• 250g Changs Rice Noodles
• 2 tablespoons oil
• 1 medium onion chopped
• 2 cloves garlic crushed
• 350g chicken mince
• 1 red capsicum sliced
• 50ml lime juice
• 2 tbsp Changs Soy Sauce (Tamari)
• 3 tbsp Changs Thai Sweet Chilli Sauce (Tamari)
• 1 tablespoon fish sauce
• 2 bunches bok choy
• Lime wedges to serve

Place noodles in a large bowl, cover with hot water for 5 minutes and drain. Heat oil in a wok or large fry pan and stir fry onions and garlic until onions are soft. Add the chicken mince, stir fry until cooked. Add capsicum, noodles, juice, sauces and bok choy to the pan and stir fry until heated through. Serve with lime wedges.

We’ve added quite a few new products to our store over the past few weeks.

• Honey Rings – Basco
• Fettuccine Carbonara – Basco
• Corn Chips – Thomas Chipman
• Popcorn – Sea Salt
• Outback Animal Cookies, Fun Pack – Orgran
• Macaroni pasta – Buontempo (Orgran)

Ingredients:

• 1 pkt gluten free plain sweet biscuits (try Naturally Good Coconut Crunch cookies)
• 50g butter
• 4 eggs
• ¾ cup castor sugar
• Juice from 3 lemons plus zest from 2
• 1 cup cream

Method

• Grease a 24cm oven proof pie dish.
• Preheat oven to 150 degrees.
• Finely crumb gluten free biscuits. Put in pie dish.
• Melt butter. Pour over crumbed biscuits and combine.
• Press crumbs into the sides and base of the pie dish, with the back of a spoon, to form the crust.
• In a bowl, whisk eggs and gradually add sugar, lemon juice, zest and cream.
• Pour filling into crust.
• Put in oven for 50-60 minutes until filling just set but still a little wobbly in the middle.
• Allow to cool slightly before serving.
• Sprinkle with gluten free icing sugar.

Can also be served cold.

Note: You can also use gluten free plain chocolate biscuits crushed (such as Freedom Foods Daydream Chocolate biscuits) to form the bases/crusts of chocolate desserts or cheesecakes.

I have been looking at a few great websites lately that have gluten free recipes. If you are like me and don’t follow recipes to the letter, it’s always good to at least get some inspiration. Here are a few sites that are worth having a look at:

• Gluten-Free Girl does a lot of blogging about gluten free issues and has put all her recipes into a blog called Recipes from Gluten-Free Girl.
• An Australian site is Best Gluten Free Recipes. They have quite a good selection of simple to make meals.
• Rosemary’s Gluten-Free Recipes has 26 recipes available, including an Australian favourite – Anzac biscuits.

If you know of any more sites, just add a comment to let us all know!

So you are having someone over for dinner who needs to eat gluten free. What do you cook? What does gluten free mean? This article provides some of the answers for you.

Most importantly, gluten is in all foods and products containing wheat, barley, rye or oats, so these foods need to be avoided. This obviously means the standard products made from wheat flour such as breads, pastas, biscuits. Note, there are many gluten free substitutes for these foods.
However, gluten may also be contained in foods that you may not expect, such as some brands of corn flour. In order to determine if a product contains gluten, you need to read the ingredients list. It is mandatory in Australia for ingredients containing gluten and other allergens to be specified. The main things to remember when reading labels and ingredient lists are:

• If a product is labelled “gluten free”, this claim overrides the ingredient list and you can be sure that it is gluten free
• If the ingredient list contains any mention of wheat, barley, rye or oats, this food contains gluten. This includes ingredients such as wheat starch, wheaten flour and those with wheat in brackets, eg. maltodextrin (wheat)
• The exception to rule above is that the ingredient “wheat glucose syrup” is OK as it has been so highly processed that it has no detectable gluten
• Malt products like milo, some mayonnaises or malt vinegar, contain barley and therefore, gluten

When in doubt, leave it out.

With summer and daylight savings in full swing, there are some great ways to enjoy simple gluten free meals with family and friends.

Having a BBQ?
Yackandadah Simmer Sauces also make ideal marinades. Simply brush some of your favourite sauce on to the meat a couple of hours before you cook. Yackandadah sauces come in the following yummy flavours — Honey & Soy, Thai Satay, Bushies BBQ and Louisiana Southern Style Cajun.

Love Pizza?
Gluten Free Tortilla Wraps make a great base for homemade, healthy pizzas. Just add all your favourite toppings and bake!

Kids School Holiday Cooking.
A great way to occupy the kids on school holidays is to cook muffins or a cake. We have a range of packet mixes that are really simple to use. The multipurpose mixes are great as you can add fruit or choc chips to them.

Going to the Cinema?
Why not take along your own gluten free popcorn? Cobs Organic popcorn is available in 100g packets. It is free of preservatives and artificial colours.

Gluten Free Chips anyone?
Vegechips come in a range of flavours and are free from preservatives and artificial colours. Special sale this month—all 100g vegechips packets are selling at 10% off the regular price. Flavours include: natural, bbq, chilli/lime, french onion, and sweet’n’sour.