FOOD & DRINK
Detox your New Year with simple lifestyle changes How does your list of resolutions look
this year? Gym membership – check, eat- ing more greens – check, quit smoking – check, only one glass of red a week – check… this list can be rather long- winded but one crazy night out with a bestie you haven’t seen in ages can throw a spanner in the works. And then another night of drinks with a client and suddenly, we are in April, haven’t used the gym membership and are gorging on a secret stash of the kids cream-filled Easter eggs! Just this past weekend I hosted a New
Year brunch for family and friends. I wanted to make the best of Indian and British cuisines – so I made the famous chicken tikka masala, cottage cheese and
Recipes
Indian Buttermilk ¼ cup water, ½ cup Indian yogurt, cumin, ¼ green chilli, salt to taste.
Whip this together in a blender for a 5-6 seconds and enjoy after any meal. Makes one glass.
Cacao Almond Bliss Balls
½ cup almonds, ½ cup of oats, 1 cup pitted Medjool dates, 2 tbsp cacao powder, 1tbsp milled flaxseed 1-2 tablespoon edible organic coconut oil.
Mix the flaxseed and coconut oil and keep aside. I then toast oats and almonds together for 5 minutes stirring continuously. Now pulse the dates and flaxseed and coconut oil mixture till really finely ground. Add the roasted almonds, oats and cacao powder and pulse a few times till the mixture is finely ground. The mixture should bind together. Take 1 tablespoon of the mixture and roll into balls. If for some reason your mixture is dry you can add some coconut oil ½ tablespoon at a time. Store these balls in an airtight container in the fridge for a week or a month in the freezer.
spinach and some typical British mince pies, a turkey with stuffing and cranberry sauce and lots of bread & butter pudding and trifle. Ahem, there may have been some Indian desserts as well. All I have to say in my defence is that I am a baker by profession. Needless to say, there were tonnes of
leftovers. I promised myself that all the extra desserts and mince pies would be distributed to family, friends and co-work- ers. But raise your hands if you’ve wan- dered into the kitchen at midnight, sneakily dipping a spoon into the leftover trifle or licking the last spoonful of cranberry sauce that isn’t fitting into the fridge. One of my favourite quotes from
Bridget Jones Diaryis “December 25, weight 140 pounds plus 42 mince pies. Alcohol units, oh, thousands. bugger off!” That’s how I feel in January when the media goes into a frenzy about various detoxes and diets. There is the Master Cleanse (drinking tea and water spiked with cayenne pepper and maple syrup), 5 Bite Detox (eating 5 Bites for lunch and dinner and skipping breakfast), skinny tea detoxes and many more magical detoxes and diets all promising you to drop the holiday weight in a jiffy. Who does not feel like starting the
New Year a few pounds lighter? It is even more pressurising to lose the extra pounds if you have a vacation with friends
16 FOCUS The Magazine January/February 2019
www.focus-info.org
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