Watermelon tomato salad with oatmeal and kalonji seeds
This watermelon tomato salad is a knockout for heart health. It contains high lycopene, antioxidants and blood vessel opening qualities via nitric oxide
Spinach pancakes and the importance of feel-good food
Spinach pancakes make a super healthy breakfast full of mood boosting spinach, banana, almonds, lemon, gluten-free oats, healthy fats, and protein. GF/SF/DF/V
The best healthy salad dressing plus taking on the fear of good fats
This creamy healthy salad dressing adds a luscious mouthfeel while providing the necessary healthy fats that allows your body to better absorb the nutrients from your salad ingredients. The dressing is so versatile. It makes eating salad easy by binding together dry salad ingredients including greens, avocado, tomatoes, shredded carrots or beets, small tinned fishes (sardines, mackerel, anchovies), nuts etc. Another great way to use this is to spoon this beauty onto baked sweet potatoes or other baked root vegetables for an instantly gorgeous healthy lunch. It’s a staple in my house.
Healthy tomato bruschetta makes great gluten free snacks
This awesome rosemary chili cornbread is a dense, savoury and moreish gluten free snack. The bread holds it’s structure and the tomato garlic & basil soak in well. GF/SF/DF
Kiwi fruit muffin recipe with dark chocolate and orange zest (gluten free)
This kiwi fruit muffin recipe is a great source of vitamin C, vitamin E and manganese. Each muffin has long burning energy with kiwis, almonds, oats, cinnamon and healthy fats. GF/SF/DF/V
Baked oatmeal with carrots coconut and cardamom
Baked oatmeal with carrots coconut and cardamom I love how baked oatmeal has taken the foodie internet by storm. This humble little dish has in fact become one of my favourite warming cold weather breakfasts. It's just so amazingly tasty. By baking your porridge ingredients you end up with an almost cake like taste that works for breakfast, but also as a nice tea break snack too. I love the versatility! This is sort of a carrot cake based baked oatmeal. There are the usual carrot cake characters including loads of shredded carrots, cinnamon, raisins and walnuts and then there is [...]
Moist blackberry pumpkin bread with amazing banana coconut frosting
Moist blackberry pumpkin bread with amazing banana coconut frosting Who wouldn't want to eat cake that doesn't cause your waistline to expand like the usual suspects do? This cake has zero added sugar and no flour either yet it tastes amazing. It's full of the pumpkin pie spices including cinnamon, clove and nutmeg which mix with the pumpkin to give you that lovely autumnal mix of flavours. The sweetness of the dates, pumpkin, and banana in the frosting (which I am addicted to) serve to make it taste very sweet, but the secret is pairing this natural sweetness with some superhero health [...]
Tomato pineapple red lentil recipe with coconut cumin sauce
Tomato pineapple red lentil recipe with coconut cumin sauce Whenever I have a craving for sweet and sour sauce, this is my go-to meal. It's deceptively simple, but amazingly addictive. You get that perfect blend of salty and sweet - you know, the kind that food labs concoct to get us to eat more... of anything! Yet when you attack your plate repeatedly because you can't get enough of this, you're also doing your body a big favour. While technically a savoury meal, the pineapple and tomato paste work together to raise the sweetness profile until you just.can't.stop.eating.it. Every ingredient in this dish is a star in it's [...]
How to cook sweet potatoes for a healthy weekend breakfast
How to cook sweet potatoes for a healthy weekend breakfast Sweet potatoes are such an amazing ingredient. Nutritionally they are powerhouses and taste-wise they are so incredibly delicious that I try and eat them three to four times a week. Today I've made really simple hash browns out of sweet potatoes. The cumin in the patties matches so well with the earthiness of the sweet potatoes and onions. These are perfect eaten in the traditional way with eggs, or they also make a great addition to the top of a green salad. Sweet potato hash browns These are super easy to mix up, then you just [...]
Why I fail at being healthy
Why I fail at being healthy Today I absentmindedly scanned the almond milk container at my local coffee joint. There in the second position on the list: sugar. "What the f^%@?" I may have bleeted out as I started fuming and wondering how many drinks I had errantly ingested with sugar in them. I remembered checking the cafe's almond milk container probably a year ago, and at the time, it had been sugar and other-nasties-free. Sigh. Total health fail. But it got me to thinking about the urge to avoid nasty stuff and how that positive drive can sometimes steer us wrong. [...]