Mango Pudding –Made from Eat to Live Cookbook

Mango Pudding –Made from Eat to Live Cookbook

Ingredients:

¼ cup raw almonds

2 ripe mangoes peeled and diced

1 banana

3 dates pitted finely chopped

1/8 cup unsweetened coconut

½ teaspoon vanilla

¼ cup currants

1/8 teaspoon cinnamon

Almond flakes  and 2 dates for garnish.

Method:

1.Grind the almonds in a coffee grinder and keep aside.

2. In a blender jug add the mango, banana, coconut, chopped dates, vanilla and powdered almonds and blend to a smooth consistency.

3. Add the cinnamon and stir in the currants.

4. Spoon the mango pudding into serving glasses and garnish with dates and almond flakes. 

Chill before serving.

I was recently sent a copy of Eat to Live Cookbook by Dr Fuhrman.The book has a selection of recipes that enable you to eat healthy and at the same time lose weight and keep it off permanently, without hunger or deprivation. The recipes are designed to improve your eating habits and the recipes help to reduce chronic illnesses, such as heart disease, blood pressure and diabetes, naturally. The Ingredients that are used and the combinations of them help to provide superior nutrition and help you to eat healthy and remain fit by eradicating food cravings eliminating excess weight and reversing and preventing disease.

Dr Fuhrman the author of the book recommends a nutritarian lifestyle, this means that your daily diet should include:

• A salad
• ½ cup serving of beans /legumes
• Three fruits
• 1 ounce raw nuts or seeds
• 1 large serving of cooked green vegetables

He also advices to refrain from consuming all red meat and all barbecued, processed and cured meats, fried food, full fat dairy and trans fat,  soft drinks, sugar and artificial sweeteners and finally white rice and white flour products.

The book starts with a nice introduction to ingredients, shopping tips, an Andi scoring guide that tells you which foods are better than others to eat and a tips and techniques section. The chapters that follow feature 200 delicious, nutrient-rich recipes, including:

• Smoothies and Juices
• Breakfast
• Soups and Main Meals
• Salads and Salad Dressings
• Desserts

The recipes that are suitable for diabetics and aggressive weight loss are marked with a leaf symbol. Being a vegetarian myself I found that the variety of recipes was enormous and varied. I tried a few of the recipes which worked well but I missed the salt seasoning in them and found them a little bland, this I think is that one would need to train the palate to eat no salt. The dessert recipes were also good however as all the recipes used natural sugars only they lacked a sweetness that one is accustomed to but again this is due to teaching the palate to appreciate new tastes.Following the recipes in this book would definitely change your eating habits to promote a healthy diet.

I found the book useful, although some of the ingredients in the recipe are American  versions and I had to find substitutes for them here in the UK.  The book cover is very smart and clearly indicates the content of the book however I was disappointed that of the two hundred recipes there were only 12 photos of them all grouped in the centre of the book. Personally I love my recipes books to be more visual and inviting.The book is available in the Uk to buy from Amazon uk, it retails at  £ 15.93.

My score:

Content 4/5

Illustrations 1/5

Recipe instructions 5/5

Overall Score 10/15

I would like to Thank Harper Collins for sending me this book to review. All the views and opinions are honest  my own.

Tropical Fruit Salad made in a jiffy.

There is nothing better than a  tropical fruit salad to start your Sunday Brunch, this lovely colourful tropical salad is refreshing and really delicious to eat.

Ingredients:

1 medium ripe papaya
1 small ripe pineapple
10 strawberries

Dressing:

1 tablespoon ginger honey
Squeeze of lemon juice
2 tablespoons orange juice

Method:

1. Peel the pineapple, cut in half and remove the inner core.
2. Dice the pineapple into small bite size cubes.
3. Peel the papaya, cut in half and remove the inner seeds
4. Dice the papaya into small bite size cubes.
5. Wash the strawberries and towel dry them , remove the top and cut into small bite sized pieces.
6. In a jar with has a screw top add the orange juice, lime juice and honey and screw the lid. Give the jar a vigorous shake.
7. Get some pretty sundae glasses and spoon some pineapple pieces, followed by the papaya pieces and finally the strawberries. Drizzle over the fruit the honey dressing and serve immediately.

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Round Up ~ Lets Cook sweet treats for Valentine

Thankyou to everyone who participated in this lovely romantic event.I hope all your valentines enjoyed their yummy sweet treats.
Here is the lovely round up:

Some beautiful gifts from not on the high street.com

A few weeks ago I stumbled on a wonderful website whilst searching for a unique gift for a friend. The awesome site is notonthehighstreet. Now you may ask what is so special about this web site? The site is an Aladdin’s cave for personalised gifts, homeware, baby and child, jewellery wedding and fashion. There are so many gift ideas that the only problem will be deciding what to purchase. I spent over two hours on the site as each and every item is so nice, unique and pretty that I couldn't stop adding them all to my wish list. At the end I had almost 15 items that I so wanted. Finally I managed to narrow my wish list down to three items.

I love home ware and Kitchen Items and I immediately fell in love with these beautiful Ambiance Amethyst Footed Tumbler ice-cream / sundae glasses in a lovely pinky colour. They are perfect for serving ice-cream, fresh fruit and smoothies and would brighten up any meal with their pretty pink colour. The glasses are dishwasher safe too . The glasses retail at £ 5.75 each and are really good value for money.

The pretty little milk bottles are really cute and I love the fact that they are the perfect size to serve milkshakes or smoothies as one serving. 

These retro milk bottles retail £ 3.25 each. They are perfect for enticing your little ones to gulp down some milk. Alternatively these little retro bottles make cute flower vases too.

My third choice were these pretty glass spice jars with cork lids and little wooden spoons that attach to the jar itself.

The jars come in a set of three and are perfect for storing spices and herbs and look really cute on any kitchen shelf. They retail at £ 15.50 for a set of three.

I would like to Thanks notonthehighstreet who sent me all these three products to review, all the views and opinions in this post are my own.

Announcing EVENT ~ Lets cook with seeds.

At simply.food the month of March is dedicated to healthy eating  this event is all about adding healthy seeds to your dishes .Feel free to prepare any vegetarian dish ( eggs allowed) with the addition of seeds to it and link it to this event. Some seeds that you can use are pumpkin, sesame, chia, flaxseeds, hemp seeds, pomegranate seeds are just a few examples. You can use any edible seed in your recipe.

To Participate:

1. Prepare any  dish suitable for vegetarians but must include some sort of seed in the recipe in good proportion  (eggs allowed),  please link your dish using the linky below by entering your Dish Name and Post URL
2. Please link this event announcement with your entry, this is mandatory. (Any entries sent with out the mandatory link will be disqualified.)
3.Use of logo is  not mandatory but it helps to spread the word if you can use it.

4. Multiple entries are allowed, archived are only allowed if reposted and updated with this event link.

4. In the event of problem using linky you can email me the entry at simplysensationalfood@gmail.com

Please use this format:

Your Name: Recipe
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Event Ends 31st March 2014