Let’s face it – even on a low carb diet I want some treats 😝 This hits the spot perfectly, and there aren’t too many carbs… As long as you don’t devour the whole thing in one sitting 😂 You can use any combination of seeds and dried fruit. I just chose this combination as it’s lower carb, but have done it with dried cranberries before and it’s A+. Again, with the chocolate I chose to use 72% Dark Ghana chocolate, but you can use milk or darker depending on how “healthy” you want to be 😃 Ingredients: 1 x 250g 72% Cocoa Dark Ghana Chocolate bar Half…
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Banana Jam Recipe
I’ll be honest; before I had kids, I hated bananas. Despite having banana trees in my parent’s garden as a child, the only way I’d ever eat one was just as it turned yellow so it was still hard. And it wasn’t even the actual fruit, it was anything banana flavoured as well! Whilst I’m still not a big fan of artificial banana flavouring, ever since I had master 4 I don’t hate bananas anymore. Weird aye? I still dislike them very soft though, so any softer bananas end up as banana bread or better yet, banana cake. After a while though, banana cake gets a tad boring, so new…
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Chicken & Corn Cupcakes with Sriracha Frosting
It all started with a mince & cheese styled birthday cake. It didn’t have mince or cheese in it, wasn’t a pie & was definitely a cake 🙂 I’ve always enjoyed making & styling cakes, and for as long as we’ve been married I’ve almost always done a different cake for DH. From pac-man to pies, it’s always been a sweet treat. This year, however, DH issued me a challenge without actually thinking he had 😛 He happened to mention, at some point before his birthday, that he’d never seen anyone do savoury cupcakes with icing/frosting. CHALLENGE ACCEPTED said my brain 😛 Timing, however, wasn’t on his side. With his…
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Easy Dairy Free Scones
I’ll start off by saying I’m TERRIBLE at making plain scones. My previous attempts could, and should, have been classed as weapons or doorstops ; that’s how hard they were. I’ve been told it’s probably because I mix them too much, but I’m never sure how much is TOO much? I mean all the flour does need to be mixed in properly right? Anyway, it doesn’t really matter any more as these scones are SO easy to make! There’s no cutting of butter (cos there isn’t any) and not much chance of over mixing. PLUS, it’s dairy free, egg-free & sugar-free!! Which is great for me because I don’t have…
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Day 6: Cheese Straws
To be honest, before doing this canapé, I’d never actually made cheese straws. It was always something I had bought, but now that I have done these, there’s no way I’d buy them again. The homemade version is so much better, IMHO! They’re great for party food, snacks & even lunchboxes. Ingredients: Puff Pastry sheets (at least 2) Cheese (I used a combination of mozzarella & colby) Barkers of Geraldine Capsicum & Apricot Chutney Method: Preheat the oven to 180 degrees Place 1 sheet of puff pastry down on a flat surface Spread the Barkers Capsicum & Apricot Chutney evenly across the pastry On this, sprinkle a thin…
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Day 5: Caprese Sticks
A great, easy, no-cook, make ahead, summer canapé. Ingredients: Bite size Tomatoes (I’ve used grape or cherry) Cheese (Caprese generally uses mozzarella or bocconcini, but I’ve used camembert because its more readily available, cheaper & most importantly, my kids eat it) Fresh basil leaves Method: Cut the cheese you have chosen into cubes or pieces of similar size to your tomatoes Cut each tomato in half Thread the tomato, cheese & basil onto a food pick or skewer in the following order: Basil, top half of tomato, cheese, bottom half of tomato Arrange on a platter Enjoy! 🙂 Note: As with all my 12 days of…
