Raw tomato pasta sauce
A raw tomato based pasta sauce is a delight to the senses and so much better for you than its cooked to death counterpart. First imagine the pungent aroma of the basil as you tear it, the juicy tomatoes with their rich red skins and the essential italian-ness of the garlic finely chopped on the board and full of garlicy goodness. Here is a recipe that will take you 10 minutes at the most and all you need is a food processor or if you don't mind it well blended a blender. If you want you can make it by hand because I ...
Green Smoothie
Green smoothies are yum! The basic Meta recipe for a green smoothie is to take a couple of big handfuls of leafy green; kale, silverbeet, rocket, baby spinach... you get the picture. Think green, crisp leafy goodness and lots of it. Put this goodness filled abundance of greens in a blender with some water and blend until it is drinkable. Easy but not all that yummy. The yummy bit comes next.
Raw Purple Cauliflower Salad
How beautiful is purple cauliflower? It is all firm, that surprising shade of purple and a change from the usual white kind which although lovely lets face it, isnt exciting. Make a raw purple cauliflower salad to retain the colour and nutrients of this gorgeous vegetable.
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Dear Santa, I’ve been a very naughty girl
Actually I’ve been good and I am well and truly in Christmas mode although I haven’t got the tree up- we always try to do something arty that doesnt involve a dead pine tree and I haven’t quite figured it out yet. I have been buying and making Christmas gifts though and having a very nice time doing it. One of the gifts that I often... [Read more]
If I can make it there…
Well one more thing I can tick off the old “stuff to do before I die” list is run the New York City Marathon. Yes folks, I trained, suffered and trained some more and got myself into the 2009 NYC Marathon with 43 000 other nutcases who think a 42.1 km run is a good time. In all honesty while I was there the running came second fiddle to... [Read more]
Stress
Stress… sometimes it is really obvious that we are feeling the effects of stress. We feel tired, we seem to get sick all the time, we don’t sleep well and we feel irritated or overwhelmed. Sometime the effects of stress are less obvious. We put on weight, we cant seem to get as much out of our workout, we cant even think about working out.... [Read more]
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