Dairy Free and Soy Free Easter Egg Chocolate….and look out for tomorrows Sunday Tasmanian
What other people say about Veronika….Wednesday, January 5, 2011
What other People Say About Veronika Last year I came across a resource called “What I’d Like You to Know About Me” or “About Me” for short. I was offered to opportunity to create one
To google or not to google…Wednesday, January 12, 2011
To Google or not to Google…. To Google or not to Google?, That is the question…..Last October when we saw Veronika’s paediatrician, I asked if we could see a baby neurologist. I was shocked when
Tuesday, January 25, 2011
Stop yelling at me! Another busy couple of weeks have passed. We are back to the normal 4-5 Doctor and allied health appointments a week, so there is still never a dull moment in the
Wednesday, January 26, 2011
Maybe some answers tomorrow!?!? Tomorrow we are off to see Veronikas occupational therapist early in the afternoon, then after that we are off to see the pediatrician. Maybe we might get some answers about the
Friday, February 11, 2011
My Little Climber….. Miss Veronika has learnt to climb! She climbed onto the couch all by herself in late January. I was and still am one very HAPPY Mummy. I have to admit it was
Wednesday, February 16, 2011
Back to the normal routine….. Well our boys Jordan 8 and Jakob 6, have been back at school for 2 weeks, which means that Veronika and I have gotten back into the swing of the
Sunday, February 20, 2011
My Little Project…. When your baby is 1 week old, and she has her 1st MRI and the results aren’t what you thought you would ever hear, let alone something you never want to hear……Veronika
Thursday, February 24, 2011
Thankyou, Thankyou, Thankyou….No really THANKYOU. Oh my goodness, What a week. What started our as my latest blog post, about my little project, to get Veronika a hydrotherapy spa, to give her every chance to
On Monday we saw Veronika’s dietitian. She has recommended that for 2 months we eliminate wheat, gluten, eggs, dairy, soy and rice milk….in the hope that Veronika will start to eat. So far for the rest of the week, it hasn’t really had any effect on increasing her food intake, but I will continue to persevere and hopefully she will soon start to eat. Then in a couple of months the dietitian has recommended that we redo the allergy tests to see if anything shows up.
Then we went to see Veronika’s Physio. While we were there I got a message to call Hannah from the Mercury, as she had come across Veronika’s face book page. Hannah interviewed our family last November before we went over to Melbourne for Veronika’s heart surgery. Hannah remembered Veronika, and called to ask if she could do a story on Veronika and the Veronika Will Walk Gala events, for the major fundraiser for the hydrotherapy spa. We arranged for Hannah to come to St Giles Pool where we go for Veronika’s hydrotherapy, so she could talk to us and also take some photos of her in the water. The story will be in the Sunday Tasmanian tomorrow(Easter Sunday).
The last couple of days I have been trying to find dairy free chocolate Easter eggs, that also are soy free……I haven’t managed to find any but today when I went to Eumarrah, the lady was really help full with other things and gave Veronika some cranberries to try and she loved them, she was signing “more” so I brought some for her, maybe that will do as a Easter egg substitute…..will have to let you know about how that goes….
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kelstokes
05 May 2011I’ve got a mud cake recipe that I’ve adapted to be gluten free and vegan (dairy & egg free) and it is beautiful! I’ve said bananas in this recipe instead of the eggs, but I’ve also used 3 stewed pears and skipped the cup of water and it worked a treat as well. Hope you like it!
Kel’s awesome, healthy mud cake
185g (6oz) vegetable oil or dairy free margarine
250g (8oz) dark chocolate (dark chocolate is usually dairy free, but just make sure)
1 3/4 cups Gluten Free Self Raising Flour
1/3 cup cocoa powder
1 1/2 cups sugar
3 small bananas (instead of the eggs)
Preheat oven to 160C Lightly grease a 22cm spring form tine and line the base with baking paper
Place the oil/marg and chocolate in a heat proof bowl and place over a saucepan of simmering water. Stir frequently until melted.
Sift flour and cocoa into a large bowl. Combine the chocolate mixture, sugar and bananas then add 1 cup of water and mix well. Add to the flour mixture.
Pour mixture into prepared tin and bake for 1 hour and 30 minutes or until skewer comes out clean.
Leave to cool in tin for 15 min before turning out to cool completely.
Top with an icing made with 20g oil or dairy free margarine and 125g dark chocolate melted together.