This recipe comes from my 30Day Meal Plans program, and makes for a nutritious breakfast or a post-workout snack. It’s so easy to make that you can delegate it to your kids 🙂 . Plus kids always enjoy eating something they made themselves. Chia seeds need to be...
This is a great soup for dinner. You can make it with butternut squash as well for a more buttery flavor. Make sure you do add butter and cream (at least one of the two), because the biggest health benefits of pumpkin is its high pro-vitamin A content, that can only...
This dish was born on a morning when I was tired of cooking oatmeal or eggs. We wanted something else, and we add some barley on hand. So I cooked this super quick veggie breakfast. We ended up loving it so much – kids included!- that it has become a...
This is one of my favorite quick lunches. It takes 15 minutes to make, and it is super healthy and nutritious. Plus it tastes really good. I had some really good organic pork leftovers that I added for more flavors, but I usually make a vegetarian version, without the...
Seeds have been consumed for thousands of years. They are highly nutritious, with protein, fiber and fats, as well as many micronutrients. Health Benefits of Seeds Sesame seeds Sesame seeds are the oldest oilseed crop known to man. They have one of the highest oil...
This is one of my favorite snacks. And guess what? This is also one of my 6-year old son’s favorite afternoon snacks! He just LOVES it. I guess it’s because of the crunchiness of the nori sheet and the saltiness of the sesame dressing… Anyway, this...
This is a delicious vegetarian recipe adapted from chef Ottolenghi, The Cookbook. The flavors are wonderful and it is also very nutritious. The butternut squash is first roasted in the oven and then sprinkled with fresh basil leaves and three different kinds of seeds....
Here is another recipe from my favorite book of Indian curries, 50 Great Curries of India, by Camellia Panjabi. It is very easy to make and it is really delicious. Serves 2 – Prep. time 30mn. For the marinade: 1/2 tsp mustard powder 1/4 tsp turmeric 2 tsp sugar...
This eggplant dip is called baba ganousch in Jordan and mtabba in Lebanon. For this dish I like to use the marbled eggplant, because it is less bitter than the dark purple one, and it makes a more savory dip. I also use the dark colored eggplant ; just use what suits...
