Pancake Sunday!

Just like with WIAW, pancake Sunday is also another big blogging tradition. I'm fine with that!
So, I went about making some pancakes, in the mood for chocolate and berries- you can't beat that combo- it's good in waffles too! But I needed different flavours and textures, (really I needed ice-cream) so there are a few little surprises thrown in to make things interesting...

Chocolate pancakes with berry ice-cream:

Ingredients:
10g wholemeal spelt flour
10g coconut flour
10g rolled oats
15g oat bran
3g raw cocoa (about 1/2 tablespoon- it's strong, you don't need much!)
Chia gel- 1 tablespoon chia seeds mixed with 1 tablespoon oat milk, sit for 5 mins
Milk to reach desired consistency (about 3/4 cup- keep adding if too thick) I used oat-milk
Optional- wholegrain cheerios... you'll see
Ice-cream:
1 frozen banana
2 handfuls of mixed berries
Method:
1. Combine dry ingredients in a bowl. Whisk in chia gel and slowly keep adding milk until pancake consistency: (like pouring cream)

2. Heat frypan over low/medium heat and grease well( you can use butter- I used olive oil)
3. Spoon dollops of batter onto pan (you should get about 4 medium sized pancakes)

4. Cook for a few minutes until bubbles start to appear... place cheerios on top :)

5. Flip carefully (without eggs they become a bit more fragile) and cook for a few minutes until golden brown on both sides.

6.Turn off heat and place pancakes on paper towel, cover with paper towel to retain heat
7. Make ice-cream: Place frozen banana and berries in food processor and process until you get sorbet consistency (you may have to scrape the sides a few times)
8. Place pancakes on plate and top with whatever you like- as you can see, I went with peanut butter, yum :)

I just think the cheerios look so gosh darn cute!

The ice-cream went perfectly with them, at the end I also stirred in some muesli, but it's just as good without it.

Hello Cheerios!

The only way to eat these pancakes is with a pancake taco:

P.s- ice-cream= cold, don't do this:

That was a big scoop... and a big mistake! ;)
Enjoy your pancake Sunday and remember even if you forgot your brekky pancake, there's still lunch and dinner available- that is totally justified!
Have a great day!

Brekky!

I have noticed (as most of you probably have too) that I have a lot of breakfast recipes! More than anything else on this blog. It's not because I'm meal-ist or anything, it's just that... I LOVE BREAKFAST! And so should you!
Now, I'm a high school student, so every second girl you turn to, reveals she doesn't eat brekky. Ever! I can never relate to this, partly because I have low blood sugar and it's really dangerous for me to skip breakfast, but also it's dangerous not to feed this ravenous morning beast- she's hungry people! Been fasting all night!
So, that is my explanation for the vast number of breakfast recipes that appear on this blog. Is it really a bad thing, when you can make things like this any day of the week?
Vegan pretzels:

Breakfast Pizzerts:

Golden Gay-times:

Trio of pancakes:

Fudgy stuffed cookies:

 Chocolate/berry waffles:

Glazed pumpkin doughnuts:

And.. oatmeal bowls to fill with love:

All of these recipes are vegan, dairy free, gluten free, sugar free, wheat free, full of good fats, nutrients, whole grains, fiber, at least 1 serving of fruits/veggies (usually many more) and are totally guilt free- but you'd never guess it because they taste so delicious! So I guess that's my third reason for eating breakfast, I can wake up and make any of those for my first (and most important) meal of the day!
Speaking of oatmeal bowls and breakfast pizzas, I decided to combine them...
Oatmeal pizza!

Ingredients:
1/2 small green apple
1 banana
45g rolled oats
10g oat bran
small handul of chopped walnuts
approx- 1 cup milk ( I used oat milk)
optional- chia seeds, LSA mix
Any toppings you like- I used peanut butter as sauce and the rest of my banana and some green grapes

Method:
1. Preheat oven to 180 degrees celsius, line a baking tray with baking paper
2. chop apple:

3. Cut banana in half:

4.Put dry ingredients in saucepan:

5. Place milk in saucepan, add thinly sliced 1/2 banana and stir to combine, place on medium heat and leave to thicken for 2 mins.
6. Once thickening and bubbling, stir vigorously until quite thick and sticky, spread onto baking paper:

7. Bake in oven for 10 mins
8. Take out, place toppings on, back into oven for a few mins ( I baked mine until the banana was gooey- 5mins) Pre-baked:

9. Enjoy!

Close-up:

My advice:
Not only should you eat breakfast- you should enjoy it, go to bed excited about the next day, because you're going to have something out-of-this-world delicious!
Yay for brekky!
See you later! :D

Recipes!

As promised yesterday I have the recipe for the pictured balls- which do have a name!
Here are my Soft, Fudgy Weet-bix Truffles:

Ingredients:
2 weet-bix, crushed
1 smashed banana
1 tablespoon peanut butter
2 tablespoons rolled oats
Oat milk
Optional- coconut butter for top :)
(and that's it!)

