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Isaac Whitton, Quirky Cooking

Isaac’s Story, and Quirky Cooking for Gut Health

Well, here I am, finally sitting down to share Isaac’s story with you all, and [...]

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Recipe Index

Recipe Index

Do you meal plan? Some weeks I’m all over it and

Do you meal plan? Some weeks I’m all over it and some weeks I am all over the place 😂 but it always feels so good to have meals planned and some prep done for the week ahead. Here’s some meal ideas for your next planning session from my cookbooks and my blog! 🤗

SHF: Simple, Healing Food
LCF: Life-Changing Food

✨ Beef & cabbage soup with pumpkin & cauliflower mash (SHF) There’s a similar recipe for the Thermomix in my first cookbook, Quirky Cooking) 😍

✨ Gypsy stew (LCF) Use rainbow chard in this one for a beautifully colourful result!

✨ Beef & vegetable stir fry (SHF) The recipe in SHF is a GAPS version - the beef is simmered in stock first until tender - or you can do a traditional version with the beef seared in a very hot wok. (The reason for simmering in stock on GAPS is to make it easy to digest for a sensitive gut.)

✨ Roast chicken with herbs (Best ever roast chicken from SHF) This is chicken that has been used to make a short-cooked stock, then roasted in the oven on high heat to crisp the skin - deliciously tender!

✨ Joye’s potato bake (blog - link in bio for blog or search ‘quirky cooking potato bake’) Comfort food!! Layers of sweet potato & English potato baked in a creamy, lemony sauce.

✨ Roast beef & veg - I don’t have a recipe written down for this, I just cook the roast in a covered roaster with a little water, carrots, pumpkin, herbs, salt & pepper on 160C for about 3-4 hours depending on size of roast. Serve hot or cold, sliced thinly.

✨ Lamb Massaman curry (SHF) Use the Beef Massaman curry in SHF but swap beef for lamb. Yum!!

✨ Meatloaf & roast veg (SHF) We had visitors for dinner the other night and served this meatloaf with roast pumpkin and carrots, roast potatoes (topped with butter, sour cream and grated cheese) and broccoli, then roasted plums & berries with lemon yoghurt cupcakes for dessert. 😍 (Also added pate to the meatloaf for extra goodness.) An easy and yummy meal to pop in the oven when you have a few mouths to feed and don’t want to spend all day in the kitchen!! 🤗

Happy cooking! x

https://quirkycooking.com.au/blog/

#mealplanning #quirkycooking #meals #menu #wholefood #glutenfree #grainfree #nourishingmeals

“No matter what’s happening in the world, have

“No matter what’s happening in the world, have your tea, make your list, plan your food preparation, read to your children, wash the clothes, do something creative for everyone and be a light for your home.” - Lydia Sherman, Home Living blog

Birthday cupcakes and time with family ❤️ because even if the world is a crazy place, love makes a difference.

Lemon yoghurt cake recipe on my blog (tap on the link in my bio) and in my Simple, Healing Food cookbook. Honey-lemon-buttercream: 250g cold, salted butter, 250g honey, 60g lemon juice, 1/8 tsp vanilla powder - blend until creamy.

https://quirkycooking.com.au/2018/05/lemon-yoghurt-cake-grain-free/

#lovemakesadifference #bethelight #makeadifference #lemoncupcakes #grainfree #glutenfree #yogurt #oliveoil #birthday #baking #quirkycooking #quirkyfamily

Happy Saturday, everyone! ☀️ I’m a bit quiet

Happy Saturday, everyone! ☀️ I’m a bit quiet here this week as I’m in Brisbane for a workshop and spending some time with my son, Isaac. 😊 The workshop was so much fun, I’ll post some photos soon for those who missed my stories (I mostly just post there when I’m busy), but just wanted to say hi and don’t forget to take some time out this weekend to let your soul catch up to your body! 🤗❤️ I’m enjoying the sunshine and recharging for the week ahead 🤩 Have a great weekend! x

