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Salad Days: Stinging Nettles: The Weed with Bite!

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Sunday, July 15, 2012. Stinging Nettles: The Weed with Bite! I have fond memories of a childhood summer spent in a tiny Croatian village, running through grassy fields and occasionally, and oh so painfully, encountering a patch of stinging nettles. More commonly referred to as the ‘scorpion of the weed world’*, I never would have imagined that nettles ( Urtica dioica). Would come to one day play such a major role in my daily diet. The benefits of nettles also include:. As a female tonic, particularly eff...

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Salad Days: November 2012

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Sunday, November 18, 2012. Jam dotted blueberry, banana and walnut muffins. When the post-dinner cake cravings kick in, and you've not a crumb in the kitchen, turn to muffins. Easily made with a handful of ingredients gathered from various corners in your kitchen, mixed in minutes and baked in just a touch more and, being sugar free and based on wholegrain flours, relatively good for you (well, relative to the triple triple triple chocolate fudge cake that you could be having instead! 15 tsp baking powder.

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Salad Days: May 2013

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Monday, May 20, 2013. Warming winter miso broth aka "ghetto soup". When I first moved out of home, as a wee little tacker, I had no idea how to cook. You see, my mother never trusted me to not burn the house down, so I was unofficially banned from the kitchen up until I had my own to mess about in. Not so) Ghetto Soup. 1 yellow onion, diced. 1 tsp coconut oil. 1/2 salt reduced, vegetarian stock cube (I like Rapunzel or Massell brands). 1 thumbnail sized piece of ginger, minced. 3 gloves garlic, minced.

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Salad Days: jam dotted blueberry, banana and walnut muffins

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Sunday, November 18, 2012. Jam dotted blueberry, banana and walnut muffins. When the post-dinner cake cravings kick in, and you've not a crumb in the kitchen, turn to muffins. Easily made with a handful of ingredients gathered from various corners in your kitchen, mixed in minutes and baked in just a touch more and, being sugar free and based on wholegrain flours, relatively good for you (well, relative to the triple triple triple chocolate fudge cake that you could be having instead! 15 tsp baking powder.

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Salad Days: January 2013

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Saturday, January 19, 2013. Food people feed me: chin chin. As much as I love to knock about in my beloved but hilariously unweildy kitchen (I'm fairly certain it was designed for a 4 foot nothing Italian grandmother circa 1960 something - all low tabletops, linoleum in varying shades of brown and cupboards that refuse to just. stay. shut), I also adore chucking on a dress, running a brush through my (equally unweildy) hair and dining out! Up first is Chin Chin, located on Flinders Lane in Melbourne's CBD.

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Salad Days: September 2012

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Thursday, September 20, 2012. Tastes a little like spring and also like autumn, a delicious seasonal crossover! This morning that fate was met. Post pump class, I needed to reward myself for my first ever on toes push ups (I did eight during Pump class and then four at home to show Lachie how brilliant/tough I am). This was the said reward. 3/4 of a cup steamed pumpkin (no skin). 1/2 of a frozen banana. 3 big leaves of bok choy. 1/2 scoop of Sunwarrior vanilla protein powder. 1 teaspoon of cinnamon.

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Salad Days: anything goes quinoa congee

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Thursday, November 15, 2012. Anything goes quinoa congee. I have a revolving collection of "go to" meals - stuff I make when I cant be stuffed/am too impoverished to buy new supplies and gotta use what I got, something I know will taste good without having to use three hundred ingredients and every burner on the stove, a meal that wont require me to use my brain and simply whip itself up in under half an hour whilst my mind is an autopilot. 1 onion (I used a yellow onion). 1 tsp coconut oil/sesame oil.

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Salad Days: raw carrot cake with cashew "cream cheese" frosting

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Thursday, March 7, 2013. Raw carrot cake with cashew "cream cheese" frosting. I had a buddy 'round the other day who is equally as food-crazed as I am, and we had quite a time playing with my Thermomix and inventing new, unexplored combinations of green smoothies; additionally, we delved into the sometimes risky world of raw desserts and (un)cooked up this winner! The recipe is one I found and adapted slightly on The Sweet Life. Raw Carrot Cake with Cashew Cream Cheese Frosting. 1 cup pitted dates, soaked.