Snippets - Gluten Free Diet

"Changing your child's diet is one or perhaps the most significant thing you can do to impact your child's health. The Gluten-Free/ Casein Free (GF/CF) diet is the most popular, we suggest removal  of soy as soy has similar properties to casein. Beyond this, the specific carbohydrate (SCD) Diet has been effective for those children who did not respond sufficiently to the GF/CF."

- Ken Siri author of 1001 Tips For The Parents Of Autistic Boys

There are many recipes you can find nowadays on a gluten free diet. Your child does not have to necessarily miss out on traditional snacks. C is for cookie, and cookie is one of my favourites. Your kids can enjoy cookies too, even with a gluten free diet, try these. 

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Gluten Free Diet

We asked for you to share on gluten free diets, and here's what our dear friend shares...

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One thing I noticed about children with gluten free diet, their diet is quite strict, and also includes no artificial sugars, and for those children who have ADHD, and attention related problems, I did notice a difference in them, they are more focused, have better memory retention, and more importantly, are less tendency to keep running around.

However it depends per child cos sometimes parents opt for other therapies together with gluten free diet, and some of the therapies include changing cleansing and detoxing the body also.There are good effects but also not so good effects.Good affects are observed when at certain phases, the child is quite calm and focused, happy and attentive and less hyperactivity, but the not so good effects are the child at certain phases may get easily upset and frustrated and resort to throwing things or hitting others to vent frustrations.This seems to happen particular when other therapies are used with gluten free diet.I did also observe over a long period of time, generally the gluten free diet does seem to help the child with skin problems, less skin reactions and skin appears more healthy.These are my two cent worth of thoughts.Hope others can share their observations and others who have used with their child don't mind sharing successful diets they use with their children to help other kids. Have a blessed Tuesday all!

That big thank you to Olivia who shared her thoughts with us. 

Should you have something to share, do drop us an email ripplezblue@gmail.com.

Have a great day all.

 

Parfaits To Enjoy

So, after sharing on Parfaits, I just could not help myself. I found these awesome recipes from these ladies' wonderful blogs. You must try this one, your kitchen will be smelling wonderful after a fresh batch of baked granola. 

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click here for Joana's recipe

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This one is a little more work but it so perfect for parties, won't you say?

In the end for parfaits actually anything goes. What ever you fancy can be the ingredients. When whenever you fancy, you can enjoy one. So I hope you enjoy making a the parfaits as much as I did.

Parfaits To Start Your Day With

What's a Parfait you ask? - It's filled with a things yummy.

Here are a few recipes and links that tell you how to assemble them. Do try them and enjoy!

check out this parfaits recipe

check out Marla's recipe

Black Pepper Prawns

This recipe is a winner, I must share it with you. Each time I make this, they are whipped up while they are hot and saucy. My boys love it.

 

Ingredients:

10-12 pcs of large prawns, shelled and deveined
1 spring curry leaves
2 tbsps oil
fresh coriander for garnish

The Sauce:
3 tbsps oil
4 cloves garlic, chopped (cos I love garlic!)
1 stalk of spring onions
1 tsp chilli paste (store bought or homemade)
1 tbsp miso paste
1 tbsp ginger, chopped
1 tbsp ketchup manis or sweet sauce
1 tbsp oyster sauce
2 tbsps feshly cracked black pepper (spiciness to your taste)
1 cup seafood stock (store bought or homemade)
50g butter
1 tbsp cornstarch in 2 tbsps water

Steps:

In a saucepan, heat up some oil. 

Fry half the chopped garlic, curry leaves and prawns. This will be rather quick as the prawn cooks fast, and you don't want to burn the garlic. Remove the prawns when they change colour. Set aside.

Add in a little more oil, and fry the rest of the garlic and spring onions.
Add in the chilli paste, miso paste and ginger, stir a little.
Add in the ketchup, oyster sauce and black pepper to your taste preference.
Add in the stock and butter, for extra flavour.

Add in the cornstach as a thickening agent, and stir well.
Add in the prawns and stir well to mix the sauce evenly.
Garnish with fresh coriander and serve hot.

Hope you try this recipe. Enjoy!

Baby Sardines Aglio Olio

I have so many things to cater to, on a daily basis. Cooking is the last, in my list to do. We are blessed here in Singapore, with hawker centers, coffee shops, fast food delivery and all. I must admit that I am guilty of eating out lately. It's not that I don't like to cook, on the contrary, I simply love to cook, but I  figure my boys needed time with me. Spending time with my boys is always my top priority. 

Once in a while, I do steal some time to whip a quick dish. And this is one such very quick dish. Since I work very fast to make this, ingredient measurements are not very ideal. So my apologies for that.

 Now let's get started. 

Ingredients:

some red hot chili flakes

a couple of garlic cloves

a couple tbsps olive oil

a tin of sardines in olive oil

a tin of diced tomatoes

grated fresh cheese

pasta of your choice

Steps:

In a saucepan, heat up some olive oil. 

Add in the chili flakes, to your level of spiciness.

Add in the garlic, saute a bit and then add in the sardines.

 

 Add in the diced tomatoes, and saute a little longer. Along side cook some pasta.

 

 

Add in the cooked pasta and stir well.

 

Dish it out and garnish with freshly grated cheese, and Italian herbs of your choice. 

 

And that's it folks. I hope you liked this very easy recipe. Adjust the recipes to your fancy. This is one of my son's favorites. He loved to drizzle extra virgin olive oil over it once the dish is done. And load it up with freshly grated Parmesan.