‘I close my eyes and I want to understand where I am, cooking is about emotion, it’s about culture, it’s about love, it’s about memory’ – Massimo Bottura This is a comforting and hearty soup with a soulful Indian twist. I came up with the recipe by combing two family recipes, my uncle Joe’s carrot …
‘Without experimentation, a willingness to ask questions and try new things, we shall surely become static, repetitive and moribund’ – Anthony Bourdain I really wanted to find a high protein substitute for eggs and so started experimenting at the beginning of the year. This was my first attempt and it was so successful that Mr. …
‘Good food is wise medicine’ Having indulged over the holidays, soup is back on the menu for January to get some much-needed nutrient density in and give my digestive system a break. The challenge to myself is to make some interesting soups with an Indian kick. Inspired by my grandma’s food with all the embedded …
‘Every now and then a detox is necessary. Cleanse the toxins from your body and life. That means negativity in all forms.’ After the excess of the holidays, meeting friends and family for drinks and dinner, indulging in the festive foods and snacks that you don’t eat any other time of year, like mince pies …
‘Do you have a kinder, more adaptable friend in food, than soup? Who soothes you when you are ill? Who refuses to leave you when you are impoverished and stretches its resources to give hearty sustenance and cheer. Yet is also capable of doing honour at your richest table. Who warms you in winter and …
Mr B loves loves loves thanksgiving and nothing gives him more pleasure than a pumpkin pie. He lights pumpkin pie candles and has pumpkin pie lattes (with almond milk of course) and so I had to make him the tastiest and healthiest pumpkin pie possible. No mean feat and quite the pressure (felt like I …
‘Fill your plate with all the colors of the rainbow. What pleases the eye, pleases the body’ I love making food that us aesthetically pleasing as well as tasty. As the saying goes, you eat with your eyes as well as your stomach. Ayurveda goes one step further a says you need to take all …
‘I have 99 problems, but protein isn’t one’ This is a great protein dense vegan recipe from the blog cooking for peanuts. This is an amazing blog dedicated to plant-based recipes for this amazing woman’s three children. I just added a few extra medicinal spices to adapt to my taste. Plant based foods are rich …
‘Cooking is a language that expresses harmony, creativity, happiness, beauty, poetry, complexity, magic, humour and provocation’ – Ferran Adria I recently went to an amazing Vegan restaurant in NYC called XYST created by Matthew Kenney and had this dish for brunch topped with an amazing avocado salad. Mr B loves chickpea and avocado and saw …
‘When diet is wrong, medicine is of no use, when diet is correct, medicine is of no need’. Ayurvedic proverb Here is another recipe for those who are interested in learning about some new vegetables with powerful healing properties. I promised my classmates in Ayurvedic School that I would post a few of these to …
