Miso Tahini Sauce and Thai Basil Pesto

What is buzzing and humming food? (plus an idea to make those times when you need to get a quick meal or snack easier)

I am rehasing an old blog post here, one that I know many of you missed so thought to run this idea past you.

Do you prefer buzzing food or humming food?

What is this you may ask?

It is something my partner and I talked about years ago, it was his analogy. When I stopped eating dairy this year I really understood what we had been talking about.

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Spicy Tahini Dressing

How I Became Inspired Again to Write Weekly Blogs (plus monthly recipe review - My New Roots)

As many of you know I have focused my time and attention this year on creating The Vegan Cooking School. Establishing a wonderful training for people wanting to become vegan chefs or those who want to adopt a more healthy lifestyle.

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Nut Balls with Tahini Coconut Yoghurt Sauce

Could you go without meat for a week? Go on give it a go.

How long can you go without eating meat?

Can you go a week without eating meat- this week is your chance to give it a go. The 23rd of March to the 29th of March is Meat free week- an initiative set up in 2013

What is meat free week?

Meat free week is an opportunity t,o as a collective give up meat for a week-

Why give up meat for a week?

Three very simple and profound reasons

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Brazil Nut Hummus

A great way to make organic food cheap

I am baffled when people tell me they would eat organic food if it were cheaper. I buy organic lettuce from my farmers market for the exact same price as I would if I bought a lettuce from the super market. My farmers market lettuce is a bit smaller but it definitely is more filling and it lasts much longer in the fridge.

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Basic tomato sauce for spaghetti or spiralised zucchini

Catering for everyone's individual dietary requirements is actually easy- believe me

Something that comes easily in the kitchen for me is catering for everyone's individual dietary requirements. Through this very simple recipe I show you how.

My partner wanted spaghetti for dinner with a good cream sauce, he is gluten free.

I am presently trying to regulate my blood sugar levels so didn't want carbohydrates for dinner nor did I want a cream sauce.

I also wanted kale he didn't,  he wanted mushrooms.

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Raw Zucchini and Carrot Noodles with an Unnamed Sauce

Did you know that peanuts aren't actually nuts? (plus a great alternative recipe to peanut sauce)

Peanuts were the first "nut' I ever ate, by the handful smothered in salt feeling happy to be eating them as well as feeling guilty that I couldn't share them with my brother. As a child my brother was highly allergic to peanuts. I loved them when I was young but for a few decades now have stayed away from them completely. The last time I ate them I became incredibly bloated and wondered if I was developing an allergy.

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Delicious Meals for People with Diabetes (that the whole family will love)

A few months ago  I found out it was National Diabetics week and I regretted not knowing about it so I could have posted a blog that week. Weeks and weeks later I am still determined to get a blog post out to you as it is a subject close to home. My father has type two diabetes and even though he has had it for more than twenty years I am only just beginning to understand what Diabetes is.

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Christmas Ideas and Healthy alternatives for Eating Salmon

This is an extra blog post this week to give you some wonderful ideas for Christmas and keep you from reaching for a packet salmon. I am not entirely sure why but in the last few weeks it has been bought to my attention how much salmon is being consumed these days.This led me to look into why people are eating salmon and how it is farmed. Alarmingly salmon is grown with very few ethics and in my opinion eating a piece of salmon is no different from eating caged eggs. Many people are under the illusion that salmon grown in Tasmania is ecologically sound and free of antibiotics but a few studies show that this is often not the case. You can check out some information in the following article.

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Iron Rich Foods and Steamed Veg with Raisin Dressing

I woke up yesterday with this bright idea to write one complete blog post on Iron but realised I have too much information to share in one post. So I will take time to write blog posts over the next months getting as much information as I can to you on obtaining enough iron.  I started to write some information about the different types of iron and gave myself a headache so for this blog post I will make it really easy by giving you a quick spiel, a list of iron rich foods, a list of foods that help the body absorb the iron and a list of foods that inhibit the absorption of iron.

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Preservative Free cooking 2 & Three Dips

The other week catering on a yoga teacher training, two plumbers rocked up to the kitchen I was cooking in and put in a dishwasher. As one of them was installing the dishwasher the other was fascinated in the food I was cooking and was quizzing me on the spices I was putting together. I was making a Vietnamese style curry from scratch and he asked me if I was using brown rice. He was happy that I was and proceeded to tell me about his mate who was a vet.

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