Chestnuts Warning, these Poppy Chestnuts are addictive! Are chestnuts really nuts? The high content of carbohydrates and low content of fat in chestnuts set them apart from the other nuts, but they really are nuts 🙂 If you are on a Paleo diet and wish to have more carbohydrates, chestnut flour is the perfect ingredient to…
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Cannellini Soup Recipe
No wonder this long winter 2015 in Melbourne feels unusually cold. They say it is the coldest winter in 25 years, and I say it is long enough to exhaust all ideas for various soups. If you are one of us who might be feeling a desire for a simple and comforting soup, here I am…
Cucumber Sushi Recipe
Sushi with no rice. Delicious low carb meal that is easy to make however needs delicate ingredients. Worth it, really!
Vegan Muesli Bites Recipe
Barley vs Oats Barley and oats have a range of healthy cholesterol-lowering properties as was discussed in the Barley Risotto post. There is an important difference between barley and oats, it is that the oats are gluten free. Oats are gaining increasing scientific and public interest for their potential antioxidant-associated health benefits as well as anti-inflammatory…
Alkalising Soup
Alkaline Diet There has recently been so much interest in the PH impact from the food we consume that it generated just enough material for everyone on the Internet. Happy reading! The only important thing we need to remember is that to achieve a good balanced system in our body we need to eat  good food….
Duck Risotto
Duck Fat During the last few decades no fat was welcomed in our kitchens. Now we are coming back to a good fat. And chefs say the duck fat is one of the must-have ingredients. The duck fat is considered to be a good fat. The content of monounsaturated and polyunsaturated fat is high and…
Goat Curry in the Pumpkin Pot
This is just a great family meal for a winter weekend! Enjoy 🙂 Goat Curry
Chocolate Cheesecake
Cacao All chocolate lovers probably felt even happier when cacao was declared a super food. However, a chocolate and raw cacao are very different. The process of producing cacao powder involves cold-pressing raw cocoa beans to remove cacao butter before turning the product into cacao powder. So, how harmful is a high temperature for the…
Veal Aspic
This is just the healthiest protein dish.
Pearl Barley Risotto
If you like grains you will love pearl barley. This grain takes a well deserved place in the same rank with quinoa and buckwheat. Barley contains a good amount of protein that is comparable to the protein amount in quinoa and all legumes. Barley also has a very special soluble fibre. There was a study early this…
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