This cake is shamelessly taken from my son's Year 9 cooking lessons. It's light, delicious and the sugar on top gives it such a pleasing crunch! My version is dairy-free and vegetarian as standard and I have given gluten-free and vegan alternatives. Enjoy! And tag me into a photo if you try this. #Appleandcinnamoncake #cake #dairyfreecake #recipe #allergies #dietaryrequirements #allergies #applecake #productioncatering

We were at a restaurant that we had eaten at before, the week before lockdown started actually. I imagine you can see where this is going already, knowing me as you do! And my son, the allergic one, specifically asked if we could go back because he liked the food and he hadn't had a reaction. You remember these things. The server last night was helpful and checked with the kitchen that a burger was OK and that they would swap the bun and coleslaw for bacon and cucumber. Th

My friend Virginija gave me this recipe. It's the closest thing to eating bread that I have found after going low carb a few years ago and I love it. I've completely ruined my low-carb eating plan by eating so many desserts - occupational hazard of cooking for people! I'm going to get back on it properly and this will help. If you try it, please let me know how you get on. Take a look at my You Tube channel @wombieskitchen to see a video of me making it if you get stuck or

Have you heard of the milk ladder? Its a 12 step programme to try and re-introduce milk into the diet of a child with a milk allergy. The one we tried had 12 steps and starts with very small amounts of baked dairy as that makes for the smallest reaction. Step12, the goal, is fresh milk. When Nathan was 9, with our consultants and Nathan's consent, we tried the ladder. Steps one and two were passed with flying colours. You have no idea how happy that made us, the possibil

I made and packed over 60 Afternoon Teas boxes in June. I hit the right month to launch them, the weather was great and Father's Day was coming up. I was showcased on a local Instagram page (Wormley & Turnford Big Local) and a couple of customers had ordered early Afternoon Tea's and had posted great pictures of them. It all added up to a perfect storm of me working all day every day for a couple of weeks. I am not complaining and it was unsustainable! Each person gets th

I love looking back at what I was doing a year ago, it reminds me how much has changed and how I could never have predicted what was coming next.  For an ex-Project Manager, planning my own life since taking voluntary redundancy has been an almost impossible task! For the last 2 years I have, with my husband and friend Vicki, volunteered at our kids Scout Group to cook for their annual 4 day Group Camp for 80+ children, family and Leaders. I was asked to head this up a few ye

We eat a lot of salmon in our house, the boys have them as fish fingers, we have it with steamed vegetables, in a curry, in a stir fry or baked with garlic and spring onions as shown below This recipe will take you no longer than 25 minutes to prepare and cook. Serve with new potatoes, rice or with a salad, it's delicious. #moodboostingfood #positivitybubble #dairyfreesalmon #healthyeating #cookathome #glutenfreesalmon #nutfreesalmon #dietaryrequirements #allergies #cooking

My son has been dairy allergic since birth. We once took him to Pizza Express and it made us realise how bad his allergy was when he had a reaction from the fumes in the restaurant. That might seem a really obvious outcome if you have family who have allergies and at the time, when we were so new to it all we hadn't realised. Pizza is clearly something we stayed away from until we were away on holiday with my husbands family in Wales (I dislike Wales a lot, another story) a

This is great for people on a low carb eating plan or those who are gluten intolerant / coeliac.  It holds as well as pizza and tastes great.  You choose how much garlic and chilli you add and I warn you now, it takes some time and uses many pans so be patient. #dairyfree #nutfree #glutenfree #vegan #vegetarian #dietaryrequirements #allergies #lowcarb #keto #homecooking #positivitybubble #italianfood #pizza

Trust me these aren't rock like in the slightest. If you have kids in Year 7 of the local senior school the chances are that your child has come home with these. They're really nice and very moreish. My kids don't like the same dried fruit so we left adding this till the end, split the mixture into two and added raisins into one half and glace cherries into the other. PS - My 11 year old made these with minimal supervision, I haven't actually made them myself! PPS - I haven

Pancakes were one of the first things my dairy allergic son learned to cook on his own.  He loved making them and was so chuffed he could make something himself. He would only have been 4 or 5. These are light and fluffy, I love that when you’re cooking these and turn them over that they puff up right before your eyes. Just remember pancakes are not just for breakfast or pancake day! Also, these are perfect to make with young children, they’ll love you for it!  Just supervise

Have you ever tried making omelettes to order for upwards of 200 people? This is what we were asked to do for a Christening event last Autumn, it was a crazy afternoon as two of us with 4 mobile hobs tried to make omelettes and pancakes to order! Since the omelette's have become my go to meal when I don't have anything else planned for lunch or when all the brekfast fruit has run out and I don't want to brave the shops, especially right now. #positivitybubble #cookwithkids #

Fruit with yoghurt and honey. This is another meal I picked up in Greece. I was a few months into my low carb eating and really struggling with breakfast. We arrived on one of the Islands quite early in the morning and went to a restaurant overlooking the sea and for the first time I tried fruit with yoghurt. I wasn’t a fan previously, whilst travelling many years before, my husband would often have fruit for breakfast and it just didn’t appeal. I am now a convert and ha

Just cooked wraps are warm and delicious, they are naturally vegan and nut free and can be filled with anything you like making it a great meal for lunch. They are also brilliant for kids to get involved in making, very messy! Recipe from the River Cottage Handbook which has a whole host of flour based recipes. Name : Wraps Makes : 8 Preparation Time : 20 minutes Cooking Time : 2 - 3 mins each Ingredients 250g Plain white flour 5g Salt 150 ml Water 1 glug Sourdough starter i

A delicious meal using lamb neck meat. Can be a meal in itself or served with bread.

This is a naturally dairy free, nut free and vegetarian recipe from Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall. It's great, if your diet allows, with some bacon / Chorizo, cheese or stuffed pasta. Name : Chachouka Serves : 4 Preparation Time : 20 minutes Cooking Time : 40 minutes Ingredients 2 - 3 tbsp - Rapeseed oil (Or your usual cooking oil) 1 tbsp Cumin seeds 2 large - Onions - white or red (Halved and slice longways) 4 - 6 Garlic cloves (Minced) 1 - 2 Chillies (Optional.  If you’re us

My thoughts on cooking gluten free after years of dairy free cooking and how stressful it was.

A brief look at life with an allergic child, how over time while some things get easier some don't, they grow up and become more independent