Quickest, Easiest, Healthiest meal of the week

Mackerel & Avocado pate: It really doesn’t get any quicker or easier: (enough for one, but make more and keep in the fridge)
• fillet of smoked or grilled mackerel
• half an avocado
• dash of good olive oil
•tablespoon of fresh grated horseradish root (you can use horseradish sauce, or if none available, just double the miso [...]

Salmon Stir Fry

For one generous serving:
• Soak tablespoon of seaweed (Hijike or Arame) in water for 10 minutes.
• Slice salmon (wild, sustainable please!) fillet into strips and sauté gently in juice of one lemon for a couple of minutes
• Chop vegetables into small sticks: 1 small carrot, ½ courgette, 3 small broccoli florets & stalk, ½ onion, 1 leek, 1 [...]

Healthy Christmas food

Falling asleep in front of the telly, feeling bloated and generally over-indulged after Christmas dinner is never a good look (or feel for that matter). Equally, it’s no fun to have to say no to everything that’s on offer. Here is something I’ve just written for the latest Jiva newsletter, it will give you some [...]

Carrot and banana gluten-free muffins

This is a delicious recipe for gluten free muffins. There are no added or refined sugars, the sweetness is all natural, from the dates and banana. Made with almond flour, they are naturally gluten free, but without any of the dryness that you can sometimes find with gluten free foods. They contain some good protein, [...]

Healthy Recipe websites

Here are a couple of good websites for healthy recipes, i haven’t tried them all out….but am working through it!
The first one is from the World Cancer Research Fund, and has some really tasty sounding, well balanced ideas;
This second is Fat Free Vegan; again, lots of tasty and healthy ideas and seems to be updated [...]

More vegetables please

A research study published earlier this year showed that high intakes of processed and red meat increases mortality rates and risk of diseases such as cancer and cardiovascular disease. Meat can be a healthy food, but it’s all about balance, and generally, people tend to eat more meat than is healthy and in particular, lots [...]

Good Fish Dish part 2

I made this last week for my mate Jules. It’s simple (I don’t really do difficult dishes) and she said it was delicious! I used SeaBass, which is on the MSC fish to eat list , but you could also use Mackerel fillets, Alaskan line-caught Salmon or Pollack. What you need, (as well as the [...]

Good fish dish

I saw the End of the Line on Sunday, the new documentary about the state of our seas. We’ve been over fishing and generally not looking after the oceans for too many years now and the estimates are that we will run out of fish by 2048. Certain fish we’re used to seeing on the [...]

Asparagus Nori Wraps

Asparagus is in season tasting as delicious as ever and ridiculously healthy and nutritious! For a vegetable they have a pretty good protein score and are a good source of fibre. Asparagus is high in vitamin K, vitamin A, folic acid and iron, lots of things that we nutritional therapists encourage you to eat. I’ve [...]