Let food be thy medicine, and let medicine be thy food.
— Hippocrates

A few recipes from my cookbook

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Banana bread

Ingredients (egg, dairy and gluten free)

2 ripe mashed up bananas

2 flax eggs (1 flax egg = 1 rounded tbsp of ground flax seed+ roughly 2.5 level tbsps water)

100ml buckwheat flour

100 ml extra virgin olive oil

100 ml chopped nuts (walnuts are my fave)

1/4 tsp pink himmalayan salt

1/2 tbsp cinnamon

1/4 tsp bicarbonate soda

Method

1. Set the oven to 175C.

2. Mix all the ingredients together than pour it into a lined bread tin.

3. Bake for 40-50 minutes.

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Anti-inflammatory Immune booster shot

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Half a glass of freshly squeezed pineapple or apple juice

1 tbsp apple cider vinegar

1 thumb fresh turmeric

1 thumb of ginger root

1 tsp of cumin

1/4 tsp cayenne pepper

1 knife’s end of cloves

1 tsp freshly squeezed lemon juice

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Food preparation tip

Tip of the week!

Did you know that garlic is the no 1 anti-cancer veggie due to its combination of phytochemicals and organosulphur compounds, such as allicin?

Many people like to stay away from garlic as it is so stinky and causes bad breath, but the best thing you can do for your health is to surround yourself by other garlic lovers and forget about the smell . There is only one slight problem. Cooking garlic reduces its anti-cancer compounds greatly. So it is best consumed raw.

Tip of the week! If you like cooking with garlic, a great tip is to let it sit and air for 10 minutes after you chop it and before cooking it. This will preserve some of the anti-cancer compounds during the cooking process.

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Sweet potato & chickpea soup

Ingredients (3-4 portions)

2 tins or tetrapaks of chickpeas

2 sweet potatoes

2-3 garlic cloves

1 thumb of ginger

2 tin of coconut milk

5 dl water (more if you prefer your soup thinner)

Coconut oil for frying

1 tsp paprika,1 tsp cumin, cayenne pepper

salt/ black pepper for seasoning

roasted flaked almonds and pumkin seeds for topping

Method

1. Toast the almond flakes and pumpkin seeds in a pan

2. Cut the sweet potato into cubes and rinse the chickpeas

3. Peel and chop up the garlic and grate the ginger

4. Fry the potatoes, garlic and ginger in the spices. Add the chickpeas, coconut milk and water and let it simmer until the potatoes has softened

5. Season with salt and pepper

6. Mix the soup so it becomes smooth and lumpfree. Add more water if you like it thinner

7. Top the soup with the roasted nuts and seeds