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31 May 11

MP900442468How to cope when your diet is different to everyone else’s and it feels like you can’t eat anything.

Living with long term food sensitivities isn’t easy. It’s navigating your way in a mine-field where your body seems to betray you at every turn. It can be depressing and extremely frustrating. It can also be lonely, especially if you are surrounded by friends with apparently cast-iron guts who have absolutely no way of empathising or understanding your unique stance on food.

 
19 May 11
1754buckwheatBuckwheat is another of the Pseudo-cereal super-seeds that are often confused with being a grain because of the grain-like way they are cooked and used.
 
19 May 11

10274quinoa_grainAt least once a week, I get an email from someone saying something like "hey, isn't quinoa a grain?" or "my doctor told me quinoa was a grain".

Quinoa is the seed of the Chenopodium or Goosefoot plant.

 
21 Apr 11

MP900177942In Australia, pototo starch and potato flour are the same thing: a very fine white powdery pure starch.

Actually, potato flour and starch are different things. The flour is made from the entire dehydrated potato whereas potato starch is made from the starch only.  As I have never seen actual potato flour anywhere in Australia, when I say potato flour I actually mean the starch.  Sorry to confuse anyone who actually has the two different types in their pantry.



 
21 Apr 11
In Australia, the terms tapioca and arrowroot are used interchangeably and mean the same thing. Sometimes its called a flour, sometimes its called a starch, but it is all the same: a very fine white powdery flour. It looks exactly like cornstarch. When you buy "arrowroot" from the bakery aisle in the supermarket, look closely at the label and you will see that it is actually tapioca. This is actually really annoying not to mention confusing for those of us that understand that they are in fact two completely different things. BUT for the sake of this website, please assume when I am talking about arrowroot, I mean tapioca flour or tapioca starch.
 

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General Recipe Notes

All recipes measurements are in METRIC. If you wish to convert to imperial please use the convertor tool supplied on each recipe page and use the same (either all metric or all imperial) for the whole recipe.

Some points for American readers on metric measurements are:

1 cup is 250ml which is slightly larger than the imperial 1 cup of an 8 oz measure.  1 tblspoon is 20 ml which again is slightly larger than the imperial tablespoon measure of 15ml.  In most recipes this should not make too much of a difference, especially if you exchange all metric for all imperial.  Cookie recipes need accuracy however so if your cookies are not turning out (either too soft or spreading too much) the problem will most likely be the measures.

Nearly all recipes are cooked in a moderate 180°C oven, which is 350 °F / Gas 4.