Lockdown enabled us to reconnect with our kitchens, preparing elaborate dishes and (re) discovering the joy of cooking. But as life returns to normal, time is suddenly precious again. That doesn't mean you have to reach for your favorite home delivery app, though...
I challenge you to cook up one of this month's meals faster than your average meal delivery service! You'll save money, too. But before you do, here are a couple of tips to guarantee there's always a nourishing meal to be made, quickly.
Firstly, keep a stash of interesting and useful ingredients in your store cupboard, fridge, and freezer. E.g. different types of pasta, noodles, and rice, tins of butter, kidney and black beans, chickpeas, tuna and sardines, coconut milk and curry pastes, jars of antipasti. In your freezer, add frozen gnocchi, prawns and salmon, pitta bread, spinach, and fruit. And buy longer-lasting, nutritious vegetables, such as butternut squash, sweet potatoes, parsnips, carrots, onions, garlic, ginger, red cabbage, and beetroot.
Secondly, plan ahead. If you can, devote a couple of hours to batch cooking for the week ahead after you get home from your Sunday long ride or run. Soups, curries, casseroles, and even some salads will keep in the fridge for a few days and often become even more flavorsome. Enjoy this month's recipes!
This South Indian coconut and prawn curry are one of the quickest curries ever. It's a great storecupboard supper using frozen prawns, a few spices, and a can of coconut milk. Simple, warming, and a great way to reboot tired muscles.
Next is a Chickpea, sweet potato, and spinach soup, which makes an ideal low-fat, low-GI training supper. A great source of vitamins and minerals, this fantastic veggie mix is brimming with goodness, including plenty of nutrient-rich carbs, protein, and fibre. Fresh ginger also works as an anti-inflammatory.
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How to Carb Load - Packing your working cells with carbohydrates in the build-up to your big race is a proven strategy to race stronger and faster...
Whichever distance triathlon you're racing, the intensity and duration of your activity will see your body tap into its stores of carbohydrates (in the form of glycogen) to power your effort. While it's possible to top up your tank on the go, it's better to start your event with your stores full to the brim.
The Olympic Champion - On 31 July, Great Britain's Alex Yee put together arguably the greatest one-day performance we have ever seen at an Olympic Games to win gold. And we were there at the finish line to speak to tri's new poster boy...
The opening line of the race report read how 20 years on from New Zealand’s first and only Olympic triathlon gold medal, Hayden Wilde had put in a careerbest performance to regain the title for his nation. Then Alex Yee comes around the corner.Yee’s charge, seemingly from nowhere on the final lap of the 10km run in Paris, didn’t just help him become the most decorated Olympic male triathlete of all time, and didn’t just cap a rivalry that has been building for six years, it left seasoned watchers of swim, bike, run in awe. It will go down as one of the greatest triathlon races; Yee, still just 26, as one of the greatest triathletes. His medals from Paris added to the two from Tokyo, leaving his haul at two gold, a silver and a bronze, and counting.
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