persimmon fruit

Off to a good start with Coconut and Persimmon

A good start is half the work. Although some people do very well without breakfast, I am not one of them. I like to start the day with a breakfast that keeps me satiated for a while without wanting to go straight back to bed afterwards. What…
millet bowl

Easily digestible Millet Bowl with green peas

Ingredients: 500 gr. millet 1 strip of kombu 1 onion 1 eggplant 1 fennel ½ endive head 1 teaspoon crushed garlic 1 tablespoon ras al hanout 1 teaspoon chilli 350 gr. frozen peas 1 tablespoon toasted sesame seeds (gomasio). Coconut…
Mango lime pudding

Vitamin C Rich Mango Vanilla Lime Pudding with Red Berries

For 4 persons. Ingredients: 100 ml water 100 gr. cashew nuts 1 mango (peeled) 1 lime (zest and juice). 1 tablespoon vanilla extract 2 tablespoons coconut oil handful of red berries Instructions: Use a good food processor or blender…

Green Salad with White Asparagus

One of my favourite vegetables is asparagus. Already in April asparagus season starts and will run till mid-June. White asparagus grow under the ground and wont catch any sunlight. Green asparagus on the other hand produce chlorophyll as they…
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Bitter Veggies for Digestion

We focus quite a bit on sweet and salty tastes while we tend to forget about umami, sour and bitter. Especially the last flavour is not often favoured by little children. This recipe has an abundance of endives, the curly cousin of Belgian endives.…
red lentil rutabaga soup
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Red Lentil Rutabaga Soup

Red lentils  are an easy to digest legume providing you with a good ratio between carbohydrates and protein. Rutabaga is a root vegetable not seen so often on menus. Yet it gives us a decent amount of fibre, Vitamin C, calcium, potassium and…
pancakes
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Boost circulation with buckwheat pancakes & blackberry sauce

Pancakes with blackberry sauce, dried apple & whipped cream This satiating recipe can be eaten as breakfast, lunch or dinner. Blackberries are rich in antioxidants and known for increasing circulation in the body. When days get colder,…
Spring Spinach Salad
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Energizing Spring Spinach Salad

This energizing spring spinach salad contains lots of raw and nutritious ingredients. The benefit being that it keeps a lot of enzymes intact, needed for properly digesting our food. Only when we absorb and assimilate our food well, it can be…
inca berries

Vitamin P Inca Apricot Chocolates

This amazingly easy to make treat is full of bioflavonoids, also referred to as Vitamin P. The letter P stands for permeability: it determines capillary health (very thin vessels) by regulating permeability. With the help of Vitamin P we can…
lysine rich bread
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Lysine rich Bread

  Very little effort goes into making this bread and the pay off is a nutritious wholesome one. The main ingredient is buckwheat flour which during processing is not being heated higher than 40 degrees C. This is important so that…