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How to get legs beach ready fast
Are you about to go on holiday and need to get your legs beach ready? Here's how.
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Ali’s Gluten Free Flour blend
I use this gluten free flour recipe for everything from thickening gravies and sauces to home baking. It’s a perfect combination which I love and it seems to work just like normal flour in almost all of my recipes. Ingredients 125g Brown rice flour 125g Sweet white sorghum flour 175g Tapioca flour 175g Cornflour 175g Potato starch 75g buckwheat flour Directions Mix all the flours together and store in an airtight container. This works really well as a plain flour. If a recipe calls for self raising flour simply add baking powder and bicarbonate of soda. I sometime add a little psyllium husk
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Hummingbird Café Inspired Carrot and Pineapple Tray Bake with Coconut Lime Frosting
Sometimes you need cake that really feels indulgent. I've loved watching The Great British Bake Off over the years but i'm mostly left feeling hungry and disappointed that so many of the gluten free alterntives to traditional cakes are so dense, tasteless or packed with refined sugar. This was a superb exeriement that i undertook after I had a can of pineapple pieces left over from a birthday party. I'd been tasked with re-creating one of those 1970's inspired hedgehogs of cheese and pineapple spikes! It was a triumph and thankfully this cake was too. My inspiration was a cake I tasted at the
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Best Banana Bread with Ginger Frosting (gluten, refined sugar and dairy free)
I’m a great one for saving ingredients then doing nothing with them so when I spotted 3 unripe bananas in the fruit bowl and I already had a freezer full of frozen banana pieces ready to make smoothies I thought I’d better use them up immediately or they’d be making compost in the wormery by next week. I have to say I’ve triumphed with this recipe. It is a beautiful, light, moist cake which you’d never know was gluten free (unless you tell) so you could serve it up for afternoon tea to your non celiac friends without a shudder. It’s also dairy and refined sugar free so is ticking so many boxes
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Post Holiday Exercise Blues - How to get back into it
My top tips for beating that sinking feeling when you put your trainers on post holiday!
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Ali’s super soulfood pancakes
Pancakes always give a breakfast the feeling of having a treat but now you can feel good about it too.
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Ali’s Lemon and Lavender Protein Balls
I came back from 10 days of glorious sunshine in Italy to a wet and cold UK summer! Burr… where did the beautiful weather I left behind go too. I even lit the wood burner on Monday evening it was so chilly! I also returned home to a lavender hedge which is nearly over but for a few fresh flowers. Not wanting my lavender to go to waste I’ve been cooking up some treats in the form of these luscious Lemon and Lavender protein balls. They are super easy to make and absolutely delicious. And when I say cooking some treats up, I don’t actually mean cooking – they are raw, grain-free, gluten-free
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Ever felt like a bad mother?
Ever felt like a terrible mother? That was me two weeks ago as I put Miss H on the school bus which was taking her to the airport and a 10 hour flight to Sri Lanka for a hockey tour. I know what you’re thinking, how lucky is she? And yes she is, so why did I feel so bad? She had everything she needed for the trip, new bikini’s, tour kit, hockey stick, my favourite mineral suncream and tonsillitis! Yes the tonsillitis had come on with 2 days to departure and she was travelling with the biggest bag of medication you’ve ever seen! We were hitting it hard with both antibiotics and herbal remedies
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7 favourite yoga stretches this travel season
Staying fit and healthy when I’m traveling is a must so I make sure I travel with essential nutrition and stretch as I go so I don’t arrive stiff and jaded. Here are my favourite stretches which you can do at the airport, on the plane, in the arrivals hall and by the pool. These are great for anybody and at any time but especially when you’re on a long haul flight. Make sure you keep moving on any long haul flight and stretch at least once every hour. My recent blog has some top travelling tips to keep you fit and healthy while on the go. If you can’t get out of your seat these are great
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Vegetable and Chickpea Tagine with herby Quinoa
Ingredients 2 tbsp coconut oil 2 onions, chopped ½ tsp each ground cinnamon, coriander and cumin 2 large courgettes, cut into chunks about 2cm 2 large tomatoes chopped ·400g can chickpeas, rinsed and drained 4 tbsp raisins 425ml vegetable stock 300g frozen peas chopped coriander, to serve For quinoa 100g quinoa 300ml hot vegetable tock Handful of fresh herbs chopped - i love to use corriander, chives, parsley, mint Method Preheat ven to 190 C/ 170 C fan, Gas mark 5. Put the quinoa in an oven proof bowl with a tid and add the hot stock and herbs. Plce the lid on and plac inteh oven for 20
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