Thanks to all who attended my gluten free cooking workshop on Sunday 24th August at The Source Bulkfoods in Traralgon. Here are the recipes for those who attended to use:| Red Dirt Road Blog Gippsland
Here is a gluten free recipe i've tried that is a wild success if you use the Gluten Free Bakers Bread that you can obtain atThe Source Bulkfoods. You can weigh out 300gms of bread flour at The Source and only take exactly what you need as well. This flour is available in Australia, if overseas, try looking for a good bread and cake gluten free flour. It's really delicious with an authentic Brown Bread taste that us irish love. If you are not gluten free, I'd recommend replacing flour with...| www.reddirtroad.life Blog Feed
Happy October! Since its the time of Oktoberfest and Halloween, I thought I'd share my Gluten Free Pretzels recipe that I created earlier in the year. I love that this Wildsourdough bread flour was able to help me create a gluten free version of the pretzels that I love. Enjoy the recipe and enjoy October! Ingredients olive oil, for greasing 1 level teaspoons olive oil Ingredients 400 grams full cream milk, or alternative mylk 2 teaspoons dried yeast 500 grams gluten free flour, Wi...| www.reddirtroad.life Blog Feed
Gluten-free Swiss roll recipe The simple things you yearn for when you are gluten free! A biscuit, a scone, or a a sweet small piece of cake to have with a cup of tea. Here is a great recipe I have made using the Thermomix that makes a delicious gluten free swiss roll that you can fill with jam or jam and cream, hazelnut chocolate spread or cream or lemon curd and cream. These are just a few ideas, you can get creative! Fill your gluten free swiss rol with just jam or add cream. Ingredients...| www.reddirtroad.life Blog Feed
We've had another cold blast of winter weather this past week, so of course that sets me back into soup weather straight away! I try to always make one big "soup of the week" for meal planning throughout Winter and Autumn. This week it was my favourite irish pub soup, which contains an array of hearty root vegetables, which nourishes the body through a cold spell. It also brings back wonderful memories of Ireland, sitting down at a little round table with a bowl of hearty soup and thick cut b...| www.reddirtroad.life Blog Feed
Valencia oranges Are the classic sweet orange, which are a wonderfully valuable addition to the vegetable garden, cementing it’s place firmly in our edible oasis. If life gives you lemons, then surely oranges are the novelty that follows. In my opinion the edible garden isn’t complete until it’s also brimming with seasonal fruit trees. A lemon, orange, mandarin and then lime are probably the most practical citrus to have, in that order too. They can be used fresh or to make curd, c...| www.reddirtroad.life Blog Feed
The weather has been so lovely these past few days. We are getting a taste of spring. The golden light fills up our beautiful country kitchen in the mornings and I’ve been inspired to give it a spring clean. Because also, you can see the cobwebs and dirty spots so much more vividly! Living in the country with a wood fire for company, no matter how new and efficient these fabulous modern ones are, means that it gets a little dusty and the spiders hitch a ride. Our big dog Pearl shed and t...| www.reddirtroad.life Blog Feed
Sometimes strange flavours go together magnificently well. Maybe strange is not the right word, but flavours that wouldn't be quick to your mind as pairings can be quite delicious indeed. This soup has become one of my favourite comfort soups. When the coconut and sweet potato come together, it becomes a buttery soup. It's hard to explain the loveliness of the flavour, so really you must taste it and find out for yourself! I have added Thermomix instructions, so my customers and reader...| www.reddirtroad.life Blog Feed
Growing your own flowers - slow living. When I first began gardening, I must confess, my mind was wholly on growing fresh vegetables for our family to get stuck into. I thought that a practical garden was one that would fill our bellies, enhance our food quality and nourish our bodies. I became keen to grow flowers when I learned that it would draw pollinators to the garden, and could contribute to us obtaining even more bountiful food. So away I went and got a lovely cottage and native ...| www.reddirtroad.life Blog Feed
