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

Pancake+ Green monster Sunday!

Yeah, that's right, today was not just pancake Sunday... it was also GREEN MONSTER SUNDAY! Two of my recent favourite breakfasts in one.
I'm sure you know how this happened. I had trouble making up my mind. Again.
So I got this delicious breakfast:

I swear, when I can't make up my mind for what I feel like for brekky, I end up having the most delicious meals!
Today was muesli pancakes and a thick chocolate green monster.
Thick Green Monster Smoothie:
Ingredients:
1 frozen banana
1/2 frozen avocado
1 frozen  milk ice cube
2 handfuls spinach
1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1 heaped tablespoon raw cacoa
1 tablespoon chocolate protein powder (optional)
1/4 cup milk (I used soy milk)

Method:
1. Add everything to a blender, place some frozen stuff on top of spinach to weight it down and blend until smooth!
2. Place in freezer while you make your pancakes!

Muesli Pancakes:
Ingredients:
50g muesli (with nuts, seeds and dried fruit) + about 4cup milk
chia gel (1 tablespoon chia seeds, mixed with 1 tablespoon milk ( I used oat milk)
10g coconut flour
1/4-1/2 milk (depending on how thick you want them)

Method:
1. Prepare chia gel
2. Place muesli in a bowl add milk (I said about 1/4 cup, really add enough to just cover all of the muesli, let sit for 5-10 mins until most of milk is soaked up.
3. Process chia gel in a small food processor. Add the soaked muesli to the food processor and process until combined:

4. Place coconut flour in a bowl, add muesli goop (sorry, mueli mixture!) and milk- start with a 1/4 cup then add more if you want thinner pancakes. Whisk until combined.
5. Spoon onto pan lightly greased with oil, on low heat. Now these pancakes have no eggs, so they can be very fragile so cook them for a bit longer than regular pancakes, maybe 5 mins on low heat, then carefully flip, if they break- press them back together)

So these took about 10-15 mins on low heat to firm up.
6. Flip onto plate and add any toppings you want. I went with brazil,walnut,almond,cashew butter!

 7. Enjoy!
Pancakes:

Smoothie:

Best friends forever:

YUM!

Another yummy brekky I've recently enjoyed?

Yeah Baby!
Simple whipped banana oats topped with peanut butter wholegrain cheerios:

Delicious!

Happy Pancake + Green monster Sunday!!!

PINK!

These past few days can be summed up in one word. REALLY-REALLY-REALLY-YUMMY!
See? Ok, that's not really one word... PINK! Would be more accurate.
Last night was Friday pizza night, as mum was leaving for England that night and had no intention of cooking. I did however, so I made myself a delicious pizza:

This is my wheat free beetroot pizza base, topped with loads of stuff -100% tomato paste, tomato slices, capsicum, mushrooms, spinach and steamed veggies (pumpkin, sweet potato and parsnip) with a drizzle of vegan cheese.
Ingredients:
For the base:
Use this recipe, omit the pumpkin and instead steam half a beetroot for 30 mins.
For the toppings:
Pizza sauce (100% tomato paste mixed with oregano and basil)
Vegan cheese
Any other veggies you want
For the stuffed crust:
2 heaped tablespoons canned lentils
2 heaped tablespoons canned butter beans (or red kidney beans, or black beans etc.)
1 tablespoon of hommus- or your favourite dip

Method:
1. Peel, chop and steam beetroot for 30 mins
2. Follow this method for making dough. Place beetroot into a small food processor and process into small cubes, grab a handful and squeeze juice onto dough, let a few bits of beetroot in as well.
3. Work dough on a floured bench for 5 mins. It should look like this:

4. Place in a greased bowl and cover with a tea towel, place in a warm place for 45 mins to rise.
5. Meanwhile get all of your toppings together, make the sauce and the cheese.
6. preheat oven to 18 degrees celsius.
7. Chop and steam veggies for 20 mins
8. Get the dough:

and punch it dough, lightly need on a floured surface and then roll out and place on a baking tray lined with baking paper.

9. Place rinsed lentils and beans in a bowl, place a plate on top and microwave for 20 seconds. Mash with fork and stir in hommus, or other dip.
10. Place on the edge of pizza with a gap, so you can fold it over.

 Fold over:

11. brush on some hommus to stick it together.
12. Top! bit of 'cheese', sauce, spinach, rest of toppings, rest of 'cheese'
13.Bake in oven for 20-25 mins until crust is hard.

Enjoy!

Don't you just love the pinkiness?
Well, this morning, the colour spread its joy once again!

With one of my ultra thick smoothies in a jar!
You can find different versions here and here and here!
This one was super thick and super good though!
Tuity Fruity Brekky Smoothie:
Frozen watermelon
frozen pineapple
frozen banana (1 whole one)
frozen milk cubes
splash of non-dairy milk (I used oat)
( I didn't use any measurement because you can use as little or as much as you want, I will show you a picture of how much I used though)
Granola topping:
Muesli
nut butter (1 tablespoon)
1/2 tablespoon oat milk

Method:
1. Preheat oven to 180 degrees celsius
2. Microwave nut butter and oatmilk in a small container for 20 seconds, stir until smooth
3. Place muesli in a bowl and rub in nut butter mixture, spread onto pan lined with baking paper and bake for 10-15 mins until golden brown
4. Let sit for 5 mins to go crunchy!

5. Get all of your frozen ingredients:

6. Let them sit for a few mins, then break apart and place in blender with a splash of milk (you want it thick!)

7. Blend until smooth ( I had to keep stopping and moving it around with a spoon... but then...)

8. Spoon into jar, place in freezer for 5 mins, then top with warm granola
9. Take really fast pics- so it doesn't melt:

Get some zoom happening:

and an inside view:

Then enjoy! Don't eat it too fast- hello brain freeze... twice *cough* :( :D

Look how fluffy and pink and delicious this 'smoothie' was :

So there you go, pink treats for any day of the week!
Yum!