Recipe Requests

[Steve]

Are there any recipes or dishes that you're looking to make a dairyfree version of?

Post your request here and we will see if we can help.

[Loopy_lol]

hi can you make flapjack without the butter as i can't eat any dairy?

[Pam]

Yes Loopy, just substitute dairy free marge instead. I made some last night using Pure soya spread.

Melt 8oz dairy free marge, 8oz sugar (ideally brown) and 4 tbsp golden syrup until they are all combined - 2 or 3 minutes in the microwave should do it. Mix in 1 lb porridge oats and a pinch of salt, then press into a tin or tray (I use a 9"x12" lasagne dish lined with baking parchment so it doesn't stick). Bake at 180 degrees for 15-20 minutes until golden brown. Don't try to cut until cool or it will fall apart. You can add dried fruit, chocolate chips coconut or anything else you fancy at the final mixing stage for something a bit different. The result is a filling, sticky, yummy snack.

[Lan]

Hi all,

These flap jacks sound very nice would love to make some tonight, but am trying to lose weight at the minute.

Oh well will make them sometime in the future. Let me know what they taste like.

Kind Regards,

Lan

:D

[miaow]

Desperately craving chocolate rice crispie cakes!!!

Tried with Terence Stamp choc but the result really wasn't very good. :(

Can anyone recommend a non-dairy choc or choc alternative that might be nicer for the crispie cakes?

Miaow (who is not supposed to be eating sugar either.... *sigh*)

[Steve]

Hi Miaow, welcome to the site,

There are a few different chocolates that you can get which are dairyfree but most of them are dark chocolates. Both Tescos and Sainsburys are selling chocolate bars that taste more like milk chocolate and you may find these are better suited to making rice crispie cakes.

[whitebull hotel]

Are there any recipes or dishes that you're looking to make a dairyfree version of?

Post your request here and we will see if we can help.

Hi Steve, I've been requested to make a birthday cake for a little girl who has an egg allergy, do you have any recipies?

I'd appreciate your help

Thanks
Kathryn

[Steve]

Hi Steve, I've been requested to make a birthday cake for a little girl who has an egg allergy, do you have any recipies?

I'd appreciate your help

Thanks
Kathryn Hi Kathryn,

I've never had to try making an egg free cake before.

You can get some recipes for Egg Free cakes on Allrecipes.com. They have a section for Special Diet Cakes which includes an egg free section here: http://allrecipes.com/directory/2452.asp

I hope you can find something on there that you like :)

[matt]

i'm sure the health food shop i use in salisbury have a egg replacement for use in cakes etc. that would be the easiest way. i may be going there today so i'll have alook for you and get the name etc.

alternatively you could make a cheese cake or pie type thing. using pastry etc.
what's their favourite stuff?

[matt]

there were two egg replacement powders at the shop. one was by www.glutenfree.com (http://www.glutenfree.com) or co.uk? the other i can't remember. sorry i'm useless. get to your local health food shop and ask them they may have somein or be able to order some. depends how urgently you need it.

hope this has been helpfull.

[astra]

taken from Lene Lenemans 'Easy Vegan Cooking'

Chocolate Cake

4oz sugar
4tsp cocoa powder
1/2 tsp sea salt
6oz wholewheat flour
3/4 tsp bicarbonate of soda
3fl oz vegetable oil
1tsp vanilla essence
2tsp cider vinegar or wine vinegar
1/3pt cold water

1) mix thoroughly the sugar, cocoa, salt, flour and soda in a mixing bowl.

2) add the oil, vanilla essence and vinegar and pour cold water over the mixture.

3) combine well with a fork, but do not beat.

4) pour into 2 greased sandwiched tins and bake in a moderate oven at 180C/GM 4 for 30 mins.

don't be put off by the vinegar, salt and bicarb ingredients, apparantly it's all to do with the reactions against one another that makes the cake rise!

Chocolate Icing

2oz vegan marg
1oz cocoa powder
4tbsp soya milk
5oz sugar
1tsp vanilla essence

1) combine the first 4 ingredients in a saucepan and bring them to the boil slowly, stirring constantly.

2) boil for 1 minute.

3) remove from the heat and beat until cold. add vanilla essence and spread the icing on the cake.

[astra]

i've also got recipes for an orange cake, date and pecan cake, applesauce cake, gingerbread, christmas cake, plain sponge cake and various biscuits/fudge brownies etc.

i'll happily type em up when asked/when i've got time!! :)

enjoy :)

[SugarFairies44]

Steve,

is there a way you can make dairy free mash potato

[Pam]

I add soya milk and dairy free spread to my mashed potato. It doesn't make it quite as creamy but it is passable.

[Lan]

Hi all,

I do the same as you Pam and just add dairy free butter and milk. There is also a cream made by Provamel, I don't know if this would be any good.

Kind Regards,

Lan.

[Bumble Bee]

I haven't been able to find oat milk in stores in Southern Ontario.
Does anyone have a good (easy) recipe?

Thanks a bunch

[matt]

well not cheap but there's this i found while googling:

http://www.simply-natural.biz/SoyQuick.php

or this list of suppliers should help


http://allallergy.net/products/index.cfm/cdeoc/XH

hope that helps.

[Nic]

On mashed potatoes, I use olive oil. Seems to make it richer than margerine or soya milk.

Have you tried mashing butternut squash with other vegetables like potatoes or swede? Its got a very buttery taste, which is nice.

