He was feeling much better by the second day, courtesy of a pretty tough immune system and also a great example of allowing a fever to do its work. But while he was lounging about like a Roman Emperor and no doubt figuring out how he could possibly eek out another day at home, he noticed some squishy bananas and released his inner chef. Pretty soon he was asking for help to create a recipe incorporating the bananas.

So together we sat down and penned a recipe guided by him. We don’t always see eye to eye with recipes – he’s a bit more exploratory and likes to play with combinations, whereas I play it a bit on the safe side.

We had fun creating the recipe, though, then hung out together in the spring sun in the backyard afterwards (still in our PJ’s) enjoying the fruits of our labour.

The raspberry sauce he had his heart set on making to pour over the cake didn’t quite work, but it didn’t stop him from enjoying his creation.

Many of the ingredients in this recipe can be sourced from my one-stop-favourite, organic wholefoods online store, The Wholefood Collective. They go to great lengths to ensure everything they source is amazing quality, they stock all my favorite products and I don’t even have to leave the house! Oh and the cherry on the cake is they donate profits to improve food security for vulnerable Aussies.

Here are some of the ingredients you’ll need:

Wholemeal spelt flour
White spelt flour
Baking powder
Cinnamon
Bicarbonate of soda
Desiccated coconut
Salt
Rapadura sugar

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RUSTIC BANANA, BLUEBERRY AND COCONUT CAKE

Ingredients

• 1 cup wholemeal spelt flour
• 1 cup white spelt flour
• 2 teaspoons baking powder
• 1 teaspoon cinnamon
• 1/2 teaspoon bicarbonate of soda
• 1/2 cup desiccated coconut
• pinch salt
• 1/2 cup rapadura sugar
• 2 eggs lightly beaten
• 3 large mashed bananas
• 125 grams melted butter
• 1 cup frozen blueberries
• 2 tablespoons natural yogurt

Instructions

• Preheat oven to 175 degrees celcius
• Grease a cake tin and line with baking paper
• *Blueberries don’t get added until the end
• Mix all the dry ingredients together
• Beat all the wet ingredients together
• Fold the wet ingredients into the dry ingredients until just combined then add the blueberries and gently stir through
• Pour into cake tin and pop in the oven for 4o-5o mins or until skewer does out clean
• Leave to cool in pan for 5 minutes before turning out onto cake rack
• THERMOMIX INSTRUCTIONS
• Mash bananas in mixing bowl 5 sec/speed 6
• Add softened butter (not melted) and sugar and beat 20sec/speed 4
• Add eggs and yoghurt and mix 10sec/speed 4
• Add remaining ingredients and combine 20sec/speed 4
• Pour batter into a bowl and gently fold in blueberries
• Pour into cake tin and bake 40-50 minutes
• Pour into cake tin and pop in the oven for 4o-5o mins or until skewer does out clean
• Leave to cool in pan for 5 minutes before turning out onto cake rack

When life is busy, smoothies are super-quick to make and are highly nutritious.

The better news is that, as a handy breakfast option for the whole family, they leave unhealthy breakfast cereals packed full of superfluous sugar and other nasties in their wake.

Free radical-fighting Vitamin C plays a leading role in this smoothie, and your immune system and energy levels will thank you almost as much as your taste buds.

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Anti-Oxidant Smoothie

Prep Time 3 minutes

Cook Time 2 minutes

Total Time 5 minutes

Servings 1

Author Brenda Janschek

Ingredients

• 1 cup raspberries or blueberries, nb: blueberries make it sweeter
• 1/2 teaspoon lemon zest
• 1 teaspoon lemon juice
• 1 tablespoon mint or basil
• 1/2 cup mixed cashews, chia seeds, and linseeds
• 2 tablespoons grass-fed gelatin optional, l but awesome for all it’s incredible benefits to our skin, elasticity, wrinkles, cellulite, great for weight loss, teeth and hair and nails, digestion, arthritis just to name a few
• 1 teaspoon coconut oil optional but adds a good. healthy fat
• 200 mls coconut water or almond milk or filtered water
• Lots of ice

Instructions

• Whizz all the ingredients in a blender and serve

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Enjoy!