#rest #recharge #sunlight #ocean #naturetherapy #timeout #brisbane #margatebeach

{Cooking Workshop & Dinner} There’s still time t ${Cooking Workshop & Dinner} There’s still time to book in to my cooking workshop on the Sunshine Coast! Come cook with me at @bar_deco_yandina on the evening of the 10th April - next Wednesday 🎉🎉 - and enjoy dinner together afterwards. MENU: Starter: Seed crackers with Beetroot Labne Dip & Macadamia Pesto Soup: Prawn & Mushroom Soup Salad: Tex-Mex Chicken Salad with Yoghurt Dressing Main: Moroccan Lamb Cutlets with Roasted Pumpkin Wedges & Tahini Sauce, Fermented Veggies Dessert: Cinnamon Apple Turnovers with Russian Custard Ice Cream Take-home treat: Chocolates with freeze-dried fruits, & Pumpkin Spiced Nuts All dishes are gluten free, grain free, soy free, refined sugar free, and most are dairy free. If you have special dietary needs, let me know and I will make sure you are catered for! FOR MORE DETAILS & TO BOOK IN: Tap on the “Workshops” link in my bio, or DM me 😊 https://quirkycooking.com.au/live-cooking-workshops/ #quirkycooking #cookingworkshop #cooking #guthealthy #healingfood #foodismedicine #healthyeating #cookwithme #guthealth #jowhitton #sunshinecoast #yandina #bardeco #cookingclass$

{Q&A with @elysenutritionist } I am gaining weight

{Q&A with @elysenutritionist } I am gaining weight...what am I doing wrong?

“If you feel like you’re eating well, moving your body, doing all the right things but the weight is either creeping on or not shifting, then there can be a few underlying factors.

1. Liver health - I see this very commonly in woman. If your liver is not detoxing properly, then hormones can be out of whack, toxins will build up, and weight will pile around the middle.

2. Not eating enough and/or not eating in the morning - most women I work with are not getting enough protein, especially in the mornings. Make breakfast more like dinner!

3. Stress - of course I have to mention this one! Stress can be challenging to avoid, but if you are rushing around all the time in fight or flight, you are telling your body to store.

4. Leptin resistance - have your leptin levels tested, if they are high and/or your reverse T3 is high, then you are likely leptin resistant and need to resolve this to lose weight (we will help with this in The Gut Health Formula for those that need it!)”

- @elysenutritionist

If you would like to join Elyse and I for our well-loved ‘The Gut Health Formula’ program, we’ll be starting on tomorrow!

In this program we focus on getting to the root cause of health issues and how to resolve them, always finding ways to make health very accessible for families. We focus on simple steps, and ditch the overwhelm for a better way. There’s only a few more days to register, so dive in and join us for 8 weeks of live support, with 12 months access to all our program materials. (And yes, you can watch replays of all the live videos and save the content for future reference. 🙂)

Tap on the link in my bio for more info or to join in!

https://quirkycooking.com.au/gut-health-programs/

#weightloss #naturalweightloss #healthyeating #healingfood #guthealth #reducestress #hormones #liverhealth #detox #nutrition #elysecomerford #jowhitton #theguthealthformula #wellbellyhealth #quirkycooking

Easter Sunday breakfast… bacon, egg & spinach pi

Easter Sunday breakfast… bacon, egg & spinach pies - super quick, easy & yum! (Cook 18-20 mins on 180C, recipe in Life-Changing Food.) And yes, there was chocolate afterwards 😁 but savoury breakfast first! ✨ Happy Easter ✨

#breakfast #eastersunday #easterbreakfast #baconandeggs #baconandeggpie #savourybreakfast #lifechangingfood #quirkycooking

{Q&A with @elysenutritionist} Will a parasite clea

{Q&A with @elysenutritionist} Will a parasite cleanse help me sort out my gut issues?

“Parasites would be so simple if it was a matter of ‘kill them then they won’t be a problem anymore’. This is just absolutely not the case. Parasites are a response to an environment that is toxic and needs cleaning up. Parasites are invited into the body because there are toxins and inflammation, they ‘eat’ this to help the body clean this up.

Unfortunately, parasites do come with their own symptoms as well. If we just try to kill them, they will release all of the toxins back in to the system, and often make people more sick. We will not have changed anything about the toxic environment but rather just made it worse, and the parasites will return as the body will keep inviting them in.

