The cart has closed to the Low Fodmap Formula Workshop for the April session. If you missed out, make sure you get yourself on the list to be notified when the next one is happening. This will also put you on the Early Bird list at a special discount before the cart officially re-opens. Check it out HERE. Meanwhile, our son, Dario has returned home from travelling around Europe on a motorbike and after a few months here has moved out and set himself up in his own place. The raising years happen all too fast, but life is a series of stages and we are onto the next one, without the third member of the family. We also have two completely empty rooms since he took all his bedroom and study furniture with him to give him a good start. Dinner tonight was simple. I had left over ragu sauce that Adriano cooked for last night, and I served it with polenta. But not just any old polenta. This one is a recipe in itself - simple but so tasty. I added some grilled zucchini and a balanced low … [Read more...] about Savoury Polenta – Low Fodmap and Gluten-free
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Polenta Triangles and Tuna Salad – gluten-free and low FODMAP
On a low FODMAP diet, the choice of foods you can safely include in your recipes is limited and so it's necessary to use a little imagination when preparing meals or you will quickly become bored. So this dinner has the same good old staples of polenta, courgettes, tomatoes and fish but I have presented them differently on long plates as separate elements. This makes the food more appealing than the usual mash up of everything mixed together. This was an easy meal to create though I did make my own mayonnaise as it simply tastes so much better than anything you can buy ready-made. I am off work this week for a break and I am busy catching up on a million and one things related to this blog and to my writing. One of the things I did yesterday was to start a new Facebook page for my novels. I would love you to drop by and like the page to help it on it's way. You can find it here: Suzanne Perazzini - Author Polenta Triangles and Tuna Salad - gluten-free and low FODMAP Print … [Read more...] about Polenta Triangles and Tuna Salad – gluten-free and low FODMAP
Mushroom, Polenta & Tomato Tapas – Vegetarian & Gluten-Free
I have been thinking about tapas recently. Everyone loves small cocktail food and that is essentially what tapas are. But what about for dinner? Why not, I thought? I went to Foodgawker and searched for tapas but wasn't inspired - not for dinner anyway. In fact some photos had no relationship to tapas at all. I guess some keywords weren't entered very carefully. Then I saw something with possibilities but I went to the end of the four pages of tapas and found nothing and so went back and now, having just eaten dinner, I am very glad I did. These worked out really well. They look good and with the special dressing, they tasted like a million dollars. I found the idea at the She Eats Bears blog. This is not a low Fodmap recipe. Mushroom, Polenta & Tomato Tapas - Vegetarian & Gluten-Free Print Author: Suzanne Perazzini Ingredients 400g polenta 3 big tomatoes 8 Portobello mushrooms 50g feta Cheese Small handful of parsley A lug of olive oil 1 clove garlic … [Read more...] about Mushroom, Polenta & Tomato Tapas – Vegetarian & Gluten-Free
Lemon & Blueberry Polenta Cake – low Fodmap & gluten-free
I've made plenty of cupcakes and bars so it was time to make a cake. I don't trust my oven. Even after 5 years in this house, I have not figured out my expensive Smeg oven. It cooks unevenly and seems to burn the outside of everything before the inside is cooked. Anyway, I wouldn't let it beat me and I decided to make this gluten-free lemon, berry polenta cake, which I found at www.cakeboule.wordpress.com I saw it getting a bit too brown on top before the time was up so I covered it with tinfoil but it still got a little too dark on the bottom even though I pulled it out well before the instructions said. I have adjusted the timing accordingly in the recipe but check it after 35 minutes to see if a skewer comes out clean. If it does, get it out of there. This is a very moist, totally delicious cake with a brilliant sharpness from the 4 lemons, which cuts through the sweetness of the sugar syrup which gets poured over the cooked cake. This was a triumph of flavour according to me and … [Read more...] about Lemon & Blueberry Polenta Cake – low Fodmap & gluten-free