I had such a delicious breakfast this morning.
Creamy Rice & Dried Fruit
Pre cooked brown rice from the fridge
Dried cranberries
Dried blueberries
A little sprinkle of coconut sugar
Place the rice, coconut milk, and dried fruit into a bowl and heat it up in the microwave. Once at desired temperature sprinkle with coconut sugar and eat
MANGO MADNESS
Well it’s mango madness time of the year here in the tropics and I sure am loving all these fresh mangoes. Most years we freeze a whole heap of mango cheeks and use them throughout the year, but this year we won’t have the freezer space so we are in overdrive drying as many as we can.
We can’t dry all the mangos, we do have to eat them fresh as well. Fresh mango and cherry salad with coconut cream seems to be on the cards for me most days for afternoon tea.
The girls are hooking into the mango smoothies, and Matt is eating them chilled straight off the cheek.
MANGO SMOOTHIE
1 Mango peeled and cut
then blend and chill. Delish
What is your favourite way to eat mangoes?
Do you have a great DF, GF mango recipe?
Ok here is something ridiculously simple yet it is one of my favourite lunches. This one is good for the working person that needs to get lunch ready quickly or for those that want a quick fix for dinner. I often have this for lunch at work where I am the generally the only one there and need to answer phones and serve customers.
Veg and Tuna
1 bowl of frozen vegies
1 small can of tuna
Herbamare seasoning
Heat the bowl of vegies to desired temperature. Season with Herbamare seasoning and then place the can of tuna on the top.
It’s as easy as that, now all you have to do is find the time to eat it.
When you start on a new way of eating you go through cravings for the things you used to be able to eat. This is quite normal, food is addictive and you have become accustomed to that way of eating. I am no different. I like pizza but only good pizza, I don’t really like the big chain pizza companies. I’ve been making home-made pizza for some time now but it was time to change the recipe so that it was GF and DF. Adapting the recipe to be GF was the easy part, but what about all that cheese that goes on top? Replacing that stumped me for a little while then I remembered, one of the big chain companies puts egg on their pizza. What if I made an egg and coconut milk mixture for the top of my pizza?
Pizza
1 packet of Laucke GF easy Bakers bread
I mixed this packet according to the instructions and found that it was a little wet so I just added coconut flour till it was at a right consistence to roll out.
1 packet of bread made 2 pizzas
Tomato Paste
Cut up vegetables of your choice
2 eggs whisked with an equal amount of coconut cream (this is for the replacement of cheese)
Roll out your dough and place on a pizza tray, spread on the tomato paste and add your toppings (not the egg mix yet). Place your pizza in the oven and then pour the egg mix over the top. Cook till golden brown. You are now ready to eat your very own home made pizza.
The fridge is starting to look a little bare, it’s almost time to go out and do the groceries. But before I do let’s use up what’s in the fridge. I asked the kids to make a salad to go with our chicken wings so that when we got back from our ride we could eat dinner. There was no lettuce! What would we do? The content of our fridge was something like this,
Cucumber
Tomato
Celery
Broccoli
Cauliflower
Sweet potato (we didn’t use)
Brown onion (we didn’t use)
The girls made the nicest salad with the above ingredients. All were used raw, with a little salt and pepper. The broccoli and cauliflower were chopped into fairly small pieces. Yummo thanks girls you are the best!
We are heading out of town for the weekend and when we go away I like to do most of my prep work before I go so that I can enjoy the weekend away as well. Getting together with family and friends always means stacks of food and plenty of drinks. This is a nice light refreshing snack or meal that will keep nicely in the fridge for 24hours.
Fresh Spring Rolls
1 packet rice paper
Lettuce shredded
Carrot grated
Celery julienne
Sprouts
Fresh mint
Chicken breasts diced (you can use any meat or sea food)
Your favourite seasoning (I like herbamare seasoning)
Coconut oil for cooking
I don’t have exact quantities on the ingredients because it all depends on how much of each you like in your roll. You can add any other ingredient or take out any, depending on your tastes.
Prepare all your salad ingredients and place them in individual containers so that you can put a little of each in your roll.
Dice your chicken breasts and coat in your favourite seasoning. Heat some coconut oil in a frypan or wok and cook you meat. Allow this to cool before you put together your rolls.
Follow the instructions on the packet of rice paper and make your rolls.
Dipping Sauce
2 Tbsp. Fresh Lime juice
1 tbsp. Fish sauce
1 tbsp. Water
1 tbsp. Sweet chilli sauce
2 Tsp Fresh grated ginger
2 cloves of crushed garlic
Crushed Almonds
Put all the ingredients into a jar and close the lid, now it’s time to shake shake shake. You are now ready to sit down with your family and friends and have a magnificent feast.
At the moment, we are right into having ‘happy hour’ with family and friends and lots of nibbles for lunch and dinner. So when I started Gluten-free (GF) and Dairy-free (DF) I couldn’t have any of the mass produced dips. So I trawled the Internet and found some that were GF & DF. I made them according to the original instructions, though with time I adapted them to suit our tastes.
Cashew dip (humus)
1 Cup unsalted Cashews (soaked for 2-3 hours in water)
1 1/2 Lemons juiced
1/2 Orange juiced
1 tsp Crushed Garlic
1/2 tsp Herbamare seasoning
Strain the cashews and place them into a blender or a long jug (for stick blenders). Add the rest of the ingredients and blend till smooth and creamy.
Place in the fridge to cool and then serve.
Picture: Almond spread and Cashew Dip
Why soak the Cashews?
Well there are a couple of reasons for doing so and the most obvious is to soften the nut. The other reason is that cashews (nuts) contain enzyme inhibitors and by soaking them you neutralize these enzyme inhibitors and help encourage the production of beneficial enzymes. By doing this you increase your vitamin (especially vitamin B) intake.
I have been having this huge craving for iced coffee, which is peculiar for me because before starting this diet I couldn’t even drink coffee due to really bad stomach cramps which would last a couple of hours. After going gluten and dairy free for about 2 months I thought I would give coffee a go and ‘wa lah’ no more cramps.
1 shot of nespresso coffee
Rice, Almond, Coconut milk
Combine the two ingredients and mix well. I then like to place it in the freezer for a couple of hours to get nice and icy. Mix well again (should look like a slushy) and then drink up. This is sooooo good.
