Lately I’ve been eating a Paleo diet , which for those of you who don’t know what that is, I’ll be sharing plenty more information about very soon.  Basically it’s about eating like our hunter-gatherer ancestors , foods like meat, seafood, fruits, nuts and veggies, and cutting out grains and dairy. To a lot of people starting down this path, it can seem like it takes away a whole lot of your food options, particularly desserts.  I’m here today to tell you that this don’t necessarily need to be the case, you can still get some good sweet foods in if you desire. Antioxidant Power Of Dark Chocolate The trick is to cut way down on sugars, especially from packaged foods and complex carbohydrates, and using chocolate Easy Paleo Chocolate Mousse With Fresh Berries that is really high in cocoa content, minimum 45%, but use 70% if you can. It may seem a little bitter and hard to eat at first, but this Easy Paleo Chocolate Mousse Recipe that I’m sharing right now will show you how you can add a couple of other natural sweeteners like honey to make it really delicious, and most importantly, maintain the  rich dark chocolate benefits of high antioxidant levels with 70% cocoa mass.

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Easy Paleo Chocolate Mousse Recipe

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It’s been quite a while since the last time I updated this food blog , and I recently took my girlfriend out for her birthday.  We had a great night out and I decided that it would be an appropriate way to get back into blogging by starting off with how our night went and a bit of a restaurant review. African Food Emma Eating Ethiopian Food Recently Emma had gone to Africa for a month on holiday, and when I started thinking about places to take her out for her birthday, African food was the initial inspiration.  I have not eaten a lot of African food, and Emma had raved about her adventures on safari and all the wild meats she had eaten whilst over there. Delicacies including ostrich, crocodile, warthog (her favourite) , camel, impala and cudu (a kind of antelope), were all mentioned with the kind of wide-eyed excitement that comes from eating wild game that the average Australian rarely has a chance to taste, let alone the inclination in many cases. While you may think that many of these game meats could be very tough and chewy, she was surprised that it’s not necessarily the case.  Her description of the warthog was my favourite, “soft and tender meat stew that just melted in the mouth” , making me wish even more so that I could have joined her on this great adventure. Eating African Food In Perth Even though Perth isn’t particularly far away from Africa, in relation to the right of the world (a trip to Johannesburg is about the same distance as a trip to Melbourne) , African food isn’t really a common feature in Perth.  Having said that, I was actually surprised by the number of options there really are, hidden away in dark little corners of suburbs.

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Eating Ethiopian Food In Perth

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It’s been very hot and steamy here in Perth… Read more

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Easy Chilled Cucumber Soup

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For the vegetarian version of this cottage pie recipe, you can easily substitute the meat with lentils or chick peas.

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Easy Cottage Pie Recipe

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Fresh foods are full of nutrients and energy, so first of all remember that fresh foods are always best for your body. I’m sure you’ve seen the difference between a lettuce picked fresh out of the garden and one that has been sitting in the bottom of your fridge for a couple of weeks.  Frozen, canned, processed, reheated and leftover foods have much less ‘life’ than fresh foods – and organic food is free of chemicals. As you begin to appreciate the food you put in your body you might even feel inspired to grow your own herbs, fruits and vegetables in the garden! The Best Way To Satisfy Your Food Cravings Giving in to unhealthy cravings can sabotage your efforts.  If you experience cravings, it’s usually for sweet foods, and it shouldn’t be ignored. However you can make healthy choices from the ‘sweet’ family to satisfy your food cravings with more wholesome, healthy foods such as sweet fruits, whole grains and nuts. Eating well is a long-term healthy life choice , and there are some foods that can particularly help you to be a healthy weight and feel good about yourself.  Choose… Foods that are light, dry and warm; spicy, bitter and astringent (see the sense of taste chart for your health ).

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How To Choose Food That Nourishes Your Body And Emotions

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One of my most favorite easy diabetic recipes is a sugar free ice cream sundae because it’s a rich treat that you think is going to be deadly to your diabetes and it’s not. I created this when I was looking for a dessert to enjoy with my friend who has been a Type II diabetic for a long time. There are a lot of sugar free syrups and whipped creams that you can slather on this bad boy and have it taste exactly the same. While the calorie value still might be an upshot, it’s definitely sugar free. Since you don’t want to over do it, here’s a good sundae recipe to make that you can have a small helping of and share. Happy Sundae Recipe Happy Diabetic Sundae You start with, of course, a banana.

