Mrs Parmas is one of those places I’ve walked past a million times but never actually realised it was there. It’s inconspicuously located at the Spring St end of Little Bourke St, and is a small-ish sized pub. Good for a casual meal, very much a pub style (nothing classy here!) and full of after work drinkers on a Friday night. There is a good selection of gluten free options with the parmas and...

Congratulations to the winners of a pack of Melinda’s Apple & Rhubarb Crumble: Sam – make sure you let us know if your mother in law liked it! Hannah – let us know if your mum picked it came from a box! Bernie – let us know if your husband liked it! Looking forward to hearing all about what everyone thinks of the product Stay tuned for more giveaways coming up soon…. VN:F [1.9.3_1094] What...

Welcome to Gluten Shmooten’s 100th post and 1st birthday! What a year it has been! One of the best things I’ve come to love with this blog is the opportunity to try some great gluten free products. One of those is a beautiful product I recently tried: Grounded Pleasures Drinking Chocolate. I tried 2 flavours – Cinnamon Spiced and Orange Infused. If there’s one thing I love more than the...

Welcome to Gluten Shmooten’s 99th post! Here is another gluten free product review – this time from Melinda’s Gluten Free Goodies who have a great range of gluten free products available at most major supermarkets. Keep reading for details on how you can win an Apple & Rhubard Crumble from Melinda’s! The Apple & Rhubarb Crumble pack contains 2 sachets – one for the crumble...

Capital Kitchen is in Chadstone Shopping Centre, near Tiffany’s and close to the soon to open GAP store! So when you’re checking out The GAP (or drooling at Tiffany’s!), drop in here for a quick coffee to re-charge your shopping batteries. Whilst they don’t have a lot of items marked gluten free in terms of food (salads, etc) they usually have at least one gluten free cake option, like...

Week 35 of the Cookbook Challenge and the theme is Spanish. I thought I’d give my Movida Rustica cookbook another go, despite my last recipe attempt, Nougat, being a disaster! This time I went for a soup recipe, surely you can’t get a soup recipe wrong! Ingredients: 50ml extra virgin olive oil 1 red onion, rougly chopped 1 large red capsicum, seeded and membranes removed, roughly chopped 2 garlic...

Now to announce the winner of the Simply Wize Crusty Bread giveaway – Nicole, who would put on her bread: Fresh basil, tomato and feta, yum!! Bruschetta!! Congrats Nicole! Everyone stay tuned for more gluten free product giveaways coming up soon! VN:F [1.9.3_1094] What do you think? Rate this! please wait... Rating: 0.0/5 (0 votes cast)

Week 34 of the Cookbook Challenge and the theme is Spice. This recipe, Spiced Carrot Soup, only uses 1 spice, Cumin, but is beautifully flavoured and tastes like it has a really complex list of ingredients – actually it’s so simple to make. Ingredients: 2 1/2 tablespoons butter 1 red onion, diced 1 teaspoon ground cumin 3 tablespoons red lentils 500g carrots, peeled and finely chopped 1.5 litres...

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...