March 2012
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Yes, you can eat pizza
Ingredients: Chickpea flour, homemade tomato paste, olives, parma ham, red onions and buffalo mozzarella
So here’s The How!
The base for this pizza is a super easy one stop skillet flat bread made from chickpea flour and not much else! A popular street food known as Farinata in Italy and Socca in France.
The recipes vary slightly but I usually go equal parts water to chickpea...
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Sugar passes easily into the blood, quickly releasing energy and raising the blood sugar level. The body responds as if under attack - by secreting more insulin from the pancreas and more cortisol from the adrenal glands - a classic fight or flight response. In time the body’s stress response mechanism wears out depressing your immune system and leaving...
“When chickens get to live like chickens, they’ll taste like chickens, too.”
– Michael Pollan, The Omnivore’s Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals
The secret is in the broth
Why does every culture have a healing soup made of bone broth?
Why do we instinctively think of soup, specifically chicken soup, when we are run down and ill?
At work, we cook as much as possible with homemade bone broths - we use it for soups, stews, sauces and we cook our vegetables and quinoa, millet and buckwheat in it. Bone broth, aka stock, is one of the most delicious and nutrient dense...
“Good broth will resurrect the dead.”
– South American proverb
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Buy the best food you can
EAT THE BEST YOU CAN
Eat organic as much as possible and only eat organic meat and eggs (a label of “free range” without stating “organic” does not amount to much). Non-organic animals in factory farms are fed an unnatural diet of genetically modified soybeans and corn and heavily sprayed with pesticides. These animals are fed on antibiotics and hormones to speed up...
“Don’t drink like a fish when you are eating or you’ll dilute your...”
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Proper muesli
We make our own muesli for the mere fact that we cannot find a brand out there that is not filled with fillers. Oats may be better for you than wheat, but it is still difficult for your body to digest and is always processed. Our muesli is free from oats or any other cheap bulking ingredients. We use pre-soaked, organic nuts, seeds and pseudo-cereals (such as buckwheat puffs and quinoa...
“Sleep is when your body utilizes the good things you did for it and gets rid of...”
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Butternut bread
A lightly spiced bread, delicious warmed and spread with butter or topped with cheese or enjoyed as is with a cup of tea.
Use organic ingredients where possible
120g of almond flour (GROUND almonds)
350g of roughly mashed roasted butternut squash (cut in butternut in half and roast at 200C for 20-30 mins until soft then mash)
1.5 tablespoon ground cinnamon
1 teaspoon ground nutmeg
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Spring lunch
Creamed smoked mackerel and creme fraiche with some cheeky crab claws on the side
Butter braised carrots, red onions and fennel and a classic side salad
Maggie (our cat)
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Ginger
GRATE AND BREW
Why ginger is so good for us
An all rounder - anti-oxidant, anti-bacterial, anti-viral, anti-inflammatory
A nausea beater so great for hangovers
Calms cramps
It’s so zingy it kills your cravings
Relieves gas and bloating and helps stop diarrhea
Boosts digestion
Relieves headaches
It’s invigorating and warming and gets your circulation going
Soothes cold and...
“Don’t eat anything your great-grandmother wouldn’t recognize as...”
– Michael Pollan
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Keep this in mind
Knowledge is power – read labels on everything you buy to help you make the best choice of what goes in your body. There should be as few ingredients as possible and note that ingredients are listed in order of weight (highest to lowest). It’s not weird or obsessive to stand in a supermarket and read packaging - it’s a whole lot worse to blindly consume additives and genetically...
Do you know where your stomach is?
Your stomach
Where do you think your stomach is?
It’s probably higher than you’re thinking. And it’s smaller than you might think….really its just the size of 2 average fists together. And your stomach doesn’t have teeth so if you’re paying attention to what you eat, think about how much you’re eating and how you’re eating it.
Don’t overfill...
“To prevent fermentation in your gut AKA wind, don’t eat fruit after a...”
