I met a friend in a cafe recently.  She had a buttered toasted tea cake with her coffee. Although it's years since I ate one, or even thought of one, it felt suddenly imperative for me to find and bake a low carb version as soon as humanly possible!  It reminded me that I used to love them.   But back home, searching on line for low carb toasted tea cake recipes to try, I discovered there weren’t actually any :/  Read more

Before I changed to a low carb diet, I used to love my home-made pastry. The fuller flavour and melt in the mouth texture was worth the extra effort. Eating without grains anymore, I was resigned at first to do without and then to a less appealing alternative as I experimented with various recipes. Perseverance though has paid off. I’ve honed ingredients and proportions down to this recipe which I love just as much. And so I thought I’d share the love Read more

I’m throwing you a wide ball. Why? Because this is a little gem. Admittedly it’s not a sweet gem, but if like me you’re giving up sugar for health reasons, you may well be one of the growing numbers of people cutting down or avoiding carbs too. If you are, and you’re like me, it’s always so useful to find good, delicious options to replace bread and especially yum recipes for food on the go.Read more

This post is for anyone else out there whose sugar avoidance extends to reducing carbohydrate consumption too.

Since switching to low carb eating, I’ve found the meal that’s takes the most ingenuity to replace is the packed lunch - have you?  If I were to prepare a meal that needed to remain intact at the bottom of a backpack AND look fresh and appetising a few hours later – I’d have formerly turned to things like tortilla wraps, pitta bread or perhaps a little pastry covered number. (I’m not that keen on salads that have gone warm and wilty, nor having to pack separate dressings and cutlery).

We’re usually pretty disparaging towards those who re-invent the wheel but where do you stand on re-inventing the cake? Read more

This is a bit of a wide ball. It contains wheat flour for a start…. Eek!   
AND….it’s got a tiny teaspoon of molasses in it… What???? Read more