This Courgette & Chicken Pad Thai is my attempt at recreating the classic Thai street food while adjusting the ingredients to fit with my Strong For Life diet principles of using low carb and anti inflammatory foods.
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Butter Coffee, also know as keto coffee is intended to assist people who are following a ketogenic diet, or intermittent fasting. Dave Asprey also adds coconut oil or C8 MCT oil to make it bulletproof coffee.
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This dish reminds me in a chapter of Gary Taubes 2009 book The Diet Delusion. He wrote how only a hundred years ago native South Polynesian islanders would live almost exclusively on fish and coconut disease free.
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A good burger is one of my guilty pleasures. After a hard Taiji training session with my teacher in Oxford I often find myself being pulled to five guys as my treat.
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It would be hard to describe this post as a recipe. My chicken and avocado dish is more of a meal idea if you are following a bulletproof, keto or paleo style diet.
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Thai green curry is unbelievably simple to make, yet many people struggle. As with all dishes the key is in the ingredients.
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The fruit & nut pancake has been one of my breakfast or lunch staples for well over 8 years now.
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Banh Mi is a delicious Vietnamese sandwich that should be fresh, crunchy and zingy.
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This dish is as tasty as it easy, healthy and simple. The dressing and herbs help to create a slight Asian twist to this hearty and nourishing meal.
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I would love to have an authentic story behind this dish, but the truth is despite visiting three of Jamaica’s most popular towns the first time I tried goat curry was at the Turtle Bay Restaurant in Southampton.
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For me, unless it’s been turned into sauerkraut, cabbage is normally so boring. That is until I discovered Nisha Katona’s recipe, Calcutta Tangled Greens from her book Mowgli Street Food. This turns boring greens into a zingy side dish.
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This recipe is simple and shouldn’t take more then 30 minutes to prepare and cook. The curry has a lovely balance of zingy flavors from the fresh lime and ripe tomatoes with sweetness from the tamarind, honey and desiccated coconut.
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This is another quick and simple recipe I learn’t while on a cooking course in Kerala, south Indian. For me the most important ingredients are fresh curry leaves, big fresh prawns and a good quality coconut milk.
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I remember the sous chef at Chewton Glen telling me once that a chef can be jugged by his tomato sauce. Although I am far from a chef I take real pride in my cooking, and have worked on my tomato sauce ever since.
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A simple, cheap, quick to make and healthy vegan curry. One of the main reasons for me coming back to this recipe again and again, is that my 2 year old daughter loves it! Anyone who has young children will know the challenge of getting them to eat veg. When covered in creamy spice the cauliflower goes down a treat!
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When I first made this chicken tikka masala from the Hairy Bikers Great Curries cook book, my wife said it’s the best curry she has ever tasted! Over the months I’ve tweaked the recipe, partly to further align with my nutrition philosophy and partly to get it closer to my personal taste. This is a real treat for the body and mind!
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My Thai Style Buddha bowl is a great compromise of healthy veg with the cabbage and carrot, sweetness with the mango and stomach filling fat with the peanut sauce and tofu.
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It takes some courage to suggest to a carnivore that a veggie burger can taste better than a beef burger.
In my humble opinion this beetroot and carrot burger is packed full of so much more flavor and leaves you feeling just as satisfied as a beef alternative.
We all need something sweet as the occasional pick-me-up and there is no reasons why it can’t be as healthy as it is delicious.
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This quick and easy veggie curry is loaded with protein and fat to keep you full and happy. This is probably why my inspiration for this dish came from The Happy Foodie
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