Amazing book Oklava, wonderful food from a Turkish-Cypriot Kitchen by Selin Kiazim.
Combining different regions close to each other, Mediterranean, Southern Europe and the Middle East. The cookbook from Selin Kiazim offers Turkish-Cypriot foods of wonderful flavour combinations.
The final Clever Guts pull out with the Daily Mail by Dr Michael Mosley, on Friday looks at how we make decisions about what to eat.
A radical thought here, quite significant! Who or indeed what makes the decisions of what to eat, do we make that decision consciously or is it a subconscious process? Or is it the millions of neurons in our gut? Is it the microbes in our gut?
Dr Mosley suggests the microbes have more control and influence over us than we ever thought.
Makes one think doesn’t it! (No pun intended here).
Scary to imagine that it may not be our choice – but our microbiome?
So if we have not so good microbes – does that predispose us to select foods that are in fact bad for our health? If we have good microbes then we crave foods that are healthy?
So the conclusion is that by feeding out gut, healthy gut-friendly foods, we are improving our health, our physical and mental well-being – reducing weight and benefiting in many ways.
Revolutionary – worth reading the book and grasping these concepts if it helps us avoid serious illness for as long as we can.
By the way the book is a fun read and really is full of great research and clear explanations. Dr Mosley has the gift of being an excellent communicator, he is inquisitive about our health and how to improve it… a great read!
Recipes today:
Lazy lemon and lime baked chicken
Seafood risotto
Turkey Bolognese
Crab linguine
Cheat’s cassoulet
Tuna and vegetable stir-fry
Anti inflammatory tumeric dressing
Cashew dressing
Oil and lemon dressing
Lemony vinaigrette
Hummus dressing
The great thing is the book is now available to buy!!
A large amount of very useful advice, guides and recipes can be found in the very well-written and amusing book – see the links to read more and consider buying the book as a reference volume to keep handy.
Curries are a great health food and can assist the microbiome, see the new books by Atul Kochhar and Dan Toombs for ideas on recipes, different curry powders and ingredients. Use Dr Mosleys approach to select the correct ingredients.
Out today – 18 May 2017: Dr. Michael Mosley The Clever Guts Diet and has a series of articles each day in the Daily Mail with free pull-out.
Dr Michael Mosley is famous for the Fast Diet and the 8-week Blood Sugar books.
He is fascinated with how our bodies work, disease, longevity and how to promote long-term and lasting health.
It is a laugh out loud read… although all the advice in the book will do us good , the laughter I had reading is was a therapy in itself!
In Thursday’s Daily Mail, the topic is how to repair a bothersome tummy and the recipes included today are:
Seaweed and Prawn courgetti
Avocado with smoked salmon
Tanya’s healing smoothie
Crunchy carrot and beetroot salad
Kippers with spinach and tomatoes
Happy gut chicken soup
Hearty beef and orange stew
Moroccan beetroot chicken
Classic squid Provencale
Mackerel or cod in salsa verde
Tummy-soothing bone broth
If you have IBS or ‘leaky gut syndrome’ – any stomach or bowel sensitivities – then there is good news, depending on our history, the book can help with advice on how to remove foods from the diet and slowly reintroducing foods to locate those that may be causing the illness. Check out the book for the guidance through this process.
The great thing is the book is now available to buy!!
A large amount of very useful advice, guides and recipes can be found in the very well-written and amusing book – see the links to read more and consider buying the book as a reference volume to keep handy.
Curries are a great healthy food and can assist the microbiome, but see the new books by Atul Kochhar and Dan Toombs for ideas on recipes, different curry powders and ingredients. Use Dr Mosleys approach to select the correct ingredients.
From Dr. Michael Mosley, author of the clever guts diet, due to be published tomorrow 18 May 2017.
In the article in today’s Daily Mail, Wednesday’s pull-out discusses preserved foods, such as Kefir milk, certain cheeses, yoghurt, sauerkraut and kimchis. These foods are natures probiotics for the human body.
These foods assist and aid our internal microbes, those that reside in the gut and the ones we wish to nuture, the good microbes, within our Microbiome.
Fermentation produces microbes that are beneficial for us, they are a diverse set and that helps us as well.
Dr Michael Mosley who is famous for the Fast Diet and the 8 week Blood Sugar books has a new release due 18 May 2017: The Clever Guts Diet and has a series of articles each day in the Daily Mail with free pull-out.
In Tuesday’s Daily Mail, the vegetables and the choice of foods we eat, variety being the spice of life.
We need to eat a rich and varied diet of foods and carefully select those that will assist our microbiome to help us. We can use colour to help us identify the best foods to eat with the most vitamins, needed phtyonutrients, organosulphurs and flavonoids.
So today the section from the book covers: Blue and Purple, White, Yellow Orange and Red, Green foods – a great help in selecting the best foods and how to get everything into balance.
In the book there is a large amount of very useful advice, guides and recipes – see the links to read more and consider buying the book as a reference volume to keep handy.
From the clever guts diet, a set of recipes showing the natural way to lose weight free pull-out in Monday’s Daily Mail.
Middle age can add weight to our bodies and a not so nice increase on the tummy front.
Fasting as in Dr Mosely’s best-selling books can and does have a role, however, did you know that the gut microbes in our digestive system can regulate our body weight, our energy levels, hunger signals we sense and how much our blood sugar spikes?
Atul Kochhar of Benares a Michelin-starred chef has 30 Minute Curries available this week the 18 May.
Curry is the nation’s favourite dish, not easy to ck properly at home. In his beautiful new book Atul Kochhar, BBC’s Great British Menu and Saturday Kitchen guides us to create simple curries in our own homes in just 30 minutes!
Dishes included showcase Atul’s trademark mix of using the best and freshest British produce and his modern Indian style, and ensure that this book is one you will cook from time and time again.
This is a book for curry lovers everywhere, Atul’s 90 curries, British ingredients, curries featured are accompanied by stunning photography by Mike Cooper.
Recipes – Get in shape for the summer with Joe Wicks @thebodycoach this Sunday in The Mail on Sunday 21 May a free 24 page recipe guide of delicious low-carb recipes free. Based on Joe’s new book he is back with Cooking for Family & Friends, where healthily food can be fun and inclusive for everyone at every occasion. Forget restrictive diets or low-calories, instead get to spend time cooking for more than one or two people.
New #cookbook 4 May 2017 The Curry Guy by Dan Toombs @TheCurryGuy is a new cookbook that offers 100 recipes that provide recipes to help us duplicate the real British Indian Restaurant curry that we buy every week at home. A time of visiting sites through-out the UK when Dan tasted different dishes and picked up tricks and tips for the best curry house recipes has been distilled down into this excellent book.
If you have heard of Dan – you may know he has a blog @TheCurryGuy where he has been blogging about all things curry and helping guide people to select and use the spices and ingredients to recreate the best curries.
Some of the recipes in the book include:
aloo gobi
samosas
saag aloo
pakoras
tarka dhal
tikka masala
korma
pickles, chutneys and raitas
bhaji
dopiazza
madras,
pasanda
rogan josh
dhansak
vindaloo
karai
jalfrezi
bhuna
keema
Such a good idea, we all like a good curry, but it is not always possible to recreate the authentic Curry House curry. So let Dan show you the way………………….and yes I bought it and I liked it very much! ☺️