This recipe was in a Kraft Vegemite recipe booklet and have the unusual combination of vegemite and crunch peanut butter, not two ingredients you’d expect to find in a meatball. But from a gluten free perspective the peanut butter is a great substitute for flour to hold the meatball together and the almond coating does the same thing and adds a crunch. Worth a try?
I’ve added pumpkin to a fruit cake, but I’ve never put it in a chocolate cake mix. I guess it would work, especially as this cake has a cup of sultanas and some mixed spice added. It’s definitely not your usual chocolate cake though.
With carrot, onion, celery, potato, green beans and butter beans plus tomatoes, I really think this soup should be called Vegetable & Bean Soup not just plain bean soup. Throw in a bit of pasta and you could even call it minestrone – whatever the name it’s a great winter warmer.
You can make this recipe as six self-saucing puddings or one large family size pudding. Tinned cherries are used and that makes it an all-year round pudding, although I think eating it hot and with a large dollop of cream screams ‘winter’ to me.
Veal is a meat I don’t often cook with these days, it was used a lot more when I was growing up. In this recipe you could substitute beef, but it’s worth using veal if you can buy it, as it’s quite tender and makes a great pie filling. The polenta base and rounds on the top make this into a very hearty pie.
There’s two things I like about this recipe. Firstly, the combination of apples and raspberries together in the filling – I like the sweetness of the apples and the tartness of the raspberries. And, secondly the addition of rice bran in the crumble mix. I find some crumbles a bit dull, but the mix of rice bran, rolled oats and crushed nuts makes this one tasty.
Unfortunately there’s no picture with this recipe, which is a shame as I think a lamb casserole with a crumble topping is a little unusual and would not only taste good, but would look good as well. It would be a good casserole to make for a group and could easily be made gluten free by simply using gluten-free plain flour.
Coffee and macaroons…………yum, but just for a change what about trying these macaroons made with white chocolate. The added bonus is that they’re gluten free.
Monday is the first official day of winter so I thought it might be a good time to add in this really hearty soup. Add a bit of crusty bread and it’s a total meal in itself.
I know going into winter is hardly the right time to post an ice-cream recipe, but for some people it doesn’t matter how cold it is it’s never too cold for a bowl of ice-cream. This one has the added bonus of crunch peanut butter and chocolate, so who cares if it’s cold outside turn the heating up and enjoy it……………
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