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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For quite a while now, I’ve been eating food based on the Paleo Diet … in fact it’s been about 9 months since me and my girlfriend first started trying this out.  If you’ve never heard of this, I’ll give you a quick rundown now, although I’m in the process of writing a very in-depth book about it as we speak. The Paleo Diet It’s mostly based on the concept of humans as hunter-gatherers, collecting our food from the land and sea (rather than out of packets!).  Before the agricultural revolution came along and added grains into our diet, humans were strong, lean and fit, we were a lot smarter, and we were all natural! When I speak about diets, it’s really a loose term.  I hate the word “diet”, as it conjures up images of starving or restricting yourself from having certain foods, for short periods of time until a goal is achieved.  I prefer to think of it as a “paleo lifestyle”, as fitness and exercise is also a very important factor, plus this is designed for a long-term approach. Our grain based diet over the past 10,000 years has led to our diminished capacity in many areas, including physical fitness and brain size.  There is a great deal of scientific evidence to back this information up, and over the coming days, weeks and months, All EasyFood Recipes will continue to update you with some of this information, as well as some of the delicious recipes I’ve been cooking up at home. You see, I’m a chef, and taste is definitely important to me (not something you necessarily achieve in the average diet).  Plus portion size can go out the window.  If you do eat the right foods, you can actually eat as much as you want and still maintain an optimal weight level.  For proof of that I only have to look at myself.  My girlfriend often refers to me as a ‘garbage guts’, as I love to eat so much, but because I do eat the right kind of foods lately, last time I checked my weight I was down to only 69kg, and my body fat percentage is in single figures!  The White House Garden For now, it’s important to know that eating fresh food is really the only way, not food out of packets, or food that has been highly processed or frozen.  It might be more difficult to achieve, but it’s worth striving for.  Even Michelle Obama has turned the White house garden into a vegetable patch to help get this message out there!

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Eat Fresh Food – It’s The Only Way

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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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Easy Chilled Cucumber Soup

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This is of course the new year period, and many people make New Year’s resolutions around this time, usually revolving around losing weight and getting fitter. In the previous post I talked a bit about Ayurveda’s 6 essential tastes of life, and how they can help you improve your health in everyday life, and today I just want to elaborate a little bit on that with a helpful chart of some specific healthy foods that you should be looking to incorporate into your everyday meals. It’s important that you don’t make choosing what to eat hard work.  Don’t worry if you get to the end of the day and realise you’ve missed out on one or more of the foods in a particular sense of taste – it will be a long-term lifestyle change that will balance out over time. You’ll feel so much better when you incorporate food from each sense of taste that you’ll actually find it easy and fun to adjust your diet to include them! Sense Of Taste Foods – Sweet Milk Butter Cream Wheat Ghee (clarified butter) Rice Maple Syrup Sesame Oil Apple Juice Coconut Milk Honey Raw Sugar Fresh Fruit Rolled Oats Raisins Cranberries Soy Milk Vanilla Extract Sense Of Taste – Salty Salt Pickles Salty Pretzels Tamari Soy Sauce Seaweed Sense Of Taste – Pungent (Hot And Spicy) Chilli Pepper Ginger Black Pepper Clove Mustard Radish Daikon Onions Thyme Oregano Salsa Asparagus Tomatoes Fresh Chillies Garlic Cinnamon Basil Rosemary Sense Of Taste – Sour Limes Lemon Citrus Fruit Yoghurt Mango Powder Many Immature Fruits Tamarind Plums Blueberries Raspberries Sense Of Taste – Bitter Green Vegetables Kale Broccoli Spinach Lettuce Turmeric Fenugreek Endive Chicory Sense Of Taste – Astringent (Dry And Light) Apples Apricots Beans Berries Cabbage Cauliflower Cherries Coriander Figs (dry) Grapes Green Tea Lentils Peaches Persimmons Pomegranates Prunes Strawberries Your Sense Of Taste Needs Variety Every Day There are foods that taste delicious to us, and those that don’t.  There is enough variety from this sense of taste chart for your health to provide options in a daily eating program that will not only taste good, but also be healthy for you

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I’ve been on a bit of a theme lately – getting and staying healthy, with plenty of easy food recipes that are also good for you.  Now this doesn’t really have anything to do with New Years resolutions (I don’t believe they really provide much long-term benefits) , it’s more about just feeling fitter and healthier to enjoy a better lifestyle. People usually focus on either exercise or eating healthier, but it tends to be rare that both of these are taken into consideration at the same time. I’m not going to make out that I’m some sort of expert on this matter, but I do keep a very active lifestyle, as well as obviously being very aware of the sort of food I’m eating.  So I’d like to share what I know about the benefits of eating healthy , as well as plenty of easy food recipes to get the process started for you, and I hope that this helps to give you more energy and time each day.

