Photo by Karolina Grabowska on Pexels.com Here is the blog post I promised from this week’s Ingredients Uncovered Instagram Live on cooking with nuts and seeds and it features five great recipes for you to try too! If you haven't seen it, you can watch it here! Whether it’s cashews or pecans, pumpkin or flaxseeds … Continue reading Cooking with Nuts and Seeds
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Recipe Edit: Five Ways to Eat Radicchio (and other bitter leaves)
Photo by Sergei Akulich on Pexels.com This week’s Ingredients Uncovered, a series I run over on Instagram that looks at ways to use ingredients more versatilely, was all about ways to bitter leaves. I also talked about why we should eat them. Bitter leaves include more commonly known varieties such as radicchio, endive, rocket (aka … Continue reading Recipe Edit: Five Ways to Eat Radicchio (and other bitter leaves)
5 Prebiotic Foods To Ferment
Photo credit: Lesley Lau As you will know, fermented foods that contain live bacteria, are a great source of probiotics (live beneficial bacteria) and even provide a great source of prebiotic too. Prebiotic fiber is the indigestible parts of fruit & veg, whole grains and nuts & seeds that goes through the small intestine undigested … Continue reading 5 Prebiotic Foods To Ferment
5 Tips for Engaging your Kids in the Kitchen
Getting your kids involved in the kitchen can encourage trying new foods as well as helping to reduce food waste, and now it is more important than ever to look at how to make use of every last morsel of food. Looking at how much we waste and wasting less is part of this, but … Continue reading 5 Tips for Engaging your Kids in the Kitchen
Beetroot & Apple Kvass
I am sharing my recipe for one of my favourite ferments, beetroot kvass. I start my day with a shot of this and also find it also great to take just before exercise. Beetroot is great for circulation and supporting the flow of oxygen around your body and also a great source of iron and … Continue reading Beetroot & Apple Kvass
5 Tips for Cooking Intuitively in The Times of Corona
I've been thinking about how I learned to cook. Yes, I trained as a chef, which helped to elevate my cooking and helped me to hone my skills. But to cook delicious food, you don't need to be a chef, you just need a good understanding of food--the basics ingredients you need to create a … Continue reading 5 Tips for Cooking Intuitively in The Times of Corona
Tips for Cracking Covid Snacking
Sometimes, little pause and refuel is what we all need, but being at home and being closer to the cupboards can make it feel like snack time is never ending and you find yourself reaching for one carby snack after another. Here's some insight into how to snack to, not only curb hunger, but also … Continue reading Tips for Cracking Covid Snacking
Stocking a Healthy Pantry
Here's my list of Healthy Pantry Essentials In these uncertain and slightly chaotic times, it is more important than ever to look after ourselves and those we love with health-focused food. Rather than stockpiling readymeals and packets, get in some healthy staples that will help you to ensure you can make as meals as you … Continue reading Stocking a Healthy Pantry
Quick, Easy Xmas Spiced Orange Choc Truffles
I have made a lot of truffles this festive period, more than I have ever made or eaten in my life. We're talking several hundred! Spirulina, beetroot, orange, regular choc, vegan, fermented... you get the gist. I have made these for clients, given these as gifts and taught 9 children how to make them (that … Continue reading Quick, Easy Xmas Spiced Orange Choc Truffles
As part of my prep for my fermented drinks workshops, I brew bigger batches of milk kefir. To make sure nothing goes to waste, I like to cook with it. It adds a lovely tang which works well with sweet as well as savoury dishes, just like buttermilk. Of course, heating it kills off the … Continue reading
Move over pancakes…
Pancakes are a weekend staple round ours and I have made pretty much every combination you can imagine (including the less than well received matcha, dark choc chip combo). I recently bought a waffle iron, and waffles have now replaced the pancake as our weekend breakfast favourite. I've also recently started experimenting with milk kefir thanks to my army … Continue reading Move over pancakes…
A wholegrain take on choc chip biscuits
I found out recently from my son's school that they want to feature a recipe that we created for his February half-term homework as part of a cookbook that will be sold during 'Healthy Living Week' at the school. I'm chuffed. He's not really bothered. Either way, I had fun making these with him and these are now … Continue reading A wholegrain take on choc chip biscuits
One for the sun…
Hopefully like me, you are willing the sun to stick around. I'm dreaming of sun-filled afternoons in the garden and going on summer holiday somewhere, anywhere warm. This recipe is inspired by my love of summer holidays in Spain, where I drink gazpacho by the litre. After all, I don't eat meat, so this is one of the … Continue reading One for the sun…
When you want a curry, but can’t stomach the spice
After reading the title, you will realise that there's a bad pun lurking. Apologies, but it was too good to pass up. Puns aside, this recipe was developed for the boyfriend of a friend who loves curry, but not the after effects. Despite being a very keen cook, curries being amongst his favourites, he eats a lot … Continue reading When you want a curry, but can’t stomach the spice