Potato & Bacon Salad with Easy As Homemade Mayo

21 Thursday Jan 2016

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I’ve posted a potato salad in the past.  Made with Easy As Homemade Mayo and flavoured with mustard.  I also touched on how cooked and cooled potatoes are a source of resistant starch which is great for feeding your good gut bugs. Well, here is another take on this delicious salad using a couple of my favourite ingredients, bacon and shallots. 

There are some who shun potatoes, perhaps finding them a too carby, or have an intolerance and to be honest, I don’t recommend eating this salad every night either.  But as a side to a perfectly cooked  juicy steak, I think that Potato & Bacon Salad is pretty hard to beat.

Potato salad - done2

Here is how easy it is…

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Zucchini Fritters – Paleo, Grain & Gluten Free from Slim Palate

19 Tuesday Jan 2016

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We are starting to have a glut of zucchini – courgettes in the garden.  If you grow them, you will know what happens here.  Everything in the garden looks lovely, you have plants with lots of baby courgettes growing nicely and everything is looking fine and dandy.  Then one morning you come out and overnight they have grown into monsters.  Enormous courges threatening to take over the whole garden.  

You may think that huge courgettes are a bonus, but they get pretty tasteless after a certain size.  So the trick is to pick them quickly and cook them.  But how to prepare them, should you spiralize, grate, slice or chop?  Then how to cook; fry, steam, bake?  And then what recipe?

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