??

I chose to make coconut cake with lime icing (the only recipe my mum and I could agree on).

What a great choice it was! The recipe was exactly the same to a normal cake recipe apart from the fact that I was using gluten free flour.

The sponge turned out lovely and light and fluffy, it did have coconut cream in it which I had never used before, it was basically just extra thick coconut milk. The icing was really really good. It had the zingy lime flavour and was sprinkled with toasted desiccated coconut, which gave a lovely flavour.

This recipe came from ‘The Gluten Free Cookbook’ by Heather Whinney, Jane Lawrie and Fiona Hunter.

SAD NEWS!!

Firstly, I would like to apologise for not blogging for ages. I haven’t really had time.

Now, down to the reason why I’m writing this. I have recently been diagnosed with Ceoliac disease.

This is a life changing condition which limits what I can and can’t eat. Being Ceoliac means that I’m ‘allergic’ to gluten, wheat contains gluten, so that means no more wheat for me.

From now on I won’t be able to eat the same kind of flour as everybody else. Also I will have to start cooking with meat instead of using the vegetarian option Quorn, which the rest of my family use. This is not a problem, as unlike the rest of my family I am not a vegetarian.

Being Ceoliac has really made me aware of what I eat. I now have to use gluten free flour, or special flour, as my friend Emily calls it. The NHS has been really helpful and I now get a prescription for the food I need as it isn’t widely available.

If anyone out there is Ceoliac I would highly recommend the recipe book ‘The Gluten Free Cookbook’ by Heather Whinney, Jane Lawrie and Fiona Hunter. It helps you with everything, from how to properly clean your kitchen when you are first diagnosed to making pasta.