‘I really love the taste of smoke, because it is so unexpected. Yet when you taste it, it’s sort of familiar and otherworldly at the same time. I guess that’s what I really like about what smoke does to food’ I saw a recipe for carrot and cardamom soup in the Covent Garden Soup cookbook …
‘The sweet taste promotes happiness, contentment, calmness, cheerfulness, love and satisfaction in the mind’ – Mudita Institute This is a recipe from Divya Alter’s, what to eat to how you feel. She calls it an Ayurvedic BBQ sauce, but I like to use it as a chutney. It is a sweet-sour combination and the cranberries …
‘Love doesn’t sit there like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; re-made every day, made new’. This is a lovely base recipe from Amy Chaplin’s whole food cooking every day. It is naturally gluten free and made of great satiating ingredients. I adapted it slightly to adjust to the ingredients I had …
‘If you plant corn, don’t be surprised to get corn’ This recipe comes from. ‘At home with the whole food kitchen’ by Amy Chaplin and Johnny Miller I made this polenta and served it a few different ways. The first step is to cook the polenta in water. You can add salt and pepper and …
I should really call these disappearing fries as every time I make them and leave them on the counter, half of them are gone by the time I come back (mentioning no names, Mum and Mr. B) They are delicious and taste similar to normal fries, although they seem to crisp up better. I now …
‘Timeless and versatile, almonds are an organic shade that speak to authenticity and all that is natural’ I found this recipe in Goop, when looking for ‘alternative’ flour recipes. I love using almond flour, as it such a wonderful whole food ingredient and brings a natural sweetness to the recipe. Almonds are also full of …
‘Just say cheese’ When I turned to vegetarianism at the tender age of 13, one of the things I missed most was my mum’s roast lamb. She would make it at Christmas, Easter and on request for special occasions. One of the things that made up for giving this up was to get extra portions …
‘We have to remember what’s important in life: friends, waffles and work, or waffles, friends and work. Either way work comes third’. Lucky for me, making waffles is my work as a chef. It is also my obsession, having realised that you can have wholefood, healthy waffles for breakfast, whilst working at Divya’s Kitchen where …
‘It’s much harder to be sad, when eating a cookie’ I love these cookies, as they take 5 minutes to make and 10 minutes to bake. They are great for kids, with the sweetness coming from the banana, protein from the nut/seed butter and great fibre from the oats. They are pretty much the equivalent …
‘Man’s mind once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions’ I love it when a recipe expands and changes your perspective. Amy Chaplin’s Book, Whole Cooking Every Day is great for this, as she is taking your every-day items, like porridge and creating new varieties of them, keeping your chef mind and …
