Pumpkin Bread


By Joanna Rushton, photograph by Helen Coetzee

This is one of my favourite gluten free vegetable based breads, it’s moist, toasts well and is divine with chicken liver pate.

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Basic Stock Recipe


By Jo Rushton

Chicken broth contains type 2 collagen that provides nutrients for joint, cartilage and immune health, providing rich nutrients like gelatine and glycine, it helps to protect and heal your gut lining, skin and digestive tract.

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Slow Cooked Pears


By Jo Rushton

Ingredients: Serves: 6 1 ½ cups dry red wine ½ cup of marsala 2 star anise 1 cinnamon quill 6 medium pears 3 thick strips lemon rind 3 thick strips of orange rind 4 cardamom pods

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  • Breakfast…the first meal of our day should be filled with amazing goodness like this, which we enjoyed at our Bhavana Wellness Retreat. Think out of the box, salads, chicken liver pâté, roast pumpkin, pumpkin bread and some brekky greens. We are loving seeing our local cafe’s changing their menu’s to more all day grazing, where breakfast and lunch are interchangeable. This food provides you energy and all the essential nutrients to keep you going for the day. #breakfast #breakfastideas #wellness #wholefoods #guthealth #wellnessretreat 📷@hels72
  • When you are feeling a little under the weather, nothing better than fish pie 🥧
  • After a good winter pruning, it’s Mulberry season @bhavanabyronbay This beautiful tree is flourishing and providing us with sweet fruit for our desserts #mulberry #wholefoods #organic #paddocktoplate
  • After the success of our Bhavana Spring Wellness Retreat, and following some requests for dates for our next retreats, we are excited to announce our calendar for next year. We have 3 retreats planned for 2019 with @jorushton and @helenpadarin. The first being Bhavana Wellness from March 8th-10th 2019, Bhavana Couples Retreat from September 6th-9th 2019 and our Bhavana Mother & Daughter Retreat September 28th-29th 2019. For further information please click the link in our bio to our website, and select ‘Retreats’ for all the details. #bhavanabyronbay #wellnessretreat #guthealth #wholefoods 📷@hels72
  • We would love to welcome you to @bhavanabyronbay where you will be nurtured and nourished with simple and delicious food. For us food is such an important part of life, it is the foundation of our health, it brings us together with our loved ones, it is creative and inspiring. If you have a love for food or cooking, or only at the start of your journey with food, please come and visit us, we have many classes from our signature Taste of Bhavana, Nourish Your Gut and Spanish Tapas. For more information please click the link in our bio. 📷@hels72
  • Chicken liver pâté a favourite @bhavanabyronbay. With so many incredible health benefits like iron, folate, B12, vitamin B6 & A, zinc, protein, choline and cholesterol - an essential nutrient for our body. With all of these amazing nutrients we put this delicious food on our list of super foods. We have it on toast for breakfast or as a great mid afternoon snack with some raw organic carrot and celery sticks. If you are interested in the recipe, click the link in our bio and you will find it in our blog under recipes. #wholefoods #organicchicken #brookletsprings #guthealth 📷@hels72
  • Country town cafes and inspiring food...Okonomoyaki Waffle - sweet potato and herb waffle with caramelised pork, Japanese BBQ sauce, poached egg and herb salad @lechecafeyamba #localfood #wholefoods #supportlocal
  • Poached fish and mushrooms in Asian Broth, one of the nourishing lunches on our Spring Wellness Retreat menu with @jo_rushton_ and @helenpadarin #bhavanabyronbay #guthealth #adrenalfatigue

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