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Creamy Chocolate and Hazelnut Ice Cream

Summer's coming... you know what that means for me... More ice cream making before my freezer dies for the next few months!

I love creamy ice cream. If you are lacto paleo like us, then this is the recipe for you. You can have it without the hazelnut, but it's so good with it! I've made this recipe with just plain chocolate, but I didn't blog about it because I forgot to take a picture of it. Here it is now!

What you need
2 cups heavy cream
3 tbsp cacao powder
160g dark chocolate, chopped
1 cup milk
1 1/2 tsp stevia, optional (if you want dark chocolate ice cream, leave it, if not, add more)
pinch of salt
5 large egg yolks
1/2 tsp vanilla extract
1 cup hazelnut, roasted and chopped/crushed

What to do

Mix 1 cup of cream with cacao powder in a saucepan on medium heat. Whisk it until the cacao has blended. Keep whisking and bring the mix to boil and simmer for 30 seconds on low.
Remove from heat and stir in the chocolate until well blended.
Stir in the remaining 1 cup of cream, pour it into a bowl and set aside.
Warm the milk, stevia and salt in the same saucepan on medium heat. Whisk the egg yolks in a bowl and slowly pour the milk into it, whisking continuously.
Transfer the mix back into the saucepan and stir it over medium heat until it thickens. Stir it into the chocolate mix. Add in the vanilla.
Set the mixture aside and when it cools, pour it in the ice cream maker according to the manufacturer's instructions.
Once the mixture has thickened, add in the hazelnut.

Hint: Before you serve, let it sit in room temperature until it softens a bit.

Vegetable Bake

So this vegetable bake isn't Paleo 1.0 with all the cheese in it, but dairy is Paleo 2.0 and it is just too good to not have it in our lives. We have milk, cheese, cream and yoghurt everyday. So good!

I recently had a training course at AIM WA and the lunch that they provided us with was really good. The vegetable bake was one of those delicious foods they made and I wanted to make it myself. So I threw in the vegetables we had in the house, made my cream sauce and tadaa!

I did discover that I had to triple the recipe I found because it wasn't enough to coat all my vegetables. This was quite enough for the bake I made because the cooked vegetables produced more water so your bake doesn't necessarily have to be drowning in cream sauce when you put it in the oven.

Ingredients:

vegetables (zucchini, sweet potato, mushrooms, broccoli)

6 tbsp / 150g butter

6 tbsp cornflour

1 cup cream

3 cups milk

grated cheese (optional)

salt

pepper

nutmeg

herbs

Cut up the vegetables in chunks and boil the sweet potatoes in boiling water for 10 minutes. If you eat the broccoli stems like we do, I would suggest boiling that along with the sweet potatoes to soften it before you stick it in the oven.
Place all the vegetables in your oven dish.
In a saucepan, melt butter and then add corn flour. Mix well.
Add the milk and cream in the butter mix over medium heat stirring constantly.
When the sauce is thickening, add in grated cheese, salt and pepper, nutmeg and herbs.
Once the sauce has thickened, pour it over vegetables in the baking dish and bake in the oven for 40 minutes.
If you like more cheese, sprinkle more grated cheese on top after 30 minutes and bake for another 10 minutes.

Melktert

This is the next South African dish I made, a melktert! Melktert is basically what it sounds like... a milk tart!

I substituted sugar with stevia, and kind of mixed it in blindly. I've never had a proper melktert before so I don't know how sweet it is meant to be. The boyfriend has a sweet tooth and he said it's not sweet enough for a melktert, so you might want to taste test the batter first.

Ingredients:

3 cups milk

2 cinnamon sticks

2 tbsp butter

3 eggs

1 tbsp stevia

1/4 cup cornflour

cinnamon powder

In a pot, heat the milk with the cinnamon sticks in it and bring to simmer. Turn off the heat and leave it to infuse for several hours.
Separate the yolks and the white and beat the white until it forms soft white peaks.
Heat the butter with the milk and bring to simmer.
Whip in the egg yolks.
Mix the cornflour with the stevia, and whip it in the milk mix.
Fold in the egg whites and whip the mix until it is fluffy.
Pour the mix into a ramekin, sprinkle the cinnamon powder on top and bake at 180C for 20 minutes.

Kiwi and Avocado Smoothie

I took spinach, kale and rocket from the backyard, and milk is just an estimation. If you like it thick, add less, if you want it less thick, add more. You could also add some whey protein! The sky is the limit!

Ingredients:

2 kiwis

1 avocado

1 banana

1 cup of milk

1 cup of kale, spinach, rocket

Blend everything in a blender!

Surf and Turf with Baked Sweet Potato and Cauliflower Mash

Most weekends my boyfriend would buy a whole lot of steak, lamb chops and ribs. He would them cook them on the barbie on sunday when we have our sunday barbecue with our housemates and we would put the leftovers in the fridge. I would then heat up the leftover meat the next couple dinners and cook something on the side. Last week was Surf and Turf with spinach from the garden... Monday, it was Surf and Turf with spinach and baked sweet potatoes. Tuesday night was Taco night. My boyfriend cooked that for the house but I forgot to take a picture of it. Last night, I heated up the steak and served up Sruf and Turf with Baked Sweet Potato and Cauliflower Mash!

Have you ever had sweet potato with sour cream? It is absolutely delicious! And the mash... I've never imagined it to be good because I personally don't like cauliflower. I think it tastes like nothing... but this mash is an absolute delight.

Baked Sweet Potato

Wash the sweet potato and wrap it in foil. Bake in the oven at 180C for an hour or until it is softened. Remove from the foil and cut it vertically in half. Serve with sour cream.

Cauliflower Mash

Ingredients:

1 cauliflower

milk

salt

pepper

Chop the cauliflower in pieces and wrap with foil.
Bake in the oven at 180C for an hour to an hour and a half or until it is soft.
Place the cauliflower pieces in a blender and add milk, salt and pepper and blend.

I baked the cauliflower and sweet potato in the same foil because I am lazy. It doesn't affect anything. I am going to try and add in some herbs. This was my first time and I forgot I have a whole heap of parsleys, chives, oregano and basil in the backyard. Excited to try it again!

Protein Shake

Want to get big? Drink this for breakfast! My boyfriend has gotten so big since he started lifting again – gained 10kg of muscles in the past 2 months. I’d like to think that I contributed by feeding him lots and lots of good food. He generally either gets this or bacon and eggs for breakfast if I am bothered to wake up early enough to cook. Weekends I would make something special like Almond Pikelets to change it up a bit… I like to surprise him

For those of you who are looking to get big, his secret is also to drink 2L of milk everyday. That’s right, we get at least 14L of milk every week just for him. And we don’t get the hi-lo or low fat stuff, he gets the A2 milk… when he can afford it. Mostly we just get the normal full cream milk – it’s more accessible and cheaper. But if you’re trying to get used to drinking more than a glass of milk, start by having this protein shake for breakfast every morning!

Ingredients:
250ml of milk
1/4 cup of coconut cream
a banana
an egg
a heaped scoop of whey protein
handful of berries, optional

Blend everything in a blender.

Note: all these ingredients are adjustable. This morning he requested an extra banana and an extra egg in his protein. So what you want to put in it is totally up to you.

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