Foodie With Purpose
Welcome to my recipe blog with tips for healthier eating
Healthy eating does not mean giving up all our favorite foods, but making changes to our diet by incorporating healthier ingredients while still preserving our traditional, cultural, and personal preferences. We need to create better, healthier eating habits we can maintain.
Interested in trying out some healthier recipes yourself? It is surprisingly easy to create healthy dishes to improve your and your family’s health, prevent chronic diseases, have more energy while also improve mood and get better sleep.
In the words of hippocrates:
"Let Food be Thy Medicine
and Medicine Thy food"
Extra Virgin Olive oil
The most important ingredient in most of my cooking is a high quality extra virgin cold pressed olive oil (an extra virgin avocado oil for frying). Fats are essential to our diet and keep us healthy, but not all fats are created equal.
Tip: Keep some olive oil in a bottle or other container and flavor it with herbs, garlic cloves, peppercorns and chili flakes. Use it for salads, for drizzling over soups and sauces, and for dipping with toasted sprouted or sourdough bread.
How can we prepare healthier meals?
Check out my tips and Find healthy and delicious recipes
Recipes
Here you can find my recipes, what I eat and what I prepare for my family. Food has to be delicious and be good for us. Food should not be poisonous but healing.
Eating Healthier
There are foods that should be avoided like highly processed foods and sugar. How can we do that without giving up taste? How can we maintain healthy habits?
Buying Food
With all the different choices, what should we buy? How can we read product labels without a science degree? What do we eat when we are on the go or when we travel?
How it Started
Foodie with Purpose
Cultural
influences
Growing up in a small town in the Black Forest, I learned how to cook from my grandmother and mother who were both amazing cooks, my grandmother in a more traditional way, my mother always trying out new exciting recipes. I do not want to miss my comfort food but now enjoy healthier versions of traditional German delicacies.
I married into a large Cuban family where food is always at the center of gatherings and celebrations. I will always remember sitting in my mother-in-law’s kitchen and learning how to prepare the traditional dishes. Cuban food has amazing flavors that I have come to love and which have a large influence on my cooking now.
Living in Miami for over 30 years, I have been able to enjoy dishes from many cultures from all over the world. There is no other place with this vibrant cultural diversity which is mirrored in its food. I cannot help but be influenced by these amazing colorful culinary treasures. Also, the eateries in New York City and Upstate New York have left an unforgettable impression on me, especially the artisan locally sourced delicacies of the Finger Lakes region.
Although I have never been to Asia, Asian cuisine is all around us. Especially the Japanese and Thai dishes with fresh fish and light coconut curries, Indian cuisine with its use of amazing spices, and the Korean restaurants in Ithaca, New York have been among my all time favorites.
Nutrition, Heart Disease and Diabetes
How to prevent or even reverse cardiovascular disease, type 2 diabetes, and kidney disease with the right foods
Mental Health and nutrition
How the increasing cases of mental health issues can be treated and sometimes cured with nutrition
All photos used on this website and in my blogs are either my own or from pixabay.com where gifted photographers make their photographs available royalty free. It is a welcomed source that often captures exactly what I want to show in a much more professional way. Thank you to all those wonderful artists.