Showing posts with label yummy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label yummy. Show all posts

6.17.2013

Homemade Vegetarian Paleo Sushi


So I had a go at making homemade vegetarian paleo sushi- and boy was it good. Not only were they tasty and pretty to look at, they were also so easy to make. Here is how to do it. 

F o r   6   m i n i   r ol l s   Y o u   N e e d:
1 large carrot
1 generous handful of spinach
1/2 avocado
1 Nori paper
Garlic granuals
2 egg
Soya Sauce
A Chunk of Ginger
Knob of Coconut Oil
A Bowl of Clean Water



D o:
1) Prep you're veg- you need to 'julienne' (posh word for cutting into little strips) your peeled carrot, slice your avocado into long strips and wash your spinach. 
2) In a bowl, whisk your eggs, with a generous splash of soya sauce and a chunk of grated ginger.
3) Grease your frying pan with your nob of coconut oil, and fry your egg mix like a pancake (so cook, flip, cook).  Once cooked, place your egg pancake onto a plate to cool. 


4) On your Nori Paper, place your spinach, strips of avocado and carrot in a line, close to the edge of your nori paper. Next sprinkle on a generous amount of garlic granuals- I love garlic so there was copious amounts in my rolls.


5) Cut two long strips from the middle of your egg pancake and place on top of the veggies.


6) Roll!  The easiest way to do this is slowly and with a paper towel underneath to help shape and roll. I think practise helps here.  If you happen to have one of those wooden sushi roll mats (looks like a bunch of bbq sticks knitted together with string) then use that here. As you get towards the edge of the nori paper, dip your fingers in the bowl of water, and lightly wet the nori paper.  This will help the paper become flexible to roll around, but also the water acts as a sticking agent.  With the wet end, continue to roll until the end of the paper is stuck down. 



7) With a long stuffed nori roll, cut both ends off with a sharpe knife, and then cut into six small little rolls. 
8) Serve with wasabi and soy sauce, pickled ginger, or toasted crumbled peanuts (as seen in the picture below). 


6.11.2013

Roasted Chickpeas


Yummy scrummy roasted chickpeas. I have been dying to make these since I saw them on pinterest (I'm slightly obsessed with 'pinning' at the moment). Finally, whilst I was in Valencia, Laura and I finally gave it a go.  These were so easy to make and were so delicious.


I n g r e d i e n t s: 
2 cans of chickpeas
olive oil
Spice of your choice (Laura and I used 7 Thai Spice)

(please excuse the burn little chap on the top)

D o:
1) Pre-heat oven to 180 degrees. 
2) Drain water from your can of chickpeas and place in a bowl.
3) Drizzle some olive oil (or oil of your choice) on the chickpeas and coat the chickpeas in the oil.
4) Shake in your chosen spice and coat well.  (I have also head cinnamon and honey is a nice option)
5) Place a large sheet of tin foil on a tray (this is so after roasting, you can just scrunch up the foil and have little or no washing up). Put chickpeas on your tray.
6) Bake chickpeas for 30 minutes; check on them- maybe give them a little shake- then, if needed, bake for a further 10-20 minutes. The time depends on how good your oven is.
7) Take out and cool.
8) Enjoy your chickpeas. 


5.29.2013

Breakfast in a Jar


There is something so attractive about serving something in a jar.  It makes something look so cute, rustic and special.  The other morning I put my break-y in a jar.


On this morning I had plain yoghurt, with cubes of avocado, slices of banana with sprinklings of bee pollen, linseeds, cacao nibs.  Now I know avocado on yoghurt sounds like a suspicious thing to have but don't knock it until you've tried it. I like the creamy texture of avo with the creamy texture of yoghurt. 


I do have to admit that this little jar of yoghurt pictured here didn't fill me up- I had more banana and avo on the side- but for presentation purposes, I kept those out of the picture. Here's to trying weird and wonderful food combinations.  After all, how else do we come up with popular concoctions as smoked salmon with cream cheese?

4.26.2013

Recipe: Coconut & Carrot Cake

The other week Laura and I made a Carrot and Coconut Paleo cake together (although Laura was more the chef and I sue- chef).  As most of my friends know Laura and I are major health advocates.  So rest assure, although this is still a cake, there are a few health bonus's to eating this baby. 


Super moist, googey and yummy.  What you can see inside the cake is coconut flakes, grated carrot, raisons, and walnuts.  This cake tasted like the regular carrot cake, but less sweet and with a different coconuty icing.  



