Family, Friends and Food

Ever wondered how to make your favourite recipe more healthful? My kitchen has been my sort of combination playground and laboratory for years! Actually, more than that, I think the kitchen is like my source of renewal and rebalancing. Whenever I need to get away from the computer and produce something tangible rather than intellectual, I wander out to the kitchen, go through my cookbooks and see what inspires me. Sometimes, I just go through cookbooks and don’t actually bake anything. The phone rings, a client emails for an appointment, or I might even get an idea for the book I am working on. But by that time, even if it’s just ten or fifteen minutes away from my usual work, my foray into the world of food seems to have worked its magic.

Not only do I love to experiment, but I have always looked for ways of making our favourite recipes as healthy as possible, which meant replacing a few basic, unhealthy ingredients with healthy substitutes. Finding myself with a few extra pounds and hypoglycemic, I got rid of all the “white foods,” namely white sugar, brown sugar (which is white sugar with molases and colouring), processed flour and all its derivative products (bread, commercial baked goods, pasta) and potatoes. I found that sugar and menopause don’t mix very well.
Actually, you’d be surprised as to how much you can cut back on sugar in most dessert recipes. In fact, started to cut back on all the “white stuff” several years ago

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