Tag Archives: Healthy Eating

Strawberry Banana Cake with Almonds

Cooking with gluten-free flour is not quite the same as baking with a wheat-based one, often leading to quite crumbly results.  This cake holds together very well and cuts beautifully into slices. I also find that this cake freezes really … Continue reading

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Tomato, Mozzarella and Avocado on Toast

The other day I was given a box of delicious looking gluten-free Melba toasts with dates, walnuts and sunflower seeds.  A day or two later what should arrive in my inbox but a recipe from Jamie’s Super Food Family Classics … Continue reading

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African Spiced Salmon on a bed of Ginger, Garlic and Sunflower Seed Spinach

Salmon is such a versatile fish and one of my husband’s favourites.  It can be served with so many different sides but the latest one I tried really tasted great. A huge bag of spinach can always be found in … Continue reading

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Sweet Potato ‘Crisps’

In need of a snack one evening and a lonely sweet potato sitting in my vegetable basket made up my mind to quickly make some ‘crisps’. Nothing could be easier than thinly slicing a peeled sweet potato using either a … Continue reading

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Sweet Potato, Beetroot and Goat’s Cheese Galette

I’ve always ‘roughly’ known what a galette was but when I decided to make this recipe I looked up the meaning just to satisfy myself. The term galette is used primarily to refer to rather rustic, free-form tarts-made with a single … Continue reading

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Banana Bread #2

I often make Banana and Raisin Bread, and you will usually find some in my freezer as it freezes beautifully, but I wanted to try a different recipe and this Paleo one seemed to fit the bill. The bread was … Continue reading

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Spicy Beef with Broccoli (Slow Cooker)

My husband and I love the Korean Beef I make in the slow cooker,  but when I spotted my local butcher had an offer on rump steak, I decided to make a very similar dish with this but adding some … Continue reading

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Sweet Potato and Carrot Fritters

Adding a little chilli and cumin powder to these fritters gives a really nice ‘bite’ and flavour to them and the spices can be adjusted according to taste. The finished mix needs to be wet but not overly-so, so depending … Continue reading

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Goat’s Cheese and Parsley Stuffed Chicken Breasts

Sunday evening and nothing planned for dinner, I spotted some goat’s cheese in the fridge and half a pot of parsley growing on my kitchen windowsill. I always have chicken breasts in the freezer (they are so versatile) so I … Continue reading

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Cauliflower Tortillas

When I first saw this recipe, I didn’t realize it had originally been ‘blogged’ back in 2014 by Lori Lange at Recipegirl.com.    Lori had made these tortillas look so appetizing and I didn’t need any prompting to try out this … Continue reading

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