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I'm always talking about cooking healthy, nutritional foods in your own home, but what does that really mean? March is Nutrition Month and I'll be posting on 10 essential nutrients, what they do for your body and how to get them. There will be a recipe every day highlighting each nutrient.

Vitamin B12 is important in the maintenance of healthy nerve function. It produces myelin which covers and protects the nerve fibres. It is also needed to assist folate in making DNA, as well as making red blood cells.

We get most of our B12 from animal sources, so if you are vegetarian or vegan you will likely find that you have to eat foods which are fortified with this vitamin.

What to eat to get Vitamin B12: animal foods such as meat, poultry, fish, eggs, milk, yogurt and cheese. Fortified foods include soy, rice and almond beverages and soy products.

When I brought home turkey my husband got all excited because breaded turkey scallopine is one of his favourite meals. I had to disappoint him by telling him I had other plans for this thin slices of poultry. He was equally disappointed finding out that I was going to serve the celeriac which he had been balefully gazing at. He's looking forward to spring vegetables. As it turned out both things were quite wonderful and he was a happy guy.

I just grated some onion and the celeriac and then sauteed them until they were golden and crispy which took about 20 minutes. Then I just added a bit of salt and pepper and served the turkey on top. As delicious as breaded turkey scallopini is, this recipe is much healthier and it's much quicker, too. The addition of some of my pickled asparagus was wonderful. This asparagus season, I'm going to make much more of it than last year, I just loved it.If you are lucky enough to have fresh asparagus already, go ahead and use that. I like this dish to be really tart and lemony, but that's a bit too strong for some people. You can play around with the amount of lemon and capers you add so it's to your own taste. If you want a thickened sauce, add the corn starch, otherwise you can leave it and have a brothy kind of sauce.

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