Susan Jane White

Try Susan Jane White’s food Lego! This fun, easy DIY noodle bowl recipe will build you up

This recipe is known as noodle bowls in our house — we use home-made broth to carry as much flavour and nutrition as we can muster.

"Nuts are superheroes." Walnut butter aubergine cigars. Photo: Susan Jane White

Go nuts for heart health with Susan Jane White’s recipe for walnut butter aubergine cigars

Nuts are superheroes. Some of the largest health studies in history — the Nurses’ Health Study, the Physicians’ Health Study, the Adventist Study and the Iowa Women’s Health Study — have consistently shown that snacking on raw nuts can lead to a significant reduction in heart disease. Given that heart disease is one of Ireland’s biggest killers, perhaps we need to start flirting with more nut-ritious recipes?

"Adding reishi powder to this creamy cacao sauce seems to considerably improve the chocolatey buzz." Photo: Susan Jane White

Try Susan Jane White’s pear-fect functional mushroom recipe — kids will love what the shrooms do to chocolate sauce!

Like flimsy paperclips to a magnet, food trends mesmerise me into submission. Yep. I love exploring the hipsteria behind a trend’s conception, and why they grow wings or hit the tarmac burning.

"The glucosamine and chondroitin in bone broth can help stimulate the growth of new collagen, reduce inflammation and repair damaged joints." Bone Broth. Photo: Susan Jane White

Beef up your health and use up food scraps with Susan Jane White’s nourishing bone broth recipe

One for my gym nerds, health divas and zero-waste warriors: bone broth is a nutrient-dense drink that your system will celebrate.

Susan Jane White’s awesome anti-inflammatory butternut, turmeric and garlic soup recipe. Photo: Susan Jane White

Boost a gut with Susan Jane White’s awesome anti-inflammatory butternut, turmeric and garlic soup recipe

This week’s soup is zippy and powerful. Expect fireworks from the fresh ginger, turmeric and garlic, all dancing in a bath of beta-carotene (hello, squash!).

Fermented Pak Choi Photo: Susan Jane White

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Susan Jane White’s easy fermented pak choi recipe will turbo-charge your microbiome

There are so many swanky reasons to look after your gut. When our gut health is strong and we have a dynasty of do-gooders waiting to be deployed, we can break down and synthesise our food with greater success. This means we access the nutrition from our food more readily. Yes, please.

"Matcha has lots of L-theanine, an amino acid believed to highjump the blood-brain barrier and hotwire our mood." Matchavocado cream. Photo: Susan Jane White

Avocado meets its perfect matcha in Susan Jane White’s recipe for a heavenly and healthy vegan dip

Green tea does not normally excite me. It tastes like I’m drinking a mown lawn. But I rather fancy all the nutritional fuss, and have alchemised various ways of sneaking it into my orbit.

Aquafaba Chocolate Cookies. Photo: Susan Jane White

Satisfy chocolate cravings with Susan Jane White’s aquafaba cookies recipe and boost your good bacteria too!

This week’s cookie recipe is guaranteed to launch a cyclone of giddiness. Each crumb feels like a dance-off between my synapses. I could quite honestly vaporise with happiness.

Smashed Chickpeas. Photo: Susan Jane White

Boost your gut bacteria in a tasty way with Susan Jane White’s scrumptious smashed chickpeas recipe

Knitting more plant-fuelled choices like legumes into your diet will not only earn you tweeting rights to Billie Eilish, but also reward your gut with a private prebiotic party.

"While a bit of chickpea juice is hardly going to save the planet, I’ve come to realise that reducing food waste is a mindset, honouring both ourselves and the Earth." Aquafaba meringues. Photo: Susan Jane White.

Susan Jane White’s aquafaba meringue recipe is vegan, zero-waste and only costs a euro to make

This vegan meringue recipe will tripwire your tastebuds. It’s made without egg whites; instead, the liquid from a can of chickpeas is whipped into velvety peaks. Wizardry!

