123 Nutrition and Health

26/12/2025

25 December 2025: No breakfast or lunch - but still a big plate for dinner. A much healthier Christmas 🎄dinner this year. A relatively small amount of roast lamb & Salmon, rice & peas, roast potatoes (oh dear done in goose fat), with lots of veg ... gravy yet to be added. All washed down with rum laced sorrel and red wine (Malbec).

The best part was that I only had to cook the rice & peas (using coconut oil, thyme, sea-salt and one small scotch-bonnet pepper).

Later there was shop-bought apple pie and custard and a few brandies and coke 😋

13/10/2025

Banana 🍌& Coconut 🥥 fritters

I think I’ve posted about fritters before. This is just my twist on a traditional - why not!?

Let me know, in the comment section below, if you want to know what I did here 👇🏾👇🏾

13/10/2025

Swede Chips - why not?

Recipe & Ingredients ….
Just cut up swede and sprinkle with whatever seasoning you have / want on it, then bake in a hot 🔥 oven for 30 minutes. Again, timings vary depending on the temperature of your oven and how you like them - hard, soft, caramelised or not etc!

Enjoy!

13/10/2025

🧅Onion Skin Tea - for clouds & flu 🤧

Let’s remember this remedy made from discarded onion 🧅 peelings .

A resident reminded me about this yesterday, for my cold / flu 🤧. It’s amazing how red in colour the brew is and how mild it tastes 👅. It is not oniony at all.

I had used 2 onions to make a chick-pea curry yesterday. So this morning I boiled the peelings and simmered for about 15 mins, then I drank a cupful when it cooled. Tonight I’ll consume the rest before bed 🛌

Depending on your personal taste you can add ginger 🫚 to the simmering onion skins and add some lemon 🍋 juice and / or honey 🍯 before drinking.

Enjoy … in fact you don’t have to wait until you are unwell with a cold. Why not wash and boil up your onion skins, to get the goodness therein, before you throw them away 👌🏾

18/07/2025

And guess which common tuber vegetables these are!?
Write your answer in the comments.

18/07/2025

One tomato a better than none.
3 x plants gifted by my neighbour Ferdie👌🏾

18/07/2025

Underneath the

08/01/2025

Happy New Year 🎆
I’m starting today with a of homemade soursop leave tea.

I think it’s best as a night time drink though… you can start floating if it’s too concentrated 🤣

31/07/2024

One single edible strawberry 🍓, for me, so far this year. It was yummy 😋
The snails feasted on the other 2 … 😝

25/07/2024

https://www.londonambulancecharity.org.uk/Appeal/heartstarters

Help us save more lives! The London Heart Starters campaign will fund hundreds of public access defibrillators in unlocked cabinets across London - especially in communities where they are needed most.

11/04/2024

Ratatouille!

10/03/2024