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Strawberry, Kale and Goat’s Feta Salad

by Michelle on September 5, 2010

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If you have trouble getting leafy greens into your diet, well here is a little trick to make your salad way more enjoyable: add some fruit! Adding fruit makes your salad a bit sweeter and can take the bitterness away from the dark leafy greens, it also tastes great and will make your salad really [...]

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Quinoa Fruit Salad with Coconut-Passionfruit Cream

by Michelle on August 15, 2010

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

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Red Grapefruit, Chicken and Quinoa Tabouli Salad

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A fresh and tasty Quinoa Tabouli recipe. It’s an enjoyable way to add Quinoa to your diet! This post also contains research on Quinoa.

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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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Sweet Breakfast Omelette (What To Eat When You Don’t Eat Toast)

sweet breakfast omelette with toasted nuts, honey and lemon curd. Ahh the sweet delicious breakfast omelette, sister to savoury omelette, and the healthier cousin to pancakes, crepes and toast! Low in carbohydrates and high in protein this is sure to satisfy all egg lovers (and hopefully convert a few!). This is definitely a recipe I [...]

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Spelt Banana Pikelets

spelt banana pikelets topped with raspberries and lemon curd For those that don’t know, I should explain what Pikelets are. They are a thicker yet smaller version of a pancake. Here’s another way to think of them- they are smaller than a “standard” sized pancake but larger than a Dutch pancake (Poffertjes). I like to [...]

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Veggie Noodle “Pasta” (Plus Two Sauce Recipes)

Did you know that you can make pasta and noodles  without any flour? It turns out you can! It’s also so easy to make this pasta and it’s without any kind of grain! All you need is root vegetables such as zucchini, daikon, parnsip  or carrots! This “pasta” recipe is also a fun way to [...]

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Prosciutto Bacon, Steamed Romanseco and Avocado Salad with Mustard Vinaigrette

I found this interesting alien-esk vegetable at the farmers market on Sunday from Peninsula Fresh Organics. This amazing green vegetable is actually called Romanesco Broccoli (it’s botanical name is broccolo romanesco), it’s related to cauliflower and it was supposedly documented in Italy as far back as the 16th century.

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Avocado, Tomato and Goats Cheese with Pumpkin Seeds on Rye & Linseed Bread

I love snacks that take seconds to make and are tasty and good for you too! This snack fits all of those criteria.  I’ve left quantities up to you so you  as this could be made into a snack or into more filling lunch. Avocado, Tomato and Goats Cheese with Pumpkin Seeds on Rye & [...]

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