I wasn't a kale fan until I tried these, which are an easy way to eat a lot of greens! They're a little fiddly the first time you make them, but once you figure out the quantities and timings for your oven or microwave, they're definitely low effort.

Ingredients:
big heap of kale (I had about 5 cups, initially, ripped up)
1 tbsp garlic olive oil (or regular olive oil)
sprinkle of salt
several grinds of black pepper
¼ tsp MSG or 1 tbsp nutritional yeast
a squeeze of lemon juice

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Continuing my small series of gum-free ice cream recipes. This one doesn't need an ice cream machine.
GF, keto-friendly.
Servings: 10 (1 scoop per serve)
Source: ketoserts

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I made this recently and it was very delicious! Forgot to take a photo so I've used one from the online recipe.
Takes 3-4 hours to make, mostly to chill it once made.
Servings: makes 16 squares in a 9" x 9" pan

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Customising it:
Use any berries, not just blueberries
Use walnuts or almonds instead of pecans, or a mix.

GF, Low Carb
Servings: 6 good serves.
This is a lower carb take on lasagne, but of course you can just use normal GF lasagne sheets and make a higher carb version. Note that it's lower carb, not low calorie!

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Pavlova and a keto pav option
In NZ pavlova is a holiday standby, for Christmas dinners. The anti-chef (Jamie, who also does funny vids where he works his way through Julia Childs's cookbooks) had a go at making a pav, here. (note that to make it low carb you need to sub the sugar for powdered Swerve or erythritol, NOT allulose as allulose makes crumble toppings and meringues go soft)

That one's not specifically low carb but here's a recipe that is

Keto Hot Cross Buns
Here's a video that looks good: keto hot cross buns

Keto Pumpkin Pie Battle - testing two recipes, is here.
 

Christmas dinners in NZ's summer are often in a "more the merrier" spirit, combining totally inappropriate roast meals and hot Christmas pudding with salads, cold ham, strawberries and pavlovas. A seasonal favourite of mine is trifle, but trifle can be boring unless you tart it up a bit. This is a simple and delicious recipe, followed by a similar low carb version.

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Keto-Friendly recs:

Here are some Keto-friendly sites and a product, that I like for desserts. Not all the recipes are specifically labeled as GF but keto-friendly stuff usually is GF, so most of these recipes will be okay. Ketosert's flourless ones, especially, but most of these are very much not dairy or egg-free. 

Keto upgrade - the chef here used to be a restaurant pastry chef and she uses her skills to adapt recipes to be both keto-friendly and maximally yummy. But note that she sometimes uses added wheat gluten in recipes, so avoid those. 

Ketoserts is an old favourite whose vids are nicely brief, with soothing music and reasonably simple recipes. The channel is all baking, much of which is cakes, cookies, etc. Also, watch out for recipes with added wheat gluten. 

Horley's low-carb protein 33 bars - I'm able to get these through my online grocery delivery, and they should be available elsewhere I imagine. They're all GF. My fave is the salted banana caramel one but they're all good for a treat or "dessert". They make me feel like Rodney McKay snatching a power bar in a crisis to stave off hypoglycaemia!

Also, a good way to have keto-friendly strawberries is to dip them in low-carb maple flavoured syrup (sorry, Rodney!). I use Queen sugar-free maple flavoured syrup which is available in Aussie and NZ, and another brand option is Lakanto monkfruit-sweetened maple flavored syrup. Both brands taste the same to me and go well with slightly tart strawbs. Add some whipped cream, if you want. These syrups are also excellent on pancakes. 

Non-Keto recs:

Brian Lagerstrom isn't a GF chef, but he does great recipes with a chef's expertise that are aimed at home cooking, and some of them are easily made GF by using GF graham-type crackers/biscuits and GF flour. Like this cheesecake one, or his pumpkin (squash) pie. And his mango rice pudding is both utterly delicious and completely GF.

Another fave presenter is Adam Ragusea but he also isn't focusing on GF so you'd have to adapt the recipes with GF flour. His no-torch creme brulee is fully GF though, and fairly easy to make. His hot chocolate with honey marshmallows is also GF, as is his macaroons recipe (note that there's a lot of excited shouting as he challenges "perfect macaroon" notions). Also he has a good home-made ice cream recipe that is of course GF and only requires lots of ice and a hand mixer.