Ilana Estelle is a mental health and wellbeing advocate who combines educational insight with her personal experience of living with physical, mental, and emotional disabilities.
She holds diplomas in Counselling, Diet and Nutrition, Nutritional Therapy, Psychotherapy and Counselling, and Stress Management. Through her writing, Ilana supports others in navigating their emotional, mental, and physical health challenges.
In addition to writing for The CP Diary, her work has appeared in healthy lifestyle magazines.
Ilana is also the author of three books: Cerebral Palsy: A Story – Finding the Calm After the Storm, Spirituality, Healing and Me, and Survival: The Covid Years – Time for Change.
Iced Watermelon Cooler 'Recipe adapted from BBC Good Food' Ingredients: 550g/1lb 4oz watermelon, peeled, seeds removed, chopped ¼ lemon, juice only Iced-cubes fresh mint leaves, to serve Method: Mash the ...
Golden Fig and Honey Oat Bake "Adapted from a simple baked oatmeal recipe by Minimalist Baker" Refined – Sugar free Ingredients: 2 cups rolled oats 1 tsp cinnamon ½ tsp ground ginger 1 tsp baking powder Pinch of salt ...
I actually made some of this today, following this recipe. I ground up the cumin and coriander seeds by hand and then mixed them with the other spice that I bought ready ground. I then sprinkled it on some tuna steak before cooking it on a griddle.
It tasted amazing! Not at all hot and spicy but smokey and exotic! Or maybe that's just because I made it myself!
I actually made some of this today, following this recipe. I ground up the cumin and coriander seeds by hand and then mixed them with the other spice that I bought ready ground. I then sprinkled it on some tuna steak before cooking it on a griddle.
It tasted amazing! Not at all hot and spicy but smokey and exotic! Or maybe that's just because I made it myself!
I'm not sure, but everything tends to taste better, differently when we make it ourselves!
I have tried Shawarma spice mix in the past, but tend to stay away from it now because it has a tendency to make me ill.