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debrasue said:
Chortling...!!! Thanks, Barbara - you have made an old lady smile this afternoon! :D
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Lol not so much of the old - you're mature like a fine wine :) I like my mum's attitude - she turned 70 last year and she said she doesn't want to be 70, she much prefers 7!
 
Sable_Jan said:
ok, so I had saved loads of recipes but alas to a document on the "desktop" forgetting that they were NOT shortucts and once deleted they are usually "poof" "gone" ie NOT in the recycle bin I went ahead and deleted lots of stuff from the desktop...but, that said, I do have them printed off so...first of all I will search the site and if that fails I will copy out the recipe I want....or mayb just scan it.....
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I feel your pain, Jan - I have done the same thing! Nowadays I cut & paste the recipe into a Word document and save it in My Documents. :)
 
PenfoldAPD said:
Are that is interesting - I asked this last night but I don't think anyone replied. I used Total Sweet recently as available from Holland & Barrett. But don't yet understand the rules about replacing sugar with these products.
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If you check the bag you replace Total Sweet for sugar in equal amounts....(info is on the bag) don't know about the others though....especially if you are swapping one for another in a recipe.....if its baking mix I think I would just add some, taste it, add some more if needed......
 
Sable_Jan said:
@PenfoldAPD & @liam1955
Think both of you have been promised recipes from me the stracciatella cake and cauliflower bread although thinking back I think the bread was one of the ladies @debrasue possibly BUT whoever/whenever recipes are here...fortunately saved in various threads I've posted them in so now saved again on my lappy

Stracciatella cake:

110gm softened butter; 120g cream cheese; 5 med eggs; 185g almond flour (ground almonds); sweetener equivalent to 100g. sugar (I use trivia - perfect); 1tbsp baking powder; vanilla, almond or orange essence; 50g of 75-85% chocolate - I use solid cacao..... Oven 170C....lightly grease a small loaf tin.... Mix butter and cream cheese really well; add sweetener and essence; mix in eggs really well, one at a time; stir in almond flour and BP; add chocolate bits... pour mix into tin and level the top; 55 minutes at 170C fan - 190 non-fan assisted.... apparently the cake freezes well too...

My sugar substitute is Sucron..... and I add almond essence. Not tried the vanilla or orange essences but I do plan to try lemon..... The first time I made it I used dark chocolate chips but I found it didn't go too well with the cake for my taste, far nicer without..... 45 minutes has been plenty for my oven.

I like cauliflower bread too .... often used as a pizza base apparently and I think it would work well.... I just had it with some feta cheese....the first half and the day after I fried the second half in a bit of butter to reheat it and had it with more of the same cheese......

CAULIFLOWER BREAD
Cauliflower Bread:
1 cauliflower - put it in the blender with a clove of garlic
mix in 2-3 eggs, 100grammes grated cheese or parmesan, pinch of oregano & basil
turn out onto baking tray lined with greaseproof paper (pat down & shape)
cook in oven 40mins @170C (325F)
turn over (turn out onto another baking tray lined with greaseproof paper, removing the original greaseproof paper)
cook for a further 20 mins
remove from the oven and cool on a cooling rack
simples!
excellent as a pizza base :)

ooh, must give you this next recipe too..... sorry to bombard you but I know you said you liked chocolate... well this is quick and easy to make and satisfies the chocolate cravings ....

Chia seed pudding (@Brunneria's version)
Boil kettle
grab a 500 ml measuring jug
tip in 2 hugely heaped teasp of good cocoa powder (my teaspoons are bigger than average)
tip in about half as much again of your sugar substitute
tip in a huge dollop of peanut butter
tip in about 5 heaped dessert spoons of chia seeds
pour in boiling water to about the 500ml mark
stir until all lumps gone.

leave to sit until suitably gloopy.

I don't use so much sweetener but that's to my taste, I used crunchy PB but intend to try it with other nut butters too.....and I used 5 level tablespoons of chia seeds today (you just can't heap chia seeds, its impossible)

I got my chia seeds and the ground almonds on eBay but if you have a healthfood shop nearby they might have it and I guess if your Morrison's is big enough they should at least have the almond flour (I'm guessing eBay is cheaper though) let me know if you need the link
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Yep, it was me that asked you about the cauliflower bread, thanks, Jan! Gonna give that a try this weekend... :)
 
25 years of marriage and been 25 wonderful years

Going to treat Mrs Cumbs to our fave Italian restaurant this evening

In store for her there will be a bottle of champagne and I have bought my love a diamond and amethyst ring (she does not know this) I will ask our waiter to bring it to her with the champagne

I got home at 4 and 5 minutes prior a huge bouquet of flowers had arrived for Mrs Cumbs

She is sorting them into 3 vases lol

Aye 25 years of love ️
 
Sable_Jan said:
Need to work on my weight......Fasting was 6.1 today...strange...but post brekky was 5.5 (3 hours though) so happy with that.....no swimming for me...I swim like a brick.....just walking with the dogs when I can....but we've missed this afternoon out cos of the rain cos Rocks doesn't like the rain....(nor do I really :oops:)
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"Swim like a brick" hahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!!!!!! :joyful::joyful::joyful:
 
debrasue said:
Yep, it was me that asked you about the cauliflower bread, thanks, Jan! Gonna give that a try this weekend... :)
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It's really tasty. If you have a food processor that will do a decent job. My blender couldn't cope. I think I left the pieces too big. @KevinPotts nutribullet might do the job but at over £70 I'll stick with what I've got
 
