These boozy chocolate treats are usually served down under at Christmas. Fruit, soaked in rum is a definite and there is no substitute. I like to use OP Bundaberg rum. My boys jokingly say that you shouldn’t drive after eating my rum balls. My grand mother’s and mothers recipe for rum balls used Wheet-Bix as…
Sourdough
Last year, like others around the world, I started trying to make sourdough bread. Not just wheat based, but gluten free sourdough bread. I learnt to make wheat bread when I was pregnant with my first child. He’s now 29 and I’m still making wheat bread. Once I had a bread machine, which was convenient,…
Not all flours are created equal
So, now you can’t use wheat flour and you were wondering what happens next. The bad news is that you can’t just replace wheat flour with one gluten free flour. For example, just replacing your plain wheat flour with say rice flour, won’t work. This is because wheat flour has this magical ingredient, gluten, that…
Cannelle et Vanille
So excited to receive the new cookbook by Aran Goyoaga in the post today. I have her first cookbook, which I love, and the new one looks amazing. I love baking, so I can’t wait to start baking from Cannelle et Vanille Bakes Simple. Looking through the cookbook, it covers the basics of baking, going…
Going gluten free – in the beginning
I’ve always had a dodgy stomach, and 20 years ago I discovered I was coeliac. Back then, the only cookbooks I could get in Australia I had to get through Amazon from America. There was very little in the way of gluten free food available in supermarkets and we stopped going out to dinner because…
Cook gluten free with me 