Rosie
SNAPPER WITH MANGO AND AVOCADO SALSA

After a dash to the fish co-op one afternoon we produced this delicious dinner of a Barbecued Snapper served with Spicy Mango and Avocado Salsa and accompanied it with the best friend of white fleshed fish - potatoes - simply steamed and tossed in butter. It was spectacularly simple and delicious ….

SNAPPER WITH MANGO AND AVOCADO SALSA
Caren
MUSSELS IN CIDER AND CREAM

Inspired by my favourite, old, French cookbook, I prepared this mussel dish. It is very simple to make, the quality of the result relying upon the use of the very best produce you can lay your hands on. And aren’t we fortunate in Australia to have such ingredients to indulge our appetites and fantasies? ….

MUSSELS IN CIDER AND CREAM
Caren
XO SAUCE

This is a recipe for XO Sauce with a difference. It is gluten-free, of course, which is the first difference. The next is that XO sauces usually include dried scallops and seafood but we use readily available bacon and mushroom to create the savoury complexity expected in an XO sauce ….

XO SAUCE
Jan
MUSHROOM AND LENTIL MOUSSAKA

Versions of moussaka have been made in the Levant and the Balkans, in Egypt and Turkey and Greece for who knows how long. Proof of its popularity. But do we need another one? Well, this Mushroom and Lentil Moussaka has no gluten. It has no meat. It has no potato. The eggplant is grilled not fried ….

MUSHROOM AND LENTIL MOUSSAKA
Entrée, Main, Vegetables
Rosie
TUBULAR TASTES

Deliciously succulent pasta tubes filled with aubergine, ricotta, spinach, parmesan and smoked Fior di Latte, topped and bottomed with home made tomato sauce ….. salivating yet? This week’s recipe is a home-cook’s dream as it can be prepared well ahead of time and gently reheated to serve topped with fresh basil leaves. It can be made in very large quantities for parties and freezes well ....

TUBULAR TASTES

GLUTEN-FREE CHICKEN SATAY

GLUTEN-FREE CHICKEN SATAY

Travelling in Malaysia not long ago I was reminded of the simple pleasure of satay. If only it had been Gluten-Free Chicken Satay! I had to resist the smell of them cooking in the open air, the joy of holding the stick in my hand, the sweet tender meat, the unctuous sauce and the totally delicious combination of flavours ….

GLUTEN-FREE FLAKY PASTRY

GLUTEN-FREE FLAKY PASTRY

Here’s another pastry to add to our repertoire. It’s a Gluten-Free Flaky Pastry and is rich with butter yet light and airy. Just perfect for crowning savoury pies, encasing delicious fillings to form pasties, or cutting into shapes and baking ‘naked’ ready to be topped ….

GLUTEN-FREE DATE SLICE

GLUTEN-FREE DATE SLICE

When we were testing this recipe, we all agreed it reminded us of our childhood. Was it the coconut, the dates, the golden syrup, the lovely sweet and chewy texture or did it just remind us of that lovely smell of sweet baking in the family kitchen ….

HEART OF HEARTS

HEART OF HEARTS

There are many stories about how the heart came to represent love, and of course Valentine’s Day. One suggests it came from an illustrated verse, written in the 13th century, that depicts a poetic lover handing his beating heart to his beloved. The image shows his thumb making an indentation in the top of the heart, thus creating the symbol we all know today ….

WATERMELON TIME

WATERMELON TIME

There’s a song by an old crooner that begins with the words “It’s watermelon weather, that summer kind of weather” and that’s just what we’ve been having in Sydney lately. Hot days and warm, still nights that warrant easy, cool food ….

PERFECT PASTRY EVERY TIME

PERFECT PASTRY EVERY TIME

Making pastry can be a tricky undertaking at the best of times. Cooks talk about having ‘pastry hands’.  Indeed, hot hands, air temperature and even humidity can have a role in success or failure.

At the Coeliac’s Revenge we’re pretty good with pastry and really love making and eating it. So when tasked with producing an excellent gluten-free pastry we were up for the challenge ….