Can anyone resist a cheese puff? Especially a gluten-free cheese puff? They're such delightful morsels. So tasty, so brilliant on a platter of nibbles, expecially with some spicy tomato relish as a dipping sauce. I've been trying to find out about the history of cheese puffs with little success. It looks like they've been around since the 1970s at least. They were probably served at parties … [Read more...]
Gluten-free Recipe: Ribbon Salad
Well, we're into the crazy part of the school year. This past week we've had the ballet concert, school concert and various final school assessments. Coming up is another school concert and an end-of-year ceremony. It's nuts. And school holidays are less than two weeks away. Yikes! I'm still recovering from the last holidays so have no plans in place for the summer. But somehow it will work out, I … [Read more...]
Gluten-free Recipe: Chocolate Apricot Balls
Okay, so this is a hit-and-run post. There's been a larger than usual gap between posts because, as you may have heard, South Australia has been receiving a terrible battering by Mother Nature lately. There was a State-wide black out last Wednesday. Unprecedented. Horrifically, even one of our major hospitals lost back-up power. Apparently the problem was a weather system coming from Antarctica … [Read more...]
Gluten-free Recipe: Cornish Pasties
Approximately one quarter of me is Cornish. Of all the different heritages that I have (English, Irish, Scottish, German, Swedish), I'm more Cornish than anything else. It probably explains why I don't have legs like a thoroughbred racehorse. If only... My maternal Grandfather was a full-blooded Cornishman born in Australia to parents who carried on the great Cornish tradition of working in the … [Read more...]
Gluten-free Recipe: Cheesy Pumpkin Scrolls
It's no secret that I don't dabble in gluten-free bread recipe development. It's not because I don't like bread. Geez, I LOVE bread. With lashings of butter, of course. But, as I say, "stick to your strengths." I just don't have the right touch for bread making. I can chuck a bread packet mix in the bread maker. No problems with that. But if I'm not using a bread maker, it's a lost cause. So … [Read more...]