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Gut Health Has Gone Mainstream! Quirky Cooking

Top 6 Foods for Gut Health

Top 6 Foods for Gut Health! Why gut health is important and how to implement [...]

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Recipe Index

Recipe Index

Happy Mother’s Day to all the mamas out there ❤️ I’m so thankful for my beautiful mama who never stops loving and giving and is always there for us no matter what. Love you, Mum xx

We had a delicious pot-luck, family lunch at Joye’s house today - roast beef and veggies, chicken satay stir fry, roast chicken, potato salad, corned beef, salad, Joye’s sourdough bread, and homemade ice cream (cherry almond), mini pecan pies, date and cardamom tart and coffee for dessert 😄🤤 (all GF except the sourdough) which was greatly enjoyed by all! Our family lunches are the bomb!! 😁 Oh and my son Simi bought me a new vacuum cleaner (bless him, I needed one!) and the girls have been cleaning the kitchen for me - I do love practical presents, don’t you?!! 😄

Hope you’re being looked after, mamas, and having a lovely day. 🤗

#mothersday #mum #mumanddaughters #mymum #family #familylunch #quirkycooking #potluck

14 years ago I developed this dairy-free, avocado

14 years ago I developed this dairy-free, avocado chocolate mousse/ice cream/semifreddo recipe completely by accident!! 🤯😍 It’s so good and it’s been waaaayyyy too long since I made it, but since it’s been popping up on people’s stories lately and since I have three ripe avocados that need to be used asap, I think it’s a sign… 😁

Find the recipe by tapping on the link in my bio then on this photo 🤗

Notes:

Use a powerful blender or food processor if you don’t have a Thermomix.

This recipe was developed for the TM31 which has a slightly smaller bowl than new models of the Thermomix, so you may want to double the recipe so that it’s easier to get a smooth texture.

https://quirkycooking.com.au/2012/09/quirky-avocado-chocolate-mousse/

#recipe #dairyfree #chocolate #semifreddo #mousse #icecream #chocolateavocado #dessert #quirkycooking

Last minute Mother’s Day gift ideas from Quirky

Last minute Mother’s Day gift ideas from Quirky Cooking! ❤️🤗…

🌸 Get mum a gift card for the Quirky store (also usable for cooking classes, both in person & online!). You can find these in the Gift Ideas section of my store (or tap on link in my bio). Email to mum, or print it out and hand it to her with a bunch of flowers. 😉💐

🌸 Pop into your local @thesourcebulkfoods or @govitaaustralia store & pick up a gorgeous, Quirky Cooking cookbook - Life-Changing Food or Simple, Healing Food!

🌸 If you live in Melbourne or in FNQ*, you can now “Click & Collect” during business hours! 🎉🎉 The Melbourne location is in Vermont & the FNQ location is in Malanda - just add a note at checkout to say you’d like to pick up & we’ll send you the details & refund your shipping. (*Some items may not be available at the Malanda location - message me first to check!)

🌸 And an extra special gift idea… A bespoke cooking class with me! If you think mum would love a one-on-one cooking class with me (either in person or online), DM me for details of how you can make this happen! 🤗

https://quirkycooking.com.au/product-category/gift_ideas/

Dress by @mahasheclothing

#giftideas #mothersday #gifts #mum #quirkycooking

{Recipe} This chocolate mousse will blow your mind

{Recipe} This chocolate mousse will blow your mind!! 🤯 (Well, it blew ours! 😄)

Our French friend, Claire, really dislikes cooking. But there’s one dish she’s well-known for, and that’s her chocolate mousse. Last time she came to visit, Joye watched her make the mousse and she was very confused when Claire threw the chocolate into a pan with some water and began stirring it on the stovetop with a fork… and it didn’t split!! The end result was so delicious, we had to have a go at recreating it, Claire style, on the stovetop with a fork :D (Except we beat the egg whites in the Thermomix* - Claire uses a stick blender.)

Here’s Claire’s recipe 😁: “Perfect Chocolate Mousse ! I never have recipes 🤗 but melt the 70% chocolate with a bit of water. Beat the egg whites. Put egg yolks with chocolate then put beaten egg whites with chocolate 😀So simple!!”

In case you need a few more details…

about 1/4 cup water (ish)
360-400g dark, 70% cocoa chocolate (Use good quality chocolate - it will ‘make or break’ your mousse! I love @huntedandgathered chocolate buttons, made from just organic cacao beans, coconut sugar and cacao butter.)
6 large eggs, separated
sea salt to taste

Place water into a heavy-based saucepan and heat, then add chocolate buttons or roughly chopped chocolate. Stir with a fork or wire whisk until melted and silky smooth then remove from heat.

