What to choose!?

I seem to have this trouble quite often. (see here, and here)
I know what I want to have and everything, I just cant decide what flavour I want. So I go with everything. Just like the other day when I wanted toast...

Hehe.
That is my take on jam, chocolate spread, peanut butter and Vegemite. With some grapes on the side.
Yum.

For the jam, I simply heated up some frozen berries and processed in a food processor. For the chocolate spread I melted some coconut butter and stirred in some raw cocoa. For the peanut butter and Vegemite, I unscrewed the lid and spread it on. :D
Don't be afraid to satisfy every flavour (whether sweet or salty) just go with everything!
If that plan fails- think pink!

As in, pink oatbran! And peanut butter- always peanut butter!
Or think, big, delicious spoonfuls of joy!

I love breakfast and I hope you all do too!
Have a fabulous day!
P.S. I seem to really like exclamation marks too... !
:)

Planning- Important!

What do you do when you have to go to school at 8:00am only to return at around 8:00pm and you need to take your own meals. There are only so many Vegemite sandwiches you can have in a day people!

So instead... you plan!

Last night I made myself some overnight oats for this morning:

With some added apple and grapes thrown in, in the morning.
I also cooked up some quinoa last night for today's dinner and had some leftover veggies as well. With that I made a salad in the morning:

 Easy peasy- quinoa, roasted sweet potato, carrot, spinach, tomato, peas, beans and lentils.

With the extra time I had in the morning with not having to cook breakfast, I decided to make myself a gourmet lunch.
A grilled veggie toastie:

Grilled eggplant, zucchini, mushrooms, spinach capsicum and a veggie patty on wheat free bread spread with hommus and toasted in a sandwich press. Then wrapped up in foil for school... yummo!

So there you have it, with a little planning you can make delicious meals for the entire day!

Busy, want take-away? The solution... plan ahead!
:)
Have a great day! :D

Nutritious, delicious lunch ideas!

Not only do I believe in a nutritious, delicious, awesome breakfast (see yesterday's post) I also think lunch should be extremely delicious and filled with loads of good stuff too. So I thought I might share with you some of my favorite lunches from the past month...

Starting with yesterdays:

Super simple, super healthy and above all, super delicious!
This was a rye flat bread that I lightly heated, then topped with my guacamole (avocado, corn, capsicum, tomato, lemon juice + food processor), with grated carrot, tomatoes, cucumber and eggs, with some hommus on top and some salsa hidden amongst the veggies.

A couple of weeks ago, I wanted a little bit of everything, so instead of one full meal I made a few smaller ones- still very yummy!

On that plate was two boiled eggs, a chickpea flat bread (chickpea flour+water toasted in pan) some roasted cherry tomatoes and some pumpkin gnocchi (pumpkin mixed with brown rice flour and some oil- placed in boiling water until they rose to the top)

I found some huge silver beet at the grocery store the other day and immediately had an idea!

I decided to make a wrap!  Inside was brown rice, sauteed veggie (mushroom, tomatoes, capsicum) mixed four beans, corn, peas, lentils and probably a bunch of other stuff all mixed together with hommus. ( I made another one which had pesto instead- just as good)

Schools a tricky one to make lunches for, but I had managed. On Friday I made a quesadilla!

 And just wrapped it up in foil. Easy! So I made the filling by putting some mixed beans, corn, mushrooms, lentils, capsicum and tomatoes in a small fry pan, adding some taco seasoning and water, and cooking until it all got nice and thick:

I heated a wholegrain wrap, then place some spinach on half:

And my Mexican filling on top:

Fold it over and place in a sandwich press, or just in a large fry pan and cook for a couple of minutes. (turn if using fry pan) Then cut into triangles... Yum!

If you couldn't tell from these pictures, I also love bright, rainbow meals, they're pretty and you know your getting lots of good nutrients too!

I hope you all have a great lunch today- give yourself a challenge and try and make it as rainbow as possible!
:D

Breakfast, I love you!

I always make it my mission to not only eat breakfast every morning, but to make it spectacularly delicious, filling... and awesome!

Do you remember this guy? Well, as I was eating him (yes I give my foods human qualities) I mentioned he tasted like a giant chewy cookie!

Today for breakfast, I wanted cookies! So I did a variation of this recipe- it may have tasted even better!

Vegan, Sugar Free, soy free, dairy free...
Stuffed Chewy Oaty Cookies!

