It sounds like its going to be horrid but is really, REALLY good. Win.
For the last 2 weeks I’ve been living on juices of fresh vegetables and fruits. Yep, three times a day I fire up my juicer and that’s my day’s food sorted. Yes this sounds pretty weird but a few weeks ago I was feeling so poorly with a bug that was going around that I started to think a great deal about the body’s ability to heal itself.
I figured that my body wants to heal itself, indeed it does heal itself constantly throughout the day and in order to do this it needs me to give it the right nutrients. I decided to try eliminating any bad nutrients (ALL the funs stuff) and JUST give it the good stuff to see how that affected it, if at all.
The yellow courgette hummus is oh so pretty
It was pretty tough to start as I also write for Metro and am commissioned to create a recipe to accompany each episode of The Great British Bake Off so I’ve been baking a HUGE amount of delicious food that I wasn’t able to eat (OK so I HAD to try a bit).
The hardest may have been Pie Week as I made about 20 pork pies and they were all kinds of awesome including this gorgeous monster pork and piccalilli pie with homemade piccalilli…
This pie is the pie of the gods.
BUT I persevered and I feel SO much better for it. Every now and then I cheat and make something to eat, always raw and packed full of nutrients though and this courgette hummus has become quite a regular fixture on my “cheat” menu. I got the idea from a brilliant book called Eat Yourself Beautiful by Lee Holmes which I was sent earlier this year, it’s an absolutely brilliant book and I highly recommend it. In the book Lee uses blanched almonds as the base with the courgette but I prefer the Omega mix and played around with the recipe until I found something that worked for me.
Raw courgette hummus
- 1 medium courgette, grated (skin and all)
- 1 tablespoon tahini
- 1 handful Omega seed mix (available from shops, contains sesame, linseed, sunflower and pumpkin seeds)
- 1 clove garlic
- juice of half a lemon
- freshly ground black pepper
- pinch sea salt flakes
- bit of water to loosen if needed
Simply put everything into a food processor and blitz until smooth, sprinkle with some more Omega seed mix.
A Cottage Kitchen 