Sticky Plum Chicken Drumsticks

02:08 PM, June 22, 2015 |
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Simple food is best. Not all the time, natch. There’s a time and a place for veloutes, textured shards and confit. Certainly if someone else is going to make it for you (or clean the kitchen). But when you’re limping along, it’s best to think in simple trios and quadrants.

So if what you’re after is a beguilingly easy refined sugar free plum sauce that’s perfect for gilding chicken drumsticks, skip straight to the bottom. If you’ve got the wherewithal for more, read on. 

I can hardly bring myself to type it I’m so bored by it all, but we’ve been sick. Again. For those who were ever agnostic on the matter, …

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Flourless Peanut Butter and Honey Cookies

02:14 PM, June 16, 2015 |
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I’m going to put it all the way upfront, because if you find out at the bottom, you might get twitchy and suspicious. There are lentils in these cookies. Yes, lentils. No flour, just lentils and some ground oats – not that you’d know it from the ‘snickers really satisfies’ taste that comes from muddling peanuts with honey. So if all you want is a chewy, hunger-slaying snack without any refined sugar and a good hit of smuggled protein, skip to the recipe at the bottom. If you’re after something more, read on.

Why are there lentils in these cookies? Because my baby has been good for many things; my sense …

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Raspberry, Pear and Apple Slow Carb Crumble

11:22 AM, June 1, 2015 |
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This is in praise to things that are slow. Slow carbohydrates- sure. Lazy afternoons pottering by the stove- absolutely (nb, if that’s what you’re most interested in- and a nifty and sustaining refined sugar free crumble, then click straight for the bottom).

If you’ve got time on your side for a little natter, pull up a chair.

It’s curious that for someone who outwardly resents change as much as I do, that I’m in such a hurry.

It’s the perils of multitasking. ‘What’s next?’ is always tumbling and tripping through my head. It’s dandy when it’s the little things; letting a crumble topping nap in the fridge for 30 minutes so it perks …

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