It's been quite a while since I have made one of Jamie Oliver's 15-minute meals. This was a good one to start back on because it was suitably low FODMAP with only a few changes. Jamie's choice of ciabatta had to be a gluten-free loaf and I had to remove the garlic but added in a little garlic-infused oil for the taste. It is a simple, tasty meal which was relatively quick to make although it took much longer than 15 minutes. In fact between cooking, photographing the finished dish and eating it, one and half hours passed.
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Crispy Polenta Chicken Caesar Salad – Jamie Oliver’s 15 Minute Meals
And the weekend is over once again. The two free days of the week always seem to disappear like a puff of smoke. Saturdays starts off with the hope that I will get lots done and Sundays arrive all too soon with very little crossed off the to-do list. How can 16-17 waking hours a day seem like two? The answer is beyond me. Yesterday, I read an article by Penelope Trunk 
I have been looking for a while for a good gluten-free bread which would suit my low FODMAP diet and I found this one on Megan's blog, 
Towards the end of the week, my baking from the previous weekend starts to run low and I begin thinking about what I will make on Saturday for the following week. This is, needless to say, a pleasant experience. I conjure up all sorts of things, usually with multi-layers of fabulousness. And sometimes, someone helps me along, as happened with this weekend's choice. A reader of this blog and a fellow sufferer of fructose malabsorption tested this recipe and then sent it to me. It is entirely suitable for us but contains ground almonds and I am not great with nuts though they don't contain fructose. However, I decided to make the recipe anyway and I am glad I did because the tarts taste pretty good. The pastry is interesting and holds together well while the filling is tasty and satisfying. All round this is a good recipe and worth making whether you have any food intolerances or not.
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These days my life is divided into four compartments - my job, my family, this food blog and my novel writing. Work is easy. I get up in the morning and leave for work. I get home a bit after 5pm and work is done for the day. Family is pretty clear too - I travel to and from work with Adriano, dinner is always together with Dario and Adriano. and we spend some time together in the weekends. But the rest of my waking hours are divided between my blog and my writing. This is where the dilemma lies. There is always a to-do list on my study desk and it is a question of what I do first. This weekend, Friday evening actually, I decided to get one of my e-published novels into print using Createspace (Amazon). I thought, a few hours and I will be able to move on to the next item on my list. It is now Sunday night and I have stopped only to sleep, eat and bake this dish on Saturday afternoon. I finally think I might have cracked it but it's almost 9pm and I have done nothing else.
Anyway, this is what I cooked during my Saturday baking session. The recipe has been adapted from the banana loaf at 
Winter has well and truly set in and I am surrounded by sick people at work. I am breathing the same air that they cough and sneeze into a thousand times a day. The chances of me escaping this winter illness-free are decreasing by the day. I haven't been sick since I got the swine flu in Peru three or four years ago and don't want to break my rather impressive record for staying bug-free. I could suggest they all wear face masks or I could wear a gas mask myself. It might start a trend - a healthy trend. Some suggest munching on Vitamin C, others say drink heaps of water and still others say squirt your throat with antiseptic spray. My method for staying healthy is to eat well, sleep enough and drink a little - yep, alcohol kills bugs. I am not saying this always works but it helps. Keep your immune system strong and hope for the best.
Following that line of thought, I cooked this dish for dinner. I made these fabulous pancakes made with oats and rice flour, which I found on the blog, 
