Tag: dairy free

18Jun

Homemade Coconut Milk and Coconut cream with strawberries and rhubarb (no sugar, dairy free, paleo)

I think everyone that is familiar with this blog knows that I have the biggest sweet tooth. And I am going to guess that most people’s first experience in the kitchen is around a sweet recipe. Who here has never helped their mum or grandma growing up by separating eggs or greasing a cake tin? Back home from the moment I was able to use the oven unsupervised I would religiously make a chocolate cake every Saturday, always the same recipe. The only changeable factor was that I would sometimes make marbled cake rather than a chocolate one. With time I grew in confidence and started to experiment with tarts, pies and mousses, but in my early stages of cooking I mostly made sweet recipes. Savoury and mains is a side of cooking that started much later for me. So does that prove my point that I am just a little bit partial to dessert? I am in the middle of a hard core paleo diet and there are a lot of restrictions around sweets which is not always fun but it does motivate me to cook recipes that are healthy and still appease my sweet tooth. We already use
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07May

Upside down rhubarb and Earl Grey cake {dairy free, sugar free, gluten free – paleo}

A few weeks ago I got a package from Mariana, inside was the latest ingredient to feature in our Anglo-German food exchange. It was Earl Grey tea, is there anything more British than that? The package also contained a note from Mariana saying that she chose said ingredient to make my life easier. I did get a bit nervous because although Mariana wanted to make my culinary journey a little easier all I could think about after I got the tea was cake, which is a hard task for me at the moment as I am following the Paleo diet consequently any cake I eat needs to contain no flour, milk or sugar. So it was now beyond a simple culinary exchange, it was a full on challenge to whip up a paleo cake. Milk is not actually an issue, I haven’t used milk for years in my kitchen and I can now find so many great substitutions. But what about flour and sugar? This challenge entailed a lot of scientific research on Pinterest. I studied and tested a few recipes made by others at first in order to get used to ingredients, before trying one that was 100% mine.
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26Apr

Cherry bakewell smoothie [Dairy free]

The first heat wave of the year is here so the pub gardens are overflowing and everyone is having their lunches in public parks. My idea of enjoying sunshine is not sitting outside at a pub but sitting outside at my favourite coffee house enjoying an affogato and having a sweet tart. It is not cherry season yet, I learnt the hard way after having a huge craving for them and not finding them in the fresh fruit section in the supermarket. Thank goodness for frozen fruit and veg, am I right?!  Excited with the prospect of cherry tarts, cherry cakes and cherry jam I almost forgot I have to lose 6lbs before my wedding in August. So I made cherry bakewell tart transform into a dairy-free smoothie and I am hooked! The cherry bakewell tart is a British institution, it is a lovely combination of frangipane and cherries ladden with icing sugar. So have all the taste with a fraction of the calories in 2 easy steps! Cherry bakewell smoothie  150g pitted cherries 80g sugar 300ml almond milk 3 heaped tbsp of ground almonds Honey to taste 1. Put cherries, sugar and 100ml of water over low heat and
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13Feb

Dark chocolate cookies {GF and DF}

I feel I should apologise for being a bit absent lately. Although we’ve been posting our recipes I don’t feel I have been looking after our blog as much as I did a couple months ago, and haven’t been as active reading the food blogs I enjoy reading so much. I blame my wedding, it has taken over my life. Not in a bridezilla way, I actually wish I had enough money to pay someone to just do the organising for me because it has become so stressful. Do a DYI wedding, they said. It will be fun, they said. They were wrong. Especially when you have to work two jobs on top of the planning. This blog is how I de-stress but it has been hard to have the time to test all the recipe ideas I have (and I have many). And this little project me and Karla have going was so much fun, it reminds me of how much I love food blogging. We made a deal we would send each other traditional ingredients from our adopted countries (England and Germany) to each other and try to figure out how to use them in recipes. This is the first post
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28Jan

Harissa wholemeal loaf {Dairy free}

My grandmother always told me winter is not a good time to bake bread. Yeast don’t like cold, that’s what she used to say to me.  She is right, bread struggles to prove during the winter but the trick with this wholemeal loaf is to prove the loaf next to the radiator, covered in a damp cloth. So thank God for central heating, eh? This loaf was born from a flat bread recipe that did not go so well but proved itself to be a great loaf in the end! This is a triple tested recipe. In fact more than triple because it has become a favourite around the house. It’s inexpensive to make (I am sure most people have the ingredients ready in their cupboard) and as a rookie bread-maker this worked out way better than I expected. Plus is dairy free for all of you not-so-lactose-friendly people! A toasted slice of this spicy loaf topped with a good lashing of butter will put a smile on anyone’s face, believe me, even if the weather outside proves unpalatable. I have tried to make a whole 700g loaf and also by dividing it into two small loaf tins, it bakes quicker and there’s
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