helpmysonisglutenfree Profile

Website: clever-cards.com

Want to Learn How: to bake with gluten-free ingredients.

Heard about BakeSpace From: BakeSpace is an amazing place I stumbled upon when I was trying to find out how to make an app for my gluten-free kids recipes. I've got to thank Google Search for this one, it's a great find!

Occupation: Creative Director

Company: clever-cards.com

Industry: Internet

Cooker or Caker: Cooker

Bake/Cook Frequency: Every day

Baking/Cooking Training: Self taught over many years.

Favorite Food: How can you choose just one favourite food? Lebanese food is amazing and I just love anything with lamb, but Tapas and Indian cuisine are also high on my list. It's probably easier and quicker to list what I don't like than to choose a favourite!

Favorite Food Moment: When I catered my gluten-free son's 10th birthday party. All the kids eyes lit up when they saw the selection of food on the table, and none of them, except my son, knew that it was all gluten-free.

Favorite Cooking Word: "Slow-cooked". Anything that has been slow-cooked is just delicious. Now I'm thinking about some amazing plum and rosemary lamb shanks with mash and steamed beans...and it's making me soooooo hungry!

Favorite Chef: Heston Blumenthal because he is obsessive about creativity and perfection in his dishes. I would really love to be at one of his themed dinner parties and sample all that amazing food.

In My Town Try: Pink Salt in Double Bay, Sydney (Australia). Everything on the menu is amazingly delicious and the ambiance, owners and staff are all absolutely wonderful. If you are ever in Sydney I would strongly recommend you try it out.

Interests: When I'm not doing food related activies or working on my website, I am often able to be found doing canteen or reading at my youngest son's school. If not, I might be on the sidelines of my boys baseball or football pitches, tennis court or swimming pool, or watching whatever sport they are doing at the time. Otherwise I might be at the gym, or sneakily playing 'The Sims' which I love to do in my spare time. In the evenings I will often be on the couch watching TV and sometimes knitting as well.

Languages: Embarrassingly only English, although I did manage to get myself and a couple of friends around Paris on the miniscule amount of French that I knew.

Books: Unfortunately I don't get time to read much, other than reference books, and I can't say that I've read any that I would particularly recommend. It took me a whole year to read 'Eat Pray Love', but it was definitely worth it. I don't know how long it will take me to get around to the sequel, but I'm looking forward to it when I do!

Music: Pluto Jonze is a new found favourite. I also love a bit of Pink, Lily Allen, Icona Pop, Birds of Tokyo, Katy Perry, and who can resist Reece Mastin? Now I'm showing my age but Cold Chisel, Bon Jovi and Uncanny X-Men are a few old favourites.

TV/Movies: 'Survivor' is the best TV show ever, closely followed by 'The Amazing Race'. I also love watching the cooking shows and pretty much most of the reality TV. 'The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel' and 'Eat Pray Love' are two of my favourite movies but "Monsters Inc." is also very cool!

Travel: I have spent many holidays travelling around to different parts of Australia. I have also been to New Zealand, Bali, Fiji, Vanuatu, Singapore, Dubai, England, Scotland, Wales, France, Italy, Mauritius, as well as Hawaii and beautiful California.

Clubs: I somehow found myself as a General Committee Member for my oldest son's football club. My boys also play for separate baseball clubs and even though I'm not on the committees, I do manage both their teams. Other than that, we attend a local church where I volunteer on a couple of different rosters.