It’s hard to believe now but there was a time in my life when my mum and I weren’t close. My childhood was pretty unconventional and I was one of those wild teens. My mum remarried when I was thirteen and my relationship with her new husband was pretty strained. He was from Mauritius and…
Category: Paleo
Raspberry + Banana NICE-CREAM
My default is to buy way too many bananas. And they never really go bad, each stage has a specific purpose: yellow bananas are for eating fresh, medium speckled bananas are for the freezer, and black bananas are for cakes and pancakes. Now that its summer I am baking less and less. We don’t have…
Curried Cauliflower Rice w Egg
I go through bizarre and obsessive phases with things. I will binge on podcasts for weeks on end, listen to a single song on repeat, make the same meal over and over.. I very recently got addicted to solving the Rubiks cube. It got ridiculous. I even took it to a party and while every one…
Baby Potatoes with Beans and Olives
Well, I’m happy to say, I’m happy. Truly happy. This happiness can’t be pinned on a single event, or more importantly, on another person. It’s more an amalgamation of lots of little things. The things that, when you add them together, make up my life. And I guess in a way the expression is true – the whole…
Apple Slices with Cinnamon Almond Butter
As I have continually expressed, I have a long history of weird food behaviour and food obsessions. Yet there has never been an obsession greater than my affinity with peanut butter. There have many occasions where I have eaten half a jar, in some crazed frenzy, and thought well, that’s dinner taken care of. This behaviour is…
Raw Salted Caramel Fudge
Sometimes I feel I am a walking contradiction. A cacophony of opposing traits. A tiny ball of chaos that is obsessed with systems and order. Overflowing with love. Cries way too much. A pillar of strength, with the potential to crumble any second. Overly proud. Overly vulnerable. Filled with terror, yet as brave as can be. It’s very confusing.Tomorrow…
Pistachio + Rose Rocky Road
In the past, optimism was a characteristic that seemed to elude me. I could have safely been labelled the ‘glass half empty’ kind. The good news is however, due to the cleverness of the human brain, a hopeful, optimistic attitude is something you can actually acquire. If optimism is a gene that you inherit, I…
Apricot Coconut Bliss Balls
Well, here we are, the start of the new school year. I have mixed emotions about this, yet again. Although it is just a day, and my son is only one measly day older than yesterday, the start of a new grade signifies that my little baby is much further away from being a baby….
Chia Seed Breakfast Bowl
I made a pact with my friend from work. A no bread/pasta/rice for 7 days pact. Near impossible when you work at a bakery. You see, as I have explained several times already, I eat a hellofalot of bread. All of us bakery staff do. So a one week ban was very necessary, to keep the…