Recipes – food — smoothie

Winter well and truly is a distant memory, and Spring is starting to gain the hint of heat of that Summer will bring. The leaves are back on the trees, the bulbs are flourishing. I've just done a big tidy up of the winter garden and have gone a little mad planting herbs, fruits and vegetables. Spring is such an energising time of the year, the weather calls you to get outdoors and start moving. This also helps to shake off the cobwebs of Winter, throw open the windows and let the breeze blow through not only the house but the...

Winter breakfasts can be challenging when you are not only gluten free but also intolerant to starches. So even gluten free grains are out. Yes that's right. No quinoa, no amaranth, no millet, sorghum. I have been in utter denial about buckwheat though. It's the one gluten free grain that I love however with the recent cold weather here in Melbourne I did have a week of buckwheat porridge for breakfast each day and felt the affects. So I had no choice, I had to start coming up with alternatives for a warming breakfast. 

Because I do believe that we...

There are so many different and wonderful smoothie recipes out there.

And sometimes if you (meaning me!) make a smoothie by just throwing it all in together it’s hit and miss whether the combination works.

This is my go to smoothie.

As long as I use all the ingredients, it generally doesn’t matter the quantities and it never fails. The only time this has failed was when I forgot the bananas. Ok, that has actually happened a couple of times. And a couple of other times I have poured the smoothie into the...