It was my birthday this week. I spent a fun evening with my friend Karen at the Kananaskis Nordic Spa enjoying the hot pools and enduring the cold ones. At -24° C it was an interesting experience, and a purportedly healthy one too. Cold immersion is reported to help convert white fat to brown fat,…
Low Carb Lemon Ricotta Cake
Oh yeah, let them eat cake! Delicious low carb cake (not to mention gluten and grain free) that is! Yummy, coffee cake like Italian ricotta cake. Mmmmm. My enthusiasm for trying new things and my general thought that not much beyond rocket science is actually rocket science (you shouldn’t mess with that stuff – IMO) can…
Low Carb Saskatoon ‘tarts’
I seriously did not know exactly what to call this quick and easy dessert. It’s not a crumble, a grunt, a pandowdy or a buckle and it isn’t really a pie either, though that is what it was standing in for when I made it. Steve loves, loves, loves Saskatoon pie. It is really the…
Low Carb Coconut Orange Macaroons
My transition to a low carb lifestyle has, for the most part, been pretty easy. With the exception of a few foods which are really, really hard to replicate (bread is particularly tricky), so many foods can be substituted out with low carb options. Though I have never been a huge sweets eater I did find…
Low Carb Dark Chocolate Almond Joy Bites with Sea Salt
This low carb thing has been pretty easy for the most part, mostly because I never did really crave carbs. I crave cheese, and protein. Might be why this LCHF thing is such a good fit for me 🙂 There have been a few spots that have been more challenging, like eating out, which is…
Ginger and White Chocolate Biscotti
Although I’m not much of a baker lately, I do enjoy the idea of creating yummy baked treats for the Christmas season. The reality though is that when I do bake, Steve and the boys might each take one or two servings of something and then the rest is left to tempt me. It usually…
Summer Plum Galette
I love making galettes in the summer time. They are so pretty, and I’ve always found the pastry to be easier and more successful to make than traditional pie crust. I suck at pie crust. Really. I do. I usually make peach or Saskatoon berry galette in the summertime but last weekend’s market showcased big boxes…
Smoky Ginger Snaps
Perusing the Penticton Farmer’s Market with my friend Karen and my sister in law Nena a few weeks ago, we came across a stall claiming to have ‘the best ever’ ginger cookies. That was it, I was in. Flour and sugar be damned, I love me a ginger cookie. These particular cookies were good. “But”,…
Summer Raspberry Cake
Many years ago I planted a raspberry patch in our back field. AJ, my oldest son, has always loved fruit, always. So, one day I got the bright idea to rototill a patch of prairie grass and plant it with a row of raspberries. I had romantic visions of my kids sneaking out to the raspberry patch…
Gluten Free Rhubarb Crumble
I’ve been making strawberry rhubarb shrugs all spring and have been loving their sweet tart flavour mixed with sparkling water as an afternoon refreshment. As with making your own almond milk, the difficulty with this kind of recipe is what to do with the main ingredient once you’ve strained off the liquid that you are essentially…
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