Oat, Chickpea & Nutmeg Biscuits

Oat, Chickpea & Nutmeg Biscuits

Oat and Sultana Biscuits

In this time of COVID-19, I have found it impossible to buy gluten free flour! However, I have been fortunate enough to find a bag of chickpea flour, which is naturally gluten free and I therefore adjusted a previous recipe of mine and come up with these biscuits.

Here’s the recipe.

Preheat your oven at 180C. Mixtures makes approximately 30 to 35 biscuits.

INGREDIENTS

6o…

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VEGAN BISCOTTI

Vegan, Chickpea Biscotti

During this lockdown I’m finding it impossible to get hold of Doves Gluten Free flour from the supermarkets, however I was soooooooooooooo fortunate to have found a bag of chickpea flour – YEY, so I grabbed the bag and made up a recipe for vegan biscotti using the 90g of rice flour I had left. I don’t really want to use eggs in baking at the moment either otherwise it…

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Oat and Sultana Biscuits

Oat and Sultana Biscuits

In this time of COVID-19, I have found it almost impossible to buy gluten free flour! Therefore, I’ve come up with this recipe to try and make the gluten free flour I do have stretch that bit further.

Here’s the recipe.

Preheat your oven at 180C. Mixtures makes approximately 30 to 35 biscuits.

INGREDIENTS

6oz / 170g Margarine or Butter

2oz / 55g Sugar (I used…

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Bread using Lovibonds Liquid Yeast

Bread made from Lovibonds Liquid Yeast

Here are photos of baked bread, using Lovibonds Yeast, which is a waste product of brewing and would otherwise be composted.

I made the bread by hand and using a bread maker.  I found that from my usual basic bread recipe I swapped out 75ml to 100ml of water with Lovibonds Liquid Yeast 👍👍.

Unfortunately for my daughters’ and I 😔 😞 we can’t actually…

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GLUTEN FREE SODA BREAD

BASIC Gluten Free Soda Bread

I needed to make a gluten free loaf but my cupboards are low in yeast and I’m finding it difficult to find some at the moment, however, I do have bicarbonate of soda … YEY.  Also, a friend gave me some out of date UHT milk (she knows how much I hate waste) and so this gluten free, linseed, soda bread 🍞 was born 👍👍👍 to serve with the homemade yellow split pea and…

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BREAD made with basic plain flour

Bread made in the bread maker using plain, basic flour

My mum & dad are in their mid 70s and due to the Corona Virus, they asked me to buy them some flour to make some bread for them (I couldn’t get any ready made bread either).  I tried everywhere to get a bag of flour but in this time, it’s impossible. 😔

Therefore, I filled the bread maker using yeast, sugar, salt, water and the basic,…

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Homegrown biodegradable confetti for a friends sons wedding. The bride wishes to have biodegradable confetti at her wedding and with all the rain we've had lately, it's knocked so many petals from their stems, which isn't good for the bees but rather then waste them, I've swept them up & dried them for confetti for their wedding in August.

I cooked cakes for sale at the school later & once cooked, I turned off the oven, put the tray of swept up petals into the residue heat of the oven, after blotting off some of the water from the petals. Once the oven was cool, put a few petals at a time between 2 sheets of kitchen roll and microwaved for 30 seconds and voila, homegrown biodegradable confetti which will keep for approximately 3 months. Because we generate our own electricity it hasn't cost a penny. Added 14/07/19...now we have the hotter, sunnier weather, I lay the petals on a baking sheet lined with kitchen roll and leave outside with a cooling rack over the top, works wonders ... Marvellous. #biodegradableconfetti #confetti #flowerconfetti #driedconfetti #makingconfetti #bees #homegrownconfetti #nowaste #nowasteliving #savingmoneytips #generatingelectricity

Organic Kale from the garden now dried, powdered and ready for adding to soups, meat and lentil loaves, vegan pancakes, rice crispy cakes, smoothies etc. I can't stand waste in any form, particularly food waste, so having cleared the kale bed (which was going to seed) I picked off the leaves, washed them, shook off the excess water, stuck them in the food dryer and ground down the leaves to a powder. I read somewhere that dried food retains its nutritional content. A lovely jar of chlorophyll. #driedkale #chlorophyll #foodwaste #organic #gardenleftovers #vegetablegarden #vegetarian #antioxidants #organicveg #vegan

YEY - Portal Cool Suyo Long heirloom GMO free cucumber seeds have germinated so I potted them up today and they're now in the greenhouse. Swipe to see 2 other photos. Fingers crossed I'll get a crop as very keen to taste them. 🥒🥒🥒 #cucumbers #organicproduce #heirloomseeds #heirloomcucumbers #heirloomvegetables #germination #germinatingvegetableseeds #pottedongerminatedseeds #pottingup #organiccumbers #organicvegetables #veggardening https://www.instagram.com/littlewhitefeathers1971/p/Bv9fFbaFfaM/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1t7mq0n1i5756

GERMINATING SEEDS

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I have uploaded my video “Germinating Vegetable Seeds for Sowing” to Youtube. Making the video was a learning curve for me but I’m pleased to have managed it.

I germinate vegetable seeds for our food patch if I feel behind in the growing season. I also find that germinating seeds saves time and money because I only sow the number of seeds I need and therefore use less compost.…

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We've picked the first organic Cavolo Nero kale of the year, the plants are very small but thought we'd have some with our Sunday roast, which I'll lightly steam. Yummy #vegetablegarden #vegetables #cavolonero #organicproduce #organicvegetables #organic #greens https://www.instagram.com/littlewhitefeathers1971/p/Bu1M6ePFhpM/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=en6obfhq6bjv

THE SHED

… THE HUB OF THE GARDEN

Since November, I’ve been trying to muster the energy to clear and tidy up the hub of the garden being the shed and greenhouse before the next growing season and rearrange a few things. I don’t have a lot of time so it helps when everything is tidy and in working order.

With the new vegetable sowing season almost upon us, I made the time to finally clear out the…

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PURPLE SPROUTING

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Home Growing Organic Purple Sprouting

YEY – The organic purple sprouting was ready for eating at the weekend, so I snipped enough for our Sunday roast, lightly steamed it and we all happily tucked in.  It was absolutely delicious. 

Although it’s taken all winter for the plants to get to this stage it’s a lovely treat to have, especially when there’s not much other veg growing…

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DELICIOUS FERMENTED VEGETABLES

Fermented Vegetables all in a row

Hello,

My children love pickled vegetables so I thought I’d make some of the fermented variety … so …

I chopped up carrot, red onions, garlic, cauliflower, sweet potato, green beans and packed the veg into sterilised jars.  I made up a brine solution by measuring out water and adding 2% salt to it and brought the brine solution to the boil.  I packed the…

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Gluten free pancakes served with lemon and sugar, lime and sugar and maple syrup to children on Shrove Tuesday and they've absolutely devoured them. #glutenfree #glutenfreepancakes #shrovetuesday #pancakes https://www.instagram.com/littlewhitefeathers1971/p/Buomp7hFVvw/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1g7se3j9u04gu

Kids sowed some cress seeds in empty egg shells, the cress happily grew on the windowsill and is now ready. May and Rose couldn't wait to snip it onto their tea. #cress #organiccress #veg #windowsillgarden #salad #vegetables #windowsillgardening #windowsillplants https://www.instagram.com/littlewhitefeathers1971/p/BuojrJYlGmg/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=17z01vh857ghw