‘One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well’ – Virginia Wolf This is a new grain and recipe to me. I learnt it in the health supportive program at the institute of culinary education. I hadn’t used Millet before, but this ancient grain has many health benefits and the …
‘Herbs deserve to be used much more liberally’ – Yotam Ottolenghi I made this Za’atar in class recently and fell in love with the fresh herb mix all over again. The mix of ingredients plays with your taste buds, with zest from the sumac, depth from the sesame seeds and herbaciousness from the thyme. I …
This is a great dish that Mr. B and I like to eat for breakfast, although they were originally introduced to me as a dessert. We bake them with the skin on, which acts like a jacket to keep the moisture in, in addition to giving you your much-needed fiber. Eating them with the skin …
This is a beautiful dish, bringing out all the flavors of your summer tomatoes. It is a traditional Roman dish. In Italy it is simply called, Pomodori al riso. A similar version is made in Greece using peppers instead of tomatoes. The trick is to allow the tomatoes to cook slowly so that the rice …
‘’I love sleep. It’s like a time machine to breakfast’. This is a great breakfast bar. It keeps you full the whole morning as it is packed with Oats, which are a slow releasing carbohydrate. I also added cinnamon and nutmeg, which are warming spices and get your digestion and metabolism moving. Mr B noted …
‘Good food is very often, even most often, simple food’. Anthony Bourdain This is an easy, one pot dish. It was made by my grandma on fasting days, as it does not contain onions or garlic. Onions and garlic are seen to excite the mind and so are often omitted when fasting. If you have …
‘Chocolate comes from cocoa, which is a tree, that makes it a plant…chocolate is salad’ Mr B has a sweet tooth and I love finding him dishes that will satisfy his cravings whilst promoting his health. This recipe does that in multiple ways, using pure, high quality cocoa and cocoa butter in the vegan chocolate, …
‘The one thing you can change is how you treat yourself, and that one thing, can change everything.’ For me eating well is part of self-care and self-care is self-love. My relationship with food wasn’t always great. At one point I used to restrict my calorie intake to 500 calories a day, at another I …
‘No one who cooks, ever cooks alone. Even at her most solitary, a cook in the kitchen is surrounded by generations of cooks past…’ This is a collaboration between granny and me. She used to make this dish when I was a child. The only switch I made was to sub in sweet potatoes for …
‘You are what you digest’ Kitchari is easy on your digestion. Giving your digestion a much needed break, helps you absorb the nutrients in the food at a higher rate and so boosts your body function and immune system. Quinoa Kitchari is a revelation. You get a complete protein from the Quinoa, with added lentils …
