Nutrition

Three Great Foods to Reduce Bags Under Your Eyes

1. Asparagus: One of the best diuretic veggies there is, have you ever noticed how eating asparagus can make your urine smell?! This is nothing to worry about, as it's simply caused by an acid in asparagus reacting to cause the odour. As a powerful ...

E is for Edamame Hummus

I love absolutely Japanese food, and always order a bowl of steamed edamame (soybeans) with a pinch of chilli and salt, when I’m at a favourite Japanese restaurant like Yamamori. It makes such a tasty and filling snack or starter.  Soy has become a...

Alkaline Eating

You may have already heard a little bit about the concept of the alkaline diet, made popular in recent years by a number of high-profile celebrities. It can make a huge difference to your health and beauty to follow the principles of alkaline eating, and ma...

Avocado, Spinach and Millet Superfood Salad

Happy Saturday!! I'm just home from a tough class at Pilates Plus Dublin, and am really craving a big, nourishing salad. This avocado, spinach and millet superfood salad is an easy recipe I put together for lunch recently, and found it really filling and en...

Pumpkin And Pecan Bread

Hope you all had a great week? I’m so happy that Friday is here again and I can catch upon some much-needed sleep! This week has been really busy with work, plus I officially launched my first event - Rosanna’s Beauty, Food and Fitness Workshop in Dublin’s ...

Slow-Release Carbs for Long-Term Energy

Tired all the time? I find that many people have grown so accustomed to having chronically low energy and a slump mid-afternoon, that they barely notice anymore and often continue to reach for sugary or fatty foods like biscuits or chocolate, to boos...

Spiced Pumpkin Muffins

Hope you all had a brilliant - and spooky - Halloween! Anyone have a pumpkin still lying around that escaped getting carved up over the weekend? I had one leftover, so decided to make a batch of spiced pumpkin muffins for my family on Sunday... and they...

Rosanna’s Beauty, Food and Fitness Workshop

I am so excited to finally reveal what I've been working on for the past few weeks... my first ever Beauty, Food and Fitness Workshop! For so long, I had wanted to organise a really interesting and interactive event, where I could meet readers, ans...

Fancy A Date?

It's the fourth week of my new A-Z Superfoods series for The Herald, and this week I'm discussing the many health benefits of dates - a natural sweetening superstar... This stalwart of healthy treats is nature's finest sweetener, and an ideal replacemen...

Baking Brownies With The Happy Pear

I recently had the pleasure of teaming up with Stephen and David Flynn, the twins behind the phenomenally successful The Happy Pear. And yes, they're really that happy, friendly and cheerful in real life! We spent a fun morning together baking a ba...