Intermittent fasting hit the headlines last year, and hit fever pitch when Horizon broadcasted a programme by Dr Michael Mosley called Eat, Fast and Live Longer, which was watched by two and a half million people. IF is based on the premise that short periods of fasting enable you to shift weight and change shape […]
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Gluten-Free & Dairy-Free Mexican Food at Wahaca
Recently Wahaca has been focusing on street food. The signs outside the restaurants shout it out, the menus are built around it, and they even bring you Street food specials (with 20p going towards street kids in Mexico City). Street food is nothing new. The population of Asia, South America and the Middle East have […]
Gluten-Free & Dairy-Free Ham & Pineapple Pizza
A while ago, I took Zoe to a pizza-making class at our local farmers’ market. Surrounded by other kids piling on different toppings, Zoe made a very simple pizza, using just pineapple and ham. I asked her whether she wanted to add peppers, tomatoes, mushrooms, or anything else, but she was very clear that she […]
Gluten-Free & Dairy-Free Small Plates at Polpo
Apparently Polpo is a bàcaro – that is the Venetian word to describe a humble restaurant serving simple food. But Polpo in Soho (and there are two more Polpos – in Covent Garden and Smithfield) is much, much more than that. The Polpo book has just become the surprise winner of the Waterstones Book of […]
Gluten-Free & Dairy-Free Pomegranate & Pistachio Cake
Yesterday, I woke up at 4am, pushed the curtains to one side, and took a quick look outside. It was one of those magical mornings, with whisps of morning mist, and all the signs that it was going to be a sunny day. I went back to sleep, thinking ‘I’ll make a picnic for lunch’. […]
Winner of Free Hamper of Gluten-Free Goodies Announced!
Using a highly technical procedure (ie the names in a big mixing bowl), the winner of the free hamper of gluten-free goodies is…. …. Lizzie Ellis. Please send me your address to grace @allergyfreecook.com and I’ll get the hamper sent to you. Congratulations! Many thanks to everyone for entering – and for the recipe suggestions. […]
Gluten-Free & Dairy-Free Kale Salad with Toasted Seeds
In my role at the publishers DBP, I have been working on a book that has just come out – Nourish: The Cancer Care Cookbook. Written by the team at Penny Brohn Cancer Centre and nutritionist Christine Bailey, it shows you how to create delicious meals, snacks and drinks that are packed with nutrients to […]
Free Hamper of Gluten-Free Goodies to Celebrate Coeliac Awareness Week!
This week is Coeliac Awareness Week – and I have a gluten-free hamper to give away (worth approximately £100)! Ugo Foods are offering a hamper filled with gluten-free goodies to give away to one lucky winner. This includes Asda’s new fresh chilled pasta and also Dell’Ugo’s fresh Chickpea Fusilli (winner at this year’s FreeFrom Awards which I wrote about), as […]
Gluten-Free & Dairy-Free Brazilian Food in Cabana
According to Nick Curtis in the Evening Standard last year, “The biggest London food trend… has already started. Cabana, the Brazilian grill…has stolen a march on the wave of Brazilian and Peruvian restaurants due to hit the capital.” In summer 2014 World Cup madness is due in Brazil, and then there’ll be the Rio 2016 […]
Gluten-Free & Dairy-Free Seedy Bread
Recently my publishers took some new photographs for the cover of the paperback version of Simply Gluten-Free & Dairy-Free. One of the recipes we tried was a bread recipe. I took the White Bread recipe that’s in the book and, in order to make it more visually punchy, added seeds to the recipe. This also […]