Since introducing a bit of bread into my diet six months ago I have been constantly battling with candida again, which once it flares up is incredibly difficult to get rid of. I have since removed the bread from my diet again, but once our bodies are harbouring a yeast infection it doesn’t just go [...]
http://www.petrasmirnoff.com/80-10-10_vs_rainbow_green/
I found this medical journal abstract today, and I thought it was very interesting. It explains the effect that almonds and walnuts have in improving the symptoms of PCOS. The people in the study ate about 50g of their allocated nut each day. Walnuts lowered cholesterol and increased insulin response by 26%! (Insulin response is [...]
http://www.petrasmirnoff.com/scientific-study-showing-almonds-and-walnuts-can-help-pcos/
I went out for a Thai dinner last week and I was blown away by the entree. It was iceberg lettuce leaves on a plate, some tamarind sauce and then an arrangement of raw apple, raw ginger, coconut, raw chillies and some nuts. It was great!! It wasn’t 100% raw, but it was the closest [...]
http://www.petrasmirnoff.com/the-power-of-simple-food/
One of the very first things I did when I moved to Melbourne was go shoe shopping for a pair vibram fivefingers. I’ve never really been into sports (although I do occasionally go through ‘spurts’!) but I have been admiring these shoes for some time and really wanted to try them out. I bought them [...]
http://www.petrasmirnoff.com/my-vibram-fivefingers-shoes/
Well recently I’ve spent so much time reading that I haven’t got any of my own writing to share. I tend to fluctuate between reading a lot and then jumping in and being very active with what I’ve read. That said, I realised when I woke up this morning that I could share some of [...]
http://www.petrasmirnoff.com/reading-reading/
Enoki mushrooms are available both in plentiful supply and quite cheaply at Melbourne’s Queen Victoria Markets so today I thought I would give them a try. Added to my salad I found them to be pleasantly mild and also very pretty. I think these little mushrooms will become a staple! So I looked online to [...]
http://www.petrasmirnoff.com/gourmet-raw-vegetarian-ingredients-enoki-mushroom/
My new kitchen is GREAT!! I’m working right near the Queen Vic markets so today I went out for lunch and bought a huge bunch of kale. Then with excitement at my find I bought some raw cashews and nutritional yeast and decided to make some kale chips at home. Here is a recipe from [...]
http://www.petrasmirnoff.com/a-happy-rant-about-raw-greens-and-kale-chips/
Here’s an idea that popped into my head during the week. I’m going to give it a go when I have my kitchen equipment back. My juicer / living food processor (Oscar Vital Max 900) includes a blank plate with different attachments for maxing different sizes of pasta. One of them makes a fat pasta [...]
http://www.petrasmirnoff.com/raw-snack-sticks/
Today I spent the day looking at apartments around South Melbourne and Southbank. I am looking for an apartment that is close or in the CBD, with a big kitchen, a big main bedroom and that has extra facilities in the complex like a gym and a sauna. Where I would be without my iPhone [...]
http://www.petrasmirnoff.com/search-for-an-apartment-continues/
Today I had lunch at Le Cru, a gourmet raw food cafe in Albert Park, Melbourne. It was a cold day today, and I was shivering as I made my way to the shop, but I was excited because I have never tasted raw gourmet prepared by a chef. I tend to eat very simply, [...]
http://www.petrasmirnoff.com/lunch-at-le-cru/
