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Healthy Desserts

Recipe: Green Spinach Pancakes!

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I know sometimes it can be hard to get greens in your diet, but here is another way to inspire you: Green Spinach Pancakes! These were born simply from my idea of wanting to make a green smoothie into a pancake! Oh, and for those spinach-haters, here is some good news: these pancakes don’t taste like spinach, they just taste like banana [...]

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Recipe: Mocha Brownie Cake with Caramel Date Sauce (Gluten Free, Dairy Free)

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Want something a little bit special but can’t eat gluten or dairy? Want a dessert that’s decadent but still healthy? Then you will love this recipe for Mocha Brownie Cake with Caramel Date Sauce! This dessert was made in mind for those who are intolerant to dairy and gluten, but still want something delicious and a great treat. [...]

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Recipe: Pink Dragon Fruit & Basil Sorbet

One way I keep my diet exciting is by including lots of brightly coloured fruits and veggies in my meals! The more (natural) colour you can get in your diet the more nutritious it is! Mother nature really gave us such a wonderful array of colours in our foods! Dragon Fruit How does it taste? It [...]

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Recipe: Chunky Monkey Banana Ice Cream

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Have you heard of “Banana Soft Serve” or ”one ingredient ice cream’? Well this recipe is an adaption from those ice cream recipes (which are both simply just frozen and blended bananas!).  This ice cream is really too good! And the main ingredient is Banana! I kid you not! Speaking of kids, I gave some [...]

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Fermented Buckwheat Pancakes with Biodynamic Currants & Cultured Butter

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Certain food preparations can help increase nutritional content of foods. Such food preparations include sprouting (see: sprouted wheat crepes, sprouted sunflower seeds, sprouted wheat cookies), soaking and fermenting (see: guest post on fermented foods, ) grains, nuts, seeds and legumes. These practices are all beneficial as they help to neutralize anti-nutrients as well as increase [...]

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Orange, Cacao, Coconut and Macadamia (Jaffa) Butter

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Want a delicious-yet healthy recipe alternative to sugar-laden conventional chocolate spreads? Well here is a chocolate spread for the health and taste conscious! It’s really easy to make and all you need is a food processor or if you don’t have one, you can substitute macadamia butter for macadamias (much easier to process to a [...]

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Quinoa Fruit Salad with Coconut-Passionfruit Cream

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A delicious fruit salad recipe with almonds, quinoa and coconut-passionfruit cream.

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Coconut Crème Brulée

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Welcome to magical deliciousness known as Coconut Crème Brulée. For this recipe I’ve used coconut cream instead of dairy cream- but it still has just the right amount of creaminess and is still really yummy! I love how crème brulée has a crunchy sugar layer and than smooth creamy custard underneath. It’s something everyone should try [...]

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Crystallized Ginger, Ginger Tea and Ginger-Honey Lollipops

Crystallized ginger is really yummy and so much better when it’s made with honey (rather than white sugar as it’s often made with). This homemade version also doesn’t contain preservatives. The process of making crystallized ginger produces three things: first ginger tea, then crystallized ginger and then with the left over honey you can make [...]

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How To Make Lemon Curd

What I love about making food with whole foods is that you can make healthier alternatives of foods you can buy at the shops. Why bother you ask? Well because making these alternatives can be so easy, healthier, cheaper (and so much tastier) than their unhealthy counterparts. Last week I made some decadent lemon curd [...]

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