Inspiring friendly recipes and thoughts

One of the real challenges of catering for allergies is finding suitable ready made products in the supermarket without spending hours walking up and down aisles, reading virtually every label.

One of the highlights of eating at Pizza Express seems to be the dough balls (and you can buy them at huge expense in supermarkets) – they are warm, light and very moreish! However, if you th…

This sweet and tangy bean salad knocks the socks off any shop bought (or horrors of horrors, tinned) offering.

Yet more cookies from me! These very chocolaty cookies are quite substantial and would work perfectly with a cup of oat milk to wash them down… Double Chocolate Chip Cookies (dairy-free, egg-…

Little S wanted to take in some biscuits/cakes that her lovely teacher could enjoy too (Mrs L doesn’t eat gluten and I’m not very practiced at gluten-free cake making), so I reverted ba…

I had an hour before the girls got home from school and the snack options were looking pretty non-existent – I seem to have stopped buying a lot of snacks with all the baking I’ve been …

The girls have always been rather interested in the concept of S’mores, probably from coming across the term in TV programmes.

I bought the most lovely bunch of radishes the other day …and as they don’t keep very well I had to think up a way of using them as quickly as possible.

This is a fabulous, green and vibrant soup – perfect if you have a couple of courgettes hanging about and not much else.

Big S has been really unwell this weekend, so she gets to eat what she wants when she wants – sometimes any food is good.

These are the perfect cupcake if you like chocolate, and I mean REALLY like chocolate! Rich, chocolatey and decadent – think Austrian chocolate Sacher-torte rather than super super sweet cupc…

My success with a rather delicious salt and vinegar popcorn recipe has spurred me on try some others….

I was alerted to this rather surprising fact the other day.

So we’ve dragged Big S off the sofa a bit earlier than we should to spend the weekend at a local festival….

The next few days will be spent recovering from the festival (I know it was only one night but we made the critical mistake of forgetting it gets extremely cold at 3am, and so didn’t really s…

You may have noticed that I do quite like coconut (but only in sweet recipes, I have yet to find a savoury coconut dish that I love) so coconut macaroons had to be on the ‘to try’ list.

It’s the 4th July and in honour of my American readers I’ve decided to give a Brit’s take on a classic American meal – dairy, egg and nut-free of course.