A low carb chilli paste, that we keep frozen to use in many dishes. We make up batches using about 12 long red chillies at a time, but it is good to start with a small batch to ensure that the heat is right for you. We find that one serve (About 1 1/2 tsps) […]
One advantage of keeping a food diary is you know what you are eating. Of course you have to be honest with your diary – this is one reason why I don’t share my diary with other people, there is less incentive to tell a few porkies (pork pies = lies). Actually I do share with my partner […]
A year ago I was Diabetic, Hypertensive, and morbidly obese. I’ve been told, by medical experts, that I reached that point through an inability to regulate energy. Time for a change Almost exactly a year ago (a year ago this week) I started changing what I ate. I had been eating a diet that was mostly […]
This meal started out as an attempt to replicate the presentation of a moroccan style baked egg in lamb mince, but using traditional European flavour profiles to compliment the lamb mince (rosemary, thyme and garlic) rather than the traditional Ras el hanout spices more common in North Africa (cinnamon, cumin, coriander seed).
Carbonara is awesome! It is a roman pasta sauce made from just 4 ingredients – any old cured pork (Bacon/Pancetta/Speck/Guancale), egg yolks, Parmigiana-Reggiano cheese, and a little white wine. The result is a creamy rich sauce with possibly the most perfect blend of those two most complimentary of flavours; Bacon and Egg. Over a freshly made Pasta, […]
The Brown chicken stock recipe was originally Heston Blumenthal’s (How to cook like Heston) and I modified it to extract more minerals from the Chicken bones, and to have slightly fewer net carbs, without sacrificing any of the flavour. These stock cubes will reappear in many of our recipes when we need to add liquid to a pan, or […]
As you may remember I made myself a Coconut chocolate bar that was about 90 kCal to replace the Atkins bar. The only problem is that Julie isn’t a big fan of coconut, so when I was having an Atkins coconut bar, she would have an Atkins peanut cluster bar – which is still high in sugar […]
This is my third post for Easter 2015 – this time my Coconut chocolate bar. The Atkins bar When we first started eating Lo-Carb we were in a sudden panic about all the sweet things we wouldn’t be able to eat from our previous carby life. From what other people who’ve done this tell me, that […]
This sneaky chocolate nut recipe started off as many do, as an after thought – How to use up some excess tempered liquid chocolate. The recipe is simple take some macadamia nuts and roast them in butter, with a touch of salt then cover them in a candy coating, then completely hide them in a chocolate.
‘Tis the season for Chocolate Easter is far from an easy time for Lo-Carbers – even if you can resist a sneaky hot cross bun, there is chocolate everywhere. But I’ll let you in on a secret. Most chocolate easter eggs are made from really horrible chocolate. You can always tell bad chocolate without even bothering to […]