Part One: Lovage. When the range of foods that can be eaten is limited by dietary and food intolerances it is really important that it tastes good, smells good, looks good and is healthy. I have found that the use of fresh herbs and cooking techniques make all the difference. It is possible to create…
Category: Vegetarian Diet
Spinach Feta and Lions Mane Mushroom Frittata Slice
Frittata can be made from many healthy ingredients.This version is made from fresh garden vegetables and eggs.Serves 4 Ingredients Prep Method While the mixture is cooking its time to prepare the lions mane mushrooms To create your slice place a slice of mushroom on serving plate.Cut a slice of the frittata to cover the mushroom.Top…
Oyster Mushroom and Pesto Sauce with Avocado
There are more than 200 varieties of Oyster Mushrooms that grow in the wild throughout England, Ireland, Europe and Asia.Nearly all oyster mushrooms are edible however there are a few varieties that are poisonous look a-likes so please be sure to purchase cultivated mushrooms.If you wish to grow your own mushrooms make sure you buy…
Red Bell Peppers stuffed with White Oyster Mushrooms
Oyster Mushrooms are a fungus that grow in the wild on fallen decaying branches. They were first cultivated in Germany in 1917. Today they are readily available from local growers and supermarkets around the world. Oyster mushrooms come in many varieties and have multiple health and nutritional benefits. Ingredients Prep Method Serving SuggestionsBaked vegetables and…
Pumpkin a ‘superfood’
Pumpkin Recipes for lowfodmap, diabetic, vegan, lactose and gluten intolerant diets. Pumpkins are jam-packed full of essential vitamins and minerals, just one cup of cooked pumpkin contains over 200 percent of our recommended daily vitamin A requirements. It is low in cholesterol, high in fiber, rich in potassium, vitamins C, E, Riboflavin and Folate. The…
Warm Winter Salads: suitable for the low fodmap, diabetic, vegetarian, lactose and gluten intolerant diets
Warm winter salads are great with any dish, or as simple meal. In the colder months I crave fresh vegetable salads so I make a lot of warm salads with only very lightly cooked vegetables. The colour and slight crunch of the salads remind me of summer and the vitamins and minerals help to keep…
Moorish Winter food for the low fodmap, diabetic, vegetarian, lactose and gluten intolerant diets
It is only two weeks until it is officially winter, some of the trees in the orchard still have a few stray autumn leaves and the odd apple. The chickens are now free ranging through the orchard and the summer vegetable garden preparing the soil for new crops. The black birds are having a feast…
Roast Parsnip Soup
Roast Parsnip Soup with Cilantro (fresh coriander) and Lemongrass Suitable for the Low fodmap, diabetic, vegetarian, lactose and gluten intolerant diets. I really like this soup and just have to share. As mentioned in a previous post, parsnips grow wild from self seeded stock in my garden, they even grow through the weed mat on…
Low Fodmap Stock and Soups: for the vegetarian, diabetic, lactose and gluten intolerant diet. Part Two.
THE SOUP There is nothing quite like the taste of fresh picked vegetables from your own garden. Pick them when you want to cook them for the best flavour and highest vitamin and mineral content, the longer your vegetables sit around the more goodness leaves them. When I first moved to Bruny 20 years ago…
Low Fodmap Stock and Soups: for the vegetarian, diabetic, lactose and gluten intolerant diet. A two part blog.
Spring became autumn and summer only appeared for a few days this year. The Mountain Parrots are back in my orchard gorging on the fruit faster than it can be picked. Even though the summer season has not been a good one for many food crops the garden and orchard are still bountiful. Autumn is…
Carrots: Recipes for the low fodmap, diabetic, gluten and lactose intolerant diet.
It is well into spring on Bruny. Having raised my tomato plants from seed on my dining room table I decided it was time to plant them out in the hot-house. After a week of glorious weather a late season cold snap set in and a rare spring snow blanketed much of the island. The…
Low Fodmap: Quick and easy Tomato Sauce
Low fodmap quick and easy tomato sauce is an essential for a barbecue. Eat your heart out Mr Heinz. This sauce can be used as a base for pasta and on pizza or just simply as a dipping sauce. I love multi purpose recipes they save such a lot of time and are especially tasty…
Basil and Macadamia Pesto for a low fodmap diet.
Basil is one of my favourite herbs and its smell is most delicious. Basil aids digestion as well as adding fragrance and flavour to a dish. Basil is almost exclusively used in cooking today, though once it was highly prized for its medicinal uses and has been used for gastric problems such as poor digestion,…
Roast vegetable dip with antipasto: Suitable for diabetic, low fodmap, gluten and lactose free diets.
Roasted carrot, parsnip, basil and parsley dip with olives, cucumber and pickled chillies. Today I pulled up the last of the parsnips and a few carrots from the garden in between light showers. The sea breeze is chilly and still has a bite to it though the garden shows signs of spring, as I walk through the…
Winter Harvest: Oca
Today was one of those rare winter days, the sky a beautiful clear blue, the sun bright and warm, only a light breeze coming in across the bay and there are signs of an approaching spring. A few of the blueberry bushes are starting to flower and the bulbs in the orchard that used to…
The Tomato
Sadly this photo is the last of my fresh tomato harvest for this season, I suppose, given that it is well into winter I am lucky to still have a few fresh fruits, I have frozen at least 10 kilos of them and made a few dozen large jars of my favourite Italian Style Passata…
Spinach: one of natures vitamin pills.
The winter garden is sparse after a bountiful summer and autumn harvest, spinach and silver beet or swiss chard as it is often known, are an abundant source of winter greens. I have a mixture of different varieties of spinach and silver beet growing all year round and pick it fresh just before I need…
The Low Fodmap Gourmet 