Wild Caught Scallops wrapped in shaved Bacon Suitable for the Diabetic, Lactose, Gluten and Fructose (FODMAP) Intolerant Diet Spring is here, the fruit trees are breaking into flower and there is an abundance of spring salad greens growing wild in the vegetable garden. Time for some great superfood packed salads and some fresh wild caught…
Foods for health. Cooking tips for diabetics, gluten and lactose intolerant and fructose malabsorption.
Healthy foods to support the immune system. It is very important that fruits and vegetables are organically grown and as fresh as you can possibly get them. I grow almost all of the vegetables that I eat, I swap produce with my neighbours and friends who live close by and choose to grow organic produce. If…
Dumplings – Gluten free, Lactose free and FODMAP friendly
Savoury Gluten free Dumplings It is almost winter here on Bruny Bruny Island Tasmania and its time for some great winter comfort food. As the colder weather has been approaching my thoughts have been about dumplings, light, fluffy savoury dumplings like the ones my Nana used to make. Hmm… how to go about this, can I…
Mussels Bouillon with Saffron: a low fodmap, diabetic, gluten and lactose intolerant recipe
Living on an island gives access to a vast array of fresh seafood. At this time of year, mussels are in abundance. The water in the bay is so fresh and clear the tides are very low and the late afternoon is the perfect time to walk around the tidal flats collecting mussels and shellfish for…
Low fodmap gluten free Chicken Parma
Even though it seems the spring rains will never cease the orchard is full of fragrant blossoms. The chickens are productive and broody soon there will be a new generation to give eggs and meat for the table. It’s time to use the remnants of the autumn harvest in the freezer to make way for…
Organic Lean Beef Stir Fry with Bell Peppers
Having come by some lovely lean organic beef, a stir fry is on the menu with fresh organic bell peppers, carrots and broccolini stems. This recipe is delicious even with the absence of garlic and onion of any kind. It is suitable for people who are diabetic, gluten intolerant, lactose intolerant and follow the low…
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…
Low Fodmap: Cooking tips
There was a certain something, texture, thickening and binding of flavours that I missed once I no longer started a recipe with sautéing onion and garlic. At first I thought it was just the flavour of the garlic that was missing. I was so used to always starting a savoury or main meal recipe 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…
Mussels: a tasty Kilpatrick style dish for the FODMAP diet
I am fortunate by design to live on an island where fresh seafood is abundant and safe to harvest, a short walk through the paddock to the beach takes me to a wild mussel bed where I can collect the largest and most delicious mussels I have ever found. The mussel bed is only accessible…
Ginger and the Culinary Arts
Ginger is rich in vitamins and minerals, it contains a large proportion of the digestive enzyme Zingibain and has a plethora of therapeutic and culinary uses. Ginger aids the digestion and eases the digestive system, it has been used for loss of appetite, flatulence, rumbling or gurgling sound of gas in the intestines, spasmodic gastric…
Using Saffron ‘the most expensive of spices’
Saffron was once worth more than gold and is still the most expensive spice, I use saffron in quite a few of my recipes, so I thought I would write a little about this precious spice. Saffron, Crocus sativus has been used medicinally, in food and rituals for millennia, the pharaohs of Egypt reputedly used saffron…
Garlic in the Fodmap Diet
Flavoured Oils have been around for millennia. Cooks have been preparing flavoured oils for centuries in many countries including Italy and Greece. The ancient Egyptians used oils infused with spices and herbs to enhance the flavour of their foods, assist in the storage of harvested produce and to embalm (preserve) their dead. I will cover some…
Gourmet Cooking for the Fodmap Diet
Food is essential to life and one must eat to nurture the body and the mind. Food at it’s best should appeal to the senses of taste, scent and sight. Food has always been an essential ingredient of family and social life. I consider it important to eat fresh, tasty food and share the wealth…
The Low Fodmap Gourmet 