Self Isolation or Super Detox Retreat at Home

Just a simple cough or sniffle may find you at home and keeping away from people for a week or two. An ayurvedic detox yoga retreat in a tropical location is an impossible dream—particularly as you can’t travel to India…

Vegan, Gluten-free Nut Roast and Stuffing

This nut roast it utterly delicious. A celebration of nuts and seeds with gluten-free bread crumbs. The first half can be used as a stuffing for vegetables such as mushrooms or peppers. Simply add linseeds and walnuts to make a…

How to keep your cool on a summer holiday

Although we look forward to our summer holidays all year, it’s surprising how stressful having fun and relaxing can be! Driving, travelling, hold ups and airport security take a heavy toll. It’s easy to lose your cool and break the…

Aboriginal Sacred Knowledge

Here I interview Tjanara Goreng Goreng, author of the no-holds-barred memoir “A Long Way From No Go” where she reveals in breath-taking honesty why Aboriginal sacred knowledge (how to bring the rain and look after the land) isn’t shared. But…

The Ultimate Vegan Barbecue – Tandoori Special

You might think Christmas Lunch is the main time when the family’s vegans and meat-eaters are going to meet head on. Just when you thought it was safe to come out of the kitchen… the Summer Barbecue Season presents itself.…

Keith’s Multi Coloured Kaleidoscope Soup

This is one of my best creations so far… the fabulous multi-coloured kaleidoscope soup.   First make a wonderful orange soup as the base. I made one with split peas, squash and sweet potatoes. I put the following ingredients in…

Keith’s multi-coloured raw, vegan desserts with ginger, orange and peppermint

I was delighted to meet Katherine de Watterville recently at the Vegan Life Show as I’m currently writing a vegan cookbook and she introduced me to a fantastic range of therapeutic-grade essential oils. The great thing about these oils is…

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Pumpkin seed tales and delicious Pumpkin Soup recipe

Pumpkins, a type of squash, have been cultivated in the Americas since ancient times. The pumpkin seed, like the hemp seed, is high in good-quality protein. Both are also high in iron, zinc, magnesium and omega-3 essential fatty acids. Herbal…

European cooking styles in relation to Ayurveda

Ayurveda has its roots in the Indian sub-continent, so it’s only natural that most Ayurvedic food is based on the Indian-style of cooking—using herbs and spices from that area. Culturally India has a strong tradition of vegetarianism, meaning the cuisine…

Fats & Oils – The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

Knowing which fats and oils to eat (and which to avoid) has become ever more confusing with so many different opinions having been expressed over the last few decades. I remember being told to eat margarine instead of butter. Then…

Raw, Sugar-free, Gluten-free, Vegan Christmas Pudding

This delicious Christmas Pudding is totally raw, vegan, sugar-free and gluten-free. It will amaze your friends because it is so tasty and absolutely packed with healthy fats. A key ingredient is coconut oil. It’s highly nutritious and rich in the…

Vegan Mixed Bean Chilli

A meat-free meal basically requires replacing meat with vegetable protein. The best plant-based protein sources are pulses (beans and lentils), although many people tend to be a bit wary of them, thinking you have to be up all night soaking…

Vegan, Sugar-free Battenberg Cake

Here are my very own vegan and sugar-free cake recipes cut up into long rectangles and made into this super healthy Battenberg Cake. The raw beetroot and 100% fruit jams give a vibrant colour and natural sweet taste without any…

Ayurvedic Scotch Broth

You may not think of Scotch broth as a typical Ayurvedic dish—but to me it is! That’s because it is made with the seasonal and local ingredients that are perfectly suited to the climate here in Wales, England and Scotland.…

Help! I’m Teaching Indian Cooking to a Gujarati Group

We have all heard of the phrase ‘Taking coals to Newcastle’ but how about ‘Taking chapattis to a Gujarati cooking group in Bolton?’ This week I dared to do just that… and my chappatis weren’t even that round! I was…

Keith’s Crispy Dosa Recipe

You might think fast food is a relatively recent phenomenon, and that the idea came from the USA. But the South Indians have been at it for thousands of years! Unlike a lot of western fast food—South Indian fast food…

Find your Ayurvedic Constitution

Finding your own constitution type is a great way to know more about yourself—what diet, yoga and lifestyle will suit you best? Advice on yoga, healthy diet can be very contradictory and confusing. Ayurveda makes it personal, and finds the…

Cooking with Love

In life, all you need is love.In the kitchen, it’s cooking with love. ‘Cooking with Love’ means just that—turning an everyday activity into something magical. What’s the secret? Simply that the way you cook (and eat) is just as important…

From Malta with Love

Looking for a warm, central location for our world wide team to meet up (from the UK, Europe and Australia), we though where better than Malta? Located in the centre of the Mediterranean, Malta is derived from the words ‘medi’…

The Australian ‘Cooking with Love’ Story

The story of the Australian and UK books starts together. They were both conceived in my mind about 6 years ago (see Cooking with Love Story). The story of the Australian and UK books starts together. They were both conceived…

Ayurvedic Sweet Potato Curry

Today at the Dru Yoga Centre in Snowdonia I made the Ayurvedic Sweet Potato Curry a recipe from our new book ‘Cooking with Love’. This was the result enough for 40 people. It is a nice light vegetable dish, meaning…

Keith’s Ayurvedic 6 Taste Spice Mix

Magic Powder In Ayurveda, there are six tastes: sweet, salty, bitter, sour, pungent and astringent. A meal should ideally contain all of them to improve digestion and stimulate your whole being. Western diets are generally too sweet, too salty and…

Keith’s Warm Ayurvedic Salad

We all know that it’s great to eat raw food because it’s so full of vitality, vitamins and enzymes. But unless it’s really warm weather, raw food can seem cold and unappetising. With Keith’s Ayurvedic warm salads you can get…

Keith’s Australian Adventures 1: The Story of the Platypus

Earlier this year we had an amazing trip to Australia. One of the highlights was visiting Healesville Sancuary near Melbourne and it was there I met my first real platypus. The Story of the Platypus We also found a beautiful…

How to Make a Swan, from an Apple!

Twenty minutes down the road from where I live, at Llanfairfechan (that’s Welsh for ‘The Little Church of St. Mary’) there are a pair of friendly wild swans who I’ve trained to eat out of my hand. They enjoy celebrity status in…

Make an Appointment with Yourself: Self Massage

Everyone loves a massage, and an oil massage is one of the fastest ways to get grounded and balance your ayurvedic doshas. Massage is often a rare treat though, it’s great to have one done for you, but my philosophy is…why wait? Twice…

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Detox Pathway: How to detox your five essential organs

Ageing isn’t as inevitable as we might feel. In fact, a lot of the slowing down process (joints seizing up and general decrepitation) isn’t always just down to the passing of years. It can be that our organs, tissues and joints…

Christmas Recipe 3: Delicious Lemony Brussell Sprouts & Parsnip & Potato Mash

Final part for the Christmas Veggie Recipes for this year. My Brussel Sprout dish is really a miracle because even lukewarm and soggy sprouts taste great with this recipe. The Saffron Potato and Parsnip Mash is perfect too because the…

Food is a form of art… da Vinci would be proud!

Creative and imaginative people always expand into new areas of thought.  Where to next for plant-based food? Being vegetarian or vegan has for decades been a part of alternative culture. Now it is becoming quite normal which is great news!…