Sunday Pancakes!

Yay! I love Sundays!!! I love Pancakes!!! Put em' together and you get a whole lotta love!!!
So today, I thought I'd bring my pancake creations back to basics, as all I wanted was a delicious, fluffy vanilla pancake :)
I also wanted a smoothie- just like last week.
I went with a pink grapefruit smoothie and 3 delicious vanilla pancakes:

Vanilla pancakes ingredients:
chia gel- 1 tablespoon chia seeds mixed with 1 tablespoon milk- leave to sit 5 mins
45g wholemeal spelt flour
30g rolled oats
15g oat bran
1 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 to 1 teaspoon vanilla bean paste (depends how strong a flavour you want)
optional- LSA mix
1 cup milk of choice (I used oat milk)

Method:
1. Create chia gel:

 sit for 5 mins until gel-like
2. Place dry ingredients in bowl and combine

3. Add chia gel, milk and vanilla bean paste to dry ingredients and whisk until smooth:

4. Let sit for a few mins to thicken- meanwhile create smoothie:
Ingredients:
80g frozen pineapple
75g frozen grapefruit
110g frozen watermelon
40g frozen mango chunks
About 1/2 cup milk (depends how thick you want it)

Method:
1. Place everything in a blender:

And blend until smooth! (don't add any of that tomato sauce you see next to it :)
Place in the freezer while you make the pancakes.
Back to pancake method:
5. Heat up a large fry pan on medium heat and add some oil.
6. Spoon on the pancake mixture (3 medium ones, lots of little ones, one big one... whatever you want)
7. Flip after bubbles start to appear (2-3 mins)

 8. Cook on the other side or another 2-3 mins and flip again to brown first side.

9. Top with whatever you want- maple syrup, butter, berries, banana, yogurt, Nutella etc. I topped mine with a drizzle of nut butter and coconut butter :)
10. Remove smoothie from freezer- top with anything, or nothing and now go and eat both!

These pancakes are really yumm- I truly believe that sometimes simple is the best and tastiest thing after all!

This is a really great vegan pancake recipe too as it holds together really well- and tastes just like regular pancakes :) Super fluffy too!

The smoothie is super yummy too! If your not a fan of grapefruit, you probably won't like it as the flavours quite strong, but I love the bitterness of it. If that sounds like you, just replace it with a frozen banana. Then top with cheerios :D

Spoon shot:

Another breakfast I have eaten recently was this:

Nut butter on wheat free bread with a yogurt, muesli, berry parfait.
Wait a second- you don't eat dairy Steph!
That's yogurt!!!

Yes, yes it is- vegan yogurt! I was really excited when I saw this in the shops- coconut milk and almond yogurt!!
Unfortunately like every other vegan yogurt I've tried, it was way too sweet, tasted artificial and a little funky :( But I still ate it, I was HUNGRY!
The pictures turned out great too:

I mean, how cool does this photo look- come on!

At least my parfait looked delicious?

The spoon shot looked good too:

Lastly- a question... does anyone else eat all the crusts off toast first so they're left with the middle filled with tons of topping:

Cuz I do ;)
Have a great Sunday!

Savoury inspiration

It's no doubt my favourite thing to cook is sweets and mainly breakfast sweets! But I do eat other stuff besides breakfast (even though I may not always want to- veggies are important- and delicious!)
I'll start with one you've seen before- but is soo good I'm not even bothered!

Yeah! It's that pumpkin seed and purple wheat panini again! This one had a grilled veggie burger, hommus, grated carrot, capsicum, spinach and salsa all toasted up! On the side were some sweet potato wedges:

Just cut up sweet potato, cover lightly in oil and bake at 180 degrees celsius for about 20-30 mins.
Also, the leftover stuff I had for my sandwich (I made WAY too much!)

Yup, that was delicious!
Next was dinner last night which featured these wheat free, gluten free caneloni stuffed with mashed beetroot, swede, and pumpkin- wich was mixed with toasted seeds, corn, lentils and herbs:

Topped with some tinned tomatoes and nutritional yeast, which was put in an 180 degrees oven for about 35 mins.

It was YUM-MY! I simply placed it all on top of some steamed veggies :)
Lastly- the most awesomely coloured dinner of the week...

These were my version of potato cakes! Steamed potato, sweet potato, pumpkin, beetroot and parsnip all mashed together with some cooked brown rice, corn, peas and tofu, then placed in a fry pan with some oil- flipping once= what's another word for yum? Thesaurus= scrumptious!

 I love the colour- thank you again beetroot!

Savoury= good (sometimes!:)

Recently- In the delicious Breakfast front!

So, I've had some pretty yummy breakfasts of late... surprise! (I really think I should change this to a brekky blog!)
Any-who, I'll start of with my simple-pimple one...
This may be and look simple, but it tastes UH-MAZ-ING!

