piginthekitchen Blog Posts

• Pig is leaving the Kitchen (at least for now)
  on Jun 20, 2014
  Hasta luego my lovelies, I grant you licence to drink champagne in my absenceBecause I'm such a sporadic allergy food blogger, you might think that me deciding to stop blogging will make very little difference.Ah but you are wrong. It will make a hug...
• Vanessa Kimbell's food photography course, Northamptonshire - review
  on May 12, 2014
  My favourite shot from the dayIf a Hollywood director were to build a set for the film, 'The Lives And Loves Of A Food Stylist/Photographer'- stay with me -  it would look exactly like Vanessa Kimbell's house.From the flourishing kitchen garden,...
• Baking for allergies - how to substitute ingredients (with the Allergy Adventures baking substitutions sheet)
  on May 1, 2014 in ahoy download the allergy adventures simple baking substitutions sheet today Hailey rocks (and never sleeps)
  Make your recipes allergy-friendly with some simple substitutionsI recently had the pleasure of working with Hailey from Allergy Adventures on her 'Simple baking substitutions' sheet.With Hailey at the helm, I joined the Allergy Adventures ship to gi...
• Nut free, dairy free, gluten free Granola
  on Apr 10, 2014 in breakfast breakfast used to be simple granola
  As a child growing up in the 1970's, breakfast was dear to me. There was Ready Brek loaded with Golden Syrup, and that advert that showed the kid going to school surrounded by a warm (radioactive?) glow. There was toast. And it was thick, white...
• Review: The Allergy-Free Baby & Toddler Book by Charlotte Muqit & Dr Adam Fox
  on Apr 2, 2014 in Buy the book
  If you have an allergic baby or toddler, buy this bookRecently, I was sent a copy of the Allergy Free Baby and Toddler Book to review. It's by Charlotte Muquit (mum to Zach who has food allergies and Coeliac disease) and Dr Adam Fox (all round paedia...
• Review: The Allergy-Free Baby & Toddler Book by Charlotte Muquit & Dr Adam Fox
  on Apr 2, 2014 in Buy the book
  If you have an allergic baby or toddler, buy this bookRecently, I was sent a copy of the Allergy Free Baby and Toddler Book to review. It's by Charlotte Muquit (mum to Zach who has food allergies and Coeliac disease) and Dr Adam Fox (all round paedia...
• Cooking with a Potjie Pot - vegetarian chilli
  on Feb 19, 2014 in cooking with a potjie pot normal allergy baking service will be resumed shortly
  Indulge me with this 'off topic' blog post; I haven't had time to bake... Way back when, I spent five months travelling in South Africa. Ahh to be 18 again, young, free, single and enjoying the beauty of the Garden Route! Every girl needs a Potj...
• Valentine's Day gluten free love heart cookies
  on Feb 13, 2014 in meh to romance
  Looks cute, but I'd rather someone put on a load of washing for me...I would love to wax lyrical about the beauty that is Valentine's Day. I'd like to say that I adore the old 'solitaire-diamond-in-a-champagne-flute' proposal trick, or even the...
• Free From Food Awards 2014 - one food judge's story
  on Feb 10, 2014
  On your marks, get set, sample!Breakfast like a queen, lunch like a princess, dine like a woman on the bread line.That is how the old saying goes. Except it doesn't does it? Because history is so rarely about herstory. So in the interests of swi...
• Vegetarian Lentil Bolognese (vegan, gluten free)
  on Jan 28, 2014 in did you know only lentils grown in Puy can be called Puy lentils interesting fact isn't it j'adore la France elle est belle et elle me manque lentils lovely friends puy lentils Sandra and Ja
  Vegetarian Lentil Bolognese (vegan, gluten free) It's very hard to make 'wet' food look irresistible methinksIt's a brave (Anglo-Spanish) woman who will square up to a meat-eating (French) man and declare that it's time to become more vegetarian.Yet...
• Gluten free vegan recipes from the archive
  on Jan 7, 2014 in gluten free eating happy new year vegan meals
  Dogs are lucky. They get away with Christmas bingeingIt is January and perhaps, like me, you are getting flashbacks to the gastronomic atrocities you committed over Christmas. It seemed so easy didn't it? As if no one would ever know and the price wo...
• Have a merry (allergen free) Christmas!
  on Dec 24, 2013 in Eat Drink and be merry
  Cake decorating courtesy of my fabulous eldest daughter #proudHope you have a wonderful festive season! Stay safe and happy and see you for some indulgent feasting in 2014 :-) © Pig in the Kitchen All Rights ReservedRecipes, Photos and Tales ©...
• Christmas mincemeat cakes (gluten free, egg free, dairy free, vegan)
  on Dec 22, 2013 in Christmas let the kids do all the work while you sip mulled wine mincemeat ooo now I fancy mulled wine
  Icing à la 5 year oldThis time last year, I had a bit of a brainstorm when it came to decorating the tree. I insisted on trying to make it look 'chic'.When the kids protested - kids have the worst taste in the world - I responded with a candour brou...
• Gluten free Rocky Road (egg free, dairy free)
  on Dec 5, 2013
  20 days to go. That's two lots of ten or four lots of five. Whichever way you cut it, we ain't got longI spend most of my life feeling like a freak. I dress differently to most people (for 'differently' read 'scruffily'), I'm a little offbeat an...
• Gluten free corn tortillas (wheat free, dairy free, egg free)
  on Nov 23, 2013 in gluten free corn tortillas I miss Paris maybe one day we'll move back there
  Sturdy, homemade corn tortillas, gluten free and gorgeousMy blog was born in a pokey little kitchen in a suburb of Paris. And when I say pokey I mean stupidly small. There was about a metre and a half of work surface, some seriously dodgy electrics a...
• Egg Free Pumpkin Cupcakes
  on Oct 31, 2013 in halloween trick or treating ghouls village life egg free baking pumpkins things that go bump in the night ghosts
  Even spiders can't resist my bakingAh the annual curse of Halloween is upon us. As I've said before, I'm not a fan.And yet, this year something is different.It might have something to do with the village rules about Halloween. The protocol is to leav...
• Ginger biscuits - gluten free, dairy free, egg free, nut free
  on Oct 21, 2013 in being British British means biscuits biscuits what's your favourite biscuit gluten free biscuits burqa and biscuits
  What these need is a good cuppa Yorkshire TeaOf the 24 years since I turned 18 (yes, go on, work out my age!), I've spent 11 years living abroad. Five months in South Africa here, six months in Barcelona there, three years in China, and the rest of t...
• Food photography and food allergies
  on Oct 8, 2013
  Here are my toolsI've been reading Helene Dujardin's book Plate to Pixel about food photography. One of the phrases that jumped off the page was: "The only wrong way to do food photography, is not to do food photography". (Or something...
• Growing out of an egg allergy
  on Oct 6, 2013 in cakes still can't get my head around it pancakes French toast a whole new world egg allergy
  A table laden with anaphylaxis? Or dinner?If you're old enough to remember Edwina Currie, then you know all about the propensity of eggs to bring about someone's downfall. But salmonella and Edwina aside, (although what about Edwina and John Major? S...
• Fruit traybake with lemon glacé icing - gluten free, egg free, dairy free, vegan
  on Sep 24, 2013 in making sandwiches is a pain in the arse children can definitely make their own packed lunches loving the lemon icing on this cake
  Thick, oozy icing. Lushilicious (yes, that is a word)My mum hated making my sandwiches for school. Actually, she loathed making my sandwiches for school. There was the daily grumbling, the sudden groan as she remembered that she still had to make the...