Feel so much better today, so The Evil flareup must be over for today.  I have to remind myself how much it has impacted on how much sewing (and other real life things) I've can do when it's active. Demoralising if I don't do the self talk frequently ( Read more... )

The first thing I did sewing related when I got home was slash the lining and unpick the bodice tuck and the pleated skirt for an inch or so.

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It's been a good parcel post this week.  I bought a selangor pewter jug and goblets on eBay, partly for more upper class regency reenactment and partly cos it reminded me of Game of Thrones. It will get used, so it's not entirely impulsive and just for the pretties.

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I first tried this recipe back in September, and it was definitely successful then.

Last week at work we were having a morning tea and I operate on the theory that if I make it I can eat it .... it's easier for me to ensure something is gluten & soy free.  I can now have dairy so that's one less thing to dodge!

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inspired by a punnet of mango-coconut milk pudding I had on Saturday afternoon, I've attempted to make it myself sort of mixing a couple of recipes, mainly:  http://thaifood.about.com/od/thaidesserts/r/thaitapioca.htm

I used
- 2/3 (ie 0.66) cup "seed"  or 'sago' tapioca
- 2 cups water
- 2 cans of coconut milk
- 2-3 Tbsp molasses sugar (cos i has it & ( Read more... )

I'm very happy with my new hand held blender, it's making baking much easier as my tennis elbow means I can't whisk or beat eggs/mixes by hand for long enough. Today I've got a pear upside down cake in the oven - gluten free and I used nuttlex instead of butter for the topping. Other minor changes I made were nuttlex instead of butter in the ( Read more... )

Yesterday I worked up a second batch of the creamy mushroom & chicken soup from colleency's post.

This time I used the recipe's proportion of mushroom to chicken, had an onion that wasn't off (though I did it last and added it/white sauce to the cooked mix) and used white flesh sweet potato instead of potato.  Oh and added in some coconut cream in lieu of ( Read more... )

I figured it wouldn't hurt to try a couple of things so that I could stock the freezer with some options.  More options are always useful.

Anyway, these turned out to be tasty, but with a few bigger fibrous bits of bean or some veggie than I really would prefer. (and I was raised on a whole food diet).  The other thing I'd comment on is the size on ( Read more... )

I've found a gluten- dairy- soy- potato- yeast- free bread!  huzzah. It's made in another state so quite spendy for a small sliced loaf.  I find it hard to call it a loaf cos in my brain that's larger than a brick. This isn't.  I won't be getting it each week, but more of an omg I can't take it any longer I have to have a sandwich.  So even though ( Read more... )

mmh, I must stock up with more of this. It's a brown rice macaroni that's delicious and not obviously different to macaroni. It was in my local IGA, which has a suprising range of GF products.   I fed it to C last time she was over and she had no complaints.

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