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Beef and Fennel Stew

Beef and Fennel Stew

This recipe creates a quick and nourishing meal and is ideal to place in the slow cooker.

Although, it can easily be cooked in a large pot on the stove on low heat.

I normally chop everything up in the morning while juggling making breakfast or completing the tidy up post breakfast (which takes me a maximum 10mins). Once chopped and turned on, then voila dinner is ready by the end of the day!

INGREDIENTS

500g of organic/grass fed beef stew meat (ask butcher for their ideal cut to slow cook at the time)

  • 1 brown onion- diced
  • 2 fennel bulbs cored and thinly sliced
  • 1 tbsp. good quality butter
  • 2 carrots diced
  • 1 parsnip diced
  • 2 cloves of garlic crushed
  • 1 red pepper diced
  • 3 cups of bone broth (refer to bone broth recipe)
  • 1 tsp. of fennel seeds
  • 2 tbsp. of tomato paste
  • 1 tsp. of paprika
  • 2 bay leaves
  • 1 tsp. of thyme

 

METHOD

  • Chop and dice all ingredients. Given ‘mummy and life’ time contraints this part, I do very rough and quick- definitely not perfect sizes.
  • I do ensure I cut the garlic first and allow it to sit on my chopping board while I dice the rest of the vegetables. This allows the ‘allicin’ the garlic’s active healing properties, to ‘activate’.
  • I then place all ingredients into the slow cooker on low heat and cook for 8 hours.
  • Once ready, I normally serve with mashed potato- sweet or white- depending on what I have in the cupboard and
  • A big serve of steamed seasonal green

Enjoy this dinner and having the left overs for lunch the next day (in a flask- if out)

With love,

Jodie x

Gluten Free Banana Bread

Banana

 

Bananas are not only delicious prebiotic foods but they contain potassium, magnesium and the amino acid L-tryptophan, which supports the healthy production of our neurotransmitters, serotonin and melatonin.

The following recipe in addition to my Banana Pikelets,  are two of the many recipes I use bananas in that are Bees family favourites!  

 

GF BANANA BREAD

INGREDIENTS

  • 1 bread loaf tin- roughly 15-27cm in size
  • 4 ripe bananas
  • 4 organic eggs
  • 2 tsp of cinnamon
  • 1 tsp of nutmeg
  • 1 cup of banana flour
  • 1 cup of chopped walnuts
  • 1 whole walnut- to place on top of the bread 🙂
  • 1/3 cup of melted coconut oil
  • 2 Tbs raw organic honey (can use rice syrup or maple syrup)
  • 1 tsp of organic vanilla powder
  • 1 tsp of baking powder
  • Organic butter to grease / or sheet of baking paper

 

METHOD

  • Preheat your oven to 180 degree celsius.
  • Grease the bread loaf tin- or line with baking paper
  • Blend bananas, eggs, honey, vanilla and coconut oil- I use stick hand blender, until it becomes like a smoothie consistency
  • Then stir through baking powder and cinnamon, continue to blend
  • Add walnuts and then sift through the flour
  • Once stirred thoroughly, pour into baking loaf tin
  • Top it with a walnut
  • Bake in the oven for 30min or until a fork in the middle comes out clean
  • Allow to cool and serve when desired 🙂

We normally serve it with delicious grass fed organic butter- enjoy!!

With Love, Jodie

Jaffa Goodness- Wild Orange + Cacao Balls

Bliss Balls- sound exactly how they make you feel- blissful.

With that delicious nutritious hit of cacao and the uplifting, mood enhancing effect of doTERRA’s wild orange pure food grade essential, not to mention the jaffa taste with every bite, these balls are a must create!!

INGREDIENTS:

  • 12 pitted dates, soaked in boiling water for 10mins, then drained
  • 1 cup almond meal/ or ground blanched almonds
  • 1/3 cup coconut oil, melted
  • 1⁄4 cup raw cacao powder
  • 1tsp pure vanilla powder
  • 8 drops of doTERRA wild orange essential oil
  • 1 cup of desiccated coconut for coating

METHOD:

  • Blend dates, vanilla and coconut oil in blender until smooth
  • Add remaining ingredients and then continue to process until smooth
  • Pour mix out and form into a balls
  • Pour desiccated coconut on a flat surface and then roll the balls in the desiccated coconut until coated
  • Pop in fridge until set 🙂
  • Enjoy with a cup of nourishing herbal tea mindfully or shared with loved ones

With love,

Jodie

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