Kale is a superfood that anyone can grow.  I’m pretty sure I’ve seen this leafy plant as a decoration in outdoor planters.  Basically if you have a square foot of space you can plant a few kale seeds and end up with an amazingly versatile food. Kale can be sauteed, eaten raw (it can be bitter if the leaves are large) and in our house baked.  My kids love eating these green crunchy chips.  This time I made them on our BBQ while making sausages. Ingredients: – a bunch of kale (7 or 8 leaves) – garlic powder – small [...]

Do you ever feel inundated with information, rumours and thoughts that challenge the norm?

Since having read “Food Rules: An Eater’s Manualby Micheal Pollan”, watching Food Inc., and actively reading the Healthy Hippie Magazine (http://www.healthyhippie.net); {As if I actually need more information about yoga and yogurt}, I have been driving myself and my husband crazy. The debates, considerations, and wild discussions are endless: the merits of GMO (genetic modified organisms) vs clean foods and sustainable vs mass produced food to feed large amounts of people in a high population dense area, and the negative effects of plastic on our food.

Do you want to indulge without the guilt? Here is my version of the classic apple crumble. It uses up your leftover quinoa and is sweetened with coconut sap sugar, which has a glycemic index of 35!. You don’t get much healthier than this when it comes to desert. Now if you really want to boost up the health-0-meter add in some toasted almonds or walnuts to the crunch topping. If you are like my husband and can’t eat apple crumble without the vanilla ice cream, well rest assured that you have saved yourself loads of fat and sugar in the crumble so go ahead and treat yourself to some vanilla frozen yogurt! It’s a great swap and keeps you eating healthy comfort food!

While walking the streets of Asia in cities where street food is part of the culture, you will be surrounded by a myriad of different smells.  One of my favourites is the sweet oily smell of pancake batter cooking on the grill.  Served with an assortment of condiments like bananas, condensed milk, or coconut, it is one tasty treat. My love of street food in Asia and all things coconut has inspired me to make asian inspired pancakes with coconut flour and coconut milk, the healthy way. This recipe will appeal to those looking for gluten free and low carbohydrate [...]

We had company down last weekend and I decided we would make something we’ve never eaten before. This is what we came up with. The burger was MASSIVE, and I would recommend making 8 patties instead of 4, but the burgers were delicious… no doubt about that!

Well, my sister is down this weekend and we all love to bake and cook in the kitchen, so she decided to try her hand at these protein packed bownies. There are some rather interesting ingredients in this mix, but don’t be put off, these are still ridiculously tasty and chocolatey!

I was hankering for some Caribbean inspired eats last weekend, so I decided to whip this up. This is another of my completely random and 100% unique creations, and I must say it turned out fabulously! Marinating the fish for 24 hours allowed the simple and refreshing flavours to thoroughly burrow themselves into the fish. Add to that some lovely Mango salsa and you’ve got just the thing for a healthy meal.

With a few old bananas kicking around and some frozen berries, we searched high and low for a simple muffin recipe to suit our needs and this is the one that won! The muffins were the tastiest and most moist muffins we’ve ever had, let’s just say they didn’t last very long!