"Repurposing old bread is one of the easiest habits to acquire this year, and one of the most satisfying." Breaded aubergine with feta cream. Photo: Susan Jane White

Use your loaf to cut food waste with Susan Jane White’s breaded aubergine recipe — it’s a fab veggie breakfast, too

Zero-waste cooking is not about penny-pinching. At its heart, it’s about honouring the earth. And your inner David Attenborough.

"If that discarded food were a country, the ‘United States of Food Waste’ would be the third-highest emitter of greenhouse gas in the world, after China and America." Susan Jane White's zero-waste rice pudding. Photo: Susan Jane White

Susan Jane White’s zero-waste recipe for a comforting rice pudding that helps combat climate change

The United Nations Environment Programme estimates 8pc to 10pc of global greenhouse gas emissions are a result of food that is not consumed — in other words, binned.

Baked rice paper rolls. Photo: Susan Jane White

Save money and the planet with Susan Jane White’s tasty rice paper rolls recipe

Happy New Year, my friends! Here’s hoping 2023 will be your healthiest, happiest year yet. Let me help you make it exactly that. This month, we’re focusing our wallets and bellies on food waste. It is my psychic intention both will benefit enormously!

"If you want to avoid pogoing around the kitchen in a pathological rage on December 25, save this recipe and pop a butternut squash into your shopping trolley beforehand." Hasselback Butternut with sage and hazelnut. Photo: Susan Jane White

What happens if a vegetarian comes for Christmas dinner? Susan Jane White has the perfect recipe

One of your dinner guests this Christmas is bound to be vegetarian, but hasn’t told you yet. Just ask any bookmaker.

White chocolate and blueberry torte. Photo: Susan Jane White

Susan Jane White shares her secret to perfect desserts with this no-bake white chocolate and berry torte recipe

Nowadays, I’m not so keen to fire up the oven for just a single cake. Here’s a no-bake option for when you fancy keeping ovens off. This white chocolate and blueberry torte can be stored in the freezer weeks before serving, making busy days deliciously calmer.

"Gram for gram, one serving of gojis can deliver more vitamin C than those boastful oranges." Susan Jane White's goji berry granola. Photo: Susan Jane White

Gift goji berry goodness to gym bunnies (or anyone!) this Christmas with Susan Jane White’s gorgeous granola recipe

Looking for a touch of Maria von Trapp this Christmas? Get yourself some empty jars and candy-striped ribbon. Goji berry granola is so simple to make; it ticks the sustainable gift-giving box, and tastes outrageously good.

"This smoky cannellini kale stew is also crazy-delicious with caper yoghurt made from finely chopped capers, parsley and black pepper, stirred through some natural Greek yoghurt." Photo: Susan Jane White

Think beans are boring? Try twerking your tastebuds with Susan Jane White’s cannellini and kale stew recipe

Something to twerk your taste buds? And get your cardiologist applauding? Yep, it’s beans and greens.

Ricotta & Garlic Portobellos. Photo: Susan Jane White

Make the carnivores jealous with Susan Jane White’s recipe for budget-friendly, mouthwatering mushroom burgers

When the carnivores in our house want burgers, this is what we veggie queens tuck into: big, steaky mushrooms filled with velvety ricotta.

"At just €3 a kilogram, sesame seeds are so much cheaper than Botox." Photo: Susan Jane White

Susan Jane White’s dark chocolate sesame bars recipe will help you quit the biscuits — and it’s menopause friendly, too

I love sesame for its irresistibly chewy smack. Inside each teeny seed is a freight of plant-based calcium. Woo-hoo!

Chestnut and sage pasta. Photo: Susan Jane White.

Susan Jane White’s creamy, comforting chestnut and sage pasta recipe makes a quick and easy meat-free meal

Eating cannot resolve our problems. This dish won’t pay the gas bill, it can’t undo the red sock in the white wash, and it couldn’t possibly solve your teenager’s hormonal mayhem. But what it can do is soothe disappointment and massage frayed nerves. That’s where food can help.

Kids will love these spooky banana ghosts — Susan Jane White’s gut-healthy Halloween recipe is scarily good!

