Gut-loving Golden Loaf with Feta & Dandelion

golden loaf

Hey gut lovers. This is the ultimate loaf. I cook this one up when we have guests over, and everyone wants the recipe. I cook it religiously every week and it covers me for breakfast AND lunch every day. What I love about this golden loaf is its cleansing, fibre boosting and anti-inflammatory qualities. I also love that it fills me up. You’ll be hard pressed to be able to eat two slices of this at once. Why? It’s not that it’s a big loaf, but because it’s got all of the six tastes: salty, sweet, astringent, pungent and bitter. So it truly satiates. It hits all the right notes! All of this in a 1 hour baked loaf. Amazing! Here’s the recipe.

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Rose Pudding with Cardamom Syrup and Rhodiola & Pistachio Crumble

rose cardamom rhodiola pudding

Photo: Sulin Sze 2022               

Making a sweet, dreamy and healthy treat with loving intention is what this recipe is all about. Let’s find our way to our collective heart with Rose, and build our inner resilient warrior with Rhodiola.  The perfume of Roses, Cardamom and Rhodiola will fill the sacred air around you, and you’ll find your heart opening, as you move step by step through the recipe. This is my favourite place people, my kitchen is my garden today and I’m ready to smell the flowers. So read on to find out how to make the ultimate herb-lovers dessert, with Rose, Cardamom and Rhodiola.

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Herbs for Grieving

Herbs for Grief

Dear friends, it’s been a challenging time recently for me with my father’s passing, and I wanted to share something with you that may help if or when you walk the path of grieving. Loss hurts. It doesn’t matter whether its someone close to you, a family member, a pet, a close friend, someone you were bonded with or perhaps you’re grieving for the loss of something, a job for instance. Very possibly, it’s some loss that you’ve faced with COVID-19. So many people lost their livelihoods, freedoms, a family member, their health and more throughout this pandemic. Letting go and moving through the grieving process with grace is something our plant friends can help us with.  This article really comes from my heart to yours. Through connection we heal. So I’ll be sharing here the herbs that can assist with the various stages of grieving and in particular, those that make us stronger, more resilient and those that nourish us, like a hug in a cup. My journey is the loss of a kind and generous man in my life. Whatever your grief journey is, I hope you find this helpful.

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Hearty Spiced Butter Beans

Hearty Spiced Butter Beans

Here’s a dish that you can whip up in 15 minutes and it’s guaranteed to satiate the hungriest of tummies. It’s perfect for Autumn and Winter, even early Spring. It’s also not too spicy so the kids can enjoy it as well. Based on Indian curry spices, this has become a favourite in our household here and we have it every week because of its simplicity and flavour. Find out how to make these delicious curried butter beans….

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How to make your own hot herbal compress

Hot Herbal Compress

Today we’re making one of the classic herbal treatments for muscular aches and pains, menstrual pain, joint inflammation, stiffness and general stagnation. You’ll learn about the uses of a hot herbal compress and the types of herbs that best suit this easy to make, topical preparation. We’ll look at both the western and eastern perspectives in terms of herbs and I’ll give you an intro in herbal energetics. You’ll also get my recipe for creating a compress to relieve muscle stiffness. Let’s dive into the world of the hot herbal compress!

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Your Inner Healer

reawaken your inner healer

Photo: Sulin Sze 2022

Hello you. Welcome to the space, let’s connect. Let’s talk about deep health, extraordinary health, harmony and self-connectedness. I’ll sing a healing prayer for us all and share my thoughts and wishes for 2022 with you. This post is our first step together this year! And my wish for you is that through care for self and others, we can realign, reframe, connect with our truth. We can bring an abundant healing force to this planet. Let’s be compassionate with each other and most importantly, with ourselves. Let’s make time for daily morning rituals, nourishing our bodies, and connecting with our purpose …. coming into alignment.

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Quiz: Discover your Humoral Body Constitution

Humoral temperament type quiz

This quiz evaluates your dominant constitutional type according to Humoral Theory, which you can use as a guide to selecting the best herbs and foods for your type and ultimately, to regain balance within. The ultimate goal is to achieve a healthy balance of each humor. All earthly things are composed of these substances in varying degrees and understanding the balance of these elements within each person is key to understanding how disease manifests in individuals. Discover how you can live your best life here in this quick and easy quiz!

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3 step Herbal Goddess Tonic Pills

Goddess Tonic Pills

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Somewhere in the birth of a warm Spring morning, gestating among birdsong and sweet Jasmine aroma wafting through the kitchen window, triggered by a craving for figs…..came this recipe. This is a vigour boosting recipe for large herbal ‘pills’ that are pretty much medicines parading as bliss balls. They contain herbs that enhance stress response and physical energy, lifting your health potentials in a broad way. Between the fruits, nuts and powders, there’s a whole lot of nutrition and goodness in them. I explain why I called them Goddess Tonic Pills in the video, and show you step by step how to make them so without further adieu, let’s step into our healing kitchen….

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Reflux Busting Smoothie

herbs for reflux

Relieve the searing discomfort of indigestion with this delicious blend of reflux busting herbs and fruits. It makes a great healing tonic to sip at through the day, and it’s suitable for kids and adults. In this post learn about the properties of the herbal medicines Marshmallow and Licorice, and why they’re so great at relieving the discomfort of indigestion. Wondering where to get these herbs? Most health shops will have them, and failing that, you can find them online in dried form. Now get that blender ready, there’s a fabulous recipe coming up!

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12 ways to relieve anxiety naturally – part 2

calm anxiety naturally

Welcome back to ‘Stress Less 101’. In the previous post we looked at the first 6 ways to reduce stress and anxiety. they were all easy, simple and free! In this post, I’ll share the next 6. You’ll find the second Recipe for Daily Bliss here too: a step by step guide to living a calm and connected life starting now…..This time it’s more based around the latter part of your day. So all you moon-folk, this one’s for you :)….

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