Baking has become the new pastime during lockdown as can be evidenced by the lack of flour on the supermarket shelves. That includes me. I have made Anzac biscuits, ginger crunch and several batches of peanut butter, chocolate chip cookies because they are so delicious and satisfying. Use dark chocolate and a plain peanut butter with no additives including salt and sugar. Make small cookies or eat only half if they are larger. Today, the New Zealand government announces whether we are lowering to level 2 lockdown (of 4 levels) so that the country can almost completely open up again, but still with the borders shut. NZ has had between zero and two daily cases of the virus for the last week, and all the cases can be traced to a known contact. In other words, we have no community transmission. Things are finally looking up - in this part of the world at least. Chocolate Chip and Peanut Butter Cookies Print Author: Suzanne Perazzini Serves: 18 Ingredients 1 cup oats ¼ … [Read more...] about Low Fodmap Chocolate Chip and Peanut Butter Cookies
Sweet Delights
Low Fodmap Pineapple and Pecan Cake
Extra-moist and studded with nuts and dried cranberries, this low Fodmap pineapple cake is delicious. Be careful not have more than a small slice at a time. If you’re making it for a special occasion, you could cover it with a frosting made from powdered sugar, butter, and water. If fructose is a trigger for you, you’ll have to reduce the size of your slice. PINEAPPLE AND PECAN CAKE Print Author: Suzanne Perazzini Serves: 12 slices Ingredients 2 cups (316 g) white rice flour ½ cup (64 g) tapioca flour ½ cup (96 g) potato starch 1 teaspoon baking powder 1 teaspoon ground gingerroot Pinch of salt 1 cup (200 g) white sugar ½ cup (55 g) chopped pecans ½ cup (60 g) dried cranberries 3 eggs 1 teaspoon vanilla extract 1½ cups (354 ml) light olive oil 1 can (8 ounces, or 225 g) of crushed pineapple 3 just ripe bananas, mashed Method Preheat the oven to 350°F (180°C, or gas mark 4). Sift together all the dry ingredients except the sugar. Add the sugar and combine. Then … [Read more...] about Low Fodmap Pineapple and Pecan Cake
My 5 Best Low Fodmap Cakes
Unlike what many think, we can eat sugar on the low Fodmap diet. A certain amount of table sugar is okay on the diet because it has equal quantities of fructose and glucose, and the glucose pulls the fructose, cell by cell, through the lining of the small intestine, so it is absorbed. If there is excess fructose to the glucose as in honey, agave syrup etc. then the excess is not absorbed and goes down into the bowel where it gets fermented and causes all the problems. However, we can’t eat much of even the safe sugars like table sugar or maple syrup because the glucose stops helping the fructose to be absorbed after a while, and the rest goes down into the bowel to cause symptoms. Because of this, most of your sugar should be got from 2-3 fruits a day. However, living without any sweet treats is almost impossible for most people so I have created many low Fodmap cakes, cookies etc that you can safely consume. Today, I am going to show you my five best low Fodmap cakes. Banana … [Read more...] about My 5 Best Low Fodmap Cakes
Chocolate and Orange Polenta Cake
This moist, easy-to-make low Fodmap chocolate-orange cake is perfect with a cup of tea or coffee. If you feel that fructose is one of your biggest symptom-triggers, leave out the orange syrup; it’ll still be delicious. Be sure to stick to one slice per serving. This recipe comes straight from my book, The Low FODMAP 6-week Plan & Cookbook, which you can buy online or in bookstores. Here it is on Amazon. 1.0 from 1 reviews Chocolate and Orange Polenta Cake Print Author: Suzanne Perazzini Serves: 12 slices Ingredients For the cake 5.3 ounces (150 g) butter, at room temperature 5.3 ounces (150 g) superfine granulated white sugar 3 eggs 1½ (8 g) tablespoons cocoa powder 1½ tablespoons (25 ml) hot water ⅓ cup (32 g) ground almonds ½ teaspoon baking powder 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon ⅓ cup (47 g) quick-cook fine-grain polenta 1 tablespoon (6 g) grated orange peel ½ cup (55 g) chopped pecans 12 whole pecans For the syrup Juice of 1 orange 1.8 ounces (50 g) … [Read more...] about Chocolate and Orange Polenta Cake
Cranberry, Pineapple & Walnut Granola Bars
We know that processed food can be problematic for those of us with irritable bowel syndrome. Additives are gut irritants and can aggravate an already over-sensitive digestive system. In reality, there are very few processed foods that we actually need and those are all single-ingredient processed foods like sugar, salt, butter, oats, spices, some kind of flour etc. Everything else should be fresh. As a little aside, we are having our kitchen renovated and so are without a stove or sink. I went to the delicatessen section of the supermarket the other day to look for something relatively fresh for dinner that didn't contain onion or garlic. They were very helpful and went out back for a list of ingredients to check each food, and you won't believe it but there wasn't one single thing that didn't have either garlic or onions or both. I explained to them how shocking that was since 20% of the Western World have IBS and can't eat either. They looked blankly at me but tried to be … [Read more...] about Cranberry, Pineapple & Walnut Granola Bars
Low Fodmap Christmas Recipes
Christmas is less than a week away and you may be scrambling for ideas on what to cook as your contribution for the Christmas family feast. Last week I wrote a article about tips for coping with a low Fodmap Christmas so do check them out, but today I will give you some specific recipes that include all the food groups just in case you can't eat anything else on offer. Tofu and Potato Salad for the vegetarians Greek Mousaka Spicy Potato Pie Chicken Prawn Salad Banana Cake Peanut Butter, Banana tarts … [Read more...] about Low Fodmap Christmas Recipes
