Actually, I can?t wait to say it and mean it! “Thank God it’s Friday” is used to express the joy one feels in knowing that the work week has officially ended and that they have two days off with which to enjoy. Enjoy being at home (by choice!), going out, meeting friends and family?In times of lockdown I feel like I?m lost between workdays and weekends as I try to fill all my time with activities. To be honest, I have been very busy as I?m getting ready to open a plant-based fast food next month; but this is a subject for another post! Tonight, I want to share a cocktail that I created w ..read more

Bees?s Knees The perfect place to start this blog, the classic Bee?s Knees cocktail. Named after slang for ?the best? it was created during the Prohibition era when honey was added to illegally produced spirits as a flavourful sweetener. During Prohibition honey sugar syrup was sometimes incorporated with citrus juices to mask the inconsistency of the spirit! My version uses lemon and lime juice to give that extra touch of tanginess. Larger jars of Bee Approved make a valuable addition to the kitchen cupboard, are excellent gifts and have a multitude of uses as illustrated in this series. Ing ..read more

It is easy to be confused by all the different sugar products that exists out there; All the different health benefits, their ability to peak the blood sugar and when and how to use them. Many people swear to the??no sugar diet?. Your body will definitively feel better after sometime without refined sugar. In my baking, I prefer to use natural and unrefined sugar substitutions that treat my blood sugar on a steady level without spikes, and does good to me. This is the first post of a series of posts about sugars that I will post the upcoming weeks.? WHAT IS GLYCEMIC INDEX? Glycemic index (GI ..read more

Have you ever wondered how a tiny little insect like a bee could ever fill a jar of honey? If it were just down to one bee it would be a mighty task but the work is shared by many thousands of bees and is a great example of what can be achieved by a co-ordinated effort. Think of it in terms of humans creating something like a pyramid. A jar of honey weighs 454 grammes and a bee can carry about 0.04 grammes of nectar. But nectar is only about 40% sugar and honey needs to be about 80% sugar so the bee actually only carries about 0.02 grammes of honey on each trip. Now how many bees woul ..read more

Bees’s Knees The perfect place to start this blog, the classic Bee’s Knees cocktail. Named after slang for “the best” it was created during the Prohibition era when honey was added to illegally produced spirits as a flavourful sweetener. During Prohibition honey sugar syrup was sometimes incorporated with citrus juices to mask the inconsistency of the spirit! My version uses lemon and lime juice to give that extra touch of tanginess. Larger jars of Bee Approved make a valuable addition to the kitchen cupboard, are excellent gifts and have a multitude of uses as illustrated in this ser ..read more

It is easy to be confused by all the different sugar products that exists out there; All the different health benefits, their ability to peak the blood sugar and when and how to use them. Many people swear to the “no sugar diet”. Your body will definitively feel better after sometime without refined sugar. In my baking, I prefer to use natural and unrefined sugar substitutions that treat my blood sugar on a steady level without spikes, and does good to me. This is the first post of a series of posts about sugars that I will post the upcoming weeks.  WHAT IS GLYCEMIC INDEX? Glycemic i ..read more