Fancy sneaking a freight of prebiotics and probiotics into your childer on Halloween night? No spells or incantations?

"This chickpea dish might be the ‘big answer’ to eating less meat; it has your recommended daily allowance of veggies in just one sitting." Photo: Susan Jane White

Embrace a meat-free meal with Susan Jane White’s veggie-packed Moroccan chickpea recipe

United Nations scientists are urging us to help in the fight against global warming by switching to plant-based meals. Nope, they’re not asking you to give up meat, or to fall in love with tofu, they’re simply asking us to flirt wildly with vegetables and to give beans another chance. The planet will be happier, as will your wallet and your health insurer. I’m here to help you with that hat trick.

Susan Jane White’s easy pepper soup is the perfect midweek recipe to pep up your mood and your immune system

There’s hardly a better way to celebrate autumn than by making bubbling vats of soup, especially this pepper soup. It’s the only vegetable that sounds like an exciting substance.

Cheddar and chive filo tart. Photo: Susan Jane White.

Try Susan Jane White’s easy Cheddar and chive filo tart recipe for a Greek-style lunch getaway

Those crafty, clever Greeks have over 20 legendary ways of using filo pastry. I have three. For some inexplicable reason, filo pastry terrifies me. I’m mindful of getting over my daft neurosis because filo pastry can make vegetarian cooking a total cinch.

"Involtini are rolled bundles of prosciutto, or thinly cooked courgette and aubergine for vegetarians. Inside, you can pack anything from breadcrumbs to meat to cheese." Ricotta Involtini. Photo: Susan Jane White.

Susan Jane White’s easy recipe for Italian ‘cosmic comets of deliciousness’ is ideal for veggies or meat-lovers

Involtini are cosmic little comets of deliciousness, snuggled into a rich tomato sauce. Hailing from Italy, involtini are rolled bundles of prosciutto, or thinly sliced, cooked courgette and aubergine for vegetarians. Inside, you can pack anything from breadcrumbs to meat to cheese.

Cinnamon sugar porridge. Photo: Susan Jane White.

Support your local farmers with Susan Jane White’s sensational cinnamon sugar porridge recipe

If food is medicine, a daily bowl of porridge must be the cheapest and tastiest laxative on the market! Yep, think of porridge as a leaf-blower for our pipes. Add some flaxseed for extra diesel.

Beet and bean hummus. Picture by Susan Jane White.

Susan Jane White’s beetroot hummus recipe is perfect for superfood lovers – and Peppa Pig fans!

Beetroot firmly puts the super into superfood. (OK, so it might put the toot into beetroot too, but let’s not speak of that for now). This purple root veg has long filled the bellies of mankind with boisterous antioxidants and fibre. After a plate of roasted beets, I can almost feel the fabulousness tap dance through my system.

"I have ‘wholefoodied’ Mary Berry’s legendary coffee cake and reduced the sugar by 50pc." Picture by Susan Jane White

Susan Jane White’s recipe dupe is a healthy, wholefood take on Mary Berry’s iconic coffee cake

I have ‘wholefoodied’ Mary Berry’s legendary coffee cake and reduced the sugar by 50pc. It can be tricky to find alternative ingredients that will reliably perform like their counterparts, but hey, I’m more Mary Poppins than Mary Berry.

Tricolour Noodle Salad. Picture by Susan Jane White.

Susan Jane White’s five-minute noodle salad is the perfect make-ahead recipe you’ve been waiting for

Noodle salads are causing hipsteria in kitchens from Belfast to Ballydehob. Their popularity arose from a combination of the recent blissful weather, and the appeal to our deliciously lazy side (this recipe comes together in just five quick minutes). Totally tasty and satisfying, by all accounts.

Creamy kale and crouton salad. Picture by Susan Jane White.

Susan Jane White’s vitamin-rich creamy kale and crouton salad recipe will have Gwyneth Paltrow squeaking with envy

All hail kale! This dark-green vegetable is outrageously simple to grow and acts like a keg of vitamins straight from your patio pot. Just snip and cook all year round! Or tumble the tender young leaves into a creamy dressing.

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