Bacon, Cheese & Onion Muffins

03 Monday Nov 2014

Posted by Wendy in All recipes, Lunch, Savory Bakes

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almond meal, bacon, cheese, Eggs, lunch, muffin recipe, muffins, tapioca flour

In the old grain eating days I could make a mean cheese scone, just ask all my family. Light fluffy and oh so cheesy, I used to have them with jam and whipped cream – heavenly bliss.

Well sacrifices have had to be made nowadays, so you can see why I have been searching for so long to find a tasty savoury muffin or scone recipe that isn’t made from wheat. It has been a long search and I have tried out many, many recipes. And believe me I have been disappointed many times, I might add!

So I was making up my favourite sweet Orange and Cranberry Muffins, thanks to Cook at Paleo, when I had a brainwave. Have a twiddle with that recipe to make it more savoury and see how it works out.

Well I did and it did! So here you go!

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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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Easy As Homemade Mayonnaise

05 Friday Sep 2014

Posted by Wendy in All recipes, Sauces

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aioli, basil mayo, clean eating, dairy-free, easy recipe, Eggs, gluten free, Grain Free, light tasting olive oil, mayonnaise, mustard mayo, Primal, sauce

They say a picture says a thousand words, but some things just end up looking like what they are and really don’t add too much art, life or the universe. Trying to make a pot of Homemade Mayo look anything other than a pot of whitish sauce really doesn’t work. My case in point is my Hollandaise Sauce. See a small bowl of yellow sauce.

So don’t blame me for this but here you go, a jar of white mayo – tastes delish though!