Pa’s Home Baked Gluten Free Biscuits - Blueberry Hearts, truly delicious

   Some very munchy  cookies for you today and gluten free as well
    With all the wholesome goodness I have been cooking and eating lately I really felt the need for just some tasty biscuits to go with my cup of tea and these fit the bill just right. Working with gluten free flour again and that means you really have to pack flavour in.
    So that is what I have done and now I share my step by step recipe with you. It is very simple so please join me

collected pictures 1

    Hi been a long time and as you might have noticed I have gone gluten free and started a new gluten free blog.
    So I am just uploading collected pictures of baking since we last spoke to tidy up so to speak.
Who knows what the future may bring?

  

Chocolate tart

Blueberry cookies

A small slice of chocolate tart

    Here is a short selection of my diet as it was, in July 2012 if I am reading the mobile date correctly.
    Doesn't it look healthy and fairly minimal gluten by coincidence.
    As a matter of interest, if anyone is interested, I have gone down from 95k to 85k now. That is weight, not salary unfortunately.
    So here is some good looking tray bakes and other snacks. I will leave out the plates of egg, chips and beans and bars of chocolate that interrupted my perfect diet hee hee.

   
    A nice little before and after tray bake featuring sweet potatoes and butternut squash if memory serves me.

Tasty looking tray bake

 

Before

After

    

Another tasty wholesome before and after tray bake

    Now for some tasty sandwiches, 

I'm going to have to practice my bread making to get a good gluten-free sandwich loaf.

Do I know how to make a great sarnie or what?

Home made jam! Apple and blueberry if memory serves me well

Another great sandwich from Pa

     And some nice fruity snacks to cleanse the palate

    Self explanatory I think but I'm getting peckish just posting it. 

    A little bit of fun to finish today I think.

Playing with your food is great fun

     Well if anyone finds and reads this thanks for looking and remember to taste and enjoy whatever you eat.

    Love Life Laughs

          from Pa 

    Just found most of these pictures in previous post DOH!

My Vegetarian Diet Day ?4 20/07/12

      Hi, this one is a day late and i can't remember much of what i was thinking yesterday. However the cupboard was bare and it was raining all day so i didn't go out to shop. You will see how that affects my diet. :-)

  Breakfast

      1 Banana 

      Small bar of dark chocolate, 85% cocoa

  Lunch

      1 wholemeal bread sandwich

   

    

Home made parsnip and blueberry jam :-)

  Dinner

      4 slices of pineapple

        

      1 can of vegetable soup

In a big mug 

      Chips and baked beans

  

Chinese takeaway chips 

+ 

a splash of brown sauce

salt and vinegar to taste

  Supper

      

      Valencia oranges

  Drinks

      Coffee, milky coffee, vodka, tea, water.

          Well i remember a little now, i did make the marvelous jam though the recipe and notes were in the lost notebook, so the recipe page hasn't gone up.

 There we are and Tich is giving me the heavy eyeball now, wanting to be taken out, so i'm off and you will have to make your own minds up about the healthiness of today's grub.

               Eat well and enjoy your food

                      Love from Pa

  

My Vegetarian Diet Day 7 30/06/12

   Saturday morning and away we go, starting the day with Adventures in yoghurt making, the rematch, details on the yoghurt recipe page. Then away into a world of simple food, drink and weight loss, hopefully.

Breakfast

   3      Mugs of coffee, with milk.
   1      Banana

Brunch

   371g Vegetable soup [tinned] (water, vegetables 
            (26%)(potato, carrot, onion,, green pea,
            turnip, haricot beans), tomato puree, pasta
            (3.2%)(water, durum wheat semolina), 
            modified maize starch, sugar, potato starch, 
            salt, rapeseed oil, onion powder, yeast
            extract, herbs, colourings: beta carotene,
            paprika extract, thickener:guar gum, spices,
            natural flavour, acidity regulator: citric acid
   92g   White pumpkin seed roll.

Lunch

   1      Pint of sparkling spring water
   10g  Brie cheese
   8g    Chocolate (cocoa mass, cocoa butter, sugar,
           cocoa powder, Emulsifier (lecithins [soya]),
           vanilla extract.
           Cocoa solids: 85% minimum
           Fairtrade products: 99% minimum

Afternoon Tea

   1      Mug of milky coffee
   1      Mug of tea
   8g    Chocolate (as before)

   Brief excursion into Adventures with preserves, Parsnip and blueberry jam, which will have it's own page when i manage it.

