{"id":402,"date":"2008-03-05T17:03:45","date_gmt":"2008-03-05T16:03:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.free-from.com\/blog\/?p=402"},"modified":"2017-05-20T12:14:21","modified_gmt":"2017-05-20T11:14:21","slug":"gluten-free-mothering-sunday-meal-made-for-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.free-from.com\/blog\/gluten-free-mothering-sunday-meal-made-for-me\/","title":{"rendered":"Gluten free Mothering Sunday meal &#8211; made for me"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src='http:\/\/www.free-from.com\/blog\/wp-content\/smallduckdaffodil.jpg' alt='Flowers for Mothering Sunday' align=\"right\" vspace=\"10px\" hspace=\"10px\" \/>Mothers Day was this Sunday, here in the UK (yes, I know it is different in the US &#8211; here <a href=\"http:\/\/www.free-from.com\/blog\/?p=136\">Mothering Sunday<\/a> is linked to the date of Easter).<\/p>\n<p>The traditional joke is that mothers get a cup of cold tea and some burnt toast as a breakfast-in-bed on Mothers Day &#8230; I received neither.  Partly because I was the first one up in the house, having forgotten it was Mothers Day.<\/p>\n<p>Instead my three children cooked dinner for the grown-ups, and served it to us in a beautifully decorated candle-lit room with music playing.<\/p>\n<p>My son (8) acted as waiter, and prepared the starter, which was a salad. (Managed to get all five of my five-a-day just in that bowl).<\/p>\n<p>My eldest daughter (12) cooked the main course, gluten free quinoa spaghetti from Ancient Harvest (using up her supplies lovingly carried home from America last year) with a tomato, basil and parmesan sauce.  She used some of the cherry tomatoes from the fridge, and some passata from the cupboard, basil from the pot on the window-sill and grated some parmesan.  It was delicious, and very authentic.<\/p>\n<p>My second daughter (10) prepared pudding, offering us gluten-free dairy-free vanilla icecream with either chocolate or butterscotch sauce.  The butterscotch was ready-made, but my children have all learnt the recipe for home-made chocolate sauce by heart.  (We like 3 parts icing sugar (called confectioners sugar in the US, I think) to 1 part cocoa powder, 1 part butter and 1 part water &#8211; heat and stir).<\/p>\n<p>Then they brought us chocolate while they washed up.<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes I am amazed by the children, and have to remind myself how much I under-estimate them.  They are capable of so much more than I expect!<\/p>\n<p><!--adsense--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mothers Day was this Sunday, here in the UK (yes, I know it is different in the US &#8211; here Mothering Sunday is linked to the date of Easter). The traditional joke is that mothers get a cup of cold tea and some burnt toast as a breakfast-in-bed on Mothers Day &#8230; I received neither. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-402","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-living-gluten-free","7":"entry","8":"has-post-thumbnail"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.free-from.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.free-from.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.free-from.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.free-from.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.free-from.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=402"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.free-from.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.free-from.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.free-from.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.free-from.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}