Roast Pepper with Goat’s Feta

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As the year draws to an end it’s that time to take stock on the year just gone and to spend a little time being grateful for what you have.  It’s also that lovely time of the year, when, if you are as fortunate as I am, to have the closest people to you enjoying your food and having a merry time at the dinner table.

Tonight’s meal was a real Kiwi BBQ with steak quickly seared to melt in your mouth perfection (not my skill I might add, so thank you David!).  My contribution was some tasty vegetable dishes.  Yummy sweet potato cooked in cream, garlic, onions and butter aka Sweet Potato Dauphinoise, lightly steamed Broccoli with grated nutmeg and my new favourite, Roast Pepper with Goat’s Feta.

Roast Pepper & Goat's Feta

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Chocolate Coconut Ganache Truffles – gluten free, grain free

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Perfect festive gifts are those made with love and best wishes from the heart.

Choc balls

I love this time of the year when you can create all sorts of tasty morsels for treats, gifts or just because!  Date sweetened, the only refined sugar these truffles have is in the chocolate.  

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Zoodle Bolognese – #lchf, paleo, primal and very tasty.

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Spaghetti bolognese or Spagbol is the goto meal for many a busy cook. Meaty flavoursome sauce served over spaghetti topped with grated cheese. Simple and easy to prepare – I have missed it’s satisfying comfort when I stopped eating wheaty pasta.  But needs must and I love how old favourites with a bit of substitution can be rejuvenated to form part of paleo/primal, low carb eating.

I rediscovered SpagBol and its deliciousness once I started using a spiralizer to make zoodles. Zoodles are spiralized (or julienned) zucchini.  I love how when you spiralize or sliced really thinly something like zucchini, it can taste like pasta once it’s are under a delicious sauce.  The vegetable absorbs whatever sauce is on them – just like pasta. So then, I challenge anyone to say that putting your sauce on top of lightly cooked vegetables is not so much better for you than putting it onto a pile of carb laden, gluten laden pasta.

Zoodle Bolognese

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