WIAW #11

Yay! It be Wednesday already? That's cool, it means I get to share with you my crazy-delicious-colourful-veggie-filled-delicious-savoury-sweet-delicious eats!
Shall we began? (Thanks Peas and Crayons for hosting!)
Breakfasts : (I'm sharing- What I ate Wednesday & all week!)
At the beginning of the week, I wanted oatmeal.. and sort of inspired by this recipe, I made some of this:

It was simply rolled oats + sliced banana + chia seeds + coconut butter + vegan vanilla protein powder, heated on stove with some oat milk until thick (but not dry!)
With a side of..

Mango fro-yo!
And of course, this:

Plus this:

Equals this..

Seriously guys- I have dessert for breakfast everyday!
Next up was an all-time favourite- yep you know what it is...

 A peanut butter and banana toastie!
With blueberry frozen yoghurt this time:

1/2 cup plain greek yoghurt + 1 cup thawed blueberries (I had to thaw my frozen ones) whazzed up in a mini food processor :)

You had to see this coming!
Lastly today's brekky- what I actually ate Wednesday!

Overnight oats in a jar
plus a side of sliced apples and some banana cream (greek yoghurt and banana whazzed together!)
Yes, people- I am obsessed with greek yoghurt at the minute- it's the only dairy I can eat that doesn't anger my tum tum and it's awesome!

Now follow these steps very carefully!
Spread some of the 'cream' onto an apple slice:

 Keep going, layer after layer:

Then realise you have to much and plop it all on!

Yum yum!

Lunches:
Both of the lunches I happen to have photos of are sandwiches.. that are exactly the same excpet for the bread :)

 This one was on a cape-seed roll from Bakers Delight
Grilled veggies, hommus, spinach, veggie patty and salsa- put in a sandwich press :)
That was on the weekend. Today, I woke up at this awesome time and made it again on my home-made wholemeal spelt bread!

 Twas good.. but seriously guys, I do eat more than sandwiches! Yesterday I had a millet salad and the day before a big rice veggie bowl!
Snacks:
Yesterday, I wasn't overly hungry, but wanted something to hold me over til' dinner. Maybe some proetin powder and soy milk? But I have no protein shaker thing! Not to fear!

Works just as well! Simply add stuff, screw on lid and shake!
Today I had..

A pear and a tomarillo. Then I took one bite of the tomarillo and proceeded to feed it to my compost bin- blech! It sour and hard to eat- not good!
Dinners:
One night, my tummy was feeling well, so I had an easy dinner of tin tomatoes + beans topped with steamed greens topped with roasted potatoes:

Zumba night was cold roast veggies, quinoa and spinach:

Last night's pasta, chilli pesto, steamed veggies, spinach, peas and mixed four beans:

 Topped with vegan cheese :)

 And... that's it!
I hope everyone else had fabulous Wednesday eats and don't forget to head on over to Peas and Crayons to check out what everyone else has been nom-ing on! :D

Winner, winner chicken(less) dinner!

It's pretty obvious (judging by the number of recipes) that breakfast is my favourite meal of the day. Dinner is probably my least favourite.
Usually, I've come home from school, or wherever, have done some homework and want a simple esy dinner, like roast veggies, a mixed veggie mash or even just eggs on toast.
So I sometimes get a surprise when my creative pants stay on that little bit longer and I make a truly awesome (delicious) dinner!
Some recent ones include:

A baked sweet potato with a side of chili pesto pasta, steamed greens and cannellini beans topped with some vegan cheese (heated in microwave for 30 seconds)
Super colourful, veggie-filled and more importantly mout-wateringly good!

* Sorry about the awful pictures (automatic flash alert!) but dinner is at night time, night equals no natural light and light box is too far for my lazy body to walk ;)
I still think it looks pretty yum!

My other super good dinner was... a hot dog! Of course knowing me, I changed it up a bit!

