Hair Care Oil

 Posted on February 18, 2023  |  2 minutes  |  382 words  |  Stephen

Hair Care for Old Dudes One day I got tired using Minoxidol. As I’d gotten to 44 without losing my hair I thought i might not be significantly at risk anymore and I wanted to try a natural approach instead. There is no medical advice in this article just my own experience. I made this oil mixture, and a few vriations of it and found that it worked really well to thicken my hair and to claw back some of the receeding hairline at the front which only copious amounts of minoxidol ever did before. [Read More]

Rice Cooker Creamed Rice

 Posted on February 21, 2021  |  1 minutes  |  102 words  |  Stephen

650 ml milk 225 g sushi or pudding rice To flavour choose some of: Nutmeg, Cloves, Cinnamon, Cardamom, Almond essence, Vanilla essence, Sushi ginger (2-4 slices), Sucralose or sugar. First heat all ingredients and stir well to break up the rice. You can do this in a rice cooker set to hot but you must be extremely careful to turn it to the warm setting when hot or it will boil over creating a mess. [Read More]

Crumbly Oat Cookies

 Posted on January 13, 2021  |  2 minutes  |  280 words  |  Stephen

300 g Oat Flour (You can make this from rolled oats in a food processor if required) 150 g Self-raising White Flour (Or Plain Flour with Half Level Teaspoon Baking Powder) 100 g whole rolled oats (Optional) 120 g Butter 150 g Coconut Oil 3 Medium Eggs 2 tablespoons Canola or Sunflower Oil 1 g Pure Sucralose or equivalent sweetener 2 g Salt 1 tbsp Vanilla Essence (Optional) Theese cookies are sugar free a deliciously oaty and crumbly. [Read More]

Low Sugar Oat Cookies with Mixins

 Posted on September 2, 2020  |  4 minutes  |  646 words  |  Stephen

These delicious cookies substitute some sucralose to reduce the sugar, you could possibly even reduce it further. You can select 100 to 200 g of mixins, like peanuts, cashews, chopped candied peel, raisins, dried fruit, chocolate chips, there will be sufficient batter to bind this quantity. 75 g Butter 75 g Coconut Oil 40 g Demerara Sugar 0.5 g Sucralose or equivalent sweetener 75 g Plain White Flour 150 g Oat Flour (You can make this from rolled oats in a food processor if required) [Read More]

Bad Ginger Series

 Posted on August 9, 2020  |  0 minutes  |  0 words  |  Stephen

Dawn at Fairy Castle

 Posted on May 31, 2020  |  1 minutes  |  4 words  |  Stephen

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Hazelnut Carb-Free Chocolate

 Posted on May 17, 2020  |  2 minutes  |  219 words  |  Stephen

This a delicious alternative to chocolate made with hazelnuts and cocoa with very few carbs and a good source of coconut oil. 1000 g Hazelnut butter 680 g Cocoa Liquor Buttons 520 g Coconut Oil Sea Salt to taste 2 - 8 g Sucralose or to taste Makes 2200 g finished product, about 56 pieces of 39 g each depending on how you cut it up. Per 39 g: Calores: 276 Protein: 4 g Fat: 27 g Carb: 3 g Sugar: 1 g [Read More]

Elderflower Cordial from Dried Elderflowers

 Posted on December 2, 2019  |  3 minutes  |  465 words  |  Stephen

This delicious elderflower cordial is based on table sugar that is turned to invert syrup and flavoured with dried elderflowers and winemaking ingredients. It’s pleasantly acidic and sweet and perfect for mixing to drink or to sweeten other foods. For the invert sugar syrup: 750 g white sugar About 1.5 L Water 0.75 g citric acid To flavour your beverage: 2 unwaxed lemons (Zest only) 25g Dried Elderflower Acid blend to taste Tannin to taste [Read More]

Rice "Whisky"

 Posted on December 2, 2019  |  2 minutes  |  302 words  |  Stephen

This recipe is adapted from Marguerite Patten’s 1963 book “500 Recipes for Home-Made Wines and Drinks” though the quantities have been adjusted to be more convenient and correspond to the typical sizes in which the ingredients are packaged. This recipe has the advantage of requiring few special ingredients beyond the basics and makes a delicious beverage like dilute bourbon. Ingredients 2 kg pudding/risotto/short grain rice, uncooked 750 g raisins 2 kg sugar 3 tablespoons lemon juice (About 1. [Read More]

Using Isinglass Wine Finings

 Posted on December 2, 2019  |  4 minutes  |  765 words  |  Stephen

Isinglass is a wine fining made from the byproducts of the fishing industry, specifically it is a gelatin made from the swim bladders of sturgeon and other fish. It has a dubious smell in dried form and is difficult to mix. If you allow it to get warm after mixing or you keep it too long after hydration it smells pretty foul. However, if used correctly, it is a very effective fining agent that can render a wine or other liquor crystal clear, and because it settles out completely none of its undesirable properties remain in the wine. [Read More]