Don’t let your happiness depend on anyone, self-love is a must!
Updated | By JacPod
In this week’s Mindful Living, Izelle
Hoffman chats to well-known Aesthetics doctor Melinda Burger about self-love, self-care and the role of aesthetics in both.
Self-love and self-care are not the same as being selfish. We need to love ourselves first in order to flow over to others - it’s like the saying: ‘you can’t pour from an empty cup!’
But what
if you don’t like what you see in the mirror, or have something that you are
highly insecure about? Perhaps it’s something you got mocked and teased at about
at school.
In this week’s Mindful Living with Izelle
Hoffman, we meet Dr Melinda Burger to
talk about some solutions from her perspective as an Aesthetics doctor.
“I think the
best part of what I do is to see how I change people on the inside by doing
what I do on the outside,” says the Pretoria-based doctor on the podcast.
ALSO LISTEN TO: Health food guru meets junk food lover
In the podcast, Dr Melinda reveals her favourite recipe from Izelle's book Mindful Living. We've got it below.
Almond
blueberry crumble
Prep time: 10 minutes
Baking time: 30 minutes
Serving: 1 large crumble 6-8
Filling
400g fresh or defrosted frozen blueberries
¼ tsp Oryx desert salt
1 tsp caramel essence
Crumble
120 g almond flour, plus 1 Tbsp extra for dusting
50 g flaked almonds
50 g pitted dates, chopped
1 tsp ground cinnamon
½ tsp Oryx desert salt
100 g almond butter, melted
2 Tbsp raw honey, plus extra for drizzling
1 tsp vanilla essence
1. Preheat the oven to 180 °C. Spray a 23cm ovenproof dish with non-stick cooking spray and dust with 1 Tbsp almond flour.
2. In a large mixing bowl, combine all of the filling ingredients. Transfer to the prepared dish, spread out evenly and press down gently.
3. Place all of the crumble ingredients in another mixing bowl and, using your fingertips, blend until the mixture has a large crumb-like texture.
4. Spread the crumble evenly over the blueberries and bake for 20–25 minutes. Remove from the oven, drizzle over some honey and bake for another 5–10 minutes.
5. Serve warm or
cool.
For a Peachy Twist!
Add some freshly cut dessert peach slices to the blueberries before
covering with crumble for a Peach and Blueberry alternative! (use 1 large or 2
small peaches)
Why do we
make use of these ingredients:
Cinnamon
Cinnamon is loaded with antioxidants, lowers blood sugar levels and
has a powerful anti-diabetic effect. It is anti-inflammatory, antiviral,
antifungal and antibacterial.
Blueberries
Blueberries are one of the best antioxidant foods, second only to
baobab powder. I always have frozen blueberries in the freezer and baobab
powder in the pantry to bake blueberry crumble or make a nutritious breakfast
smoothie.
Almonds
Whether in the form of milk, flour, butter or flakes, almonds are packed
with nutritional benefits. They boost the immune system, help repair damaged
skin, help prevent cancer, reduce the risk of osteoporosis and have alkalising
properties. They are also a source of vitamin E, magnesium and high-quality
protein.
Dates
Dates are rich in selenium, manganese, copper and magnesium, all of
which are required to keep bones healthy and prevent conditions such as
osteoporosis.
Oryx Desert Salt
What is the purpose of adding salt during cooking? It’s to enhance
flavour, right? So why not start by using a good-quality salt to do the job? Sundried and unrefined with no additives will bring out the best in
your food in the healthiest way possible.
Raw Honey
Salt needs sweet and vice versa to enhance taste and flavour. So when you add sweetness, choose a sweetness that has a healing effect on your body and health. Raw honey is antiviral and antifungal, and contains powerful antioxidants. Its helps ward off allergies, stabilise blood pressure and balance blood sugar levels. It also boosts the immune system and promotes digestive health.
Find more episodes from Mindful Living with Izelle Hoffman in the channel below.
More about Izelle:
Lifestyle chef and cookbook author Izelle Hoffman is a rising star in South Africa's culinary firmament. Raised in a farming environment that placed great importance on good food, she’s convinced that eating correctly adds significantly to a life of overall wellness.
Izelle is well known to local
television audiences as the lifestyle chef on a number of programs and she has
also been food editor on a range of fitness magazines. She is author of Mindful
Eating.
Follow Izelle on social media:
@IzelleHoffman on Instagram
Izelle Hoffman Lifestyle Chef on Facebook
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