Inflammation is an essential part of our innate immunity for infection control, where acutely it can be beneficial in helping us heal from trauma. We experience this kind of inflammation as PRISH – Pain, Redness, Immobility, Swelling and Heat. To illustrate, imagine having the flu accompanied by a sore throat. It may hurt to swallow (pain, immobility) and your tonsils …
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 Blender Party as I can’t …
Steamed Vegetable Dumplings
I have a great boyfriend. Only he would go out the day of a dinner party and buy me a bamboo steamer at the last minute to make dumplings. He’s such a good sport putting up with my every food whim! I’m so appreciative that he did though, because my first attempt at steamed dumplings (and actually at dumplings in …