Sweet Potato Dauphinoise

29 Monday Sep 2014

Posted by Wendy in All recipes, Sides and Salads

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butter, clean eating, cream, garlic, gluten free, leftovers, paleo, potatoes, Primal, scalloped potato recipe, sweet potato, sweet potato recipe, vegetables, whole foods

Creamy, scrumptious Sweet Potato Dauphinoise, such dreamy comfort food is a perfect side dish anytime.

The original recipe uses potatoes but my take is to use sweet potatoes, or kumara, as we call them downunder. Personally I just prefer the taste and I think it makes the dish more creamier. Regardless, if potatoes are on your primal/paleo menu use them if you prefer or even mix the two.

The dish has a disturbing history, involving song birds eaten whole. However, I am recommending this to be served with a simple meat dish such as lamb cutlets or a perfectly cooked steak instead! Add some broccoli, steamed and with a smattering of freshly ground nutmeg.

This is one of those dishes that improve their flavour as time goes on. So if you have any leftover they are totally delicious fried up for breakfast the next day with bacon and eggs!

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Lovely Lemon Tart

15 Monday Sep 2014

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

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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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Macadamia Ginger Crunch

07 Thursday Aug 2014

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butter, clean eating, ginger, ginger crunch recipe, gluten free, gluten-free ginger slice, paleo recipe collection, Primal

It’s nearly the end of the week here so it must be time for something tasty.

Yes, it is still dark and cold outside after work and if you live in Auckland, New Zealand, it is most likely raining. I know you just want to blob in front of the TV, but this easy to make (I seem to say this a lot!), healthy nuttyish slice will be so tasty in your lunch box tomorrow, you really do need to get off the couch and make it now.

That’s my motivating speech or rather my excuse for baking yet another primal treat, maybe a bit lame I know, so tell me if you can think of a better reason!!