Easy Tasty Chickpea Casserole

Easy Tasty Chickpea Casserole

It sure is Winter and if like me I can at times become very de-motivated to cook, or have a flash of inspiration and cook like mad. 

This quick and easy chickpea dish has become a favourite. Yes it is vegetarian, but it it packs some favours. I have made it for my meat loving husband, added some grilled lamb, and a serving of Israeli Cous Cous (which is the larger variety). Also delicious and hearty with roasted pumpkin, red onion and garlic. If you have any, finish off with grilled haloumi and chopped fresh coriander. Yum! I have also made this with out the chilli and my children have inhaled it. 


Ingredients

Olive oil - splash
Red onion- finely chopped/sliced
Fresh ginger - 2 teaspoon- grated
Green chillies- 2 - chopped- seeded
Salt- 1 teaspoon
Chickpeas- 1 tin- drained ( you can stretch the recipe to two tins)
Cumin- 1 teaspoon
Turmeric- 1/2 teaspoon ( optional)
Freshly grounded pepper
Lemon juice- 1 tablespoon
Tomatoes- Punnet of cherry or a tin of chopped
English spinach
Water- 80ml of water depending how many chickpeas you use. 

Method

1.Splash of olive oil in a non stick pan on a medium-high heat
2.Add in Garlic, ginger,salt, onion and chilli
3.Once onion has soften, add in spices, pepper and chickpeas,plus          water- cover and simmer for 5 mins or until water evaporates.
4.Add tomatoes and cook for another 2 mins
5.Remove from heat and add the lemon juice, check seasoning and fold in spinach.

Delicious! 

Recipe is sourced Lifestylefood- Bill Granger, with some personal changes. Thanks Bill! 

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Listening Meditation

Are you listening? As well as making yourself comfortable for your yoga practice, whatever yoga style you desire, mediation is usually part of the sequence. The breath with your moment and your drishti. The inner anchor that you always come back to. It isn't only about sitting peacefully still. Recently I have used a mudra as a focus point especially in those challenging extended side angle asana((utthita parkonasana), when the legs have to be amazingly aligned and grounded. Please play and share this wonderful listening mediation from Mark Coleman, who is prAna's Mindful Living Ambassador. Yoga Style Australian online Yoga Style- Yoga clothing and accessories for men and women.

Beautiful prAna

PrAna is our supplier of yoga clothing for men and women to our Australian online Yoga Style. From the US, they have been well established for nearly 20 years. They practice sustainable practise of business, making us beautiful high quality yoga, active, Pilate's, casual, you name it gear. Prana also clothe the fast growing rock climbing community.
The clothes are made with 88% Supplex and 12% Lycra. Designed for all types of yoga.


Please enjoy this beautiful video clip of and her bio ( borrowed from the prAna website) 


Shiva Rea- The Power of Yoga


Shiva Rea, M.A. is a yogini firekeeper, sacred activist, and leading innovator in the evolution of vinyasa flow yoga integrating the tantric bhakti roots of yoga, Krishnamacharya's teachings and a universal, quantum approach to the body since she began teaching twenty years ago. She leads retreats and pilgrimages worldwide and has served as a creative catalyst to bring community together including Yoga Trance Dance for Life, Moving Activism for 1,008,000 Trees, Yogini Conferences and the worldwide Global Mala Project.

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New Name, same game

New Name, Same game.... Same same but different.


We have been the Australian online Yoga Gear for a year now, and have worked hard and created a great following, supplying beautiful men and women's yoga clothing online. However, as all good things are, they are often become generic. When I started Yoga Gear I was so excited to have created something out of nothing. I had absolutely no experienced in online, apart from Facebook. A website site was created to sell yoga clothing and off we went. Six months later I discovered another website by the same name. It has just been launched. Beautiful clothes, well designed website but the same name! I had no idea that that would happened. I knew the domain .com.au had been taken, but had also been dormant for 3-4 years. So I went for it.


So after a year. I felt that it was unimaginative to have two websites in the same market, and alas, the same town and even the same acquittance's. Time to move on, dedicate my efforts on my website and my community. So Yoga Style was created. We are same same but now different. 

Both web address work, arriving at the same destination www.yogastyle.com.au / www.yogagear.net.au 


Thank you for your support, and looking forward to really getting into dressing you all in style! 


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Namaste

New Year- Old Friends

I was lucky enough  to spend this New Year 2012 with old friends. Very old friends. We're not old in years but old in time, some of the friendships started when we were babies.

We are on "holiday" in the UK and spent time in the town I grew-up in. I am very lucky that I get to visit every 2 years and we are also greeted enthusiastically and it makes the trip so worth while. On NY's day, we joined our friends down at Milford Beach on the South Coast of England, and "they" went for a NY dip. As my husband sdaid- "oh, we forgot our sun screen". ....there was a howling wind, and it was so grey, and so bleak... I could not help but laugh with my friend Helen, how as children we came to the beach and hurt our feet on the stones and went home with tar on our skin. She laughed back, and said "we still come down here!" They all now have beach huts, the traditional ones, some coloured and fancy, some tired and weather beaten. But the spirit was there.

One of the friendships I have is with Nicki. Nicki lived across the field from me as kids. She turned up with her tribe, she has 4 children ranging from 3-11, and a very hands on husband- he has to be-the middle two have a generic degenerative disease and they will not see much of their teenage years. It was amazing to see everyone pitch-in and assist with getting the children down the stairs ( I'd say 60, wooden wet ones), two large strollers. On the way back -up I helped take Tom, he is 6 I think, with the strength of a 9 year old. he is determined to pick-up anything, and jam it in his mouth. Luckily, over wine two nights before Nicki had given me a bit of an up-date and I knew what to expect. I was terrified I was going to go flying and take all of us back down the cliff! There is not much to Nicki in stature, 50 kg and 5"ft2 ish, but her determination and patience is incredible, and it makes me humble.

I always marvel at how we all grew up together and left, but so many have now moved back and
their children seek the haunts that we did, and are now students at the same schools.

How removed we are from our life in Sydney, so different, things here seem so much simpler, less competitive and slower. I often wonder how things would be if I lived here now?  Would I do as much yoga? ( I haven't done any since I've been here), would I have Yoga Gear website? Would I have a healthy lifestyle? Are we looking at it through rose coloured glasses??

Let's be happy! Satisfied and happy to be here, where ever that maybe!

Happy 2012!