Dinner
                       Egg chips and tomatoes

forgot to take a picture so here ia one of a funny sign i took earlier

   2       Eggs, fried in 
   10g   Sunflower oil
   200g Tinned chopped tomatoes (tomatoes [60%],
   tomato juice, acidity regulator: citric acid
   250g Chips (from the Chinese take away)
   1       Mug of tea 


Supper

   1      Mug of tea
   24g  Chocolate (as before)

   I can't believe i forgot to photograph my interesting dinner of egg, chips and tomatoes. Doh!.
   I also didn't photo my Adventures in yoghurt or Adventures in preserves. Lost the plot a bit, especially during jam making but there you go. Will get my little adventures up on their respective pages as soon as possible.
   On the plus side, i didn't skarfe the bar of chocolate all in one go.
   On the minus, chips from the Chinese, though i didn't eat the whole portion all in one go, look out for their reappearance in future meals.
   By the way, meal titles are more to do with the order things are eaten/drank in, and the gaps between, than any real correlation between food and title.
   

My Vegetarian Diet Day 6 29/0612

   Well here we are again, struggling to make this blog a daily routine but keeping a written log in the notebook, so.

    Been a funny sort of weekend, ha ha but now i will find out how i stuck to a weight reducing diet ha ha. I write it down but don't remember it.

   Ok we're off

Breakfast

   1       Banana

   2       Mugs of coffee , black. ( that's what i get for

            yesterdays slurps of milk!)

Elevensies

   100g Yoghurt

   3       Blueberries

   1       Banana

   1       Mug of coffee, black

Lunch, late

   2.5    Cheese oat thins, (thank you Jacky), helped 

            by Tich (the other 0.5)

Tich looking good in the community garden

   1       Mug of tea, WITH MILK!!!

Afternoon tea

   66g   Brown roll

   21g   Brie cheese

   13g   Watercress

   1       Mug of tea, with milk

   75g   Beetroot

   1       Small banana

Dinner

                           Mixed veg stir fry

                 

   20g   Sunflower oil

   264g Mixed vegetables, ready prepared (Cabbage

            40%, mushrooms 20%, beansprouts 20%,

            carrots 20%)

   1g     Fresh mint, (thank you community gardens)

   30g   Sultanas

   140g Fresh free range noodles (as before)

   1      Sprinkle of salt.

   1      Watercress garnish

   426g Total cooked weight  

   1       Mug of tea, with milk

Supper

   1      Mug of tea, with milk

   2      Slurps of milk

   10g  Brie cheese

   Well i seem to eat quite a lot throughout the day but mostly pretty healthy so far. 

   Onward and upward and enjoy what you eat.

            love from Pa 

My Vegetarian Diet Day 5 28/06/12

   Well yesterdays kerfuffle needed sorting out, which involved dashing into town early, threw my schedule right out and involved a lot of walking, exhausted me and needed a lay down in afternoon then early dinner.

Breakfast

   Mug of coffee with milk

Brunch

   1       Small banana 
   1       Pint of water
   300g Yoghurt

Lunch

   220g  Baked beans (as before) eaten from tin with
   20g    Brie

Dinner

                              Noodle stir fry

                    
   1 dsp Sunflower oil
   22g    Sultanas
   111g  Free range egg noodles (as before)
   pinch Cumin
   pinch Salt
   Mug of tea with milk

Supper

   15g    Brie cheese
   200g  Yoghurt
   3        Blueberries
   handful of sultanas  (sorry, unscientific dietific)
   Mug of tea with milk

Evening

   Pint of water
   Mug of tea with milk

Midnight feast

   104g  Beetroot
   35g    Brie cheese
   Mug of tea with milk 


   
   Looks like i am eating a lot of Brie, the only easy munchy in the fridge, will have to think about that.
   Yes, there are a lot of noodles in my diet, I hope that is a good thing. I am trying to cut out bread products as my main carb. Noodles and potatos are replacing, though i have now finished that bag of spuds. Don't normally buy reds but have enjoyed them and they haven't sprouted as quickly as whites normally do.
   Would type more but i am involved in a long winded and irritating internet 'chat' with my mobile phone providers. Wishing I hadn't had so much coffee today. Grrr.

   Have fun people and whatever you are eating today, remember to appreciate it. 

      love from Pa