For me biscuits, or cookies as they are known in other parts of the world, are my guilty pleasure. Since giving up processed foods and sugars almost six years ago I have had so much fun inventing my own flavours …
Category: diary free
Googie’s Kitchen presents Cashew Nut Cream Cheese
If you had told me before I started this sugar-free, packet-free lifestyle that you can make cream cheese from cashew nuts I would probably have told you, you are nuts. (No pun intended). When I first saw a recipe for …
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Raspberry Rice Crispy Bars
My husband Howard and son Ted and ok, maybe me too love sweet treats. The other day Howard noticed I had brown rice puffs in the cupboard. It made him remember his childhood when Howard’s mum would make rice crispy …
Googie’s Kitchen presents Pesto Meatballs and Sauce
Turkey is a great replacement to mince beef. Although if you can’t get turkey then you can always use mince beef. I’m always looking for recipes that use this meat. I will often find myself searching the internet and recipe …
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Spicy Fish Balls on a Tomato Rice
As a mother of one it pleases me that my son Ted, who is 7, loves fish. It’s something I want to encourage and I know when I serve a fish dinner Ted will eat it. So I’m always looking …
Googie’s Kitchen presents Baked Pork Thai Curry
Curries are one of my favourite meals, especially when the weather starts to turn colder. They are a brilliant winter warmer and this one was perfect for our cold, wet Sunday last week. When the weather starts to turn from …
Tikka Salmon and Tomato Quinoa
My son Ted and I love fish. It’s one of our favourite meals and it’s a food, that as a mother, I want to keep encouraging Ted to eat. My husband Howard, depending on how the fish is cooked, isn’t …
Roasted Tomato, Red Pepper and Garlic Hummus from scratch
Now I’ve discovered dried chickpeas, which are really cheap, I have gone a bit mad for them. I think this might be my fourth or fifth recipe using chickpeas in recent months. Chickpeas are high in vitamins and minerals and …
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Roasted Salt and Pepper Pumpkin Seeds
Halloween is finally over for another year and now what to do with the pumpkins we all ran out to buy! For many years, I would put the seeds into a compost heap in the garden. Also, the pumpkin as …
Spicy Sumac Roasted Butter Beans
Beans, beans, beans and more beans! I love them and I especially like butter beans. All beans are packed with fibre and protein and they are a great source of iron as well. They are also very filling and they …