While chocolate is melting, whisk egg whites with a good pinch of salt until stiff peaks form. (I use a Thermomix & whisk with butterfly 3 mins/speed 4 - or use electric mixer or hand mixer.)

Whisk egg yolks into the warm chocolate mixture then gently fold through the egg whites. Pour into a dish (or individual glasses) and place into the fridge to set for a couple of hours.

That’s it!!

I’ll be forever grateful to Claire for this decadent recipe, but I don’t think I’d better make it again for a while as it’s impossible to walk past the fridge without stopping for a little taste, many times a day 😂! (Thank you, Claire! 🤗❤️)

*Note: Yes you could use the Thermomix for the chocolate part - but it’s easy and quick on the stovetop 😊

{Recipe} The weather is cooling down, so here’s

{Recipe} The weather is cooling down, so here’s one of my favourite soups from my blog and Life-Changing Food cookbook… Cream of Broccoli Soup! A delicious, gut-healing, nourishing soup that is quick to make and perfect for lunch (or dinner or breakfast 😄) on a cool day. 💚🥦

250g broccoli (approx 1 head), cut into florets
150g cauliflower, cut into florets
150g leek, sliced (you can use the green or white leaves, or both)
60g ghee or duck fat
500g chicken stock
1 tsp fine sea salt
pepper to taste, if tolerated
2 egg yolks (optional but delicious & nutritious)

Method

Place broccoli, cauliflower, leek, ghee or fat, stock, salt and pepper. Simmer for 20 minutes, until vegetables are tender.

Add egg yolks and blend with an immersion blender, or remove to a blender and blend until smooth.

Thermomix Method

Place broccoli, cauliflower, leek, ghee or fat, stock, salt and pepper and cook 20 min/100⁰C/speed 1.

Add egg yolks, and blend soup 30 sec/speed 9.

Storage

Store for up to 2 days in the fridge, or freeze for up to 4 months.

[Photo by @cookrepublic]

#broccoli #soup #creamofbroccoli #guthealth #autumnfood #quirkycooking #lifechangingfood

Lest we forget. #anzacday2024

Lest we forget.

#anzacday2024

If you’re craving Anzac biscuits today but you n

If you’re craving Anzac biscuits today but you need a GF or GAPS version… these are SO GOOD!! This is my Anzac Day Slice recipe made into biscuits - works beautifully, only takes about 15 mins to cook at 170C. Store them in the freezer and they’ll be crispy and slightly chewy 😍

Recipe below and in Simple, Healing Food (or tap on the link in my Insta bio) 🍪

https://quirkycooking.com.au/2020/04/grain-free-biscuits-slice-for-anzac-day/

#anzacs #wewillrememberthem #biscuits #baking #glutenfree #grainfree #gaps #quirkycooking

Hey everyone, tomorrow is Anzac Day so I’m shari

A useful hack for making straight edges on your ho

A useful hack for making straight edges on your homemade crackers! Thanks, Joye 😘

These are the Buckwheat & Almond Crackers from Life-Changing Food - I love these crackers, if you roll them really thin like this between two sheets of baking paper, they turn out so crispy and are a great alternative to chips/crisps!! 😍

#glutenfree #glutenfreecrackers #crackers #healthysnacks #lifechangingfood #quirkycooking

{Coconut Raspberry Jellies} I’ve had a few peopl

{Coconut Raspberry Jellies} I’ve had a few people ask for this recipe from Simple, Healing Food, so here you go - a gut-healthy weekend treat!

In the jellies in this photo I used homemade coconut cream and it separated a little (which I thought looked kind of cool 😄). And by the way, that’s vanilla powder not pepper in the jelly in case you were worried that my pepper addiction had gone too far... 😁😁 Sweeten them to taste and you can use maple syrup rather than honey if you prefer.

Happy weekend!

❤️ Coconut Raspberry Jellies ❤️

Coconut jelly:
250ml coconut cream
1 ½ Tbsp gelatine
50g honey
⅛ tsp vanilla powder or ¼ tsp vanilla extract

Raspberry jelly:
250g frozen raspberries
40g honey
1 ½ Tbsp gelatine

Method

1. Prepare moulds for jellies by placing them on a baking tray. Or line a small (26x19cm) rectangular dish with baking paper and set aside.

