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KimMcGowan

California
I am happy Coeliac who lives in London cooking seasonal and local food which happens to be gluten free.  A true foodie, I can always be found reading recipe books and love to get my hands dirty and learn a new skill... most recently butchery! 
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I have moved... by KimMcGowan Posted in: Blog Posts in Celiac Disease I have jumped ship and started a brand new, sparkly site dedicated to gluten free eating. Naturally Gluten Free will be packed with reviews of books and restaura ... Read on »
Stir Up Sunday Christmas Pudding by KimMcGowan Posted in: Blog Posts in Celiac Disease I rather enjoy tradition. Even more so when it comes to Christmas. As children my brother and I expected to open our stocking on mums bed, eating posh chocolate biscui ... Read on »
Temptation of Brockley Market by KimMcGowan Posted in: Blog Posts in Celiac Disease Me, back in the day at Acton Farmers Market I am a stay at home mum. I am saying this out loud. It has taken some getting used to, but I am much mor ... Read on »
The Cooking Project List by KimMcGowan Posted in: Blog Posts in Celiac Disease I am forever tearing recipes from magazines, scribbling them down from websites and bookmarking recipe books, adding to the already massive collection of things I ... Read on »
Brixton - the home of gluten free food by KimMcGowan Posted in: Blog Posts in Celiac Disease image by popupculture.co.uk I am lucky to live in the lovely, village-y East Dulwich which has an impressive selection of food shops along it's main st ... Read on »
Free From everything birthday cake by KimMcGowan Posted in: Blog Posts in Celiac Disease I take much pleasure in researching. Whether for a trip abroad, birthday presents or even cake... oh the chore! But I have to admit that this challenge took some real ... Read on »
Flourless peanut butter cookies by KimMcGowan Posted in: Blog Posts in Celiac Disease Cooler days and rare hour to spare leads me to the warmth of the kitchen to bake. Whilst I have been relishing  the challenge  of free from cooking, I wanted to in ... Read on »
More ingredients = better free from cake by KimMcGowan Posted in: Blog Posts in Celiac Disease The search continues as the deadline fast approaches for an egg, dairy and gluten free birthday cake . My second attempt has also surprised me. It's long daunting list ... Read on »
WAG Free Bakery, Brixton, London by KimMcGowan Posted in: Blog Posts in Celiac Disease Going to a shop or cafe where you can eat everything in sight is absolutely impossible when you are Coeliac. Until now. Head down to Brixton Village, an undercover 193 ... Read on »
It looks like cake... by KimMcGowan Posted in: Blog Posts in Celiac Disease it tastes like cake... so I suppose it is cake. This is the first attempt at my gluten, egg and milk free birthday cake for my son. A good friend of mine, equally f ... Read on »
The challange - gluten, egg and dairy free birthday cake by KimMcGowan Posted in: Blog Posts in Celiac Disease I have always loved a challenge. I particularly love a foodie one, and it's a good job. My son, who is fast approaching his first birthday was diagnosed with egg and m ... Read on »
Things have changed a little round here by KimMcGowan Posted in: Blog Posts in Celiac Disease It has been over a year since I last showed my face on this page. I can't believe the changes that have taken place in that time, and how I have been gone so long. ... Read on »
Graze on nuts, seeds and fruit by KimMcGowan Posted in: Blog Posts in Celiac Disease As a Coeliac I rely heavily on fruit, nuts and seeds to fill me up and give texture to dishes where wheat would normally do the job. Naturally gluten free and super healthy, ... Read on »
Gluten Free Cherry Clafoutis - Recipe of the Week by KimMcGowan Posted in: Blog Posts in Celiac Disease I am still eating my way through my preserved cherries. Two years after a mammoth cherry picking and preserving session I have two litre kilner jars of hand stoned Kentish c ... Read on »
Recipe of the week - gluten free florentines by KimMcGowan Posted in: Blog Posts in Celiac Disease I love Florentines. The simplicity of their fruit and nuttiness with or without a chocolate bottom, but the shop ones are rarely gluten free for the miniscule amount of wh ... Read on »
A choice of dessert for a change by KimMcGowan Posted in: Blog Posts in Celiac Disease Since I was a baby I have had a sweet tooth, to the point where my mother would feed me my pudding before my main in order to get me to eat everything. If I had the cho ... Read on »
What to do with random root vegetables and Recipe of the Week by KimMcGowan Posted in: Blog Posts in Celiac Disease I have subscribed to a veg box scheme since moving to London nearly eight years ago. I studied the organic movement at university, so supporting local and regional growers ... Read on »
Recipe of the week by KimMcGowan Posted in: Blog Posts in Celiac Disease As I have commented before, as many self confessed foodies also admit, I have an extensive collection of cookery books. At the end of last year, I decided to start marking t ... Read on »
Bash it about gluten free pastry by KimMcGowan Posted in: Blog Posts in Celiac Disease I am a competent cook, but I have never had the skill or patience to make pastry. The only times I have made it, it has strunk, cracked and crumbled (I was clearly destine ... Read on »