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Veggie broth, bone broth, chicken stock ... all vi

Veggie broth, bone broth, chicken stock ... all vivifying and life-affirming. Feels like an update being installed in my body when I sit down to a bowl. It might just get us through this lock down (with obvious amounts of dark chocolate, ear plugs, and someone else’s sourdough 👀)

Linky bio 👆🏻 Stock 101 👆🏻

#freezerchallenge #stock101 #kitchenhacks #healthyhacks #kitchenstaples #kickassstock #batchcooking #batchboss #freezerprep #freezermeals #batchcooking

The small buzzes in lockdown life. Suddenly, they’re bleedin’ massive 🤣

Like poached pears in the morning with granola. Cold brew coffee. And yoga. The simplest of things can effortlessly satisfy the most complex of emotions. They salve our nerves and help create space in our ever-squeezed lives.

You can find this bonkers-delicious recipe for red wine poached pears on my IG grid a few weeks back (using organic wine for under a tenner in Lidl). Today I resurrected a rooibos & pistachio poached pear recipe I did for the Sunday Independent years back, which aims to comfort yet simultaneously uplift. Hope it helps you to rest and reset ✨

5 rooibos teabags
6 pears, peeled
180g coconut sugar
Juice of 2 lemons
2 strips of lemon rind
Greek yoghurt or @coyo_uk, to serve
Pistachios, to serve

Pour 1 litre of boiling water over your rooibos teabags and allow to brew for 25 mins. Discard the teabags, and transfer your brew into a saucepan large enough to accommodate 6 pears without stacking. Add your favourite sugar. Heat and stir until the sugar granules dissolve.

Now add the pears and lemon. Cook gently under a lid until tender. You can check by sticking the sharp point of a knife into a pear, and feel whether it's ready or not. I find 20 minutes does the trick, but this will largely depend what variety of pear I bought and how ripe the
fruit is. You don't want mushy pears, so it's worth checking frequently.

Once the pears are tender, scoop them out with a slotted spoon and cool to the side while you boil the liquid into a thick, licksticky syrup. The syrup is done as soon as you notice the volume of liquid has reduced considerably. It will further thicken upon cooling.

Serve straight away, drizzled with rooibos syrup, crushed pistachios and clouds of yoghurt. Or refrigerate for up to 5 days and wait until the mood yodels.

#rooibosrecipes #rooibospears #rooibostea #rooibostearecipes #poshpears #lockdownlife #lockdown2021 #lockdownrecipes

Inject a dose of collagen and electrolytes into yo

Inject a dose of collagen and electrolytes into your week 💥 . I like sound of electrolytes and imagine them as mini Pokemon whizzing around my bloodstream and vivifying everything in their path. (Don’t fact check this 🙄)

If you missed my spread in Sunday’s @lifesundayindo , I’ve linked it in my bio 👆🏻 Ginger & garlic noodle broth kissed with fresh slices of electrifying chilli 🌶 The recipe for kickass broth-making is in the January 3rd edition, also on line now. Vegetarians can use Parmesan rinds, Irish seaweed or shrooms for that lick smacking umami grenade.

#brothmaking #sundayindependent #sundayindependentlife #lifemagazine #mangiaresano #mangiaresanoebene #cleverbatch #batchcooking #batchboss #batchinglikeaboss #batchbroth #healthyliving #winterrecipes #winterhealth

Erm ... When do they stop snacking? 🙄#homeschoo

Hello you sexy mug of yummness. Turmeric, lemon, c

Hello you sexy mug of yummness. Turmeric, lemon, cardamom and ginger elixir to last all week in the fridge. Just splash some into warm water with honey and feel your chest ignite. Pyrotechnics for tired limbs 😜 Linked in bio for you 👆🏻

Couldn’t be arsed, but #wanties faster than immediately? Then check out nationwide delivery by @mu_tonics 🇮🇪 👌🏻

#turmericbenefits #gingerdrink #gingertea #healthyassed #goldenhour #cleverbatch

The healthy wholefoods movement is often described

The healthy wholefoods movement is often described as the 1970’s, resuscitated on kale powder and kimchi. Please! Wholefoods is punk, darling. Not hippie.

Great swathes of perfectly sane people have turned their attention towards mindful practises, in search of a more socially responsible roast from capitalism. You'll find we don't just do sausies. We do slow pork, where piggies have been massaged with lavender, read bedtime stories and fed bottles of rooibos tea. We don't do slicepan. We do house-cultured sourdough, from heritage grains harvested by moonlight. And we do not do instant coffee. We dry hump our monthly subscription box from @brewboxcoffee_ where the coffee beans were raised on Bach, and lightly washed with tears of joy.