Well it has been a minute, but here is a lovely new recipe that I made a couple of weeks ago while the Bramley apples from our garden were dropping from the trees out back. This year the colourful Lorikeets have arrived, I do not think I have ever seen them in my garden before, they must have heard about our apples and have spent weeks destroying and demolishing all the apples on the tips of the trees, while I skulk below trying to quietly nick all the apples (my apples) that I can! ...| www.reddirtroad.life Blog Feed
It’s so easy for some isn’t it! Those natural green thumbs who post perfect pictures all over the internet of their luscious spring gardens. Then it morphs into radiant summer produce, topped up with pictures of overflowing vegetable baskets as we get into autumn harvests. These green thumbs seem to have effortless waves of bounty to show us all every few days. Actually the devil is truthfully more in the detail, planning and efforts put in across wintertime. It all happens in winter...| www.reddirtroad.life Blog Feed
I think I’ll forget today. The day that began with promise. Drinking a poignant morning coffee. Feeling the unexpected hot heat of the sun against our cheeks on a late autumn day. Singing and cooking in the kitchen. Dreaming up stories. Watching a pink super-moon lift above our heads as we take the slowest of meandering evening walks. Drenching ourselves in pink, watching the colours touch the hilltops. Not wanting the day to end. Shall today be memorable though? The accept...| www.reddirtroad.life Blog Feed
Don't pay $6.50 for a lettiuce head - grow your own gourmet lettuce. One of my absolute favourite things about living in Australia, even in a cold temperate climate, is being able to grow vegetables throughout the winter season. No snow down here. While its immensely tempting to rest every single bed under a thick layer of mulch, cardboard or (oh dear) black plastic, with thoughts to head north to the sunnier states for winter, I try to rest one bed and plant lovely greens in the rest to ...| www.reddirtroad.life Blog Feed
If every winter I composed a song, I would soon have four seasons worth of winter songs. I will wrap up those songs around me into a homely lyric-filled blanket that I can pull over my head. Supping up the notes like a big cup of tea. Slurping up the soupy mess of heartache. So I can let melancholy rain down on the cobblestones any day I wish it to feel like winter. - Eimear McNelis| www.reddirtroad.life Blog Feed
Golden autumn sunrises - Red Dirt Road Life In many places throughout the world, autumn can feel like a clear ending. Visiting Europe during autumn in the past, it seems so clearly defined that when the season is over, there’s nothing to really look forward to for awhile. Local gardeners tell me ‘that’s it, I’ll be covering up the beds and hunkering down for the winter”. And why not! Leaves fall and crunch underfoot, evenings turn crispy cold, harvests wrap up and days get dramati...| www.reddirtroad.life Blog Feed
Keeping flavours in the garden throughout the year can be a struggle, especially if you have a temperate climate such as ours. It can be 32 degrees (celsius) one day, and 19 degrees the next. This is why I always look for hardy perennials to take the place of common vegetables and herbs where I can. A great place to find these unusual perennials are from growers that live close to you. Often market gardeners have wonderful perennial varieties on the go, if you can happen to find them and...| www.reddirtroad.life Blog Feed
Gluten Free Potato Pastry Recipe Is there nothing a potato can't do? Just like eggs, they are a chameleon of the kitchen, one minute you're digging into homemade crunchy chips, the next you are enjoying leftover mash in an apple tart made with potato pastry. The wonder of it all. Besides all that, potato is so good for you, containing complex carbohydrates not found in any other food, as well as containing vitamin C and antioxidants. It's a source of vitamins B1, B3 and B6 and minerals s...| www.reddirtroad.life Blog Feed
A few months ago I assisted at a Thermomix cooking class featuring superwoman baker Yoke Mardewi , who has developed her own proper gluten-free bread flours that not only makes gluten free sourdough, but now a new cake flour that can make superb scones. It's life changing.| Red Dirt Road Blog Gippsland