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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

by Michelle on August 2, 2010

Red Grapfeuit Quinoa and Chicken Salad

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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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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Baked Eggplant Chips with Tahini, Lemon and Honey Dip

How did this recipe come about? Well I was thinking about how well the cauliflower like fries turned out and I wanted to make a similar but spicy recipe, and so I saw an eggplant and “I thought yes eggplant chips”! And so eggplant chips were born! I do have say to that I love [...]

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Pumpkin & Coconut Pie (Gluten Free, Dairy Free)

Okay I have to say this may not be exactly like a traditional pumpkin pie, it’s maybe more like a tart.. but what ever it is, it tastes really good. It also is gluten free and dairy free.  It is nicely spiced and has a delicious creaminess due to the coconut milk and the base [...]

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Creamy Hot Carob & Coconut Drink

Lately I’ve been craving a creamy hot choc-type drink. But I wanted to make a dairy-free version (as sometimes I like to use ‘alternative’ milks, to get more variety in my diet) and I was planning to have this at night that meant I didn’t want to have something that would prevent me from sleeping (ie. caffeine) so I [...]

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