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Three more from the kitchen

No flour, no refined sugar, nothing off the long list on the back of a bag. Three things you can name, and an oven or a freezer. The potato bread is on the front page; these are the three I make most after it.

The notebook open on a recipe page headed potato bread: a drawn bowl with a potato and an egg, four bread rolls on a tray, and a boxed note, no flour, no yeast

The recipe chapter. Same notebook, other end of it.

1 Chickpea cookies

How blend everything but the chocolate until smooth, stir the chips in, scoop onto baking paper, bake until set.

A cookie with no flour in it and no sugar beyond the honey. The chickpeas bring the protein and the fibre, so it sits in you like food rather than a sweet, and you stop at two instead of six.

2 Sweet potato chocolate ice cream

How blend until smooth, into the freezer for two hours, stir every half hour so it stays soft.

Chocolate ice cream where the body of it is a vegetable. Nobody tastes the sweet potato: it gives the sweetness and the thickness, and a cooked-and-cooled potato feeds the bacteria in your gut on the way through.

3 Blueberry chia jam

How warm the blueberries in a pan until they burst, stir in the chia, lemon and honey, ten minutes, then the fridge. It sets on its own.

Jam is normally half sugar; that is what makes it keep. This one keeps a week in the fridge, which is as long as it lasts anyway, and the whole of it is the fruit.


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