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Happy Sundae For Diabetics

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Christmas is a time for getting together with family, sharing gifts, reflecting on the year that was, and of course, indulging in large amounts of food and drink!  A traditional Christmas Day lunch in my family usually consists of a great big roast cooked up, often lamb or pork, with plenty of sides of salads overflowing on the table.  However this year, Christmas day is a very hot, sticky and humid 38C here in Perth , so something a little different was needed. Christmas Lunch Ideas Basically once I heard the weather reports coming out in the previous week, I just knew it was going to be way too hot for a roast Christmas Day lunch.  Out of all the Christmas lunch ideas I had, it really came down to a seafood feast for Christmas Day lunch . The Christmas Day Lunch Seafood Feast The reason I chose to have seafood is simply that it’s quick and easy to cook, as well as being a classic type of food to eat in Australia on any hot day, and seafood makes a great gourmet feast to indulge in.  I got myself some Pink Snapper, a good thick fillet, and fresh from the seafood market early in the day.  I also picked up some tiger prawns, all of the seafood is local produce for the freshest possible quality. Christmas Lunch Preparations Begin… Cooking Christmas Day lunch I start by marinading the prawns in some crushed garlic, chilli, basil, and a little olive oil and lemon juice.  This is probably the hardest part of the day, which shows you why this is one of my favourite easy food recipes.  Cooking the seafood is as easy as heating up a frypan to a medium-high heat, add a touch of oil, before adding the fillet of Pink Snapper. Just before adding the Snapper to the pan I seasoned it with some herbs and spices that I had lying around in my kitchen, like lemon pepper, just to add some nice flavour.  Sear the fish for 3-5 minutes on each side, and because it was quite a thick piece of seafood I actually decided to finish it off in the oven to make sure it was cooked through properly.  To do this I just added a little bit of water, almost poaching it in liquid, to keep the Pink Snapper nice and tender, moist and juicy (there’s nothing worse than dried out overcooked seafood).

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Finally, the day of my first ever pizza competition has arrived, and I was quite excited!  As it was a competition to find the best breakfast pizza , naturally the pizza contest was going to be held very early in the morning, so I had to prepare myself for this a couple of days ahead.  I often work late into the night, so getting up early is not always that easy.  I set my alarm for 5am, as I had to be there by 6:15am, and it was a good 30-40 minute drive to get to the location. I got up bright and early with the sparrows, and just as the sun was rising, and began to ready myself.  I didn’t really know what to expect, had no idea what my competition was going to be like, or how many people would turn up to watch!  I was mostly excited, but there were a few butterflies in the gut as well. Arriving At The Breakfast Pizza Challenge Breakfast Pizza Challenge Competitors I was the first competitor to arrive as I got there a little bit early (6am), and the radio team were still setting up the work stations and equipment.  All the ingredients were already supplied, so thankfully that was something that I didn’t have to worry too much about, all I had to do was rock up and cook Only a few minutes later my first competitor arrived, Emma, so we introduced ourselves and started having a sticky beak around the work area that was set up for us.  Emma was making a breakfast pizza with the lot, basically every big breakfast type ingredient that you could think of all on the one pizza, so she had a quick look around to discover that unfortunately a couple of her ingredients were missing. A quick dash to the shops, and a call out on the radio by the DJ solved the ingredient issue, however a bit of stress had set in to start off the day. In the meantime, Chris, our other competitor had also arrived, so we met and had a quick chat about the upcoming pizza challenge as well.  Chris was making a dessert pizza , with strawberries, chocolate, marshmallows and ice cream.  The whole day was very friendly, and mostly relaxed, aside from Emma’s issues missing out on some of her ingredients, so we all just had a bit of fun together cooking up some pizzas … The Breakfast Pizza Challenge Begins… We were asked to begin prepping our pizzas, and straight away Emma and Chris began furiously working away and chopping up their ingredients.  For me, I had made the Eggs Florentine Breakfast Pizza so simple and easy that I really didn’t have a lot to do, so I basically started putting some of the toppings on my pizza base and waited for some people to start arriving so I could cook the pizza and make sure it was hot and fresh for the first trials. Eggs Florentine Breakfast Pizza – The First Trial Breakfast Pizza Cooking In The Pizza Oven The first two pizzas were a bit of a disaster, as the pizza oven was a bit different to what I’m normally used to, and getting used to the Pizza Stone which was in the oven took a couple of attempts to get right.  I burnt half of the bottom of each base, but luckily half was still good to use, so I kept one side and sneakily threw out the rest so that no one ever knew Just as I pulled the first pizza out (I was way ahead of the other two, they still hadn’t put anything in their oven yet) , the DJ asked me to come up to the booth and speak on air.  So luckily for me I had my first piece to take with me and let him try, while I had a quick chat on the radio about my eggs florentine breakfast pizza creation .

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The 96fm Breakfast Pizza Challenge

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Tomorrow is the day for the Big Breakfast Pizza Challenge , and I’m a little nervous but mostly excited.  It’s the first pizza competition that I’ve ever been in, and I think it will be lot’s of fun!  The battle lines have been drawn, and my weapon of choice will be the Eggs Florentine Breakfast Pizza . The Eggs Florentine Pizza Eggs Florentine Breakfast Pizza The concept is reasonably simple – a traditional eggs florentine is an English muffin, topped with wilted spinach, smoked salmon, poached egg, with some hollandaise sauce poured on top.  The trick is, how do you put this on a breakfast pizza? Well, this is how I did it… There will no English muffin of course, that will be replaced by the pizza base.  I cover the base with some spinach leaves, and then add some shredded Caboolture cheese over the spinach (it’s better to put the spinach under the cheese, to protect it from burning in the pizza oven) . Then I crack an egg, and carefully spread it around the pizza as best I can.  This part is a bit messy, but that’s half the fun of it sometimes! Putting a poached egg on the breakfast pizza is out of the question I think.  If you put a cooked egg on a pizza and then cook it again, it will just end up rubbery and terrible

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Eggs Florentine Breakfast Pizza

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Ice cream cakes can satisfy just about anybody’s sweet tooth but it looks like plenty of trouble to make. Fortunately, you can find easy dessert recipes for these sweets. Call it instant gratification, if you will. Here then is an easy recipe to show you how to make ice cream cakes your family will enjoy

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