Chocolate & Coconut “Bounty” Truffles (Gluten, Dairy & Refined Sugar Free)

06 Saturday Sep 2014

Posted by Wendy in All recipes, Sweets & Treats

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chocolate, chocolate recipe, clean eating, coconut, coconut oil, dairy-free, gluten free, Grain Free, paleo, Primal

What I love about giving up refined sugar is all the creative ways people look to recreate chocolatey treats. I love the use of coconut milk 🙂 all I can say is oh yum they look scrumptious! Thanks to Hungry Club!

Hungry Cub

I was always the BIGGEST fan of bounty chocolate bars. The chocolate shell, the coconutty centre – a combination of flavours I completely love. It was one of my favourite special snacks.

More recently (after I decided to learn to make more things from scratch) I tried my hand at my own version of these favourite chocolates. You can make them as bars or truffles but I find truffles to be the easiest snack size and also less messy to coat in some delicious dark chocolate.

If you’re feeling super keen or creative, you could even try making your own homemade chocolate for the shell. Perhaps that’ll be my next attempt…

Chocolate Coconut “Bounty” Truffles (makes approx 20 balls)

2 cups dried coconut (thread or chips)
3 tbsp full-fat coconut milk (is best if you use the ‘thicker’ portion from the top of the can)
1 tbsp brown rice syrup…

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Potato Salad with Easy As Homemade Mayonnaise

05 Friday Sep 2014

Posted by Wendy in All recipes, Sides and Salads

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dairy-free, gluten free, Grain Free, homemade mayonnaise, light tasting olive oil, mayonnaise, paleo, Potato, Potato salad, Primal, Resistant Starch, sweet potatoes

When I started primal/paleo eating November 2013 I stopped eating potatoes – well I switched to sweet potatoes. Now don’t get me wrong I love sweet potatoes so it was no hardship. However there is a family dish that I generally make during the summer and always make on Christmas Day (NZ Christmas is in the summer!), Potato Salad. So being new to the lifestyle and with the whole family embracing primal eating, that ended up being Sweet Potato Salad – a different dish entirely.

Then there was the mayonnaise – store bought full of revolting seed oil and my attempts at homemade were really not good.

A couple of things have happened since then.

I learned about the gut feeding qualities of resistant starch, I discovered that cooked and cooled potatoes fall into this group of starches. The second thing was I found that the key to making homemade mayonnaise that tasted yummy was to use a light tasting olive oil.

It did take me a while to click into these two separate discoveries, and think Potato Salad is on the menu again!! It’s now Spring in New Zealand and time to start thinking about outdoor cooking and cold salads.

So here is my so simple it’s silly, Potato Salad – I hope you enjoy it as much as my family does.

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Primal Smoked Salmon & Cream Cheese Blini

30 Saturday Aug 2014

Posted by Wendy in All recipes, Lunch, More or Less!, Savory Bakes

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Blini, canape, capers, clean eating, cream cheese, dairy-free, Eggs, gluten free, Grain Free, lunch, paleo, pikletes, Primal, smoked salmon

Recently I have been posting heaps of sweet treats – #pimpingpaleo! So for the next few postings you are going to see more savoury recipes to balance it all out! The first hitting the interwebs is… tada… Primal (cos I’m using dairy) Smoked Salmon & Cream Cheese Blini. Why blini, beside its history, I think it sounds so much more classy and exotic than piketes, don’t you?

Anyho here we go…

Sometimes you just need a little something under your smoked salmon. So searching the web for a paleo or primal blini/piklete/pancake recipe I found this one at wholesomekids. It was so quick and easy to make, I had them out of the mixing bowl, into the pan and onto the plate in less than 10 minutes.

Perfect for a weekend brunch/lunch or how about making them tiny and cute to taste tempt a party.