L&B - oh that is interesting. I've made the chicken stock paste from Cooking My Way but I'm not sure how well that would work instead of your liquid stock. I love that it has no garlic or onion. Do you think you could use a plain vinegar instead of the apple cider vinegar? Also, I made another recipe (Shredded Chicken salad with vietnamese dressing) from Tenina's Dinner spinner (iphone app) and that had a really cool way of shredding the chicken rather than chopping. The chicken was cooked in the simmering basket for 12 mins (100 degrees/speed 3) then the chicken returned to the empty bowl and shredded on 3-4 sec/REVERSE! + speed 4. It worked really well. Oh and i've just realised that you've got your chicken in the broth so it wouldn't work. But hey I'll leave this up anyway

Has anyone tried Quirky Cooking's chocolate green smoothie? I'd like to try it, but I can't decide what to use instead of the dates (I can't do dried fruit). Any ideas? Or maybe I just leave them out - I just think it might be a bit lacking. I also want to try her GF pizza base and see if I could make GF scrolls (see below) too.

I also tried making home-made cheesymite scrolls (using EDC's pizza dough) and a dairy-free version for DH - filling was olives & semidried tomato. He said it was ok but needed something moist to carry it IYKWIM - I'm thinking either a dairy-free pesto, or the capcsicum& sundried tomato dip or just some passata might work.

Mrs Nerd Burder - meant to reply earlier. I don't think I use much special or expensive stuff in my cooking - so I've made things like Chicken & Mushroom risotto, my porridge every morning (oats are so cheap), the scrolls (cheaper than the bakery!), chorizo and capsicum risotto (and I wouldn't normally buy chorizo, but you don't need much). I guess I just hunt for recipes that use stuff I normally have - can you try that?