Plant Based Diet

Dried Fig and Honey Cheese ball (GF, V)

By , May 2, 2025

‘The culmination of one love, one dream, oneself, is the anonymous seed for the next’. There is very little difference between burying and planting. For often, we need to put dead things to rest, so new life can grow. Further than that, the thing we put to rest, whether it be a loved one, a

Butternut Squash Soup with Hazelnut Milk (GF, V)

By , April 19, 2025

‘Soup puts the heart at ease, calms down the violence of hunger, eliminates the tension of the day and awakens the appetite’ I adapted this recipe from Amy Chaplin’s, Whole Food Cooking. I liked the idea of hazelnuts in soup and had a butternut squash from my father in laws garden that needed eating before

Sesame Coconut Rose Millet Bar (GF, V)

By , March 8, 2025

‘As each day arises, welcome it as the very best day of all, and make it your own possession. We must seize what flees’ – Seneca As the days get lighter, and the clocks go forward it reminds us of the change in season from winter to spring. We look forward to the warmer lighter

Double Chocolate Zucchini Muffins (GF, V, NF)

By , February 6, 2025

‘Stop talking, stop thinking and there is nothing you will not understand’ Food for thought Like most people I know, I have the drive to take on a lot and fill every moment. It is only when I slow down enough to feel that I can truly make the right decision. The more I slow

Longevity Noodles (GF, V)

By , February 1, 2025

‘To harm another is to harm oneself. When you heal yourself, you heal the world’ – Yung Pueblo Food for thought The Lunar New Year is upon us. This year is the year of the snake, representing a time for personal growth, transformation and shedding bad energy. When I think of transformation, I think of

Double Chocolate Chip Banana Muffins (GF, V)

By , January 24, 2025

‘There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle’. Albert Einstein Food for thought I love reading quotes from Einstein. He used to write letters to children who posed questions to him and so we have a liturgy

High Protein ‘Meat’ Balls (GF, V)

By , January 19, 2025

‘It is only by risking ourselves from one hour to another that we live at all’ Food for thought No matter the path we choose to honour, there will always be conflict to negotiate. There will always be discord with those who would rather have us be something other than ourselves. If we choose to

Roasted Broccoli and Puffed Rice Salad (GF, V)

By , January 11, 2025

‘Now there is nothing left but to keep dancing’ I don’t know if it is human nature or the way of life on earth, but we rarely become all of who we are until forced to do it. Some say that something in us arises to the occasion that there is as, as Hemingway called

Coconut Cashew Rice (GF, V)

By , January 4, 2025

‘Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better.’ Dr Maya Angelou I’ve been thinking a lot about new year resolutions lately. How we create them and then feel all that pressure. Eventually we break them and then feel guilty, and the cycle starts again every year, or