Donna Underhill Nutritional Therapy

04/02/2023

Speedy Ramen noodle broth. This was spicey but nutritious. The broth had a miso soup base in a mushroom, onion, ginger and garlic broth. The aubergines are grilled and covered with a miso, soy sauce and white rice vinegar paste.

06/01/2023

Butternut squash season yum 😋
Eat healthy to shift all these bugs it's a great disease and anti - antioxidant fighter packed with vitamins and minerals. Fantastic roasted or stuffed with your favourite pulses..

28/12/2022

veggie filo pastry pie. Fairly straight forward to make with loads of taste and goodness. Roasted butternut squash, garlic and red onions 🌰 mixed with cous cous, chick peas roasted red peppers feta and ras el hout and seasoning ( mint, Rosemary) with a red sauce ( lemon peel, cinnamon two tins of tomato and rose harrissa) and a dollop of rose Harrissa in natural yogurt.. 😋 its a win from me x

25/10/2022

Banana, oat muffins with Nutella in the middle. Just cause a hit of chocolate is what is needed right now 😌 x

16/10/2022

Weekend soul food.😋
1.used up Basmatic rice with caramelised onion, vegetarian chorizo sausages broccoli and a little grated cheese under the grill. ( all cooked on hob. Make sure your rice is pipping hot if re cooking and add a little water to the pan to stop it sticking)
2. Spinach and Ricotta Canelloni
3. Fruit cake tray bake
4. Chocolate hazelnut tray bake ( I added coconut peices, melted dark chocolate 🍫, a dollop of Biscoff spread and a dash of vanilla to give it a bit of taste to my normal chocolate tray bake)

These colder nights are starting to make me seek warmth and comfort in food. Okay they may involve lots of cheese and sugar but you can always swap the heavier options for lighter versions. 😉

26/04/2022

Goji Berry

I made a really easy recipe at the weekend which included goji berry's. I am not using my own grown yet as you will see on photo 2 that i have not yet reached the fruit stage of my plant but I am hopeful this summer. 🤞I then hope to dry them out as shown in photo 2.

Goji berry's are a rich antioxidant which have a long history going back thousands of years, particulary in rural China, Tibet and Mongolia as a miracle fruit, and often used in Chinese medicine.

Packed with a variety of amino acids, vits, minerals and antioxidants. You can add some to your porridge or favourite cereal. They are lovely in flapjacks, biscuits but of course In bread.

The recipe that I followed was from the cookbook and was a goji berry loaf including dried apricots and quite a few large dollops of good honey. They day after this loaf was lovely toasted with some homemade jam 😋.
480g of spelt flour
1tsp of bicarbonate
1 tsp of baking powder
1 tsp of sea salt
80g of pumpkin seeds or your favourite seed
40g of dried apricots chopped . You can also use raisins
40g goji berry
2-3 dollops of honey 🍯 yo your taste.
520ml of tepid water

Really easy you just combine all of the dried ingredients into one bowl then mix in the honey and water. Pour into a prepared loaf tin and bake at 180c fan for about 50 minutes. Then take out if tin and cook for a further 10mins and upside down to provide a better crust.

loaf cookbook

19/04/2022

Easter is for eating right.. ( although in our house DIY was also on the list 🙂) I did quite a bit of cooking although here is just a few of the dishes over the Easter weekend.

The first was a lovely tikka masala with cauliflower and panneer cheese with lots of seasonings such as saffron, cloves, cinnamon stick, cardamon pods ( crushed so just use the seeds) garlic, onion, ginger, sun dried tomato paste. You could replace the cauliflower with chickpeas which would work just aswell.

The sauce uses a cashew base so I needed to soak 60g of unsalted cashew with a pinch of saffron and 1 large tablespoon of mango chutney in 700ml of boiled water. Whilst grilling the cauliflower and cheese which I'd mixed with the sauce ( yogurt, paprika, sea salt and lemon zest) leave until gnarly.

Blend the cashew mixture and pop in a deep pan with all the other seasonings on a low hear and once the cauliflower and cheese is cooked pop it in.

The second dish is a 5 a day spaghetti bolognese. Basically use leftover vegetables , or lentils and mix with tomatoes or tin, sun dried paste and at the end add a good splash of tamari sauce and balsamic and season. Easy... you could also add some meat to this aswell. It had a rich tomato taste.

Hope you all had a lovely 🐣

08/03/2022

Tried the recipe Keema Aloo, which is a new recipe from . This uses vegan mince which can be a bit bland but this is definitely a jazzed up veggie curry and a surprise hit with the children. I think the stack load of new potatoes helped and they loved the wholemeal chapatis. Check out the recipe on bosh.tv for a healthy mid week meal. If you wanted to add meat I think this would potentially work well with prawns.

13/01/2022

30/12/2021

This year has been less about the chocolates and sweets and more about the eating of real wholesome food. I try to do a different vegetarian dish each year, mainly because I am the only one in our family who eats it during Christmas and plus I enjoy trying something different.

This year was an old recipe that I found for a mushroom, leek and spinach Wellington with chestnut 🌰 and goats cheese. I also popped in some leftover pak choi which went well. This was a fairly simple process to make. The recipe did not include seasoning however it could do with a pinch This was really nice with a roast dinner and grandma's spiced red cabbage 😋

Hope you all had some lovely food over the festive season.