Lucy's Friendly Foods979 recipes
Inspiring friendly recipes and thoughts
Magic Chocolate Sauce
Do you remember a chocolate sauce back in the 80s that magically turned into a hard shell on contact with cold ice cream – was it called ‘Ice magic’? Anyway, this rich and sumptuo…
Knockout Pear and Almond pastries (aka Jalousie aux Poires)
It worked! I am so, so pleased! :-) My second foray into making French patisserie (as taught by the wonderful Claire Clark when she was a teacher at Le Cordon Bleu) but egg and dairy-free, has turn…
Red Velvet Cupcakes
It’s Big S’s ‘Saint Day’ today, providing the perfect excuse to bake some cupcakes! Most Brits don’t celebrate Saint/name days, but since we have a French half of the …
Rosemary Focaccia
I’ve always rather liked the idea of baking my own bread, but had some rather limited success in the past.
Mmmm, Chocolate Truffles
Fabulous dairy-free, rich and decadent chocolate truffles that are perfect for that after-dinner treat.
Vegetarian Paella
I’ve recently been lucky enough to have been given some lovely tapas dishes and it’s inspired me to cook more Spanish food.
Banana Sundae Cupcakes
We were out of sweet treats so it was the perfect excuse for baking some delectable cupcakes for Big and Little S to have at tea time.
Dairy, egg, sesame and nut free products
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.
Dough Balls
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…
Sweet Balsamic Bean Salad
This sweet and tangy bean salad knocks the socks off any shop bought (or horrors of horrors, tinned) offering.
Double Chocolate Chip Cookies
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-…
Super-duper Gooey Chocolate flapjacks
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…
Blueberry and Banana Cake
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 …
S’mores Bars (vegan too!)
The girls have always been rather interested in the concept of S’mores, probably from coming across the term in TV programmes.
Radish Slaw
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.