Chocolate Brownies

26 Tuesday Aug 2014

Posted by Wendy in All recipes, Cakes and Bakes, Sweets & Treats

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chocolate, chocolate brownies, easy, freeze ahead, fudge cake, gluten free, Grain Free, lunch box, paleo, Primal

There is nothing like having major elective surgery to focus your mind. When I was preparing my household for when I had my hip replaced I felt and acted as I did before I had my babies! There was this strong need to clean everything in sight, re-arrange cupboards and tidy drawers. This included all daily items I use so that I would be able to reach them without bending too much. And then there was this huge desire to fill the freezer, which I had to clean and reorganise first, I might add!

Well, I did bake up a storm as they say, and now I have had my operation and I’m at home recuperating, we are reaping or should I say eating, the benefits!

One of the slices in my freezer is a batch of Chocolate Brownies. Which I confess that I modified a cake recipe by adding chocolate chunks and baking the batter in a slice tray. The result was a moist chocolately brownie that you can eat on its own, freeze for a school/work lunch box treat or if you want an easy decadent tasting desert add some warmed berries and mascarpone cream!

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Mixed Berry Iced Cream

21 Thursday Aug 2014

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berries, clean eating, cream, gluten free, Grain Free, Primal, refined sugar free

This dish is actually called a Fool. Yeah, yeah, snigger childishly all you like, then Google the name! The dish dates back to the 16th century when stewed or macerated fruit, (generally gooseberries) was mixed with custard. Lovely though custard is, nowadays heavy whipped cream is used. This makes for a quick to make dish that looks and tastes delish. It’s almost a crime that it’s good for you. Another guilt free desert for Primal eaters!

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Sweet And Simple. Oven Dried Strawberries.

20 Wednesday Aug 2014

Posted by Wendy in All recipes, More or Less!, Sweets & Treats

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cleaneating, glutenfree, grainfree, strawberries

I remember back in the old eating days and on my first trip to the USA, San Francisco to be exact, I came across cereal that had huge pieces of dried strawberries (as well as a bucket of sugar). It was so tasty and I’d make sure I got my share of the dried berries.

On further visits I found the best fresh strawberries ever at Berkeley Farmers Market. Plenty of those were eaten however, I still loved those dried strawberries and often thought about them!

And as it just seems to happen sometime, like magic I discovered this post from The Paddington Foodie on how to make oven dried strawberries! I have to share this straight away even though in New Zealand we have a few more months to go before the strawberry season really gets underway.

Can’t wait to dry my own and use them on my Nograinola!

You need to gather together just 500g fresh strawberries & 1 teaspoon sea salt. Then head over to Paddington Foodie for the super easy instructions.

The Paddington Foodie

Oven Dried Strawberries

Oven dried strawberries are something I’ve been wanting to try for ages. This week, almost serendipitously, the ideal opportunity presented itself with enormous kilo punnets of fragrant, perfectly ripe and juicy strawberries available at the markets from our Victorian growers. I’ve successfully dabbled in using my oven to make crisps before. My first foray was into oven baked beetroot crisps, followed by toffee drizzled apple slices, and more recently mandarin which although gorgeous on their own were pounded to a fine dust and incorporated into a spicy salt and sweet citrus sugar. Initially, I will confess, I was a little dubious as to how I would fare oven drying sweet, delicate strawberries. Would they disintegrate into a pulpy, jammy mess or worse lose their lovely vibrancy and crisp to an unappetising muddy colour?

Oven Dried Strawberries Preparation