I really don’t eat much sugar. I don’t have breakfast at all (I do 16:8 intermittent fasting), I drink coffee and tea with unsweetened soy milk and no sugar, lunch is a tortilla wrap with lettuce, carrot, cucumber and cheese / roasted sweet potato & feta / tuna / boiled egg and in the eveningsContinue reading “Bitter sweet facts about sugar”
Category Archives: Food For The Body
Homemade Granola
Have you ever tried making your own granola? I always thought it would be really tricky but it turns out it’s one of the easiest and satisfying things you can bake! It’s quick, healthy and as a bonus, the house smells lovely.I will happily make this granola every Saturday – I actually think I mayContinue reading “Homemade Granola”
Green and White Vegetable Risotto
Here is an easy risotto recipe with four green and white vegetables that you can chop (excuse the pun) and change to make six different vegetarian risotto versions. The photos show my cauliflower + asparagus, and broccoli + pea risottos. Think of the risotto as a base to which you add two vegetables and eachContinue reading “Green and White Vegetable Risotto”
Easy vegetarian pizza
Are you looking for a quick and easy home made pizza? Full of flavor but low on effort? You got it! You won’t have to make pizza dough, nor do you use a store bought pizza base. No, you’ll use naan bread! Coriander and garlic naan bread is absolutely delicious as a pizza base. RegularContinue reading “Easy vegetarian pizza”
Brown rice and vegetables with blue cheese stuffed mushrooms
Mushrooms and cheese go together. Blue cheese and sage go together. Mushrooms stuffed with blue cheese and sage would therefor go together. And it does. Oh boy, it does! The blue cheese stuffing is super easy to make. It’s just blue cheese, fresh sage, breadcrumbs and a bit of milk. Easy. Just one word ofContinue reading “Brown rice and vegetables with blue cheese stuffed mushrooms”
Parmigiana with Ricotta and easy bruchetta
We’re going Italian with today’s vegetarian recipe. No pasta or meat in sight, but it definitely has an Italian feel to it. Especially if you say it like this: Par-mi-gi-aaaaana *fingertips of right hand bunched together while hand is waving up and down* Right? It’s Italian! My Parmigiana is made up of layers of slicedContinue reading “Parmigiana with Ricotta and easy bruchetta”
Big Crunchy Salad with honey lemon dressing
Purple, green, salty, sweet, tangy and very crunchy. That’s the Big Crunchy Salad! I almost don’t want to write out a recipe for it because it’s so easy to put together. You’ll be mixing chickpeas, courgette, baby spinach, red cabbage and feta cheese with brown rice. In my case, I used a packet of SeedsContinue reading “Big Crunchy Salad with honey lemon dressing”
Beautiful Yellow Butternut, Couscous and Veggies
Totally out of the blue, I’ve developed a love of yellow. The strange thing is, I never used to love yellow – in fact I actively avoided it, but now yellow is all I see! I recently bought mustard yellow shoes (it’s a amazing how much wear you can get out of a pair ofContinue reading “Beautiful Yellow Butternut, Couscous and Veggies”
Colourful Edamame Spaghetti Stir-fry with Tahini dressing
For me, bright colours equal happiness. Red + Yellow + Green = Smiling Natasja. Would it then come as a surprise that this bowl of mange tout, baby corn and red pepper on a bed of light green edamame spaghetti is my culinary happy place? I mean look at it! It’s as if someone toldContinue reading “Colourful Edamame Spaghetti Stir-fry with Tahini dressing”
What do you mean there are different types of cinnamon?
Cinnamon is cinnamon. Right? Just like nutmeg is nutmeg and rosemary is rosemary. Nope, it’s not. Cinnamon comes from the Cinnamomum Zeylanicum plant commonly referred to as “Ceylon cinnamon” or from the Cinnamomum Cassia / Cinnamomum Loureiroi / Cinnamomum Burmannii plants commonly referred to as “Cassia cinnamon”. It’s grown in Sri Lanka (formerly known asContinue reading “What do you mean there are different types of cinnamon?”
Quinoa with Roasted Sweet Potato and Red Onion
Looking for a healthy balanced vegetarian dish that only uses three main ingredients, one of which is a Superfood? Well, here you go: quinoa, sweet potato and red onion salad. The recipe is inspired by Deliciously Ella’s Quinoa, Raisin and Sweet Potato Salad. She uses fennel and as the title suggests, includes raisins. I didn’tContinue reading “Quinoa with Roasted Sweet Potato and Red Onion”