Low sugar, no-grain, desperado chocolate cake

Reducing sugar in your diet shouldn’t be an easy thing I suppose. I started a grain-free diet at the beginning of the year, turned ‘refined-sugar’-less a couple of months later and now I’ve been trying for the last couple of weeks to decrease...

Summer milk kefir ice cream treat

Summer’s here and what better time in a year to go for probiotic-based ice cream.. Indeed, it is possible to make your own ice cream (even without a machine) using probiotic cultures as a start. In the example above I used milk kefir (~250 mL),  milk kefir...

Grain-free waffles

On Sunday mornings the rest of the family usually has crêpes, I have my usual fruit ‘n nutty breakfast in whichever form it presents itself. in terms of replacements, I tried coconut flour-based pancakes, but don’t like them so much. Today it was time to...

Kombucha soap – tried ‘n true

As I was so excited about the post on Kombucha soap a couple of months ago, I decided to try the recipe.. well a “slightly” modified version of it, as I did not have the right oils lying around. The following ingredients found their way into the recipe:...

Teff experiment – Injera

I’ve been eating almost exclusively  grain-free for the last two months and it has made a huge difference on my general well-being. Then, I discovered a non-grain flour teff, or eragrostis teff, a species within the grass family, native to Ethiopia and Erithrea,...