My 'hot-dog' dinner turned out to be a spelt hot-dog bun with some hommus, spinach and tomato, topped with one of these awesome vegan sausages and some salsa!

On the side was some roasted potato and celeriac and also a pumpkin mash with spinach and the other sausage I cooked up, torn apart.

Again, the horrible photograph does it no favours at all, but trust me when I say it was good!

Now I need to get back to my simple-pimple dinner of roast veggies and quinoa (that I'm preparing at 4:45pm) so dinner will be ready when I come back from Zumba! (7:30pm) Does anyone else love cold roast veggies?
I hope everyone had a good Monday and it's not long now until holidays! (for me at least;) :D

Real rhubarb crumble and confusion :)

Remember this post? It was my oatmeal-ified version of rhubarb crumble. Recently however, I made a much better version of a real rhubarb crumble!
A rhubarb apple crumble to be exact!

It's a pretty simple recipe with all natural healthy ingredients, no added sugar, no dairy, no wheat, no butter, no eggs etc. So here it i:
Ingredients:
1 rhubarb stick, chopped
3/4 of a green apple, chopped
1 teaspoon chia seeds
a dash of cinnamon
Crumble:
1/2 cup muesli
1 1/2 tablespoons nut butter ( I used cashew butter)
2+ tablespoons of milk ( I used oat milk)
a small handful of blueberries (optional)

Method:
1. preheat oven to 180 degrees celsius
2. Place the rhubarb, apple, chia seeds and cinnamon in a small saucepan and place over low heat:

3. Keep stirring occasionally until the rhubarb and apple break down and sort of start to smoosh together:

4. Leave a side while you make the crumble.
5. Place the muesli and blueberries in a bowl with the milk and stir. Heat the nut butter in the microwave for about30-50 seconds until melted, rub into muesli.

6. Pour rhubarb mixture into a ceramic mug (that can go in the oven) or small oven dish and top with the crumble:

7. Bake in the oven for 15-20 mins until crumble is golden and mixture is bubbling! (your kitchen house will smell amazing)
8. Leave to cool slightly... then enjoy!

Super yummy, warm, nutty, gooey mmmmm

I enjoyed mine with a cool glass of soy milk... because I went against my instructions and did not wait for it to cool, so the soy milk was very helpful..

Hmmm, too hot! What to do?

Genius!

Now onto some other fun news. Getting stuff for free!
There are many downfalls with shopping for food with me:
1. I don't take a list
2. My tastes are expensive (hello chia seeds, quinoa and coconut flour!)
3. I'm not really old enough to buy my own groceries.. sorry mum!
But there is one positive!
1. I buy the  weirdest things, even if I don't know what they are, just to try them out!
Why is that a good thing? Well, yesterday was a prime example.
I had spotted this round green vegetable (later found out to be a green Kohlrabi) and chucked it in the trolley. Later when we were at the cash register, the checkout person was stumped. I ran to where I found it and came back to spell her the name printed on the sign. It didn't turn up on her computer... so we got it for free!
I got some other weird stuff too:

In the back is my free Kohlrabi, then in front is a gem star squash and the little red thing is a tomarillo.
After coming back from shopping, I was hungry and I felt like soup :) (It's Winter in Aus!)
I also wanted to use the gem star squash:

So while I heated up my split pea soup on the stove, I cut this bad boy in half, drizzled with a bit of oil and roasted for 30 mins:

Then scooped out the seeds.
I also made some chickpea flat bread (chickpea flour, oil, greek yoghurt mixed with hands, rolled and placed on pan on high heat)

And lunch was done!

Soup, squash and flat bread :)

Look, it's sort of like a spaghetti squash (lot's of ideas for new uses now!)
This soup was awesome! I bought it because it was vegan with heaps less sodium that all the other brands (118mg per 100g)

And the flat bread was perfect :)

 And.. dip!

So, some typical winter recipes and food ideas for ya.. I hope everyone has a fabulous rest of their weekend and talk to you soon! :D