I just came across an article from an recent Sunday Telegraph headlined 'Food fight over allergy ban' which investigated, once again, the extremely knotty problem of whether or not you should allow allergens into a household with an allergic member. There are in fact, two …
Gluten-free
Gluten-free wines for the ultra sensitive
For mega-gluten-sensitive souls, Micki Rose has been doing research into how wines that are theoretically gluten-free may have been stored in ex-grain spirit barrels.... Read her post here. She also talks about the SoLo sulphite-free wines which also feature on our Christmas …
All Christmas go….
We are currently being submerged by a tidal wave of Christmas products – so you must excuse me if I do not pass comment on the greater happenings in the world for a day or two... This is partly because the first judging for the 2012 FreeFromFood Awards happens next week – for …
Chicken texture… Roasting v. poaching v. boiling…
A few weeks ago we were, as you do, discussing chicken flesh... My son made the point that if you poach the whole chicken, covered in liquid, as you would to make Avgolemono soup for example, or a classic Jewish chicken soup, the flesh of the chicken is very soft and …
More on… dairy-free advent calendars
From the number of people who have searched the blog for info on advent calendars, this is obviously a subject which is close to many of your hearts – so I thought I should elaborate a bit on the brief mention I gave to them in Wednesday's post about our Christmas site. We …