Garlic Scape Pesto

Ingredients

  • 1 large bunch garlic scapes (or green onions)
  • 1 bunch parsley
  • 1 bunch cilantro
  • 6 leaves fresh basil and mint
  • ½ cup olive oil
  • ½ cup avocado, almond or grapeseed oil
  • 2 tblspn mirin (optional)
  • ¼ cup good wine vinegar, or a type you love and prefer
  • 1 lemon, topped and tailed, halved and quartered
  • 1 whole bulb garlic, peeled into cloves
  • ½ cup almonds
  • Salt and pepper
  • Pinch chili flakes
  • 1 large deep mason jar

Keto Chocolate Coffee Olive Oil Cake

It’s birthday weekend for my Sweetie, so time to bake. This is my keto version of an olive oil flourless chocolate cake bake. I can’t remember where I got this recipe or when I changed it up, but here it is, in a keto version. Rich, dense coffee flavoured chocolate cake! It’s very very good though not too photogenic.

Summary of what we do:

Filter strong cup of coffee and dissolve sugar in it and stir in cocoa. Beat eggs and olive oil; add almond flour and mix together, combine with wet olive oil mix and lastly add cocoa mix then bake 45 to 50 minutes at 325⁰F/160⁰F

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