Cumberland said:
25 years of marriage and been 25 wonderful years

Going to treat Mrs Cumbs to our fave Italian restaurant this evening

In store for her there will be a bottle of champagne and I have bought my love a diamond and amethyst ring (she does not know this) I will ask our waiter to bring it to her with the champagne

I got home at 4 and 5 minutes prior a huge bouquet of flowers had arrived for Mrs Cumbs

She is sorting them into 3 vases lol

Aye 25 years of love ️
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Wonderful
 
Sable_Jan said:
@PenfoldAPD & @liam1955
Think both of you have been promised recipes from me the stracciatella cake and cauliflower bread although thinking back I think the bread was one of the ladies @debrasue possibly BUT whoever/whenever recipes are here...fortunately saved in various threads I've posted them in so now saved again on my lappy

Stracciatella cake:

110gm softened butter; 120g cream cheese; 5 med eggs; 185g almond flour (ground almonds); sweetener equivalent to 100g. sugar (I use trivia - perfect); 1tbsp baking powder; vanilla, almond or orange essence; 50g of 75-85% chocolate - I use solid cacao..... Oven 170C....lightly grease a small loaf tin.... Mix butter and cream cheese really well; add sweetener and essence; mix in eggs really well, one at a time; stir in almond flour and BP; add chocolate bits... pour mix into tin and level the top; 55 minutes at 170C fan - 190 non-fan assisted.... apparently the cake freezes well too...

My sugar substitute is Sucron..... and I add almond essence. Not tried the vanilla or orange essences but I do plan to try lemon..... The first time I made it I used dark chocolate chips but I found it didn't go too well with the cake for my taste, far nicer without..... 45 minutes has been plenty for my oven.

I like cauliflower bread too .... often used as a pizza base apparently and I think it would work well.... I just had it with some feta cheese....the first half and the day after I fried the second half in a bit of butter to reheat it and had it with more of the same cheese......

CAULIFLOWER BREAD
Cauliflower Bread:
1 cauliflower - put it in the blender with a clove of garlic
mix in 2-3 eggs, 100grammes grated cheese or parmesan, pinch of oregano & basil
turn out onto baking tray lined with greaseproof paper (pat down & shape)
cook in oven 40mins @170C (325F)
turn over (turn out onto another baking tray lined with greaseproof paper, removing the original greaseproof paper)
cook for a further 20 mins
remove from the oven and cool on a cooling rack
simples!
excellent as a pizza base :)

ooh, must give you this next recipe too..... sorry to bombard you but I know you said you liked chocolate... well this is quick and easy to make and satisfies the chocolate cravings ....

Chia seed pudding (@Brunneria's version)
Boil kettle
grab a 500 ml measuring jug
tip in 2 hugely heaped teasp of good cocoa powder (my teaspoons are bigger than average)
tip in about half as much again of your sugar substitute
tip in a huge dollop of peanut butter
tip in about 5 heaped dessert spoons of chia seeds
pour in boiling water to about the 500ml mark
stir until all lumps gone.

leave to sit until suitably gloopy.

I don't use so much sweetener but that's to my taste, I used crunchy PB but intend to try it with other nut butters too.....and I used 5 level tablespoons of chia seeds today (you just can't heap chia seeds, its impossible)

I got my chia seeds and the ground almonds on eBay but if you have a healthfood shop nearby they might have it and I guess if your Morrison's is big enough they should at least have the almond flour (I'm guessing eBay is cheaper though) let me know if you need the link
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Thanks for posting these Jan, I'll definitely be trying the cauli bread and if my son has anything to do with it the chia seed pudding will be on the cards too :) I got my chia seeds from Home Bargains, I think they were £1.89
 
Just home. Phoned the doctors for my results, my HbA1c is now 56, down from 64 so pleased I am making slow progress. This is my best figure ever. My initial HbA1c was 112. :)
 
Diamum5972 said:
Thanks for posting these Jan, I'll definitely be trying the cauli bread and if my son has anything to do with it the chia seed pudding will be on the cards too :) I got my chia seeds from Home Bargains, I think they were £1.89
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Ooh, must look there. Got mine
off eBay. I'm thinking of introducing flavoured essence and maybe coffee to make a mocha version
 
Sable_Jan said:
having a 24 hour monitor fitted tomorrow.....Had one years back and hope this one is smaller and works properly.....when I get my BP done the cuff hurts so much when tightened it pushes my BP up... (its the fibromyalgia that does it..hurts like a very hot place) even when the GP used the hand pump one at my last visit he could see in my face how much it hurt......
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I know exactly what you mean about those vicious BP monitor cuffs; even thinking about it puts my BP through the roof! I bought a wrist-cuff model eventually and now I cart it around with me to hospital or GP's surgery and insist (in a nice way!) that they use it instead of their biceps-cuff model. I had it calibrated with the District Nurse's equipment, so I know it's accurate, and I point out that if they want an accurate reading, they should use my the wrist-cuff. I've only once had to point out that it's the only option I'm prepared to consider, unless they want to hog-tie and gag me! :)
 
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