Recipes

Winter is a great time to visit Paris, the crowds are thin (except at Christmas), the cobbled streets on the hill of Montmartre glisten with frost and the city of light is as vibrant and bustling as ever. Any time of the year, this is a city you should wander. But in winter in Paris, it’s the perfect season to stroll wrapped up well and warming up with plenty of hot chocolate breaks! In fact it’s one of the best things to do! The best places to enjoy hot chocolate in winter in Paris One of the most popular places...

Slippery Lo Mein Noodles tossed in a lo mein Sauce with tons of veggies and protein of your choice. Takeout gold standard comes down to the right sauce and the right noodles – then you’re just 6 minutes away from noodle heaven! Lo Mein Noodles The actual noodles pictured above were my dinner last night, albeit I was a little heavy handed with a big dollop of chilli sauce that had me gasping and sweating (and swearing) through every bite. Don’t fear, it was self inflicted torture. Those red strips you see is capsicum / bell peppers, not chilli. There...

If you like Chinese food, you absolutely have to make this recipe. It is phenomenal! I got the recipe from Half Baked Harvest. Ingredients 1.5 lbs boneless, skinless chicken breasts cut into bite size pieces. I used chicken breast tenderloins 4 Tablespoons of Soy Sauce1/4 Cup of all purpose flour 1 inch of ginger 2 garlic cloves, grated (I used minced)Juice of 1/2 orange2 Tablespoons of hoisin sauce 2 Tablespoons of rice vinegar 1-2 Tablespoons of crushed red pepper flakes 1 Tablespoon of toasted sesame oil 2 Tablespoons of olive oil 2 green onions chopped White Rice 2 Tablespoons of...

As you read this blog, well, my pieces in particular, you will start to see a pattern: I love getting a take-away. I feed on the excitement of watching the delivery man getting closer and closer to my house, resulting in me hiding behind the door, to weirdly opening it before he even knocks…and then he gives me that ‘how long have you been standing there- look’. I started to think about all the waste of plastic tubs, straws, greasy pizza boxes (that cannot be recycled BTW) and not only did it stink out our kitchen, it started to make...

Where do you get your proteins from?  If you are a vegetarian, you are quite familiar with this phrase.  It is such an illusion that vegetarians lack protein in their diets. If you see, many generations have lived well, lived healthy long lives on a vegetarian diet. If you eat good, seasonal, healthy produce you are a healthy being.  Do you know that one requires only 8 grams of protein per kilogram of the bodyweight?  Example – if you’re 130 lbs (approx 58 kg) you should aim for about 90 grams of protein on a daily basis.  Of course, The...