2. Coconut jelly: Place the coconut cream, gelatine, honey and vanilla in a heavy-based saucepan and warm, stirring, over medium heat until bubbles form on the edges. Remove from heat and pour into moulds or dish, filling half full. Place the tray or dish carefully into the freezer (making sure to keep level). Chill for at least 30 minutes or until firm before adding the next layer.

3. Raspberry jelly: Place raspberries, honey and gelatine into a heavy-based saucepan and heat over medium heat, stirring, until it begins to simmer. Reduce heat to low and keep stirring until raspberries have broken up, about 10 minutes. Strain jelly through a fine metal sieve into a bowl and allow to cool until room temp but not cool enough to set.

4. Pour raspberry jelly carefully over the coconut jelly to the top of the moulds or dish. Place back into the freezer to set for at least 30 minutes or until firm.

5. Pop jellies out of moulds into containers. Or if jelly is in a dish, slice into 2cm cubes and place into containers.

[Thermomix method in comments]

Do you meal plan? Some weeks I’m all over it and

Do you meal plan? Some weeks I’m all over it and some weeks I am all over the place 😂 but it always feels so good to have meals planned and some prep done for the week ahead. Here’s some meal ideas for your next planning session from my cookbooks and my blog! 🤗

SHF: Simple, Healing Food
LCF: Life-Changing Food

✨ Beef & cabbage soup with pumpkin & cauliflower mash (SHF) There’s a similar recipe for the Thermomix in my first cookbook, Quirky Cooking) 😍

✨ Gypsy stew (LCF) Use rainbow chard in this one for a beautifully colourful result!

✨ Beef & vegetable stir fry (SHF) The recipe in SHF is a GAPS version - the beef is simmered in stock first until tender - or you can do a traditional version with the beef seared in a very hot wok. (The reason for simmering in stock on GAPS is to make it easy to digest for a sensitive gut.)

✨ Roast chicken with herbs (Best ever roast chicken from SHF) This is chicken that has been used to make a short-cooked stock, then roasted in the oven on high heat to crisp the skin - deliciously tender!

✨ Joye’s potato bake (blog - link in bio for blog or search ‘quirky cooking potato bake’) Comfort food!! Layers of sweet potato & English potato baked in a creamy, lemony sauce.

✨ Roast beef & veg - I don’t have a recipe written down for this, I just cook the roast in a covered roaster with a little water, carrots, pumpkin, herbs, salt & pepper on 160C for about 3-4 hours depending on size of roast. Serve hot or cold, sliced thinly.

✨ Lamb Massaman curry (SHF) Use the Beef Massaman curry in SHF but swap beef for lamb. Yum!!

✨ Meatloaf & roast veg (SHF) We had visitors for dinner the other night and served this meatloaf with roast pumpkin and carrots, roast potatoes (topped with butter, sour cream and grated cheese) and broccoli, then roasted plums & berries with lemon yoghurt cupcakes for dessert. 😍 (Also added pate to the meatloaf for extra goodness.) An easy and yummy meal to pop in the oven when you have a few mouths to feed and don’t want to spend all day in the kitchen!! 🤗

Happy cooking! x

https://quirkycooking.com.au/blog/

#mealplanning #quirkycooking #meals #menu #wholefood #glutenfree #grainfree #nourishingmeals

“No matter what’s happening in the world, have

“No matter what’s happening in the world, have your tea, make your list, plan your food preparation, read to your children, wash the clothes, do something creative for everyone and be a light for your home.” - Lydia Sherman, Home Living blog

Birthday cupcakes and time with family ❤️ because even if the world is a crazy place, love makes a difference.

Lemon yoghurt cake recipe on my blog (tap on the link in my bio) and in my Simple, Healing Food cookbook. Honey-lemon-buttercream: 250g cold, salted butter, 250g honey, 60g lemon juice, 1/8 tsp vanilla powder - blend until creamy.

https://quirkycooking.com.au/2018/05/lemon-yoghurt-cake-grain-free/

#lovemakesadifference #bethelight #makeadifference #lemoncupcakes #grainfree #glutenfree #yogurt #oliveoil #birthday #baking #quirkycooking #quirkyfamily

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I love it when my readers are as excited about my recipes as I am, and want to share them! I only ask that if you do share my recipes on your own blog or on social media, you only share an excerpt or link, not the entire recipe. Full and clear credit must be given to Quirky Cooking with a link back to the original content. If you’d like to share one of my photos, please contact me for permission. Thank you! Jo x

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