Free From Pasta with Smoked Salmon and Vegetables

Pasta is such a simple dish, but there is so much you can add to it.

Its quick and easy to cook and you can just add just about anything thats sitting in your fridge.

Ingredients

• Free from pasta, (Dairy, wheat and gluten free) 
• Courgette,
• Mushrooms,
• Tomatos
• Spinach,
• Smoked Salmon,
• Dairy, wheat and gluten free cheese,
• Tomato puree.

Firstly I prepare my veggies, (Tomato, mushroom, courgette.) I pop some baking parchment on to a tray and place them on top to roast. I don't add oil or anything, I just have them plain. Whilst they are in the oven cooking i then trap a saucepan fill it up with water, leave it on the heat to boil then add the past. I usually cook my pasta for about 10 minutes. Usually by the time the pasta is done the veggies are also done. When the pasta is done, I like to add tomato puree to it and mix it in. I used to love tomato ketchup on pasta when I was little, but a lot of tomato ketchups that you but have ingredients in that I can't have. As tomato puree is just tomatoes I use this. Its also stronger so you don't need to use much, just enough to give the pasta some flavour. What I sometimes do is to add a tin of chopped tomatoes to the pasta this gives it a sauce. So after i have got the pasta sorted, I place some spinach on the plate first and then pop the pasta on top. I then take the veggies out of the oven and place these on top of the pasta. Lastly i place the smoked salmon on top and then add some free from cheese.

This is just a simple recipe of what I use when making a pasta dish. Its something different and as I said you can add just about anything really. It makes food a bit more interesting if you are unable to have dairy, wheat and gluten like me.

Homemade Vegetable Soup - Dairy Free, Wheat Free and Gluten Free.

If your like me and can't have Dairy, Wheat and Gluten, you will know how hard it is to find certain foods that you love.

I also can't have onions and onion powder, which is in everything!

I have been on the hunt for ages now for a soup in the supermarkets that doesn't contain any of these ingredients. I haven't had any luck so far.

So i decided that i am just going to have to make my own. I had it in my head that making soup even though it looks simple to make was still going to be hard to make, but with these few ingredients and a blender! You are able to create the perfect soup :)

Ok so im not a chef and no expert when it comes to making food, but having to cut out dairy, wheat, gluten and onions/onion powder, I have had to experiment.

You may make soup a lot differently and might not like how i made mine. But all i can say is that this soup is delicious and when you have waited a very long time to have soup again, its so good :)

Ingredients

1 tin of Chopped Tomatoes

Mushrooms

Peppers (Yellow, Red or Green can be used)

Spinach

Herbs

Water

I literally stuck everything in to a blender and blended it until i was happy then poured it in to a saucepan and cooked for about just under 10 minutes, or until happy with it.

I put a couple of slices of free from bread on the side too to dip in the soup. 

It is super easy to make and tastes so good. You can add whatever ingredients you want to yours, but this is something that i just put together. I haven't stated how much of everything i used because well that is up to you depending how much you want to make. I made enough for two people.

It might not seem much, but to me i felt so happy whilst eating it :) because i am sometimes quite limited to what i can eat, which you will agree with if you have to be on the same diet as me.

This is just a quick, easy recipe to use to make soup.

Please let me know in the comments section below if you have any free from recipes :) I would love to check them out. 

My day in food!

My day in food

It's so difficult to find things you can eat when you are unable to eat certain foods.

As i am unable to have dairy, wheat and gluten, i wanted to sure with you some of the foods that i eat.

I am definitely getting used to all of the free from food, to be honest i actually prefer it because most of it tastes so yummy and i haven't got to worry about it making me not very well.

I usually go to Sainsburys as they have the largest free from range. They have a lot of different things to choose from. I also get bits from Morrisons and also Asda have now got a bigger free from section. I also go to my local health shop to get certain bits like cereal, biscuits and dairy free cheese (which is so yummy) you can also get a dairy free cheese spread too! Hollanad and Barret also do these cheeses and they usually have some great offers on too. 

I forgot to take a photo of my breakfast, oops! But i usually have a bowl of gluten free porridge or some free from bread with jam and peanut butter. I also sometimes have a bowl of free from cereal.

Here i hava a dairy, wheat and gluten free bread roll, which are so nice, with a salad. In the roll i just have some of the dairy free spread and cheese with tomato and on the salad i have tomato, cucumber, cheese and olives.

For dessert i just fancied a pancake! random i know! 

I use the wheat and gluten free flour to make pancakes, with soya milk and eggs. I also usually cook my pancakes in coconut oil which is delicious and smells so good :) or i use extra virgin olive oil as i am unable to use any other oils. I put some maple syrup on mine.

For my tea, which may look like a strange mixture, i had mackerel in olive oil with wheat and gluten free macaroni pasta, which i got from Morrisons, with homademade cheese sauce. I made the sauce using my free from flour, dairy free cheese, soya milk and some dairy free butter. I also had some salad and broke up some free from bread that i toasted on top.

The hardest thing i have found is going out for meals, but there are some local pubs and restaurants that are amazing at making me something that i can eat. For example plain salmon with potatoes and veg, plain jacket potato with prawns and salad or maybe just a mixture of different items off the menu. Everything just has to be plain, no sauces and dressings. I also have to be careful and ask what they cook there food in and make sure there is no dairy in anything.

It would be wonderful though if more places would cater for people who can't have certain foods. I am unable to have onion powder and onion powder is in EVERYTHING! so i have to be really careful. My dietician is amazing and she helped me loads in finding out foods which i can and can't eat.  I also only eat fish, chicken and turkey as i no longer eat red meat. At least i can still eat chocolate, dairy free chocolate that is :) although its not the same and does taste slightly different its still yummy, and biscuits too!

Please let me know in the comment section below if you are unable to have dairy, wheat and gluten. Also do you struggle finding foods that don't have onion powder in? 

Please let me know what foods you enjoy eating and where you get yours from.