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Recipes
Sweet Nut Bar
Friday, April 13th, 2012Recipe: Sweet Nut Bar Summary: Increase your nut intake with these delicious and easy to make nut bars. Nuts are rich in essential fats, arginine and soluble fibre, all very beneficial for your heart health. Ingredients butter, for greasing 120g wholemeal spelt or wheat flour 1 tsp ground cinnamon ¼ tsp ground nutmeg ¼ tsp [...]
Could rice be the spice of life?
Wednesday, February 29th, 2012Historically, rice has been associated with prosperity and fertility, which is why it was thrown at weddings. It is such an important staple today that about half the world’s people eat rice every day. There are about 40,000 varieties, so if you think there is only white rice, it’s time to think again. White versus [...]
Coconut Bannoffee pancakes
Tuesday, February 21st, 2012Ingredients 3 cups milk 2 eggs 1 teaspoon cinnamon 4 cups flour 1 teaspoon bicarbonate of soda 2/3 cup caster sugar butter, melted for cooking 2 organic bananas 1 tub Coyo coconut milk yoghurt 5ml Little Pod vanilla paste 80g Biona coconut palm sugar 25g organic butter 100ml organic single cream Make the cinnamon pancakes [...]
Don’t worry about weight gain; you can go nuts with nuts
Thursday, January 26th, 2012Some people avoid nuts because they think of them as fattening. But while it may not be your best idea to shovel in cheap, heavily salted peanuts while knocking back a beer at the local bar, adding organic nuts into what you eat provides great health benefits. Eating nuts can actually help you lose weight [...]
Cinnamon Bread
Monday, September 19th, 2011Recipe: Cinnamon Bread Summary: This is a great example of sunflower oil in baking. Cinnamon bread makes a lovely dessert, mid-morning snack or afternoon treat. I usually double this recipe and make two because the kids eat it so quickly – or you can pop one in the freezer. Ingredients 180g/6¼oz/1½ cups wholemeal spelt or [...]
Pasta – Boil It, Bake It, Stuff It or Soup It
Tuesday, June 7th, 2011I live in Tuscany. I should have a lot to say about pasta. We eat it sometimes, but certainly not as often as Italians do. They love it, but they don’t eat a whopping big bowl of it like I used to in America. At a meal, they have antipasti, then a small bowl of pasta and then fish, chicken or meat with vegetables.
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