Flourless Chocolate Cake from Gimme Some Oven

17 Sunday May 2015

Posted by Wendy Hay in All recipes, Cakes and Bakes

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berry ice cream, chocolate, chocolate dessert, decadent desert, gluten free, gluten free cake recipes, grain free gluten free strawberry tart, lemon tart recipe, paleo, pimping paleo, primal cake recipe, strawberry & blueberry tart

Visiting with my son and his partner in San Francisco. They live in Glen Park and only a few steps away from some pretty tasty and paleoish friendly cafes and restaurants. What a selection of cuisines, on my first day we lunched Thai and dinnered French. Not bad considering I had only arrived at 1pm!

So tonight they are cooking us up a meal at home. Not one to relax in the kitchen, I’ve offered to make dessert. Being on vacation means, something simple, easy to make, totally decadent looking and tasting and preferably chocolate.

And look at what I have found, isn’t perfect? All credit and thanks to Gimme Some Oven.

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Perfect Lemon & Coconut Bars

06 Wednesday May 2015

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

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clean eating, Green Kitchen Stories, Lemon and coconut bars, Lemon bars, lemon tart recipe, lemons, paleo, paleo recipe, whole food

Don’t you love lemony treats?

I have only blogged one lemon recipe so far and that’s Lovely Lemon Tart. But I do dream of perfecting paleo Lemon Curd or even a paleo Lemon Meringue Pie – but that’s for another time.

So I was absolutely delighted to visit Green Kitchen Stories and to discover these tasty numbers!

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Lovely Lemon Tart

15 Monday Sep 2014

Posted by Wendy Hay 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!!