Apricot Paste Recipe

Beautiful apricots are now ripe and sweet across Australia. This simple delicious addition to your cheese board is full of Christmas spirit. This paste is prepared with raw apricots and takes only 10 minutes. Apricot Paste Ingredients: 500g Apricot, very ripe 1/8 cup semisweet or sweet white wine 1g agar (European, fine quality) * Fine…

Paleo Canelé (not Bordeaux) Recipe

A canelé is a little French treasure, crisp on the outside, tender and custardy inside. After much experimenting, I’ve created a Paleo-friendly version that brings back the magic of my very first bite. First shared in 2015, this canelé recipe has remained the most popular on my blog. It’s a healthier twist on a French classic that readers keep coming back to.

Mango Pudding Recipe

We love Australian mangoes. During the peak of the mango season, we can buy them in boxes and at a very affordable price. This recipe is so simple and so yummy! And I think it is a perfect guilt free dessert for a hot summer because it is sugar and dairy free. Enjoy. Mango Pudding Ingredients:…

Calamari Cauliflower Risotto Recipe

Cauliflower If along with vitamin and mineral content, phytochemical content is also taken into consideration, food can be ranked, and the food that contains the most nutrients per calorie are ranked the highest. Phytochemicals are plant substances that have beneficial health effects. Cauliflower would be in the top 20 foods in regards to this score. This concept was created…

Poppy Chestnuts

Chestnuts Warning, these Poppy Chestnuts are addictive! Are chestnuts really nuts? The high content of carbohydrates and low content of fat in chestnuts set them apart from the other nuts, but they really are nuts 🙂 If you are on a Paleo diet and wish to have more carbohydrates, chestnut flour is the perfect ingredient to…

Cannellini Soup Recipe

No wonder this long winter 2015 in Melbourne feels unusually cold. They say it is the coldest winter in 25 years, and I say it is long enough to exhaust all ideas for various soups. If you are one of us who might be feeling a desire for a simple and comforting soup, here I am…

Cucumber Sushi Recipe

Sushi with no rice. Delicious low carb meal that is easy to make however needs delicate ingredients. Worth it, really!

Vegan Muesli Bites Recipe

Barley vs Oats Barley and oats have a range of healthy cholesterol-lowering properties as was discussed in the Barley Risotto post. There is an important difference between barley and oats, it is that the oats are gluten free. Oats are gaining increasing scientific and public interest for their potential antioxidant-associated health benefits as well as anti-inflammatory…

Alkalising Soup

Alkaline Diet There has recently been so much interest in the PH impact from the food we consume that it generated just enough material for everyone on the Internet. Happy reading! The only important thing we need to remember is that to achieve a good balanced system in our body we need to eat  good food….

Duck Risotto

Duck Fat During the last few decades no fat was welcomed in our kitchens. Now we are coming back to a good fat. And chefs say the duck fat is one of the must-have ingredients. The duck fat is considered to be a good fat. The content of monounsaturated and polyunsaturated fat is high and…