I’m a lover of the discarded, unloved greens of everyday vegetables. Carrot tops? I make a mean carrot-top pesto. Beet leaves? Try my Whole Beet Juice with Apple, Celery & Ginger. Celery leaves? Don’t you dare throw those out – they’re delicious! I’ve already extolled the health benefits of celery leaves when I pleaded with… Continue reading Whole Celery, Potato and Chickpea Soup
Category: Vegetarian
Super Berry Protein Shake
My sincere apologies for the cancellation of last week’s Blender Party everyone. For reasons out of my control I wasn’t going to be able to fully manage the party last week and felt it was best to give you all my full attention this week instead. Without further ado, lets light up the sparklers and… Continue reading Super Berry Protein Shake
Figgy Raw Hot Chocolate Smoothie (in the Blender)
It’s week seventeen of the Weekend Wholefood Blender Party and we’ve shared many a smoothie, juice, vitamin water, tea and hot chocolate… you guys are awesome! There’s been a few hot chocolate recipes over the past few weeks that have been piquing my interest, and this week I’m attempting one of my own with the… Continue reading Figgy Raw Hot Chocolate Smoothie (in the Blender)
Spicy Fermented Plum Sauce
What do you generally use to get your ferments going? Whey is one of those fermentation starters that I never seem to have on hand. I don’t tend to strain my yoghurt or milk kefir to make it thicker and therefore often use a brine to get my cultured foods started. It’s a bit slower than… Continue reading Spicy Fermented Plum Sauce
Purple Power Juice with Kale
There’s suddenly 5 mouths to feed in this house now, as we adopted a Chihuahua x Jack Russell puppy on the weekend. This might explain why noone outside of work has heard ‘boo’ from me this week. While there hasn’t been any recipe posts this week, the show will go on with the Weekend Wholefood… Continue reading Purple Power Juice with Kale
Antiinflammatory Kiwi Juice Tonic
I’m so ready for this weekend, it’s been a terrible week for me! I’ve been running on very little sleep due to a few late night occurrences (including a snoring boyfriend, a barking dog and a car crash outside our house one night) and this weekend is hopefully going to be a restorative one. As… Continue reading Antiinflammatory Kiwi Juice Tonic