Follow your gut this season

I've been noticing the changes. A few weeks ago while thumbing through a cooking magazine, the only recipes that sounded palatable were soups. My partner has been looking at my salads with disdain and has been seeking solace in the warmer, heartier dishes like chilli and stir fry's. I've been eating cheese by the fistfuls, [...]

Recreating my comfort zone: Kitchen updates

For me, food is love. It is self-love through giving your body wonderful tasting food that nourishes body and soul, as well as for loved ones as you show those close to you that you love them enough to do the same for them. Your body will only feel good, physically and mentally, if you put good food into it; and hence, eating is an almost spiritual practice. And my kitchen is meant to be a reflection of that ideal.

What’s for dinner? My mystery meals

These days, I just never know what's going to end up on my plate for the evening. With recently having to acclimate to feeding two people over a week's time, my former two-meal plan which I usually prepared on Sundays no longer carries me through the week. With little time during the week for either [...]

A personal look back at the year that was 2012

As I tentatively begin to step into the pristine landscape of 2013 and leave my footsteps behind me, it seems inevitable that I would look back at the past 12 months and contemplate the year that was 2012. What a whirlwind year it was, after pulling myself out of a personal year-long hell in 2011. [...]

Streamlined healthy passions on Facebook

I finally just went ahead and did it. About four or five months ago when I first began to blog seriously about my passions, I had likewise fiddled with the idea of starting up a Facebook page to specifically broadcast my posts on holistic health & lifestyle, cooking, gardening, etc. I fiddled with Facebook, figuring [...]