The Guilt Free Gourmet

My new (not-so) guilty pleasure at the moment is this wonderful cookbook by a brother and sister team: Jordan & Jessica Bourke. He's a chef and she's a nutritionist and together they make diary-free, sugar-free and wheat-free recipes that are so eye catching that you start to drool!

They also have a Website with more amazing recipes.

Obviously the recipe that attracted my attention are these extremely chocolatey brownies and I just couldn't believe that they were sugar-, wheat- and diary free. Now wheat and diary isn't an issue for me and sugar is a diet disaster for most people, but a reduction in all three should obviously also affect the bloat-factor. 

They have wonderful light breakfast ideas like the "new York avocado toast" or the "super smoothies" to "pancakes with fried bananas" so don't think for one second their food are 'diet' and therefore bland.

For lunch or a light dinner there's "butternut squash falafel a with fig, chioggia beetroot & chilli oil", which sounds exotic and difficult but really isn't. They also have sections on "food from afar" and "comfort food" with "sausages 'n mash with red onion gravy" and a healthy "lasagna". My favourite sections are the "home baking" with a gorgeous carrot cake and "sweet treats" with a lovely cheesecake.

Some of the ingredients aren't readily available in South Africa like the coconut palm sugar and the diary-free cream cheese called Tofutti. I found "coconut blossom sugar" at the wellness centre but xylitol or brown sugar can be substituted. For the Tofutti I substitute low fat cream cheese

I suggest you give their ideas a try!

The book is available from Kalahari.com