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A recipe – Amaranth snack bars

A recipe – Amaranth snack bars

Watching yet another excruciating episode of the Apprentice the other night, I cringed more than usual, as I watched the contestants, allegedly smart, successful, business-savvy people, attempting to come up with a ‘healthy’ snack. I have been making these for over a year myself, using superfoods, grains, seeds and the likes. None of the contestants had any clue as to what are nutritional values or what such super foods are (baobab.. what a mystery). Rubbish TV aside, one of my…

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Medjool dates recipe – Samra’s Dates

Medjool dates recipe – Samra’s Dates

This week I was kindly sent a large box of Medjool dates to taste and test before Christmas. Until a few years ago, dates did nothing for me. I used to find them oversweet, dry and just not very nice. It all changed when I went to Morocco two years ago and tried some local, really juicy and plump medjool and decided I actually love dates. Mostly grown around North Africa and Middle East (but some species, like medjool, are…

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