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Grain-free Muffins — Our best ‘bread’ recipe yet
Read Time: 6 min Our favourite super-quick, grain-free, ketogenic buns/muffins/bread.
Osso Buco Ragù
Read Time: 5 min This traditional Italian dish includes meat with marrow bones is super delicious and dead easy. Veal and pork version included.
Grain-Free Wholemeal Keto Rolls
Read Time: 4 min This recipe makes perfect little substitutes for wholemeal rolls, yet is gluten-free, low-carb and ketogenic.


My recipes are designed to help patients on restrictive diets prepare tasty and family-friendly low-carb, low-sugar, dairy-free and grain-free meals
Afifah Hamilton
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Kitchen Basics
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Clarified Butter (Ghee)
Read Time: 3 min Ghee is a great cooking oil as unlike normal butter it does not sputter in the pan. Easy to make at home.
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Keto bread
Read Time: 3 min WOW! A grain-free white loaf so you can have soldiers with your boiled egg on Easter Sunday. (Phew – Just in the nick of time!)
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Grain-free Muffins — Our best ‘bread’ recipe yet
Read Time: 6 min Our favourite super-quick, grain-free, ketogenic buns/muffins/bread.
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Breakfast Ideas
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Keto Pancakes
Read Time: 2 min One of our most popular recipes. Makes low-carb breakfasts a doddle.
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Grain-free bacon and maple syrup pancakes
Read Time: 3 min Breakfast in America? Here’s my grain-free low-carb version of the famous salty-sweet pancake combo. Its basically eggs and bacon with a twist. Delicious.
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Almond & Hazel Bread
Read Time: 2 min This delicious grain-free, low carb bread is easy and reliable. Good for high tea with lashings of butter or lunchtime with pate or cheese.
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Lunches
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Spiced Low Carb Fish Cakes
Read Time: < 1 min This is a very quick and flexible recipe for a posh breakfast, lunch, dinner or tea.
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Grain-free Muffins — Our best ‘bread’ recipe yet
Read Time: 6 min Our favourite super-quick, grain-free, ketogenic buns/muffins/bread.
Recipes, Reviews
Rustic Cold Smoked Salami – review ★★★★☆
Read Time: 5 min I thought I knew what salami was. I thought I’d eaten real salami. Oh how wrong I was!
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Traditional English Dishes
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Lamb shanks with celeriac mash
Read Time: 3 min One of the best cuts of lamb. A dramatic, succulent centrepiece for an English roast dinner.
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Real mince meat pies
Read Time: 5 min The real deal. An update on the traditional 17th century minced pie, with real minced beef (!) in a chestnut and almond shortbread case.
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Gluten-Free Steak and Kidney Pudding
Read Time: 6 min A traditional English dish: rich meaty filling, wrapped in a steamed (gluten-free) suet pastry. Wonderful!
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Mediterranean Dishes
Recipes
Five Spice Squid with Roast Aubergine
Read Time: 3 min Squid tubes make a great substitute for pasta, – a real boon for a grain-free or low-carb meal
Recipes, Reviews
Gluten-Free Green Pea Pasta – Review ★★★★☆
Read Time: 3 min A single ingredient free-from pasta that exceeded our expectations. A useful addition to a grain-free diet and pretty low-carb to boot.
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Fish and Seafood Dishes
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Stuffed (Farmed) Sea Bass
Read Time: 4 min A delicious baked dish using wholesome ingredients that bring out the best in this fish.
Recipes, Reviews
Two seafood products – review ★★★☆☆
Read Time: 4 min We take a look at a couple of interesting products currently on the shelves: Salmon Jerky and Seaweed Thins. Suitable for gluten-free diets these snacks look promising, but will they cut the mustard in our demanding taste tests?
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Five Spice Squid with Roast Aubergine
Read Time: 3 min Squid tubes make a great substitute for pasta, – a real boon for a grain-free or low-carb meal
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Side Dishes
Recipes
Bulb Fennel and Wensleydale Sheep’s Cheese
Read Time: 2 min Really quick and easy dish. Two ingredients only. Fool proof!
