Drinks
Fasting tea
This is a great tea to have while fasting or doing a cleanse. It helps ignite the digestive fire, digest up toxic residue (ama) and hydrates.
Drinks
Ginger tea
Fire up your digestion and help joint pain with this wonderfully warming ginger tea.
Main Course
Kichari (rice-mung stew)
Kichari, rice-mung stew (or porridge), is wonderfully light on digestion yet tasty and satisfying. It is often given to people who are ill or recovering from illness, like an Ayurvedic ‘chicken-soup’. If you’d like a follow along video to make this, here is me demonstrating how to make it at Read more
Dessert
Sugar free fruit flapjacks
These contain no refined sugar and just a tiny amount of maple/agave syrup, which can be omitted altogether if you’re being ultra sugar free! They are tasty and moreish though, not nearly as worthy as they sound.
Main Course
Saag-aloo-paneer (kale-potato-paneer curry)
I love saag aloo; that well known spinach (or kale) and potato curry. I also love saag paneer; substituting the potatoes for indian cheese. For a hearty, full meal, I thought why not combine them? The result, saag-aloo-paneer is delicious and of course, very nutritious, especially made with kale. If Read more
Drinks
Simple universally-liked green smoothie
Even the green-smoothie averse child likes this one! For how and when to have smoothies, see here.
Drinks
Creamy and child-friendly green smoothie
Two of my three children like this creamy green smoothie, the other is not a green-smoothie man.
Recipes
Fresh and zingy green smoothie
I think this fresh and zingy green smoothie is just wonderful. It is more of an adult smoothie than a child one. For the pros and cons of drinking smoothies, see here.
Main Course
Hidden kale risotto
I created this while trying to find a great way of disguising kale for the children to eat. It worked perfectly! It was gone in minutes; they got a great dose of calcium and other essential vitamins and minerals as well as a tasty dinner. This hidden kale risotto makes a bright Read more