Ma Po tofu – Sichuan style!
I made this for a vegan who came to dinner the other night; it is shamelessly lifted from the Queen of Chinese cooking, Fuchsia Dunlop. Ross had it in Beijing […]
Monthly Archives: August 2014
Green Goddess juices
Purists insist that you should go green with juices, to minimise the blood sugar spikes that fruit and sweet veg such as carrots and beets give you. A happy medium […]
Breakfast beet juice
Since Ross bought me my Hurom slow juicer, I have been making a healthy juice per day. You can juice anything, but I steer very clear of anything other than […]
Sweet potato & kale curry
You really can’t get a dish more healthy than this with its combination of super-food cruciform veg kale and sweet potato, packed full of vitamins A, B6, C and D. […]
Papaya, pomelo, avocado and beansprout salad
The perfect, healthy little salad for lunch. Papaya is good TCM food – lots of seeds- and has enzymes which aid digestion. Pomelo – or grapefruit if you can’t get […]
Fail-me-never rice
Most of my recipes call for rice as an accompaniment. In TCM it is a neutral ingredient, even if it is white. Brown rice is much better for you […]
Vietnamese summer rolls
We gorged on these on a family holiday to Vietnam 8 years ago; I simply adore them! They are a fiddle to make but, once you have acquired the knack, […]
Pad Thai
We learned to cook this on our cookery course in Koh Samui, but the recipe ‘book’ we were given was so unlike what we had done, I have had to […]
Gingered aduki beans
In both TCM and Ayurveda, aduki beans are renowned for aiding kidney function. Ginger and tamari/kikkoman really help this process. Aduki require soaking for 3-4 hours, draining, then rinsing, before […]
South Indian Style broccoli
This is another variation on the traditional way of cooking Ayurvedic vegetables. The addition of onion and sesame seeds is delicious. I often put sesame seeds on my broccoli if […]
healthy living with cancer 