Week 33 of the Cookbook Challenge with the theme of Seafood. I decided to try my first oven baked fish, which I have been wanting to try for a while now, foil wrapped and all. I recently gave into new cookbook temptation and bought my second Nigella Lawson cookbook, Nigella Express – this recipe is from this book. Ingredients: 2 sea bass, approx 900g each, gutted and prepared (I couldn’t find sea...

I have had bad experiences with gluten free bread. The last attempt at making some myself with a packet mix was a disaster, not because of the cook but because of the ingredients! The bread in the end was so awful, tasted almost like plastic, I couldn’t even finish one mouthful. So I was interested to see how this would turn out. I was actually pretty impressed with the outcome. The bread is pretty easy...

Bobby’s Bistro is in the Matthew Flinders Tavern, a pub / pokies complex near Chadstone Shopping Centre (about 5 minutes drive away). It’s very much a bistro setting with big cafeteria style tables, where you order and pay at one counter then pick up at another counter. They have a good range of gluten free options on the menu including a few salads, risotto, meat & veg pub style dishes. They...

I love finding good blogs…Gluten Free Scallywag is one of my favourite Aussie gluten free blogs. Not only do I love the name (how cute is it?) but also the beautiful photography that comes with the recipes. Recipe ideas range from the healthy, like Naturally gluten free snacks… …to the very very good (aka very bad but hey we only live once) like Peanut butter chocolate cakes… Make sure...

In an effort to catch up on late posts, I’m combining my recipe for weeks 30, 31 and 32 of the Cookbook Challenge, with themes Baked, French and Potatoes. So I’ve made a Baked French Potatoes recipe from Jamie Oliver’s Ministry of Food. Preheat your oven to 200 degrees. Peel and finely slice 800g of potatoes. Peel, halve and finely slice 400g of medium onions and 3 cloves of garlic. Pick the...

Week 29 of the Cookbook Challenge, the theme is Blue. I went with a blueberry recipe, the only other “blue” food I could find recipes for were fish recipes (blue cod, etc) and I will always choose a dessert over a main! My recipe from week 25, Lemon and Vanilla Panna Cotta in Blueberry Soup would have been perfect for this week’s challenge too! I used one of my favourite dessert books, Donna...

Week 28 of the Cookbook Challenge, the theme is Breakfast. I recently bought my second Nigella cookbook so picked a breakfast from it – Spanish Omlette. I actually had this for dinner not breakfast – I often have omlettes for dinner when I need to whip up something and don’t have a lot of ingredients. My most common ‘dire straights’ omlette dinner when I am scraping what is left...

The Age recently published a list of gluten free eateries in Melbourne – click here to see the article…below I’ve listed their list but expanded on it a little for the places I’ve tried. Those I haven’t tried are on my list now! Have you tried any of the below places? What did you think? Leave a comment, and if you’re interested in submitting a guest review just email me at...

Spiga is in the “laneways” section of Melbourne Central – kind of indoors, kind of outdoors. Nice atmosphere, good service, food was ok. Yes, just ok. Not an amazingly extensive menu with pastas, pizzas, salads, risottos and meat dishes (gluten free available for all) but enough choice to suit most people. The meals sounded a lot more interesting on the menu than what they actually ended up...

Gluten Shmooten Guest Review by Sarah Thank you to Sarah for this guest review on Gourmet Kids, Malvern, who host kids cooking parties. When our Coeliac daughter announced she wanted a “cooking party” for her 8th birthday, my smile froze. At home was not an option, and my experience of party providers catering for Coeliac kids has been mixed, let alone actually cooking with them. When I contacted...