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Cooking for my family | Pumpkin and Butternut Squash Soup Supercharged |Using my Greenheart Organic Vegetables
Did I mention how much I love Greenheart Organic Farms who are based in the UAE already? This week I thought to share with a receipe that I use with the children using butternut squash and pumpkin! It’s the LONG weekend so here are ways to get inspired to cook with the kids. We have blended the concept from two well-known cookbooks, Gwyneth Paltrow’s My Father’s Daugher, and Honestly Healthy by Natasha Corrett and Vicki Edgson. My son, Luca, is crazy about cooking so although he isn’t a fan of this soup, it is a way of making him like appreciate the ingredients and enjoy his ‘own cooking.’
The health benefits of these supercharged ingredients in this pot of soup are countless from high levels of Vitamin A in pumpkin, pumpkin can also reduce cancer risk, fresh turmeric can help with inflammation, butternut squash delivers ample dose of dietary fibre, has significant amounts of potassium and vitamin B6.
Ingredients
2 onions chopped
2 Cloves of garlic
1 tablespoon of garam masala (or curry powder)
Half a large butternut squash chopped
Half a pumpkin chopped
1 carrot chopped
1 red chilli de-seeded
Fresh Turmeric
2 pints of organic vegetable stock
Coconut oil
Salt and pepper to taste
Optional: Sprinkle with chia seeds before serving
Instructions
Sweat the onions in the coconut oil, then add the garlic, garam masala powder, fresh turmeric, carrot and chilli and fry until fragrant. Then throw in the butternut squash and pumpkin and ensure that all the spices are mixed in well, and when they start to soften gently pour in the vegetable stock to ensure all the root vegetables are covered. Then add salt and pepper to taste. Allow to simmer for 30 minutes, and cool for 15 minutes. Then simply blend, and left overs can be frozen.
If you are cooking for children 6 months – 1 year, this can be mixed with brown rice, with no salt or chilli added.
Greenheart Organic Farms Opening Hours: 11:30am – 5pm except Fridays
For more information visit the website www.greenheartuae.com
PLEASE VOTE FOR US | Seashellsonthepalm.com has been nominated by Stylist Arabia in their Parenting Category for their Social Media Awards
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The Viel family are so thrilled to have been nominated by Stylist Arabia’s special panel of Judges in the Parenting Social Media Star of the Year category.
We would be thrilled if you could just take some time out to vote for our family. I know that you have supported us, and it would mean a lot to us to have your vote. Voting closes on 6th May 2016.
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Love, Edwina, Maurizio, Luca, Sofia, Lorenzo and Leonardo xxx
My favourite artwork for 2016 | Arkham Creative | Tariq Sharif
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37 year-old Artist Tariq Sharif was born in Bahrain, but grew up in the UK, and he is creator and owner of Arkham Creative, who was previously a marketing manager for a telecom company in Bahrain. Tariq recently moved to Abu Dhabi and discovered his creative talent to essentially make portraits from ‘shredded paper’. We talk to him about his newfound talent that has been very popular with family portraits. They make beautiful gifts for birthdays, Mother’s Day, and even a perfect present for grandparents.
What inspired you to start the first piece of your incredible art work?
It all started from a printing problem I had back in 2013, there was a certain color I wanted for a print but couldn’t get match I was looking for, so I took the colored paper that I wanted and decided to cut out what I wanted with blades and to my surprise, it turned out better than I thought, then I was rushed to the hospital because I have cut myself a couple of times and had some blood loss, blades are very sharp by the way.
Can you share with us if you could pick 5 celebrities in the world to create your paper art on?
Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Michael Jordan, Robin Williams, Emma Watson & Femka Jensen
Name three of your favourite artists?
Gary Larsen (comic artest), Todd McFarlen (Spiderman & Spawn Comics) Jim Lee & Frank Miller ( comic book artists)
You also do children’s portraits, how long is the process if a mum is interested in ordering one?
The process begins with the mum selecting her favorite picture of her child, I will revert back with a demo of what the image will look like, after that it will take about 2-3 days, the time lapse video will also be sent at the same time
What is the best way to get in touch with you if potential clients are interested in the art?
Potiential clients can contact me direct on my Instagram channel @arkhamcreative or they can email me direct Arkhamcreative@gmail.com but if you really want to get a discount contact me through Seashells on the Palm to take advantage on getting your hands pieces of art that a truly personal.
Watch Tariq’s creative art from The Links on Youtube