Birthday Party

I haven't blogged since Easter, so probably time to do a bit of a catch up. Easter turned out okay, the boys had a medium sized egg and a bilby each. Next year they will just get a medium sized egg i think. The bilby was a bit of overkill for them and the youngest didn't come down off his sugar high until Monday night, then was tired for the remainder of the week. They got far more enjoyment from the toys they received for Easter anyway, which bodes well for the future!

Mr 3 recently turned 4, so we had the obligatory birthday party. Pics of some of the food is below, and as far as I could tell, all in attendance were pretty satisfied! I made a cake, which garnered a variety of comments from various family members about its appearance (many thought it looked less like a 4 than like other things... have to say I tend to agree). Nonetheless, it tasted sensational!

So, the party fare was this: homemade mini pizzas, made on a gluten free pizza base and cut out with a scone cutter. Toppings were passata (pureed and strained tomatoes), shredded salami and cheese. Also had some gluten free cheese rings and twists out (taste like cheesels and twisties did before they added MSG to them). On the sugar front, these chips are not bad (let's not get into the oils discussion yet....). Plain rice crackers and my own homemade capsicum, sundried tomato, cashew and olive oil dip (thank you thermomix).

BBQ dinner was gf sausages and BBQ steaks, served with salad, bread for those who wanted it and home made butter (courtesy of the thermomix). Dessert was the cake - flour free choc cake. This did have dark chocolate in it but I found the lowest sugar choc i could find (Lindt 70% cocoa cooking choc - 31% sugar). In total when I cut the cake into about 35 pieces it worked out to be around 1 g of fructose per piece. Icing was dextrose, butter, cocoa and a dash of vanilla. No complaints, and many came back for seconds. Cake was made in thermomix, by milling almonds to almond meal, milling chocolate, then mixing butter, dextrose, cocoa and eggs, adding in the almond meal and chocolate. Awesome!

 Have also been having a play with some other recipes. Made some rice bubble bars for the boys, but i think they found them too sweet - used dextrose and rice malt syrup, shredded coconut and rice bubbles. Scott was looking longingly at them so went out and bought some gluten free rice bubbles and made the recipe again just for him. They were good... and the fellas at his work thought so too. He has taken a few of the dips I have made to work and shared them around, receiving much approval from the boys in the workshop.

To finish the party story, party "bags" were not done, but the kids got a couple of fancy balloons each to take home which seemed to keep everyone happy. No one had lollies, no one asked for lollies and everyone was happy and had fun.