Chocolate Fondant - Not like you would imagine

If you can't go without cacao, this recipe will find you! 

It's quick and easy to cook. 

There is some maple syrup, that's why it's not sugar-free. 

Serves 8

Ingredients:

- 2 medium sweet potatoes, steamed (skin-on) till soft

- 6 heaped desert spoons of organic dessicated coconut (shredded coconut works too. It's what I've used because I ran out of dessicated coconut) 

- 2 pastured-chicken eggs

- 2 desert spoons of organic maple syrup 

- 2 heaped desert spoons of extra-virgin organic coconut oil (when semi-solid obviously) or 4 when liquid

- 2 heaped desert spoons of organic raw cacao powder diluted/mixed with 1/4 cup of warm water 

- OPTIONAL: some cardamom powder (half a teaspoon) 

Instructions:

- Preheat the oven at 140°C

- Peel off the skin of the sweet potatoes when they are cool enough. 

- Crush them using a fork, then add the coconut oil

- Add the eggs. Whisk them into the mixture. 

- Pour the coconut (shredded or dessicated). If you've some spare time, leave them to stand for 15 minutes into the mixture so they will get softer. 

- Add the chocolate sauce, the maple syrup and the cardamom powder. 

- Bake in the oven for 1 hour at 140°C 

This Fondant is delicious when cooled, and even more delicate after a few hours in the fridge. 

Enjoy with a Rooibos Tea. Mindful Eating, bien sûr. 

Salmon Tartare à la française

As you probably know, for the last 12 months, I have been avoiding grains, dairy and legumes (Paleo diet)  This lifestyle suits me very well, as: 

- It has healed my body from a very rare condition called Scleritis, and it probably slows down another issue I have - I've just discovered the name of it, even if I have been in pain for the last 15 years!  As it is not common, I don't know much about it ( Idiopathic Condylar Resorption in the Temporo Mandibular Joint) I can only share my experience and would be happy to know other people who have it. 

- The other benefit is that eating that way has awaken my passion for cooking. I thrive when I cook! To be honest, on my days off, I spend at least 3 hours cooking and 2 hours shopping or just strolling round the organic shops and greengrocers! 

As I am a very curious person, I  looked for french paleo dieters on the Internet and I realised the Paleo diet is far to be known in France. Over there, they know the "Seignalet" diet , (http://www.seignalet.fr), which is meant to be an ancestral way of eating. It seems to be quite different to the Paleo diet though. One of the features of the Seignalet diet is to eat fish, meat and eggs in a RAW state. 

That's why today, I made an experience. I tried to find a way to eat RAW and PALEO*

Coconut Sweet Potato Cake

Ingredients 


- 8 heaped table spoons of Dessicated Coconut 
- 2 eggs
- 3/4 cup of Coconut Flour
- 1/2 teaspoon of Baking Soda Powder
- 20 g butter (soft) 
- 2 Heaped Table Spoon of Coconut oil (or 5 Table Spoons if its in a liquid state) 

- One medium size sweet potato ( 250 - 300 g) steamed till soft

Instructions 

1. Preheat the oven at 180°C
2. Mix the butter with the melted coconut oil. 
3. Add the Dessicated Coconut 
4. Peel off the skin of the Sweet Potato. Leave it to cool down, then add it into your coconut mixture and stir. 
5. Whip the eggs in a separate bowl until they get foamy, then put them into the other mixture. 
6. Stir the coconut flour and the baking soda powder. 
7. Add the vanilla extract. 
8. Get a baking pan. Pour the cake mixture into it. And bake it for 40 minutes.