We are taking unrefined whole foods and celebrating them in their most basic form, in contrast to society's reliance on conveyor belts and chemicals. This is counter culture. This is punk. (Funk? Food punk? Anyways ...)

In the 1970’s, cooking skills sucked – we were too busy lovebombing the world with geraniums. (Point of information, the 70’s actually happened in the 80’s here in Ireland). Forty years on, our culinary skills have been heightened and honed. There has been a huge awakening of wholefood ingredients, but more importantly, we see this awakening wedded to badass kitchen skills. This ain't no hippie culture. This is
badass punk. Join the revolution #cleverbatch

#wholefoods #badasswholefoods #badasshealthy

✨Drawing by the talented @oliveandarrowcreative ✨

Getting fresh vegetables into children can sometim

Getting fresh vegetables into children can sometimes feel about as turbulent as an AGM for thirsty vampires 👀.

This red pepper sauce should help. As will growing your own veggies or herbs and giving them the responsibility of looking after their very own plot or pot 🪴 (Marty, pictured 3 years ago loosing his s/!t pulling a fresh turnip out of the ground and demanding it for dinner).

Peppers are particularly rich in carotenoids. Research tells us that carotenoids are useful for strengthening our immune system and psyching up our front-line defences. They're not called “peppers” for
nothing!

🌱Red Pepper Pasta Sauce 🌱
(6-8 portions)

3 red peppers, de-seeded
1 tablespoon extra virgin olive oil
2 cloves garlic, in their papery shells
1 tin cooked lima beans, drained
Your favourite pasta (we ❤️ buckwheat)

1 Fire up your oven to 200 Celsius.

2 Cut your peppers into uniform size so that they roast evenly. Tumble onto your biggest baking tray with the garlic pods and coat with olive oil. Bake for 30 minutes, shaking the tray half way through cooking.

3 In a blender, whizz the drained beans with the roasted peppers and any juices released during baking. Carefully squeeze out the gooey garlic from their shells and purée until smooth.

4 Store in a jar in the fridge until needed. You can freeze in portions too. Yahtzee!

#kidsveggies #veggiekids #veggiekidsmeals #veggiekidslunch #wholefoodkids #wholefoodfamilyfaves #healthykidsfood #healthykidsrecipes #healthykidsmeals #healthykids

... (continued) Each chewy bite somersaults into m

... (continued) Each chewy bite somersaults into my system and rewires my dimples. Fact. 👀

🍊Makes 12 🍊

2 organic blood oranges

300 caster sugar (you won't actually be using all this sugar with the end result)

1 teaspoon ground cardamom

200g dark chocolate, melted

✨Wash both oranges. Thinly slice each, discarding the butts.

✨In a large shallow pan, bring 300ml of water to a happy gurgle. Stir in the sugar and cardamom until dissolved.

✨ Immerse your slices into the syrup and simmer for 30 minutes, turning halfway through cooking. I like to swirl the syrup over the oranges several times throughout cooking. Take them out sooner, if the slices are very thin.

✨ Gently lift them out once cooked and leave to drain on a wire rack for 20 mins. (Pop some parchment underneath, to catch the dripping mess).

✨Transfer to an 100C oven, and leave to air dry for 2 hours. You'll need to check on them by taking the odd nibble and seeing if they're ready to coat in chocolate. Don't panic about overcooking - it's at such a low temperature!

✨Remove once done. If they are too wet, the chocolate will struggle to stick. A little bit tacky is perfect. Fully submerge each candied slice into melted dark chocolate (or dip half like I did here ☝🏼). Place on non-stick parchment and leave to dry in a cool room.

#wholefoodhappies #wholefoodkitchen #healthytreats #bloodorangechocolate #chocolatefiend #wholefoodchocolates #badasshealthy #healthymfchoices

Blood oranges are a short January to March orgy, s

Blood oranges are a short January to March orgy, so get yo’ fill 🍊 Their deep dark flesh is home to lots of anthocyanins, which act like specially commissioned inflammation assassins 🔪 We like.

It's important to stress that orange juice is a different beast altogether, devoid of the healthy-assed peel and pith. Leaving the white pith and skin on these candies is a brave move, but one in which will reap extra ninja moves and nutrition (bitterness will be neutralised by the sweet syrup anyway). You'll be rewarded by a tastier snack as well as an impressive cargo of limonoids and polyphenols such as heart-healthy hesperidin. Beat that, Jaffa!

(okay, I'm running out of space so I'll upload the recipe in the next post. See you in 60 seconds!)

#healthytreats #healthytreatsforkids #healthytreatsfeature #bloodorangeseason #bloodorangerecipes #yummo #instayum #instayummy

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