Sugar and allergy free chocolate sorbet

It's never a good time to go on a sugar detox, as it turns us (or is it me only?) into epicly terrible beings, and especially in January when sugar is so crucial in one's fortification against the battle of holiday blues and the return-to-work tedium. But sugar detox is unavoidable, and perhaps even encouraged, as it forces us to face our existential questions and when better to be a sugar-free grinch than against the back drop of wintry blues and greys?

So I have decided to challenge myself with a sugar free chocolate sorbet; I think it would be too harsh to forbid both sugar and chocolate, won't you agree?

This is our own recipe (http://duckandthyme.blogspot.co.uk/2014/12/chocolate-sorbet-dream.html), with the sugar replaced with 5 tablespoons of granulated sweetener. Leave out the Patron too, if you can.

Reasons to love America!

"People like me" (I hear this phrase a lot) find breakfast the most difficult meal - no bread, no eggs, no butter....need I say more? Fruit is great, but after about the 3rd day, rather boring..

We were recently in Santa Barbara, California, and I had: Toasted quinoa with raspberry jam, poached pears, toasted almond flakes and pistachios with a giant side of almond cappuccino.

My very own gluten, diary, egg, rice, oat and soya free heaven