by indah | Feb 11, 2016 | The Body
Stuck on ideas for dinner tonight? Love your pizza but can’t have gluten? Love trying new recipes? Well we have the one for you…. Try this Cauliflower Crust Pizza, we did last night and loved it! What do you need… For the Base 1 Cauliflower 100g Ground Almonds 2 Eggs, beaten Dried oregano For the Topping 1/2 a large eggplant 1/2 a red onion, cut into wedges 1 Zucchini Prosciutto Olive Oil Fresh Basil leaves picked Bocconcini Mozzarella Chilli Flakes and salt to season Pesto How to make it… The base… Heat oven to 200C fan forced. Remove leaves from Cauliflower, de stem and cut into chunks. Using a blender or food processor blitz the cauliflower, you may have to do half and then the other half. Tip the cauliflower into a bowl and place in the microwave for 5-6 mins, if you don’t have a microwave then bring water to a boil and place the bowl into the water for 6-10 mins until the cauliflower is warm and soft. Place the cauliflower onto a clean tea towel, when cool enough squeeze excess water out of the cauliflower. In a clean bowl place the cauliflower adding in the ground almonds, eggs and spices of your choice (we used dried oregano). Line a tray with baking paper, place the cauliflower onto the centre of the tray, using your hands spread the cauliflower into a 30cm round pizza base, making the edges slightly thicker. Bake this for 15-18 mins until golden brown. The toppings… Once all toppings are cut up, place them into a pan with olive oil,... read more
by indah | Oct 8, 2015 | The Body
Why are the gluteal muscles so important? What is the role that they play? Why do they become weak? How do I strengthen them? The Gluteal muscles are super important as they help stabilise your pelvis. Having a strong stable pelvis is extremely important to help prevent and reduce the risk of injuries from running, sporting activities, gym work and everyday life. Improving the strength in these muscles are important to help you with your training, running, squat technique and low back pain. Do you always strain your hamstring muscle? Is it always one side in particular that you feel the pain in? Well, what this can mean is that your gluteal muscles may be weak. When your glutes are weak your hamstring and low back are over working. Its like being at work, you are being very productive fulfilling your role but your colleague is not. To meet the deadline you have to overwork to overcompensate finish your colleagues work. Well, this is similar to what happens in our body with our hamstring muscles and low back, we over work these muscles resulting in pain in the lower back and repetitive hamstring muscle strains/sprains. Why is it prone to being weak? We live in a world where we spend so much time sitting down. We sit down to eat breakfast, sit down in the car to travel to work, get to work and sit at our desk, go to our lunch break and sit down to eat, then jump back in the car to get home from work, when we get home what do we do? It has... read more