Find Laura's recipe here.

3.30.2013

Recipe: Dark Chocolate Easter Nests


Easter is the time for chocolate chocolate and more chocolate. 

How did chocolate get so intertwined with the 're-birth' of Mr Jesus Christ?  Further more,  why is the easter intrinsically linked to the egg? 

One person at the table last night (she who must not be named) suggested that little chicks were hanging around Jesus' cave upon his re-awakening. 
My instincts tell me that the egg is linked to the creation of life; and chocolate is linked to celebration. To find out, I will have to take a trip to see the old village vicar, but I'm not that desperate to sit through the life of Christ any time soon...

Anyway- Chocolate! -Easter! -Eggs! ...

3.22.2013

Recipe: Broccoli Bean Mint Fritatta


So yesterday I had a late lunch, and when it got to the designated dinner time (7.30) I really wasn't that hungry.  Instead of having a jumbled inadequate meal of random yummies, I decided to make the light meal of a fritatta.  A fritatta is meant to be the healthy version of a quiche: pastry free egg concoction. A fritatta is also meant to have potato or some similar root vegetable in it. But as I follow a paleo diet and also the fact that those veggies generally take a while to cook without a microwave, I left them out.  So essentially, here you have a baked omelet.




This particular one is a roasted broccoli, green bean and mint one. 


NUTRITION: 
Broccoli is a nutrient- dense wonder vegetable.  It is high in Vitamin A and C: both vitamins do wonderful thing to your skin and also your immune system among other things. Broccoli is also high in folic acid, calcium and fiber.  
Green beans (or french beans), like brocoli is also high in vitamin A and C, fibre and calcium. Beans also have quite a high amont of protein in them for a vegetable.  So if you are a veggie, go wild on these little strips of green.
Not only does mint taste delicious and fresh, it is great for digestion. It is anti-inflammatory and settles the stomach.  That is why a fresh mint tea is fantastic to have after a big meal. Mint can also help with nausea, headaches and coughs.
Eggs are a wonderful food full of protein, healthy fats, all your amino acids, b vitamins, iron, you get the idea.- They are just fabulous for you.

So not only are you eating a yummy meal, you are making yourself more beautiful, healthier and intelligent.


2.05.2013

Banana Pancakes



Pancake day... ahem.. I mean Shrove Tuesday.. is around the corner (its next week). As I have been brought up going to Christian schools, but in a family and society that is pretty much atheist  Shrove Tuesday has always been celebrated, but celebrated for the fun of making pancakes.  

As a lover of all things healthy I have adopted this pancake recipe as my go-to breakfast. The average joe who is not bothered about eating healthy often looks at me in disbelief when I say I mash egg and banana together to make my pancake mixture.  But what is so nice about fried flour and milk I ask?  The sweetness of banana and flavour of egg goes together like Catharine Zeta Jones and Michael Douglas; unconventional, unexpected, they look wrong together but they make a rather sweet and successful couple... so give it a go!  Why don't cha?!

Banana Pancakes: Makes 1 pancake

Ingredients:
1 egg
1/2 banana
baking powder
coconut oil
linseeds


Instructions:
1) Mash banana, whisk egg with a sprinkle of baking powder all in one bowl
2) Grease frying pan with coconut oil. Sprinkle pan with linseeds.  This is for added fibre and omega threes but also gives a nice crunch and helps with the non stick business.
3) Heat pan until hot then pour eggy mixture in the pan. Cook. Flip the pancake when you can see that it is mostly cooked and when you give the pan a jiggle the pancake moves in its form. So flip it then cook it for about 20 seconds more then serve on a plate.

Topping Suggestions: 
Drizzle of coconut oil
Drizzle of honey
Cocoa nibs
Peanut Butter
Berries
More banana
Greek Yoghurt
Ricotta Cheese
Sprinkle of cinnamon
Chopped roasted nuts
Seeds

... the possibilities are endless


NB:  They are not very filling so if you are not going over board with the toppings then you might want two... just saying...

1.28.2013

Goop: Avocado Rice Cracker


A Gloop of Gwyneth Paltrow's blog 'goop': 

I have just stumbled upon her 'recipe' for one of her favourite snacks- avocado on  rice cracker. Super healthy and really delicious.  This is another reason why I think me and Gwyneth would be best friends if we knew each other.  This is one of my favourite snacks but instead of the black sesame rice cracker, I like a good old marmite rice cracker.  So here it is: a yummy nom nom nom of a healthy a-list snack...