Method:
1. Preheat oven to 180 degrees celsius, line a baking tray with baking paper
2. Place banana and peanut butter in a microwave safe bowl and microwave for 30 seconds, stir to combine
3. Combine weet-bix, banana peanut butter and a small amount of oat milk until you can form into balls.
4. Roll into balls and place on baking tray:

5. Bake for 10-15 mins until slightly golden, place on wire rack to cool:

Drizzle over whatever you like- as you can see, I went with coconut butter, :D are you really surprised?

Make yourself a little parfait type thing with whatever fruit or muesli or yogurt you have lying around:

I just had grapes and some oat milk :)

Delicious!

WIAW- first try!

Now, I'm not usually part of the What I Ate Wednesday Club,  but on this last particular Wednesday I managed to take a picture of all of the yummy meals I enjoyed on Wednesday (my busiest day of the week!)

 Lets Get started! (p.s I cooked all of these meals either the night before Wednesday, or Wednesday morning- impressive hey?)
Tuesday nights dinner was PIZZA!!!

Using my pumpkin pizza base and topped with 100% tomato paste mixed with Italian herbs, mushrooms, tomatoes, sweet potato, parsnip, swede, rocket, basil and vegan cheese, baked in the oven for 15-20 mins (the root veggies were already steamed)

 While making the pizza base, I made a bit extra for lunch on Wednesday and filled it with salsa, mixed four beans, rocket, basil and vegan cheese... then I did a Typical Steph:

Hehe, I rolled it up and baked it :)
On Wednesday, I woke up and wanted to use my jar again (I have an obsession!)
So I went with a layered parfait. I like parfaits! (see this post and this one )

I simply combined my cereals, added milk to cover and microwaved until most of the milk was absorbed, then I split it into three separate bowls, added a teaspoon of coconut butter to one, a teaspoon of peanut butter to another and a teaspoon of coconut butter mixed with cocoa powder to the last one and mixed.
I then layered up with banana, coconut muesli, grapes, banana, chocolate muesli, grapes, banana, peanut muesli, banana and a dash of oat milk- delicious!

Inside view!

Don't fall into my jar!
While I was eating this delightful brekky, my dinner was in the oven cooking:

2 little chickpea crust quiches. I'm sorry I didn't write the recipe down :) But there were eggs, oat milk, brown rice and stacks of veggies as well as garlic and nutritional yeast in those little pots.

So brekky-parfait, lunch- pizza parcel, dinner- mini quiches! back to brekky:

You'll have to wait 'til later to get the recipes for these delicious bad boys!
Watch this space! :)

Happy Monday

Happy Monday everyone! I realise not many people probably like Mondays, but I think they're ok, maybe because I'm still buzzing from the weekend and all my wonderful food experiences!

So, because it's the weekend I take advantage of all the extra time I have! No, I don't sit around and relax!?! I cook! My lunches are sooo much better than the packed salads I usually box up for school. They look a little something like this:
Pizza and chips...

That is- herby polenta-based pizza topped with salsa, capsicum, tomatoes, mushrooms, rocket, basil, veggie patty and vegan cheese, with a side of sweet potato chips (sliced and baked in oven- 20 mins)

I made the polenta and added in some oregano, basil and nutritional yeast, then I spread it out to make a circle on a plate with baking paper and put it in the freezer. I also chargrilled my veggies and cooked a veggie patty then lightly chargrilled my polenta base and spread salsa, then 'cheese' then veggies + veggie patty and rocket and basil and some more 'cheese'- baked in oven (10 mins)
Another fabulicious meal I enjoyed, was my version of a burger and chips again:( Wow, I was really in a junk food mood!)

So I steamed some mixed root veggies and mashed them and also made and cooked up a veggie patty:

Not as pretty as this one though.
So it went bread (my rainbow mash) lettuce (spinach and rocket)beef burger (home-made veggie patty) cheese (vegan cheese) sauce (salsa- less sugar and salt) sliced tomato and bread (rainbow mash)
So yeh, I pretty much changed everything about the typical burger :)

Oh, and my fried chips (oven-baked baby potatoes)

It was also my mum's birthday on the weekend, so I spent all of Sunday baking her birthday cake ( It had six layers)

Be impressed:

It's just a butter cake, but it took a while! Topped with some white fondant roses :)

Lets look inside!

I'll have a slice of that! (not really, I'm the only one who knows how much butter went into that cake!)

Any-who, we went out to the beach shack for dinner (not many options for me, but oh well!) and I absolutely fell in love with their use of jars for cups, which brings me to this mornings breakfast...

My super-duper morning smoothie- frozen banana, mango, rolled oats, chia seeds, LSA mix, avocado, peanut butter and oat milk= delicious and it was a big jar! My smoothies are big :)

Inside view: (the photos don't do it justice at all- I was too hungry to make them look pretty :D)

With some yummy green grapes on top! It was still almost ice-cream thick, which is how I like it!

I hope you all had a fabulous weekend too and take every opportunity to cook!

:D