tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-48266658482883445552026-03-10T20:53:37.860+10:00Hunger is the best sauce in the world - CervantesAdrasteiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02216296982608314747noreply@blogger.comBlogger639125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4826665848288344555.post-63363408130453063602014-01-18T19:30:00.001+10:002014-01-18T19:30:46.390+10:00

Not being able to eat gluten, dairy or soy means that I don't get to eat Italian food very much (or at all) any more.  I hear about these wonderful Italian restaurants but generally Italian is a cuisine that we avoid.  I don't often cook it at home either.  Despite being a huge pasta lover, so many of the commercially available gluten free pastas contain soy or end up tasting

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D and I love Grill'd.  For me, it's hard to get a good burger with my food intolerances and for D, he just likes the variety and quality of Grill'd burgers. Grill'd pride themselves on making healthy burgers from fresh quality ingredients.  They also have detailed nutrition information on the website plus a great cheat sheet showing vegan and gluten free options. Despite all

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I mentioned in my last post that I've been eating mostly paleo since the end of my pseudo-detox.  Luckily for me, there is such a thing as a paleo cafe in Brisbane now. Actually, Primal Pantry opened in early June and I believe they were Brisbane's first paleo cafe.  In their own words, Primal Pantry offers 100% grass-fed, gluten-free, and organic meal options, made from scratch

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In September, I completed my own special version of the 21 Day Sugar Detox and the Whole30.  I was feeling sluggish and my sweet tooth was rampant.  Plus I'd picked up some bad habits that I really wanted to break, like ordering daily chai lattes on lactose free milk even though the chai powder had dairy in it and lactose free milk doesn't agree with me.  No wonder I was feeling

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I've been cold this winter.  I don't know why I've been feeling it more this year than any other year, but I have been. I wanted to make something comforting, creamy and wintery for a Sunday meal and I came across this recipe for paleo chicken pot pies from Swiss Paleo.  I love creamy chicken pie things.  Creamy fishy pie things are good too. There are three parts to the

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I love Momofuku.  I've never been to any of their restaurants, but I love David Chang's philosophy on food. I have the cookbook, and I spent a merry weekend a few years ago making 15 recipes from the cookbook in my Momofuku weekend. I think Christina Tosi is a genius too.  I mean, there are no words to describe the crack pie. Notwithstanding my food issues, I really wanted a copy of

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Ten years ago, Burger Urge opened the doors on its restaurant in Fortitude Valley.  Since then, they've opened five stores and franchised another and they are going from strength to strength! Burger Urge owners Sean and Colby Carthew chose to celebrate this momentous occasion by introducing a new menu, including four new burgers, buffalo wings and onion rings.  Sean and Colby

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We recently moved into the inner city and we have been enjoying the plethora of cafes our location has to offer.  Before we moved, however, our options were far more limited. If only we'd known about Leaf Espresso Bar back then.  Leaf is a boutique cafe/espresso bar located in suburban Tarragindi and is the brainchild of Malcolm and Danielle Watts and rugby union player Scott

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I know I've been a little quiet over here lately.  There have been one or two sporadic posts every few months, but for the most part my heart hasn't been into blogging.  I think it's because my dietary requirements are so specific now that I didn't think that anyone would want to read about what I was cooking/eating. Then I realised that I blog for me.  I love everyone who

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Hi everyone, I am Dave the Mega-Parm, Adrasteia's better half and a fellow blogger. I haven't been blogging for long, nor am I very good at it but I'm having a lot of fun. A couple of weeks ago Adrasteia was lucky enough to be asked by the lovely folks at Burger Urge if she wanted some gift vouchers to check out one of their stores. When I heard we could go for burgers I jumped at the chance,

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Now, if that's not a picture that makes you want to read a blog post, I just don't know what is. I'm not going to apologise for not posting for the better part of this year, but I will apologise for the lackluster photography.  I received a digital SLR for my birthday and I'm still learning how to use it. Although this blog probably isn't the best evidence, I've been doing a bit of

