balls of tasty love
Find it hard to digest wheat and dairy, but don’t want to miss out on delicious treats?
Never fear, my recipes are always gluten free and cow’s dairy free.
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Creamy dairy-free, gluten-free risotto and arancini balls
Recipes
Warm roast veg salad with caramelised walnuts
colour, flavour and nutrition
Gluten free, cow’s dairy free and full of good fats
This warming and delicious dish in packed with monounsaturated fats in the avocado-tahini dressing, essential for all our cells to function properly, and medium-chain fatty acids in the coconut oil, which we easily converted to energy. Eating good fats also allows us to absorb our fat-soluble vitamins A, D, E and K, which help us see better, have glowing skin and healthy bones and balance our hormones. Pretty important stuff, right?
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Cheesy vegetable muffins
Tasty, food-intolerance friendly and healthy muffins
A staple in our house! Tasty, easy and you can cram some extra veg into your kids – perfect!
Use whatever veggies you like, but works well with a combo of root veggies and something green, like zucchini or bok choy….
Simple pumpkin soup from scratch (with bone broth)
Pumpkin soup is such a hearty, warming dish that’s perfect for cold and rainy winter days. And it is so easy! Just chop up your pumpkin and cover with stock – simmer and it’s ready!
These days we hear all about the benefits of bone broth – it’s gut healing, and full of minerals like calcium, magnesium and potassium, which are essential for our wellbeing. My homemade bone broth is quick and easy and uses up leftover bones from Sunday night’s roast chicken dinner. Win win.
This pumpkin soup with garlic and leek, and homemade chicken bone broth, is ideal for anyone with intolerances (as commercial stocks are really high in food chemicals salicylates, amines and glutamates).
I’ve served it with my coriander pesto, and a dollop of sheep’s yoghurt (but coconut yoghurt would be delicious too). Oh and your bread of choice on the side, of course. I had homemade gluten free slathered in coconut oil (dairy free)! You can make this all on the same day, you just need a few hours, or for even more goodness in your bone broth, make it overnight and start the soup the next day.
…Coriander pesto
This is a delicious dip that I have in the fridge all the time. It has the added benefit of helping your body rid itself of heavy metals (so great if you’re a smoker, or were in the past, or have amalgam fillings).
And of course, it’s super easy, gluten free and dairy free!
Ingredients
1 bunch of coriander, washed and roughly chopped or pulled apart
large handful of cashews
1 clove garlic, roughly chopped
1/2 tsp apple cider vinegar
1/2 tsp salt (or more to taste)
approx. 1/3 cup extra virgin olive oil (you choose desired consistency)
Method
Throw coriander, garlic and cashews into the food processor and blitz. Stop and scrape down the sides when needed to ensure its all finely chopped before adding wet ingredients. Then add vinegar (to ensure it stays lovely and green), salt and turn it back on, drizzling olive oil in gradually until desired consistency – not too runny but not too solid.
I love this as a dip with carrot sticks and rice crackers, with hummus on toast or dolloped in pumpkin soup.
Gluten free bread (that holds together and is healthy too!)
Homemade bread can be so nutritious, is easy once you get the hang of it and worth the extra time
Easy, delicious, nutritious, gluten free bread. This one is not my own recipe – all credit goes to The Holistic Ingredient – but I make it every week and it’s just awesome.
Use a gluten free flour mix if you’re just starting out and don’t have all these flours. But I find the combination of buckwheat, sorghum and tapioca works really well. Enjoy!
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Feel the lurgy coming on? Fight it off with this delicious, immune boosting chicken soup
immune boosting chicken soup from scratch
How’s everyone going with all these nasty viruses going around? I know my family have all copped it, especially me! I usually don’t catch colds and flus, but had to take two aggressive antibiotics earlier this year and ever since, my immune system has been shot and I’ve caught everything going. Being a nutritionist, I prefer not to take antibiotics but when you have a parasite, sometimes there isn’t an effective alternative.
So, to boost my immune system and prevent me from getting anymore nasty lurgies (while helping me to recover from this latest one), I’m getting into this delicious and nutritious wholefood chicken soup. And it’s SO easy, the only way I’ll do it! Oh, and it’s also anti-inflammatory and good for your aching muscles and joints. Here’s the recipe…
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Banana bread can be healthy too! Hello flaxmeal. Welcome buckwheat.
Mmmm tasty and healthy!
Just a delicious recipe today – buckwheat banana bread with flaxmeal. Perfect for morning tea, or anytime and lovely for the whole family. Gluten and dairy free, not too sweet and packed full of healthy fibre and lignans – a phytoestrogen (fancy name for plant oestrogen) that balances your hormones. Perfect for anyone with PMS, hot flushes or breast cancer risk. Enjoy!
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To hide or not to hide… veggies, that is. And a tasty intolerance-friendly chicken dinner
hidden green leafy veggies = happy parents, heathy kids
Are there any kids out there who just love veggies more than pasta or fruit or biccies? I mean, veggies can be yummy, the way we adults do them, with lots of added flavour and spices, but kids don’t always like them like that (or might be intolerant to the sauces and spices). So, do we hide them so they don’t know what they’re eating? Or do we serve them up plain and make the kids sit there until their plate is clean?
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