Ingredients:
65g wholemeal plain flour
10g coconut flour ( I strongly suggest using this, the coconut taste is a-maz-ing!)
25g oatbran
oats (as much as you like, I probably used 2 tablespoons)
1 teaspoon baking powder
Optional- chia seeds
1 tablespoon oil
About 1 tablespoon milk (I used oat milk) Keep adding if dough isn't coming together
Extra milk to glaze
Filling: This is really up to you- go crazy; berries, chocolate, jam- I will still write down what I did though)
1/2 banana, heated in microwave and mashed
Peanut butter (do you really need measurements? :)

Method:
1. Preheat oven to 180 degrees Celsius. Line a baking tray with baking paper
2. Stir all the dry ingredients together in a bowl with a wooden spoon. Add in the oil and milk, keep stirring until crumbly- then use hands to form into dough (here you would add more milk if you needed to)
Mine looked like this:

3. Split dough into 4 equal portions, place two on the baking tray, flatten, brush on some extra milk and create a crater in the centre:

4.Spread on some peanut butter, then banana, then peanut butter ( or whatever your filling might be)

5. Flatten the remaining bits of dough, glaze all over and kind of stick and mold it into the filled cookies.
6. I then drizzled on some coconut butter to keep the coconut cookie taste roaring!
Precooked:

7. Place in the oven and bake for around 10-12 minutes until slightly golden:

 8. Leave to cool slightly (not too much, nothing beats warm cookies straight from the oven!)
9. ENJOY!

I ate the rest of my banana alongside some grapes, the grapes were great as their freshness cut through the fudginess of the cookies :)

Now, just for your viewing pleasure- an inside view:

I hope everyone has a fabulous weekend!
Remember to keep smiling:)

:D

Lightened up pasta!

So while being back at school, meals have been a lot less technical and time consuming as they were on the holidays. I mean I don't have enough time to whip up this for a school lunch!

Dinner is a different story, but sometimes I still don't have the energy to think too hard! When I came home yesterday I simply threw some tomatoes and capsicum into the oven to slow roast and I would think of something to do with them later....

Steph's Lightened Up Pasta!

Ingredients:
1 medium tomato
5 cherry tomatoes
4 cm strip capsicum
66g (1 cup) dried pasta of choice
greens (1 cup- asparagus, broccoli, beans, peas, broad beans... cut them up small- you won't even notice them!)
Spinach
garlic+ herbs (to taste. I used basil)
Optional- protein of choice ( I used tofu)

Method:
1. Preheat the oven to 180 degrees Celsius, place tomatoes and capsicum on a tray and roast until slightly blackened ( 30 mins)
2. Cool slightly, then process for a few pulses with garlic and herbs, until chunky sauce consistency:

3. Cook pasta as to directions (mine was 8 mins in boiling water) I used this pasta:

4. Blanch greens in boiling water for a couple of minutes (until bright green) drain.
5. Once the pasta is done, drain, then return to pot. Stir in greens, tofu, spinach and pasta sauce and heat slightly on a low heat for a couple of minutes.
6. Enjoy your veggie-filled pasta!

Have a veggielicious day!

Pizza Party

Well, school went back today, so in the rush of things I didn't try anything too amazing in the cooking front, but what I can leave you with is pics from my pizza party!

You already know how much I love pizza so I decided my breakfats lunch should just be a pizza... PARTY!
There were pumpkin bases and beetroot bases, pizza parcels and pizza  twists...

 This was my plate:   :)

I also made some homemade garlic bread on the side.
Yes I know I am probably the only person in the world who wants to cook for everyone their very own birthday lunch, but I loved it!

Have a great day!

I'm back! And Happy Birthday To ME!

Yay! I am back and Yay! Its my birthday! Yay for llamas as well:

I was away down south in a place called Cape Howe (near Albany) and we stayed at this little cottage with Ash (our dog)

I didn't cook too many amazing dishes and when I did I got sidetracked by our amazing view:

I do however want to go and live down there. In Denmark more specifically. The little town we went to had more farmers markets and wholefoods/ organic stores than all of Perth! We also found this little restaurant that had vegetarian/vegan/raw everything! I couldn't decide what to eat - now that is a first! It was called Ravens Coffee.
I decided to get the perfect pasta (raw/vegan) which was zucchini noodles with a tomato sauce and cashew cheese :)

It was a long drive back though ( 5 hours) so I was glad to be home... just in time for my birthday- where I celebrated breakfast with dessert:

It might not look like much, but that was the best bowl of cereal I have ever had! You have to try it. Pour some muesli into a bowl, add a spoonful of coconut butter, a spoonful of nut butter, milk, heat in the microwave for 30 seconds, stir (I massaged the butters in with my hands) and place in the microwave for a further 30 seconds:) It tasted so good, especially with some mango banana ice cream.

I hope everyone has a fabulous day and I will be back with some more recipes soon!
:D