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I would love to know more about how flavours work together and be able to have that "knack" to know what extra something a recipe needs to make it taste good.  I know that all it takes is practice, but the control freak in me has trouble being that spontaneous. Tonight was a little different, I worked a little bit later than usual and when I got home I wanted something easy.  I'd been

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Would you believe that I've never eaten a cinnamon roll? They've always been something I've admired on blogs but have never really piqued my interest enough to take the next step to try one. For some reason, lately I've had quite a hankering for one. It may be something psychological, you know, how you always want something you can't have. As someone who can't eat gluten or most dairy and as

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Hello.  I used to blog here. As a bit of a re-introduction, I love food.  I love cooking and eating and even though I might sometimes be lazy, I want what I eat to be great. When you heard from me last, I had been diagnosed with my gluten and lactose intolerance.  Since then, we have also discovered I'm intolerant to soy.  It's been quite an interesting journey adapting my

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Although the timing is quite good considering my last post was about Averie's Raw Vegan Apple Crumble, this was actually made to eat with my first attempt at the apple crumble. When I first started experimenting with raw desserts, my nut cream didn't turn out very well due to my lack of skills.  I really wanted to try again and this recipe from Gena of Choosing Raw was perfect.  I

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I love Averie's Raw Vegan Apple Crumble.  I've only made it once but I have dreamed about it many times and have always meant to make it again but I've never gotten around to it (read: I'm lazy).  Then I found out about my gluten intolerance and my doctor recommended I avoid oats (even gluten free ones) while I'm particularly sensitive and typically, all I could think about was the

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First of all, please forgive the (moreso than usual) poor photography.  Somehow I was extremely organised today and managed to eat my test serve and box up the remaining serves for freezer lunches and only take one photo.  And it was with my iPhone.  That being said, it was incredible and it needs to be shared. I was de-gluten and dairy-ing my kitchen yesterday and I discovered

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One of the hardest things I've found about my newly diagnosed gluten and lactose intolerance has been eating out.  Working long hours in a job that can be quite stressful often leaves me exhausted at the end of the day and I really find it difficult to muster up the energy to cook. Interestingly enough though, it's possible that this can be attributed to my B12 deficiency or even the gluten

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I love Celia’s blog Fig Jam and Lime Cordial and since imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, when she blogged about Scone Week, I had to too! As Celia says in her post, it was just that a bunch of bloggers all made their own scone recipes in the second week of August last week and then they joked about designating this week Scone Week. What a great idea. I love scones. 

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I've been really unfortunate to have missed out on the last three Brisbane food blogger events I've been invited to because I've been sick every single time. The lovely Cora of Hungry Kittens has written a wonderful recap of the recent Sake Brisbane preview of Head Chef Shinichi Maeda's Winter menu, which I was dying to attend.  (Unfortunately, I wasn't able to make it).  In Cora's

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  are awesome.  That is all.

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  Fresh, fabulous and delicious.  Too much love for words.  Just go there, now. Symposium Cafe Shop 2 26 Commercial Road, Fortitude Valley Ph 3852 3836 symposiumcafe.com.au

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One of our Easter traditions is our late-night trip to Tom’s Confectionary Warehouse during their 24-hour trade leading up to Easter Sunday.  We like to mix up the days and times when we visit just to see how many people go shopping for sweets at like 11pm on a Sunday night. It’s always lots.   This time we visited early on in their trade so the shelves were full of all sorts of goodies

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I have been wanting a spiraliser since seeing the brilliant Robyn review them on her blog, Girl on Raw.  I love pasta but I’ve really been trying to cut back on the volume of pasta I eat and I thought that having a spiraliser meant I could combine my pasta with vegies and make a more balanced meal.  It makes sense, right? Anyway, D listened to me whine and beg for a little while before

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We first visited Madtongsan II way back in March.  Since then we’ve visited a few more times.  It’s definitely worth the repeat visit. Bibambap! I don’t remember what this was, but the chicken was crispy fried and so tasty, and the dressing was great too. Kimchi and pork pancake and a vegetarian pancake   Korean BBQ Chicken Spicy stir-fried marinated chicken served with rice.

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