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The Golden Rules Of Healthy Eating

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This holiday period is a time of over-indulgence in food and drink, and sometimes it can be difficult to keep up if you have particular dietary requirements, such as needing some easy diabetic recipes . A lot of diabetic recipes call for little or no sugar, and it can be very difficult to figure out how to make those tasty sweets with an artificial sweetener. How much of one equals the other after all? It depends on what type of sweetener you buy. Sweeteners For Use In Diabetic Recipes For sweeteners containing aspartame, about 24 little packets of the sweet stuff equals about a cup of sugar. This is about a ¼ cup

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How To Substitute Sugar For Easy Diabetic Recipes

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Today our local radio station, 96fm , launched a competition to find the ultimate breakfast pizza .  Naturally my mind straight away went into overdrive coming up with all sorts of ideas to try out.  After some debate, and discussion with colleagues, I’ve narrowed it down to 3 different breakfast pizza options to test.  It was quite busy tonight and I didn’t get a chance to make any of them, but over the next few days I will make them and post the results. In the meantime, here are the breakfast pizza ideas I came up with, please feel free to let me know your thoughts in the comments! Full Works Breakfast Pizza My initial thought was to put every kind of big breakfast ingredient together on the one pizza.  I mean really, what’s better than a big breakfast in the morning to start off your day anyway?! This will include a napoli sauce and cheese base, with pieces of bacon, slices of mushroom, slices of a nice spicy sausage like chorizo, and a few cherry tomato halves scattered around.  Add a few slices of par-cooked potato (to represent hash browns), crack a couple of eggs, and if you feel like it you could even dollop some baked beans around for good measure too! Egg And Bacon With Vegemite Breakfast Pizza To those uninitiated in the ways of the salty spreadable delight that is vegemite , this may sound quite strange as it is very much an acquired taste.  Even when I brought this up with other vegemite-loving Aussies, a slight look of bewilderment was noticeable. For a long time, I have been a happy little vegemite , growing up with the stuff from a very young age.  I remember my dad introducing me to eggs on toast for breakfast, with vegemite spread on the toast.  I don’t often hear of others going to such extremes to get their vegemite fix, but to this day if I eat eggs on toast without vegemite, it just seems like there is something missing. So this was my next breakfast pizza idea .  I have tried a vegemite and cheese pizza before, and it worked out wonderfully.  This time I plan to add eggs and bacon to the mix, and see if that will also live up to my high expectations Eggs Florentine/Eggs Benedict Breakfast Pizza Ok, so this definitely comes in at the more “gourmet” end of the spectrum.  I would probably like to make a half/half pizza and try both sides to see which I like better. Now, quite obviously there would need to be some hollandaise sauce on top, I’m just not sure if the hollandaise and the napoli sauce will work together, so I may end up trying both ways, with and without napoli sauce on the base

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The Ultimate Breakfast Pizza Challenge

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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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We can all be a domestic goddess (or hero) when we want to be but the kitchen is a battleground many of us will find ourselves the losers. But who says that it should be this way for the rest of our lives when we have easy food recipes to fall back on? How To Be A Domestic Goddess Food need not be prepared with plenty of blood, sweat and tears for it to taste delicious. You just have to learn the  substitutions to make easy food recipes possible without compromising the overall taste, texture and presentation of the dish. You will find that it will take just a fraction of the time to prepare a delicious dessert by using shortcuts, and you could be a domestic goddess just like Nigella Lawson ! Take for example this easy chocolate mousse recipe done in just under 10 minutes: Easy Chocolate Mousse Recipe Delicious Chocolate Mousse Dessert In a saucepan, combine 150 grams of mini-marshmallows, 250 grams of dark chocolate chips, 50 grams of unsalted butter and 4 tablespoons of hot water. Bring to a boil while stirring until all the ingredients become melted together.

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Easy Food Recipes For A Kitchen-Challenged Domestic Goddess

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