Nic

[matt]

mashed carrots and swede:drool:

butternut squash better roasted as are sweet potatoes. see home made chips for how to.:drool:

[Pam]

We've got a couple of huge butternut squash at home waiting to be cooked, at least we are informed that that's what they are, though they are green rather than yellow. I like them roasted but, alas, my diet will not allow such methods! There's also a massive spaghetti squash in the greenhouse waiting to be picked but it will do at least 4 meals it is so big. Some of the courgettes are doing pretty good impressions of marrows at the moment too, we just can't eat them fast enough.

[matt]

green butternut? new one on me? why not roast? need hardly any olive oil

freeze the courgettes? should be ok.

[Pam]

Not much room left in the freezer now. I have frozen courgette before but it is only really any good in stews and sauces then as it goes a bit limp. I actually like it raw in a salad but I can't consume it in the quantities that it is growing in. Hubby cooked half of one of the butternuts yesterday but he roasted it in a fair bit of oil so I only had a couple of pieces. It was definitely butternut squash though and very sweet, I would have liked more but could imagine the weighing scales going up if I did.

[Pen]

I haven't been able to find oat milk in stores in Southern Ontario.
Does anyone have a good (easy) recipe?

Thanks a bunch
Hi Bumble Bee

Where in Southern Ontario are you? I just found this link
http://www.radiantrecovery.com/newsletter2/canresource2.html which gives the names of places that keep Oat Milk:

Zehr's Markets in Kitchener/Waterloo/Guelph, ON
Stone Store in Guelph, ON
Big Carrot in Toronto, ON (www.thebigcarrot.ca (http://www.thebigcarrot.ca/))
But I just called The Big Carrot and they said they used to keep it but don't any more as they had problems getting it. The person I spoke with thought it was made by a company called 'Pacific.' I left a voice message with the manager of the Carrot asking for more details about Pacific so if I get any more info I will let you know. Ooh! Just found this for Pacific Foods http://www.pacificfoods.com/products-nut-grain.php... and it shows that the only store that keeps Organic Oat Original and Vanilla drink in Ontario is:
Whole Foods 87 Avenue Road Box 320 Toronto ONTARIO M5R3R9 (416) 944-0500 http://www.wholefoods.com/stores/toronto/

[Bumble Bee]

Thanks Pen....We can't get Pacific in Canada these days. I sent an e-mail to the store in Toronto (I am in kitchener waterloo), to see if they had another kind of oat milk.
Will keep you posted.

[Nic]

Pam - if you use spray oil on the butternut squash before roasting it, you can keep it down to 10 calories or so, as its 1 calorie per spray. Its not quite as rich, but I think equally yummy, just in a different way. If you're dieting, spray oil is handy for lots of things - frying veg, grilling meat etc. You can get it in the oil aisle in the supermarket, and all the brands I've tried don't have dairy. Though always worth checking...

Also, have you tried doing non-dairy pesto with courgette? Its yummy on pasta, and uses up quite a lot of courgette. I fry it in a little bouillon to add flavour, wait until the courgette is cooked and the bouillon almost boiled off, then add the pesto. A drop of soya milk makes it creamier, but its fine without if you're watching the calories (about 550, including the pasta). Yum!

Nic

[Pam]

I've got both sunflower and olive oil in the spray cans, it's just that when dh does the cooking he goes overboard with the oil. I quite often do "roast" potatoes with the sprays as I don't like plain boiled potatoes. I'll do some butternut squash that way tomorrow probably. I've never actually tried pesto, dairy free or otherwise, I should get some - I think Meridian do a dairy free version.

[matt]

roast potatoes sorry they must be done in fattening artery clogging animal fat, pref duck fat!!!:drool:

bad for you but you know it makes sense. they never get quite as crispy otherwise.!!!!:bleh:

[Pen]

Thanks Pen....We can't get Pacific in Canada these days. I sent an e-mail to the store in Toronto (I am in kitchener waterloo), to see if they had another kind of oat milk.
Will keep you posted.
I called Whole Foods and they said they were unable to sell the US's Pacific oat milk 'because it is fortified.' They told me they did not stock any other brand, but would do so if they could find one. The Big Carrot eventually responded to my voice message--they said they were unable to keep Pacific's oat milk because 'Pacific are unwilling to provided dedicated packaging for the Canadian market.'

[Copper]

The Big Carrot eventually responded to my voice message--they said they were unable to keep Pacific's oat milk because 'Pacific are unwilling to provided dedicated packaging for the Canadian market.'

Why do firms make things so difficult? :rant:

[matt]

chances are it's the lawyers at fault. there are prob a couple of different labelling laws that require a diff package! or it could be they're just too damn lazy.

[Pen]

Being a so-called bilingual country, Canadian food packaging must include both English and French wording--products originated in Canada have this. I suppose it is up to companies in other countries to decide who to export to, and if this means going to the effort of finding a translator and providing dedicated packaging they just might decide it isn't worth the effort. But I noticed that a jar of German coffee in our cupboard had just a stick-on label showing the French translation. I buy imported Maldon Sea Salt but that has no stick-on labels or French words.

Although The Carrot says the reason they can't get the milk is because of the lack of dedicated packaging, I wouldn't be surprised if the main reason that it is not available here is because the oat milk is fortified [and not approved in Canada] (Whole Foods' version of the reason). Pacific's website http://www.pacificfoods.com/products-nut-grain.php shows a list of the vitamins and minerals the product contains, but it doesn't actually say if it is fortified. I can't read the words on the box in the picture either. It just makes more sense that Pacific don't sell oat milk
in Canada because they can't (fortification rules) rather than they can't be bothered (dedicated packaging).