It burns! It burns!

It is so hot here, I feel like I am slowly melting.

Look, the sun! It's been so long.

 The temperature hit 28C today, and it is feeling every bit that hot. There isn't a breath of wind to cool you. There is however a rocket lolly. Niblet and I are enjoying the fact that they are on special offer in Sainsbury's at the moment, and there is nothing in them that we can't eat! Result!

He ate a whole one yesterday - he's only nine months, and that's a lot of lolly!

Too hot for porridge.

It really is too hot for porridge. We had run out of bread - well, we have the less than tasty loaves that the Dr prescribed (Ener-G Six Flour Loaf, this one) Does anyone know of a good one that we can get on prescription?

Anyway, we had pancakes recently, and cereal, and granola, and I've run out of new ideas for what to eat for breakfast. It really is a challenge. Before cutting things out, I'd have had toast, or cornflakes, with lashings of melting butter on the toast, dripping down my fingers, and layer of marmite on top, with a lovely cup of tea, with skimmed milk..... yum yum yum... I miss that. I wonder if I'll ever start enjoying gluten free bread with sunflower margarine?

Let them eat cake!
So I thought, what do we both like to eat? Cake.

Niblet will happily eat all his breakfast (3 bowls of rice crispies, with Neocate) and then go back for cake. I wanted to make something that wasn't too sweet, that I could have with a drink for breakfast, with the texture of cake, but without feeling naughty, if you know what I mean.

I settled on cornbread... lovely and soft, giving and nutty. The recipe comes from my new favourite allergy friendly baking book, written by Elizabeth Gordan: Allergy-Free Desserts I swapped the cornflour and the corn meal (3/4 cup and 1/4 cup) for 1 cup of chickpea flour (gram flour). It meant that it kept the yellow colour, and the nutty taste that the corn would give it, but was something we could eat. We cut it into squares, which we ate warm with lashings of raspberry jam. I meant to take a photo, but in all honesty, I was too busy eating it, and stopping Niblet from spreading the jam all the way across the garden (we had an outside picnic!)

It is one to make again, but I would make some tweaks to it - I would probably add some cinnamon, and some mixed spice, a handful of dried fruit, and maybe some seeds (I'm thinking the crunch of pumpkin with some sesame and sunflower seeds, mixed with demerara sugar and sprinkled on the top)...