Hey friends! This week on the blog I am showing you how to perfectly boil your eggs. Boiling eggs is something I’ve always been terrible at. I leave them in the water too long or I start the timer at the wrong point and then they are wayyy underdone.
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Salt-Roasted Sweet Potato Salad
Everyone loves a potato salad and this salt-roasted potato salad is truly next-level!! It’s completely delicious, healthy, and really easy to make.
Tahini Banana Bread
If I could only have one snack for the rest of my days, it might just be this tahini banana bread. I cannot explain how DELICIOUS and soft and morish and just utterly scrumptious it is!!
Chunky Pea Pesto Bruschetta
Happy new week guys! As you might have seen, I was on Studio 10 this morning preparing this gorgeous chunky pea pesto bruschetta in celebration of Organic Awareness Month here in Australia.
It's back to school on Monday and I've have seen a whole bunch of mums and students tagging me in their recreations of my old-school zucchini slice this week.
As a nutritionist, I hear all the time that health is a priority, but sometimes life just gets in the way. I think that generally we all try to do our best, but sometimes we might be a little too busy or maybe we aren’t quite sure how to make our dinners healthier or maybe it seems really hard?
Some of you guys may have seen that for the better part of the past year, I've been buckled down in my creation den formulating, testing and photographing dozens of brand new recipes for the Body by Gilles program.
Introducing the Health Star Rating System
If you live here in Australia, you've probably seen packaged products at the supermarkets begin to show a star rating in the bottom corner of the packet. On some packets, there may also be a small depiction of the energy, sugar, salt and saturated fat content next to the star as well. Today I'm sharing with you a little introduction about the Health Star Rating system and why it's being introduced and used, how it has been developed and who actually provided the information for the system.
Yep, you read it right! The BEST smoky BBQ sauce that not only tastes god-damn delicious but is much healthier than the sugar-laden store-bought varieties. The smokiness of this BBQ sauce is next level, I *cannot* wait to share it around at Isaac's birthday in two weeks on hot rolls with my signature peach bourbon brisket, which I should really get around to the sharing the recipe for!
Now is the perfect time to buy up big on cheap in-season tomatoes and use them in everything and anything! I did just that on the weekend at the Preston Market with my 'byo shopping trolley' that my parents got us for Christmas.
Super Easy Mid-Week Meals
Yep, mid-week meals just got a whole lot easier. I totally get it, you’ve worked hard all day, so why not reward yourself with a bit more relaxation time by cutting down your cooking time?! Luckily, it’s super easy to create healthy nourishing meals in a jiffy, so I’ve put together a list of balanced midweek dinner meal ideas to inspire busy people who love healthy food.
Rainbow Rolls with NuVitality
Nuts and seeds are some of my most favourite ingredients to use in cooking. Not only are they powerhouses of nutrition but their versatility is endless! There really isn’t anything you can’t do with them! Today I’m sharing an absolute cracker of a recipe that I developed in partnership with NuVitality, who are a small whole foods company picking and packing the best quality nuts, seeds, and grains.
The Cheat's Way to Entertain this Festive Season
I feel like we saw the first glimpses of Summer this week, which is super exciting for those of us in Melbourne. This year so far has basically been like Game of Thrones and Melbourne has been at ‘The Wall’ the entire time freezing their butts off in the blistering cold, while every other state has enjoyed the offerings of all the other seasons!
Summer Entertaining with Just Veg
Summer's almost here and it's nearly November which we all know means work break-up parties, Christmas get-togethers and weekend barbeques. Over the next few weeks in partnership with Just Veg, I will be bringing you the BEST summer entertaining recipes that are healthy, delicious and full to the brim with carrots!
Best Ever Healthy Sweet Potato Fries
Yes! You guys read that correctly, the best-ever healthy sweet potato fries that are as crispy as though you fried them!
FebFast
The start of February usually rings in the end of the festive and party season. This means you may be feeling a little less than fabulous perhaps having indulged on your holidays and attending more parties and get-to-togethers than usual. There really is no better time to check in with yourself and see where you can begin to make some positive changes to your health and wellbeing.
Dukkah-Crusted Eggplant with Tabbouleh & Flat Bread
One of my favourite ingredients since studying Ottoman cuisine has been dukkah. It's smoky, slightly spicy, crunchy and fragrant. It teams perfectly with anything from fish to chicken to veggies and I even love rolling boiled eggs into it or sprinkling some onto my hummus for extra flavour.
Red Lentil Soup
This week there's been a few weird-weather days here in Melbourne. Even though it's summer, we went through a bit of a rainy, cold-snap and I felt like nothing more than soup. However, because it is summer, I didn't have any of the usual suspects in my fridge, like celery, pumpkin or broccoli. Luckily, I had the right handful of ingredients to make this delish Turkish red lentil soup that I learnt to make last year.
Lunching Lighter With Cruskits and Vita-Weats
Did you know that more than 3.8 million Australians skip lunch thinking they will get more done? But by 12pm blood sugar levels begin to drop leaving you feeling tired and having trouble concentrating. Taking a few minutes for a light lunch helps to re-fuel your body and get you ready to take on the afternoon. Good choices for lunch are quality carbohydrates, protein, good fats and some vegetables or fruit.
Raw Vegan Peanut Butter Cheesecake Bites
Humpday calls for treats. Well at least it does in my house haha! I had been wanting to recreate creamy, and smooth raw vegan peanut cheesecake bites like the ones I had sampled at a raw cooking class I did agggeeesssssssss ago but didn't want it to be too heavy or sweet or too dense.