KEY POINTS:
It's all about health today. There's not much point slathering on exorbitantly priced skin creams or investing in expensive treatments if your diet's not right. I have chosen some highly beneficial ingredients to incorporate into the recipes today so we can all glow from within.
Firstly a smoothie. I know that doesn't sound terribly exciting, but when you combine fresh mint leaves, lime juice, wheat grass and kiwifruit, whizz it for a minute, pour it into a glass, then drink, you can feel the goodness running through your veins.
Wheat grass is a bit of a fashionable wonder food and rightly so. It is one of the best sources of living chlorophyll, so is high in oxygen, benefits your brain, is a superior detox agent, purifies the liver, is anti-bacterial and even relieves eczema, tooth decay and sore throats. Marvellous stuff. Combine this with the kiwifruit - one of the top fruits for nutritional density (more vitamins and minerals per gram and one a day is all you need to fufill the daily recommended vitamin C intake).
Nectarines are often referred to as a fuzzless peach, but they do have a distinctively different flavour.
High in vitamins A and C, and potassium, the flavour works well with that of delicate poached chicken, watercress and crunchy roasted macadamias in a delicious salad.
A simple salad of melon and pawpaw finishes things off - whether you add the sesame praline or not is up to you.
Pawpaw is full of iron, copper and magnesium while melon is packed with potassium, folate and vitamins B6, A and C.
Chef's tip
Wheat grass can be bought from health food and organic fruit and vegetable stores as a living grass.
Trim with scissors to add to a smoothie - by doing this you should be able to use each plant at least three or four times.