To truly deal with parasites, we need to focus on actually cleaning up the body, the reason they were invited in. When we do this in clinic, we see parasites coming out in our clients stools without even touching any herbs to address parasites. We just need to get to the root cause!”

- @elysenutritionist

If you need help working through health issues and improving your gut health, join @elysenutritionist and I for ‘The Gut Health Formula’ program, starting April 2nd, just after Easter! In this program we focus on getting to the root cause of health issues and how to resolve them, always finding ways to make health very accessible for families. We focus on simple steps, and ditch the overwhelm for a better way. There’s only a few more days to register, so dive in and join us for 8 weeks of live support, with 12 months access to all our program materials. (And yes, you can watch replays of all the live videos and save the content for future reference. 🙂)

Tap on the link in my bio to learn more and join us in April!

https://quirkycooking.com.au/gut-health-programs/

#parasites #parasitecleanse #healing #healyourgut #guthealth #guthealthmatters #foodismedicine #rootcause #rootcausehealing #theguthealthformula #elysecomerford #jowhitton

For all the Fred fans out there… 😁 (Fred wasn

For all the Fred fans out there… 😁 (Fred wasn’t in the mood for having his photo taken today 🤣)

#nophotosplease #mylittlebuddy #cockatiel #petlovers #workfromhome

Q&A with @elysenutritionist of @wellbellyhealthcli

How’s the Easter Baking going? I’m a bit slow

In case you haven’t managed to make any hot cros

In case you haven’t managed to make any hot cross buns yet…. Here’s my Gluten-free, dairy-free hot cross buns recipe! I’ll be making these today and I’ll share the videos on my stories 😊 (Yes I know, I’m a bit late, but it was a bit of a hectic week - yay for a long weekend!! 🎉🎉)

Recipe: https://bit.ly/glutenfreehcb (or tap on the link in my Insta bio then on this video)

Need grain-free hot cross buns? Here you go! https://bit.ly/grainfreehcb (Recipe also in my Simple, Healing Food cookbook)

Happy Easter ✨

#hotcrossbuns #glutenfree #dairyfree #grainfree #norefinedsugar #happyeaster #quirkycooking #recipes

{Q&A with @elysenutritionist} Elyse Comerford (Int

{Q&A with @elysenutritionist} Elyse Comerford (Integrative Nutritionist & GAPS Practitioner) has offered to do some Q&A posts for us! (You’ll also find questions I’ve answered for her over on her page @elysenutritionist 😊)

Question: How do I work on gut health with histamine issues?

“Ultimately, histamine issues are a gut issue, so working on your gut health is essential to resolving it. If you have been put on a low histamine diet, you would look at a gut healing diet and think, ‘Meat stocks, ferments - I can’t do those, they are high histamine!’. Really, it is all about the how. When we prepare gut healing foods properly we can keep them low in histamines. These foods are essential (along with other things like liver and detoxification support) to resolve the root cause of the histamine issues so you are not stuck in a cycle of just restricting with no resolution in sight. Almost every client we work with has some level of histamine intolerance, and we are always able to implement a gut-healing diet with them and see this histamine intolerance improve, so they can broaden their diet again without symptoms.” - @elysenutritionist

If you would like to join Elyse and I for our well-loved “The Gut Health Formula” program, we’ll be starting on April 2nd, just after Easter!

In this program we focus on getting to the root cause of health issues and how to resolve them, always finding ways to make health very accessible for families. We focus on simple steps, and ditch the overwhelm for a better way. There’s only a few more days to register, so dive in and join us for 8 weeks of live support, with 12 months access to all our program materials. (And yes, you can watch replays of the live videos if you can’t attend live, and you can save all the content for future reference. 😊)

Tap on the link in my bio to learn more and join us in April!

#theguthealthformula #guthealth # histamine #histamineintolerance #healingfood #foodismedicine #elysecomerford #nutrition

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I love it when my readers are as excited about my recipes as I am, and want to share them! I only ask that if you do share my recipes on your own blog or on social media, you only share an excerpt or link, not the entire recipe. Full and clear credit must be given to Quirky Cooking with a link back to the original content. If you’d like to share one of my photos, please contact me for permission. Thank you! Jo x

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