Uh, Steph... that's a mug of oats.
Yes, yes it is- A GLORIOUS MUG OF OATS! An out-of-this-world, gooey banana-bready cinnamony, chewy, nutty mug of oats!
I smiled as I ate this :)
I cooked up a batch of whipped banana oatmeal- using rolled oats and some muesli (with nuts and fruit) with a generous sprinkle of cinnamon, topped with my new mixed nut and seed spread- YUM!

And also some black grapes and soy milk.
Next!
Next up was truly yummy! I was craving some cookies! So....
I MADE COOKIES (wow, I am pretty genius- huh?)

Delicious muesli cookies!
I put some muesli, chia seeds, LSA mix and milk in a saucepan and placed on the stove (medium heat) stirring occasionally until really thick, I let cool for about 15 mins (didn't wanna burn the hands) and rolled into balls then flattened into cookies and baked in oven (180 degreese celsius for 10-15 mins until golden)
While they were baking I made a smoothie :) With frozen banana, mango and pineapple (TROPICAL!) It really was just 1 frozen banana, 1 handful of frozen mango chunks, about 5 pieces of frozen pineapple chunks with 3/4 cup of milk:

So I had my yummy warm cookies, drizzled with coconut butter:

My thick, icy, tropical smoothie:

You know the rest...

That was a good brekky!

And lastly... today's brekky, which featured a recent favourite:

A super thick green smoothie topped with chocolate granola!

 The green smoothie was 1 frozen banana, 1/2 frozen avocado, 2 small handfuls of mango, 2 big handfuls of spinach and 1/2 a cup of milk ( I used oat) all blended together until smooth.

The granola was muesli and wholegrain cheerios mixed with a splash of milk and then heated up with 1 tablespoon coconut butter mixed with 1/2 tablespoon raw cacoa powder. Then I spread it on a baking sheet and baked at 180 degrees celsius for 10 mins.

And topped my smoothie off with it:

Then it got less pretty:

But sooo delicious!

 And you know a breakfast is good when all your left with is this:

Have a good Friday and weekend! :D

Mug Shots

Hello People!
2 more days of school left until Easter holidays and I am ready! Free time, complicated lunches, out-of-this-world breakfasts... the list goes on! For now, I thought I'd share with you a typical morning and also a recipe at the end. If you're good.
So I think this was Monday morning and it was cold! So of course the night before I prepared cold overnight oats. Oh, well, I went with it- I usually do!
So not much breakfast prep, (instead I focused on making my lunch- a grilled veggie panini) but when my stomach started speaking (and trust it was not saying nice things) I gave in and gave it some food!
Well, actually I ran and got my fluffy bed socks, shoes and then took it outside to photograph it!

Hmmm, something's missing... Oh that's right, the breakfast I was supposed to be photographing!

There it is!
So under all that banana, grapes and multi-grain cheerios, was my over night oats- I promise!

So then, I make the treacherous journey up to my pool yard, side step the dog, while trying not to drop my water bottle, camera and most importantly breakfast and go to my favourite spot to eat brekky- even in winter (the bed socks are gooood!)

Finally get some free hands:

And take a nice pic of brekky before it is devoured!

Generally I take a nice spoon shot for you- but overnight oats just look gloopy!
Then I make my way back down to the kitchen and get ready for school!
So there you have it.. oh wait I promised you a recipe, didn't I? Well you won't be disappointed!
How about a...
Banana bread muffin in a mug!

 With some grapes and soy milk on the side!
Ingredients:
20g wholemeal spelt flour
5g coconut flour (for the taste)
10g oatbran
15g rolled oats
1/2 tablespoon chia seeds
1/2 teaspoon baking powder
1 teaspoon cinnamon
1 tablespoon LSA mix (optional)
1/2 banana mashed- 1/4 banana chopped, 1/4 sliced (for the top)
1/3 cup milk of choice (I used oat milk)
Toppings (optional)- I used coconut butter mixed with multi-grain cheerios and then drizzled on top of bananas

Method:
1.Combine dry ingredients in a bowl
2. Stir in mashed banana, chopped banana and milk ( I also added some nut butter at this stage)
3. Grease a mug and spoon mixture in
It should look like this:

4. Place in the microwave for 1 min, check with a skewer(it took me about 2:00- 2:30) if not ready after 1 min, keep cooking in 30 second bursts until not goopy!
5.Then, top with desired toppings (I would really recommend coconut butter- other toppings could be yogurt, jam, butter, chocolate, muesli etc.) and the leftover sliced banana.
6. Enjoy this deliciously warm, bananary, cinnamony comfort in a mug.
Don't forget to take pictures:

Spoon Shot!

So there you have it- My typical breakfast routine and a brekky recipe for you!
:D