Tag: avocado
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Green Goddess Salad Dressing
If you’re starting to think about bringing in more greens or salads as we move further into Spring, it’s important to bring in more healthy fats too. Steaming your greens, adding healthy fats & plenty of herbs & spices makes them much easier to digest – if you every get bloated after a lot of…
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Chocolate Miso Mousse
If you haven’t yet tried pairing the umami saltiness of miso paste with chocolate, you’re in for a treat. The fermented bean often used in Asian cooking adds a flavour to cacao or dark chocolate that creates an almost salted caramel – like flavour. Coupled with the fact that miso is of course entirely more…
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Mitochondria – Enhancing Summer Meal
When it comes to how food effects us, many of us are concerned with whether it adds or burns fat, whether it builds muscle, sustains energy, helps us sleep, or prevents illness. What we may not consider however, is whether a food can enhance the function of our mitochondria or not. First of all, mitochondria…
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Recipe: Have Your Cake + Detox Too….
If the post-Christmas comedown has you frantically searching for ways to eat healthier and get back to feeling your best, then finding ways to eat whole, natural foods is the way to go. This recipe is totally raw, vegan and without tonnes of sugar! Despite what many of the health and wellness websites may say, January really…
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Chocolate, Chai & Chestnut Pudding: Healthy Festive Fare & Party Power Food #2
A wholesome dessert that is totally suitable for breakfast. Chai is always cooking on the hob at my house during Winter, and the addition of chestnuts adds some warming, nutty festive flavour. As I mentioned in last week’s recipe; Chestnuts are low in fat, but rich in nutrients such as vitamin C, iron, magnesium and…
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Plant-Based Avocado Pesto (No Garlic)
Mid-August calls for something that provides an abundance of nutrients, but doesn’t require hours inside the kitchen to make it. It calls for something healthy and light, but also filling enough to last until the sun sets late in the evening. It calls for something without garlic, because Summer is a social time of year…..…
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Springtime Sustenance: Courgette ‘Spaghetti’ With Avocado-Matcha-Moringa Sauce
A totally raw, vegan superfood recipe, helping you to spring into action this season as the sunshine emerges! Recently featured in the Brighton Yoga Festival newsletter, click here to find out more about the UK’s only free one-day Yoga and wellbeing festival on July 23rd 2016! I’m very excited to be managing the festival this…
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Clean & Cleansing Good Intentions Smoothie
How are those new year’s resolutions going? Mid January is basically the time when we can tell if those good intentions we set on the first day of the month are going to stick, so if you need a little help in the health department, look no further. If you’re still feeling a little…
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Avocado, Beetroot & Chocolate Breakfast Pudding: The A-B-C Of A Nutrient-Dense Breakfast
This is a breakfast treat that is actually a treat for your body. Full of nutrients and vitamins to help you start the day by taking care of yourself, therefore allowing you to be the best you can be and take care of others later. When I was in India last Winter, an ‘ABC’ was…
