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Dairy free life – stained glass Christmas biscuits

Dairy Free Stained Glass Christmas Biscuits

We’re on a bit of an economy drive this Christmas (to be honest, who isn’t?) and so the girls are making presents for people.  Not only does it give us something nice to do together but hopefully people appreciate the effort and something a bit personal.  At least I’m hoping they do.  Either way, . . . → Read More: Dairy free life – stained glass Christmas biscuits

Dairy free life – Christmas cookie jars

christmas cookie jars

I stumbled over this wonderful idea for Christmas presents from Domestic Goddesque – cookie mix in a jar ready to go.

It seemed to me to be the perfect mix of a fairly frugal gift, something practical to do with children and not another bit of plastic that probably wouldn’t survive until New Years.

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Dairy free life – testing, testing!

Littler with her first nutella

There are times when I wonder if Littler is pure, unadulterated trouble is a two foot high vehicle.  She just seems to be able to create a degree of trouble that her bigger sister has never even considered let alone put into execution.

It turns out that Littler, in true Littler style, decided to be . . . → Read More: Dairy free life – testing, testing!

Dairy free life – two steps forward, one step back

The trouble with the allergy tests showing that Littler was no longer quite so acutely allergic to dairy and getting the all clear to introduce dairy at home was quite simply that I had to try giving her dairy.

 

That said when they said a 50/50 chance of it being ok, I only heard . . . → Read More: Dairy free life – two steps forward, one step back

Dairy free life – allergy tests & an all clear

allergy skin prick test

Today was the big day – Littler had her skin prick tests.

 

They weren’t terribly fun (they put drops of potential allergens onto the skin and then prick them in with a sharp thing… which obviously went down well, as you can imagine) but the good news is that you do get to . . . → Read More: Dairy free life – allergy tests & an all clear

Dairy free life – spicy pumpkin chowder

pumpkin

This is one of those warm you down to your toes soups that is perfect now the nights are drawing in.  This is one of a trilogy of pumpkin recipes from my favourite cookbook Economy Gastronomy – trouble is I haven’t yet worked out how to make a dairy free risotto to use the . . . → Read More: Dairy free life – spicy pumpkin chowder

Innocent spooky veggie fun

hocus & pocus - halloween veggie monsters

We’re big fans of Innocent in the Muddling household so when they sent us a box full of all the bits to create a fruity freak or veg monster to fill in a half term afternoon we were delighted to join in.

The challenge was to delve in to the deepest darkest hollows of . . . → Read More: Innocent spooky veggie fun

Dairy free life – gingerbread men

dairy free gingerbread biscuits

 Or rather biscuits because my gingerbread man cutter has gone missing somewhere in the kitchen renovation chaos. 

On the plus side if you make biscuits then you can let the children loose with icing and sprinkles to decorate them afterwards.

We like strong flavours in our household – some people don’t so play around . . . → Read More: Dairy free life – gingerbread men

Dairy free life – chocolate fairy cakes

dairy free chocolate fairy cakes

Littler’s 2nd birthday is coming up and my Gran’s 96th birthday gave me a chance to try out a new dairy free chocolate fairy cake recipe.  These are moist, chocolate-y and yummy.  The speed with which they disappeared was proof that taste as good as they look.

 

Only issue is that the real . . . → Read More: Dairy free life – chocolate fairy cakes

Dairy free life – apple & blackberry crumble

dairy free apple & blackberry crumble

Apple and blackberry crumble is one of the signs that autumn is coming – warming and tasty and now dairy free.  This one was made with blackberries gathered in our local hedges and our home grown apples.  Its my husband’s favourite pudding so despite having no kitchen I thought that after and afternoon foraging . . . → Read More: Dairy free life – apple & blackberry crumble

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