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St Nicholas’ Day (December 6th) was a big deal for us growing up in Belgium. The “original Santa Claus” would come into our schools with his frighteningly politically incorrect pageboy (the excuse was that he was a chimney sweep) and hand out sweets and the beautifully caramelised spiced biscuit known as speculaas or speculoos. As young schoolchildren, we…
Growing up in Belgium, the approach to Christmas – particularly around the celebration of St Nicholas’ Day – contained a lot of biscuits. Speculoos cookies, to be precise. I love them. Oh-so-much. And I’m working on a good recipe for them for December 6th if I can. But I have been hiding another seasonal biscuit…
I’ve baked my way through my fair share of technical challenges from the Great British Bake Off. I did every single technical challenge from the 2014 series, and thoroughly enjoyed it, but giving up sugar a few months later changed my attitude towards attempting the bakes! I made a few sugar free versions of some…
I often bang on about how wonderful a low sugar diet can be, and how enjoyable it is. How much more flavour and freshness you get in your diet. How much fun it can be to come up with sugar free foods and recipes. I 100% believe this. Still, there is one time when being…
One of the things I missed most when I first gave up sugar really took me by surprise. It wasn’t cake or biscuits or ice cream. I only had those every few days as treats anyway, so it didn’t feel like a huge change to go to having them rarely. But the things I missed…
Cranberries. I’m not sure there is any food, except for perhaps turkey, that is quite as associated with Thanksgiving and Christmas. My sugar free cranberry sauce is still one of the best winter recipes I’ve made, and I was determined to try and find a few more delicious ways to use fresh cranberries this year….