Food – Dr Franca

Christmas Festive food 2023.

**Merry Christmas 2023. Healthy Living with Franca.**

Healthy Living with Franca. Christmas menu. On the Table : Roast Turkey, Roast Beef, Roast Pork, Roast Lamb, Pigs in blanket, Pasta and potato salad, vegetable salad, cole slaw, Roast fish, prawn cocktail, and chiken sticks, vegetable springroll, duck stuffing, barbeque chicken sticks.

Christmas and festive food

Post author By Ngozi Franca Okoye

Dr Franca shares some Christmas and festive food ideas.

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Healthy living with Dr Franca -Roast dinner recipe.

Post authorBy Ngozi Franca Okoye
Post dateNovember 12, 2020

Roast pork dinner recipe is featured in the healthy living with Dr Franca.

Ingredients

a. Pork chops

b. Potatoes

c. Vegetables (broccoli, cauliflower, carrots and spinach (optional) )

d. Onions, garlic, ginger

e. Spices (curry, thyme, basil, nutmeg, cinnamon, black pepper)

f. Olive oil, sesame oil, salt and fresh red hot chili pepper and seasoning

g. Beef gravy granules.

Directions

First is to marinade the pork chops with a mixture of olive oil, sesame oil, chopped onions, garlic, ginger, cinnamon, basil, thyme, curry, nutmeg, chopped red hot chili peppers, salt and seasoning.

Peel the potatoes and cut in chunks. Put them in an oven tray and sprinkle olive oil, sesame oil, salt and black pepper then put in preheated oven for thirty minutes.

Place the pork chops in an oven tray and put in preheated oven for thirty minutes.

Boil the broccoli, cauliflower and carrots

Put some granules in a bowl and pour in hot water

Chop the washed spinach

Voila our delicious roast is ready.

Bon apetit

Christmas Meal

Healthy living with Dr Franca: Plantain and egg stew. A nice delicious heart warming meal.

Ingredients

Plantain

Eggs

Vegetable oil

Fresh Tomatoes

Onions, spring onions

salt, pepper, seasoning

Directions

Cut the plantain and fry in the vegetable oil until golden brown.

Place a saucepan with vegetable oil on the heat, add salt. Chop the onions and to the oil. Beat some eggs together in a plate and add to the frying onions. Stir several times. Add the chopped spring onions and fresh tomatoes and scotch bonnet peppers. Stir and add seasoning. The plantain and egg stew are ready to be served.

HEALTHY LIVING WITH DR FRANCA: PLANTAIN FRITTERS

Post author By drfranca
Post date July 1, 2020
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PLANTAIN FRITTERS

INGREDIENTS

2 VERY RIPE PLANTAIN (BANANA WOULD DO IF THERE IS NO PLANTAIN).
2 EGGS
2 SPRING ONION
2 TOMATOES
1 SCOTCH BONNET PEPPER
100 GRAM OF FLOUR
A DASH OF GROUND CRAYFISH OR PRAWN
OIL
SALT AND SEASONING

DIRECTIONS

Mash the plantain in a bowl with a fork
Chop the spring onions, tomatoes, scotch bonnet peppers into cubes.
Mix with the mashed plantain
Beat two eggs into the plantain mix.
Add the flour and mix together.
Add a dash of crayfish or prawn and mix.
Then mould with spoon and shallow fry in hot oil until golden brown.

Comfort food

Spicy Veges

Tacos

Delicious Breakfast

Lasagna

Salads

Christmas Cake

Birthday cake

Ice Cream

Delicious simple ice cream

Delicious burger

ARE YOU GETTING THE RIGHT BALANCE IN YOUR FOOD?

Post authorBy drfranca
Post dateJune 9, 2020
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ACID AND ALKALINE FORMING FOODS Do you know if you are in balance? How do we know?

We need 70% alkaline and 30% acid forming foods

ACID FORMING	ALKALINE FORMING
Cranberries	Apples
Blueberries	Apricots
Prunes	Avocados
Plums	Melons
Rhubarb	Mangoes
Onions	Dates
Garlic	Figs
Horseradish	Grapes
Hot peppers	Paw paw
Pumpkins	Peaches
Other squashes	Pears
Most cereals	Olives
Wheat cereals	Oranges
White flour	Grape fruits
Brown rice	Lemons
White rice	Limes
Basmati rice	Currant
Oats	Berries except acid’s ones
Rye	Pineapples
Lentils	Cherries
Kidney beans	Kiwis
Broad beans	Pomegranates
Meat	Dried fruits
Poultry	Ripe bananas
Fish	Almonds

ACID FORMING	ALKALINE FORMING
Eggs	Pecans
Dairy products	Chestnuts
All other nuts	Fresh coconuts
Coffee	Cashews
Beer and spirits	Pine nuts
Green bananas	Sunflower
	Sesame
	Pumpkin seeds
	Poppy seeds
	Millet
	Buckwheat
	Quinoa
	All Soya products
	Molasses
	Wine
	All natural vegetable oil eg. olive and sunflower oil
	Live yogurt
	Butter milk
	All vegetables
	All sprouted foods eg. Barley, beans, alfalfa etc

HEALTHY TASTY FOOD BY DR FRANCA

Post authorBy drfranca
Post dateJune 24, 2020
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