Crumbing Chicken Tenders

Kids love crumbed tenders no matter what their age, and with breadcrumbs being out for use with George beacause she's wheat free, and cornflakes being out for Tim because he's low GI,  I stumbled upon the idea to use quinoa as a coating, I started with rolling the tenders in spelt flour, then egg, and then dried uncooked quinoa, this made quite a heavy crumb, so I omitted the flour and watered the egg mix down and then just dipped in the quinoa. Shallow fried on med heat in rice bran oil. A great result.

The proof is always in the eating, dinner time bell rang and in they came,all looked and commented "This looks different! Is that quinoa?" . "Yes" . Off to eat, well my son Harry has a large healthy appetite, so the usual 4 tenders and 3 veges, (cabbage,carrot and peas). He got though 3 tenders and admitted defeat and was amazed at how filling the tenders became crumbed that way. George was also unable to eat all her dinner, Tim and I also liked the tenders this way.

I'm very happy with the result and actually next time, I would just dip in chicken stock and quinoa as the results would be as good. Nice not having the fiddle of the crumbing process. I know quinoa seems an expensive option but  they aren't eating the same amount, and the nutrition factor is a lot better, and you don't use that much quinoa anyway. Kids happy. Cook happy. What better result can you ask for.

Quinoa (keen wah) 

The nutritional supergrain. Comes from Incas in South America, it carries the highest protein of all of  the grains. It's gluten free. It is a pretty little flat grain that expands to 4 or 5 times it size when cooked. It has a GI count of 53.

It comes in three colours, white,red and black.

See you soon,

Sally

George baked a cake

We are right in the thick of it now, yesterday George , the one intolerant to wheat , dairy and sugar wanted to make a Rainbow cake, Mum !!! please help, and you guessed it , it was at dinner time . So off we went . The recipe that she wanted was a Martha Stewart one and looked cool , but we had to work out how to make it and not kill her. So the flour became spelt flour , the sugar became coconut sugar and the butter became Olivani , a spread made from olive oil , kinda like margarine, but different. We made up the mix to find the spelt flour made the batter a nice fawn colour , George was a bit miffed because it was going to be hard to colour brightly.

We used liquid food colouring and away we went ending up with five OK colours , we baked them off and assembled the cake. The hard part was what to use to glue the layers together , George had a brainwave , she blitzed some coconut sugar to a really fine powder , mixed with water , a little Olivani and some coconut oil and voila , instant cake glue . We topped off with some coconut and bingo a great cake . It had a sweetened pancake type flavour , was nice and moist , looked great and tasted amazing , one very happy young lady who can munch away to her hearts content knowing that she is not going to explode with eczema. Until next time Sally.

Welcome to my Low GI , Wheat, dairy, sugar free food adventure

Hi all and welcome to my Blog , my name is Sally and i am the Husband of Tim and the mother of two great kids Georgia 17 and Harry 15 .We all live in Devonport which is a cute seaside village in Auckland New Zealand. We all love great food and cooking but a couple of years ago Tim was diagnosed with esophageal cancer , boy was that a bombshell , he was 45 and fit . After months of  chemo treatment and surgery he is now slowly recovering but has many complications and in particular has to be on a low GI diet , follow me on that journey its is great but new.
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Recently George was diagnosed with intolerance to dairy , sugar and wheat after years of annoying eczema. So our life has gone from culinary creation to one of a pantry free of most standard ingredients . I figured that i would share my adventures on juggling all sorts of food challenges that i face daily with the hope to help others and maybe create an online community that will help in some way.
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A Selection of home grown veggies from my Garden.