Bought some wonky carrots today with the idea of making carrot cake. Now I like cakes made with olive oil instead of butter as it makes the cakes moist. So I’ve taken my olive oil cake recipe and adapted it to be carrot cake. My partner doesn’t usually like the texture of cakes made with…

Thought I’d do it early so, if you want to try it, you can get all the stuff for Friday. This week it’s a Chinese feel with loads of ginger and garlic… feel free to add more if you want. I served this with fried Konjack noodles, fried in toasted sesame oil, ginger and garlic…

Fakeaway is back, but lockdown style. Couldn’t get chorizo so used spicy hot salami, ran out of paprika but had Cajun seasoning so used that instead of paprika and cayenne as it contained both, didn’t have any chives. Other than that this is what’s in the bowl. My partner’s first question was “can you do…

I love jerk chicken but find all the manufactured pastes, I always use paste as the powders just taste powdery, have added sugars. This is the paste I used on my Fakeaway Jerk Chicken. JERK CHICKEN PASTE 5 scallions/spring onions 1 tbsp chopped fresh thyme 2 teaspoon salt 1/2 teaspoon black pepper 1/2 – 1…

Found a recipe for a traditional lasagna made in the instant pot so I thought I’d Keto it. Tasted great but when I make it again I will flash fry the courgette for a few mins to soften it a bit as it was a little too al dente for me. Not worked out the…

Whilst having to self isolate we’re going through our freezer finding all sorts of meat we’d forgotten we had. This delicious ragu is made with beef shin and cooked in the Instant Pot which gives it a lovely rich flavour. Didn’t have any celery but had some swede/rutabaga so used that Keto Instant Pot Beef…

How our bodies process complex carbohydrates Complex carbohydrates are just glucose molecules hooked together in a long chain…our body breaks it apart into blood sugar. Our Brain Neurotransmitters also get out of balance when we have chronic high insulin levels…cravings, moodiness, depression, anxiety or fatigue. What Happens: Insulin tells your body to eat, particularly sugar…

Travelling to the Caribbean for this one. Really love Jerk Chicken but the traditional ones contain a lot of sugars so I decided to make my own Jerk Paste, which is also really great on pork or lamb (goat). Jerk paste 5 scallions/spring onions1 tbsp chopped fresh thyme2 teaspoon salt1/2 teaspoon black pepper1/2 – 1…

I love a good Brownie and. I have always made tahini blondies, https://sugarfreemeuk.com/2017/06/26/tahini-and-maple-blondies/ this week I got some cashew butter and thought I’d try a version of them using cashew. These also have a little bit of espresso in them but it all goes to make a toffee like taste and adds the colour to…