Cooking, Travel & Eating Out on a Grain-Free, Gluten-Free & Refined Sugar-Free Diet
I don’t normally make desserts as neither Dan nor I have a sweet tooth, but when we have guests over I make the extra effort – and if I’m making a dessert, I might as well make one that I can eat, right? This time …
For me, the Christmas season always feels like it begins when I make the Christmas Cake. You have to make it in advance and ‘feed’ it (see further down for how to do this) with whisky until the big day so it’s best to start …
It just wouldn’t be Christmas or Thanksgiving without some cranberry sauce on your festive table to pair with that delicious turkey, would it? Most cranberry sauce that you buy in a jar is full of sugar and so, because I can’t eat the white stuff, …
Some foods only come into their own at a certain Christmassy time of year. Mulled Wine, Turkey and of course Mincemeat. The Christmas season hasn’t really started until you’ve had your first Mince Pie of the year and that spicy, fruity flavour is so comforting …
I always thought that watercress was a spring green but turns out that it’s actually an autumnal plant. Trying to eat a bit more seasonally I decided to make a very autumnal Vegan Watercress & Pea Soup with this delicious plant. Watercress is one of …
Sometimes you just need something yummy with your afternoon cup of tea. These Almond Flour Thumbprint Cookies really hit the spot when you’re craving a sweet treat but they have no refined sugar in them! Just make sure to use a sugarfree strawberry jam! They’re …
Pan Fried Padron Peppers – one of the easiest dishes to make and the perfect appetiser to serve with drinks or as a side to some tapas! These salty, smoky, tasty treats are honestly so easy to make, it’s almost embarrassing to call this a …
When the temperature goes over 30 degrees (like it has every day this week) the last thing I feel like doing is switching on the oven. I also don’t usually fancy eating anything hot either, but I still want something really tasty for dinner. Tonight, …
I’m not a huge fan of desserts or sweet things – I’d rather have a cheese plate at the end of a meal, but if I’m going to order a dessert it would be cheesecake 100% of the time. Knowing this, my lovely mother decided …
I’ve made blinis with coconut flour before and while I can’t discern much of a coconutty flavour in them, others can. I decided to try to create the recipe in a similar way using chickpea (garbanzo bean) flour. Chickpea flour worked so well in my …
This post was published on my SugarFree Cocktails Round-Up Anyone who knows me knows without a shadow of a doubt that my favourite movie is ‘Dirty Dancing!’ With that in my mind, ‘I carried a watermelon’ home this evening intending to make this Vodka Watermelon …
Ask anyone on a Grainfree or Paleo diet what is the one thing they miss the most, and the answer is always…Pizza! It’s probably my favourite food in the world, or maybe it’s bread, or maybe its nachos… Anyway, now there’s no reason to miss …