As promised in my previous article, Lettuce: Health Benefits of the Mighty Iceberg, here’s my recipe. It took some working out and imagination, but I made the cake a couple of days ago, and I’m pleased with the outcome. I’ve used the lettuce, really, just to give the cake lightness and hint of green sweetness. …
Recipe: Lettuce Cake (with Fruit, Spices and Cashews) Read More »
Some of you who don’t live in the UK might wonder why I’m writing about this leafy vegetable, but, for UK residents, it will be different. Mention a lettuce and invariably one image will come to mind – our erstwhile Prime Minister, Liz Truss, and an iceberg lettuce. The caption said ‘Can Liz Truss outlast …
Nigeria is blessed with so many unique cultures, from how they speak, dance, and even dress, to how they eat. Their unique style and sense of cooking is something you will find very interesting, from their swallows to their chewed foods. Although there is a lot of food you can try, let’s take a look …
This post is the third in the ‘Grow Your Own Nutrition’ series. In this series, I’m looking at ways to grow useful amounts of fruit and vegetables on a small vegetable plot, around 20 square meters. In Grow Your Own Nutrition 3, I’m considering the annual crops you can plant and grow. That means plants …
Coconut oil is obtained from the nut (fruit) of the coconut palm. It contains medium-chain fatty acids, including capric acid, caprylic acid, and lauric acid. About 52% to 85% of coconut oil is made up of saturated fats, also called medium-chain acids. Coconut oil is arguably one of the most popular and recommended oils, either …
Five Nutritional And Non Nutritional Benefits of Coconut Oil Read More »
Here is my Recipe: Vegan Apple, Sultana and Ginger Crumble. Instead of butter, I’ve used coconut oil. It gives the crumble a slight coconut flavour and a lovely creamy texture. The apples are from a neighbour’s tree, abundant this year with a heavy crop. They are sweet, eating apples but Bramley cooking apples would be …
Here are Five Tips to Ease the Symptoms of a Cold, something I feel I could do with at the moment. For almost three years, I’ve avoided the common cold virus. Since the first lockdown in the UK, in March 2020, I’ve kept my distance from people. For a long time, we were all wearing …
This really is a very low fat cake. The title Recipe: Very Healthy Raisin, Lemon and Honey Cake is an accurate description for this delicious teatime treat. It’s the next stage in my experiment with cake making to produce a cake that is perfectly palatable but with far fewer ingredients that can be detrimental to your …
In the second part of the ‘Grow Your Own Nutrition’ series, we look at hown to use a small plot to grwo perennial crops, including dwarf fruit trees, currant bushes, asparagus, rhubarb, artichokes and berries.
This healthier lower fat Sultana and Lemon cake is adapted from my Passionfruit Cake recipe that I posted a few weeks ago. Although delicious, I appreciate that it’s not at all healthy. With 250 grams of butter, the cake is high in saturated fat and this isn’t good. So, with this in mind, I’ve reduced …