There is one thing, what most of people will miss, when turning to paleo – bread. We don’t realise how dependent our diet is from bread. Especially in UK, where lunch usually contains sandwich and other food you shouldn’t consume daily basis. Paleo diet excludes all grains so traditional breads are out of the question. But there are options, You can make bread like buns/muffins, which only contain ingredients, which have green light from Paleo.
2 large carrots greated
3 free range eggs
Seeds (as much you like) I used mixture of seeds – sunflower, pumpkin, golden linseed
sea salt
1tsp baking powder
1sp olive oil
almond flour or coconut flour (I added bit of both) just enough to make dough like mixture
Share the dough in to the 12 hole muffin tin and bake at Gas mark 5 about 30 minutes.
I love them with butter. Kerrygold is my favourite! I haven’t used any spreads for quite a while, I think if you have butter have a real thing! Kerrygold is a only butter in UK market, which uses milk from grass fed cows so it’s suitable for Paleo and it’s bloody lovely! When I feel really lush, I buy Beurre D’Isigny – famous Normandy butter.
Even my husband had quite a few muffins. Either he likes them or he’s really hungry as I don’t cook as many carbs, he used to 🙂
My lovely son was born on Friday the 13th of January and like every child, he loves his birthday parties, mostly because of the presents – you see, he’s very materialistic 🙂 So usually we have a cake and presents from us on actual day and as it usually school day we go to cinema and have lovely meal before.
Then, there have to be party with his friends and school mates. This year we had skiing party at Chatham, which was lovely as it was sunny day – finally, so fed up with this endless rain. We would love to go skiing holiday, my last one was before we had children, at Finland and it was brilliant, but it’s bloody expensive and can’t really afford it at the moment.
Then we needed party with family, so I came up with the idea of the family cinema party. It ended up as winter birthday party and there are 6 of us in our family with birthdays from December to February. I had great plans to choose the films, I had vintage Coke bottles with colourful paper straws, proper homemade popcorn, cupcakes and pick and mix sweets. I had brilliant ideas for great photo-shoot. I had lovely bunting up, but I managed to take only few lousy photos, because I was so busy to serve the food and organise everything, so finally, when I got around to take some photos it was dark and the momentum was gone.
So my question is , how you all wonderful bloggers manage to take those fantastic pictures of your parties and everything looks so perfect? Makes me feel absolute failure.
My parties never look on photos like this, even when they feel like this.
Examples of our party and only photos I actually managed to take:
So where the bunting, Coke bottles and pop corn?
Anyway I will add recipe for muffins, mu daughter made. They fruity and moist. We made them heart shape, as it was Valentines and covered them with icing but you can skip the icing and they taste as lovely.
Berry and Cinnamon muffins
115 g plain flour
1 tbsp. baking powder
salt
65 g light brown sugar ( we used light muscavado sugar)
1 egg
175ml milk
45 ml vegetable oil
1 -2 tbsp. cinnamon
115g frozen berries ( we used mixture of rasberries, blackberries, redcurrants and black currants)
Mix all ingridients but berries with electric mixer, but as we had power cut, we used wooden spoon and hand power. Mix carefully the berries in, not to ahrd as this will break berries and fill greased muffin cases with mixture. It makes about 8 muffins. Bake at Gas Mark 5/ 190C.
Let the muffins cool and you can decorate them with icing, We used 1 egg white, 230 g icing sugar, bit lemon juice and glycerine.
But they are lovely without icing as well, very moist and melting in your mouth.
Anyway they cheered me up despite my rubbish photos.
Happy late Valentines everyone! My husband bought me those.
I have wanted to start this blog long time ago and always found excuse – mainly I have no time, which is not strictly true as I have plenty of time to watch some rubbish TV. So from today for a month I’ll post one dish or meal I had on the day. So there will be 30 dishes coming on your way 🙂 Also I try to use one ingredient from my cupboard, which have been hiding behind everything too long.
Ttoday the first thing I found was cornmeal and with cup of tea some Bacon – Chilli muffinssounded perfect for me.
2 eggs
350 grams of plain yogurt + 100 grams of soured cream (can be all one or other, it was combination I founded from my fridge)
50 g butter
65 g plain flour
2 tsp or maybe less if bacon is salty
1 tsp biocarbonate of soda
275g cornmeal (I used fine one)
4 rashers of bacon
1tsp chilli flakes or use fresh chilli if you preffer
Before
First grill or fry bacon and crumble it to small pieces. Whisk 2 eggs in a big bowl then add yogurt or sour cream or both. Add also melted butter and whisk everything together. Sift flour, salt and soda together and add to the mixture. Then add cornmeal gradually, crumbled bacon and chilli flakes. 1tsp chilli flakes makes quite hot muffins so add bit less if you want them bit milder.
Grease muffin tray with bacon fat left over from cooking or with bit of oil. Fill to about 3/4 with the muffin mixture and bake on Gas Mark 6/ 200C for 20 minutes.
I enjoyed them with roasted onion cream cheese and Red onion chutney and delicious it was!
After – Bacon – Chilli Muffins
UPDATE! Our Labrador Lonni has finished them off as we left them stupidly on the table. Mhm…how the digestion goes with this chilli – burned bum me thinks 🙂