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Low-Carb Chips
Read Time: 2 min Several low-carb alternatives for you to try; a great accompaniment to many dishes.
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Avocado eggs!
Read Time: 2 min This dish is a revelation – eggs, cheese, avocados – what’s not to like?
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Gluten-Free Cake Recipes
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Cinnamon coconut macaroons
Read Time: 2 min These little tea-time cakes have a lovely crumbly texture. Grain-free and low in carbs. Who wouldn’t like them?
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Moist Lemon and Cardamom Sponge
Read Time: 2 min A succulent sponge, ideal for any special occasion and without a grain in sight!
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Chocolate Almond Torte
Read Time: 2 min A low-carb, grain-free birthday cake fit for a king. Or your little princess for that matter.
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Desserts
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Keto Bounty Bars
Read Time: 2 min Coconut filled chocolate sweet-meats that are suitable for ketogenic diets.
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Keto Pancakes
Read Time: 2 min One of our most popular recipes. Makes low-carb breakfasts a doddle.
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Baked Egg Custard for Carnivores
Read Time: 3 min All of the ingredients in this dish are of animal origin; No vanilla, sugar, nutmeg. Which might make you wonder what the topping is…
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Ketogenic Diet Recipes
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Keto Bounty Bars
Read Time: 2 min Coconut filled chocolate sweet-meats that are suitable for ketogenic diets.
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Anyone for Paleo Pud? (Berry nice thank you!)
Read Time: 3 min Of all the fruits we eat, berries are the closest to their wild counterparts. Here’s a great way to serve them.
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Grain-free Muffins — Our best ‘bread’ recipe yet
Read Time: 6 min Our favourite super-quick, grain-free, ketogenic buns/muffins/bread.
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Snacks
Recipes
Beautiful Biltong!
Read Time: 2 min One of our foodie friends, Sally, just brought round her homemade biltong – that’s it above – and it was delicious! Her biltong is made from beef and her secret …
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Spiced-up nuts, four ways to make your own super-snacks
Read Time: 3 min Four ideas to jazz up your nuts: Cashews with lemon and black pepper, Tamari 5-spiced mixed nuts, Curried macadamias & Balsamic pecans
Recipes, Reviews
Two seafood products – review ★★★☆☆
Read Time: 4 min We take a look at a couple of interesting products currently on the shelves: Salmon Jerky and Seaweed Thins. Suitable for gluten-free diets these snacks look promising, but will they cut the mustard in our demanding taste tests?
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Celebration and Party Food
Recipes
Cold Buffet: Ideal for Complex Dietary Needs
Read Time: 4 min Here are some ideas for managing a celebration when you have guests with different dietary needs. It’s a great option for any event, summer or winter, Christmas, Birthdays or the New Year bash.
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Quick Spare Ribs and Coleslaw
Read Time: 4 min Finger-licking ribs without the carbs. Always go down well at parties or buffets. Tips for a quick version (under an hour) included.
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Gluten-Free Baked Scotch Eggs
Read Time: 3 min Make your own gluten-free version of this traditional English treat. Perfect for lunches, picnics and parties.
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Christmas Foods
Recipes
Roast Leg of English Mutton
Read Time: 4 min Mutton is often thought of as being a tough, second-rate meat, but nothing should be further from the truth. When cooked long and slow it is a rich, melt-in-the-mouth meat with a superb flavour. The secret is to prepare it well and give it time to slowly reveal its wonders.
Recipes
Real mince meat pies
Read Time: 5 min The real deal. An update on the traditional 17th century minced pie, with real minced beef (!) in a chestnut and almond shortbread case.
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Grain-Free Christmas Pudding
Read Time: 3 min It’s the traditional pud gone paleo. Soaked fruit, almonds and honey make this rich Christmas bomb go with a bang.
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