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Healthy immune boosting carrot and ginger soup

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Here’s a sunny, healthy soup for any season but more so for the cooler months. Make a double batch and freeze portions so you always have this immune boosting healthy soup at hand. You might like to add chilli, cayenne or more smoked paprika. Turmeric is a renowned ingredient of traditional oriental medicine and used as a stomach tonic and blood purifier, and for a variety of skin conditions and minor injuries. Today, turmeric is considered potentially beneficial for use in connection with … [Read more...] about Healthy immune boosting carrot and ginger soup

Le Cordon Bleu Plant-Based Diets: Nutrition & Wellness Course

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Pots cooking? Well, let me tell you that our Le Cordon Bleu Online Learning is now accepting enrolments for our online course ‘Plant-Based Diets: Nutrition & Wellness’. Over the course of 10 weeks, you will explore the merits of plant-based diets and develop an enhanced awareness of well-balanced, nutritional plant-based dishes, and menus. Click here for details on included topics, your instructor (that’s me!) - and the certificate you will receive upon successful completion. So if you … [Read more...] about Le Cordon Bleu Plant-Based Diets: Nutrition & Wellness Course

Jamon Serrano entertaining plate

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Here's an easy yet super stylish way to enjoy Jamon Serrano, perfect for after-work drinks or as a weekend entertainer. Jamon Serrano reproduces the traditional Spanish ham method that has been used throughout the centuries by the Serrano Ham experts. It is available in Australia behind the deli counter at major supermarkets. Follow our fabulous Consorcio Serrano on Facebook & Instagram https://www.foodhealthwealth.com/studio-10-figs/ … [Read more...] about Jamon Serrano entertaining plate

Cheesy baked macaroni with Jamon Serrano

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Who doesn't love a jolly good dose of cheesy macaroni?! Made even better with Jamon Serrano. Jamon Serrano reproduces the traditional Spanish ham method that has been used throughout the centuries by the Serrano Ham experts. It is available in Australia behind the deli counter at major supermarkets. Follow our fabulous Consorcio Serrano on Facebook & Instagram http://foodhealthwealth.com/serrano-peas-mozzarella/ … [Read more...] about Cheesy baked macaroni with Jamon Serrano

Teriyaki tofu with seaweed, sesame, ginger salad

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Tofu usually gets such a bad rap. Essentially I reckon it's a plant-based canvas to soak up a good sauce so that's why this version of teriyaki works such a treat. Enjoy this recipe with the added bonus of my umami-rich seaweed vegetables. Most cooks strive to achieve the umami flavour, which is usually a bit yeasty, salty or ‘funky’ and complements the food categories of taste – bitter, sweet, sour and salty. It is the flavour of glutamate, that savoury, moreish flavour associated monosodium … [Read more...] about Teriyaki tofu with seaweed, sesame, ginger salad

Vitamin G

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The indigo sunrise illuminates the eastern sky heralding its imminent arrival. To the west, a loved-up, rather rowdy, koala couple are ensuring the continuation of their species. Above, the kookaburra cackle kick starts my consciousness, and on the sun-kissed, grassy knoll the Qi Gong practice unfolds as well-fed wallabies scatter in response to human footfall. It’s a new dawn, it’s a new day of life at Gwinganna. Steeped in anticipation, uncertainty, a tablespoon of trepidation and a … [Read more...] about Vitamin G

The Cortisol Connection

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In the era of the quick fix and outsourcing our dilemmas to experts, perhaps it is time to embrace a little on-site repair and rebuilding at head office. Truly, it is a labour of love that takes time and cannot be hurried, for it has taken a lifetime for the body to degenerate into that stressed and short-fused state that most of us know and neglect. Remember that there is a self-healing expert in all of us just waiting to get out and live! Clarity of brain function and unlimited energy … [Read more...] about The Cortisol Connection

How to make Australia Day Gluten Free Lamingtons

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Margaret Fulton - who is our grand dame of cuisine Down Under - reckons that this popular Australian cake was thought to have first been made for a tea party for Lord Lamington, who served as Governor of Queensland from 1896 to 1901. Over the years Margaret judged a lot of lamington competitions and they seemed to be getting bigger and bigger. The lamingtons she was most familiar with were always small and dainty. Years ago she appeared on a television show with Barry Humphries and made some … [Read more...] about How to make Australia Day Gluten Free Lamingtons

Recalculate Your Plate with Karen & Tom

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Hands up if you've ever asked out loud "Hey Siri, what's for dinner?" If your hand went up, I bet Siri didn't reply "Roasted cauliflower steaks with Thomas hommus and rocket"! That is unless you asked the original Aussie voice of ’Siri’, Karen Jacobsen, a gorgeous gal from Mackay, Queensland, Australia, who's been telling people where to go for quite some time. While hers is the voice of reason we can trust, did you know that through her songs, concert performances, and speaking presentations, … [Read more...] about Recalculate Your Plate with Karen & Tom

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