Lovely Lemon Tart

15 Monday Sep 2014

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almond meal, butter, coconut, cream, Eggs, gluten free, Grain Free, lemon, lemon tart recipe, paleo, Primal

I read a twitter comment a while back about why do so many Paleo people blog about cookies and cakes. Well that did make me chuckle and my sister and I have this continual conversation. For anyone who is a sugar burner – rather than a fat burner, they may well wonder because isn’t primal/paleo eating all about what cave women/men ate and we don’t think they had ovens then and don’t you just eat meat? Or some other such thing.

What underlies our conversation about cakes, cookies and sweet treats is the wonderment of not being addicted to sweet stuff and the joy of creating something delicious that you can eat and leave. There isn’t that continual call of “eat me, eat me and EAT ME RIGHT NOW” from the cake tin. There is the satisfaction of creating something with half or quarter the amount of sweetness of traditional recipes and using a sweetener than has at least some nutritional merit. There is the intellectual thought gone into changing a recipe from a grain base to a grain free base (and a nut free flakey pastry still elludes me). So anyway I now use the #pimpingpaleo as a general thumbs up and stand proud all you Primal/Paleo cake bloggers! And if anyone has cracked the nut free flakey pastry share that link right now 🙂

So rant of the day is over and I say why wait for desert for this yummy tart. I am sure anytime is a great time for this, slightly sweet, slightly tart, Lovely Lemon Tart!!

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Chocolate Coconut Rough

29 Friday Aug 2014

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almond meal, chocolate, Chocolate Coconut Ganache, Chocolate Coconut Rough, Chocolate Ganache, chocolate recipe, coconut, coconut oil, Dark Chocolate, gluten free, Grain Free, low sugar, Primal

This seems to be the Chocolate blog week! And I think there is still another chocolate recipe to come 🙂

This time I am cheating, or should I say sharing the love, as I just can’t take the credit for the awesome base of this slice. But like many successes sometimes they have to come from a failure.

I came across Heather from Cook it up Paleo when I was looking for a chocolate bliss ball. While these Ultimate Chocolate Macaroons were not quite what I was looking for, her recipe looked so tasty they distracted me and I had to cook them up.

Well, I think that I had only been out of hospital for less than a week. You know old lady gets a new hip, but cooking obsession takes hold and so hobbles on crutches to the kitchen. And this is where the failure comes in. I made the mixture using what I had in the cupboard. Cooked about a 1/3 and froze the rest for later. I couldn’t wait to try them, so did the usual photo and tucked in.

Oh no. At this point I realised that I hadn’t read the all the instructions and in my enthusiasm (read should still be resting quietly in bed), I missed out the egg. Sorry Heather I didn’t tell you this! But don’t get me wrong these were still tasty eggless, but I’d recommend adding a bit more coconut oil!

Anyway, so it did wake me up during the night thinking about that other 2/3 batch in the freezer. That’s when I thought, well why not just mix them up again and add the egg? And as you do at 3am, mind whirring away, I thought why roll these into balls, just be lazy and bake it as a slice. Then top it with some Chocolate Ganache to get a double chocolate hit.

So that’s just what I did and here it is.

But I also saved a little of the mix and pressed that into a mini tart base – well that’s the next post. Sorry this has been a novel before the recipe but that’s how it works out some days, doesn’t it?

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Double Chocolate Coconut Cookies with Bitter Chocolate Ganache

20 Sunday Jul 2014

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almond meal, butter, chocolate, clean eating, coconut, cream, gluten free, Grain Free, healthy cookies, Primal

Nearly time for afternoon tea!

In the old eating days this time used to herald the desire for a little or big something sweet. The afternoon sugar cravings started kicking in and as a sugar addict, it was generally overwhelming. Off I’d go to find something sweet and tasty because “I deserved it!” and I had been so “good” all day, or for most of the week – or what ever! Sound familiar?

Dropping the carbs and in particular refined sugar means that I don’t crave the sweet stuff anymore. However, what has happened is a fascination with how you can make primal/paleo, gluten-free, healthy baked treats that don’t leave you craving. For the first time in my life I could, can and do, eat one cookie and save the rest for later!

This is turning into a bit of a ramble so let’s talk about chocolate and other goodies that go into making a healthy chocolate cookie. We know know that quality dark chocolate 70% or higher is really, really good for your body! Add to that healthy fats like butter and cream then mix these all together with almond flour and coconut. While I may not have a sugar addiction any more, you must agree that these healthy treats also look so delicious that maybe you may have to have two.

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