WIAW #6-oops!

Hello, hello and welcome to another What I Ate Wednesday!
Usually I do a what Ive been eating recently post instead, but I managed to photograph what I ate Wednesday and figured it would make more sense to stick with the title!- written on Wednesday..
Written today:
It is now Thursday. I usually post my What I ate Wednesday on Thursday because then I have eaten everything on Wednesday. I managed to photograph everything I ate Wednesday- without the memory card in my camera- I had left it in the computer after I uploaded my breakfast picture before school!
Saddest part about that- I ate some really yummy stuff! Including a beautiful lasagne- which came with a recipe!
Well, everything happens for a reason- so instead I shall do a What I wish I ate Wednesday...

 

Lets begin with breakfast. Yummy, colourful and filling- just how I like it!

I made some berry oatbran:

 *Note the adorable gingerbread spoon thing!

It was just oatbran, chia seeds, mixed frozen berries and oat milk, heated and thickened on the stove.

Then- I found an almost empty jar of nut butter...

... And had an absolutely lovely breakfast! With a mug of soy milk and a banana :)

Topped off with a little coconut butter- for good measure!

YUM!

Sometimes, I really do think I go over board with my dipping addiction...

So this is the only actual photograph of What I Ate Wednesday
What I wish I ate for lunch:
Running with spoons:
 
Pumpkin Chili Mexican scramble
What I wish I ate as a snack:
Oh She glows:

Peanut butter balls
What I wish I ate for dinner..
Oh My Veggies:







Kale and Sweet potato quesadillas!
Sorry about the lack of true What I ate Wednesday- hopefully next week I'll remember the memory card!

PESTO-love ;)

HI! My name is Steph.. and I LOVE PESTO!
HI STEPH!
Hehe, ok, well I probably don't need to go to a support group, but the addiction is there!
I think it all started when I tried it at this Italian restaurant on a veggie pizza. It was swirled on top... and DELICIOUS! Ever since then... I put it on anything.

Unfortunately I didn't have any when I made this earlier this week:

A delicious stuffed to the brim mega mushroom!

Without my beloved pesto.. I settled for salsa instead- still good :) It was stuffed with quinoa, steamed veggies, sundried tomatoes, cranberries and pine nuts.
Yesterday I bought basil.
I made pesto.
And an out-of-this-world dinner!

Pesto pasta with roasted tomato and pumpkin
Ingredients:
Pesto:
1 handful basil
1 handful spinach
1 tablespoon pine nuts
1 tablespoon nutritional yeast
1-2 tablespoons olive oil
1-2 tablespoons lemon juice

Rest of meal:
gluten free pasta (as much as you like)
1 tomato (or half a large tomato- like I used)
olive oil
pepper
1/4 cup red kidney beans rinsed
handful of peas
few chunks of pumpkin
extra spinach

Method:
For the pesto:
1.Place all the ingredients in a food processor and blend until smooth (this may take several minutes)

For the meal:
1. Preheat oven to 180 degrees celsius. Line a tray with baking paper
2. Chop tomato into quarters, place on tray, drizzle with some olive oil and crack over some pepper- roast for about 30-45 mins until slightly black and nice and soft
3. Place pasta in a saucepan with boiling water and cook as packet recommends (usually from 8-15 mins)
4. Steam pumpkin until tender (15 mins)
5. Add peas to the last 5 mins of steaming pumpkin
6. Drain pasta, place back in pot, add pesto, spinach, and beans and stir to combine on a low heat. Place on plate once warmed and spinach has wilted:

7. Top with peas, pumpkin and roasted tomato.
ENJOY! AND YOU WILL- SO, SO MUCH!
(sorry about all the capslock- I'M EXCITED!)

It's creamy and pesto-y and cheesey- without any cream or cheese! Thank you pesto!

 Have a great week everyone!
:D

What!?! No eggs?

Eggs-actly! Sorry- pardon the pun ;)
I'm not actually vegan... this may come as a shock as all of my recipes are vegan.
I'm actually a vegetarian, who doesn't eat dairy, processed/added sugar and avoids wheat occasionally, if you need a label!
So.. where am I going with this? I eat eggs. BUT- I love experimenting with substitutes to eggs, because I want my blog and it's contents to be accessible to as many people with a dietary restriction (or not) as possible!
I've done the impossible!
Not only have I created delicious, fudgy cookies without eggs, but I also created... wait for it.... CREPES! No eggs + No falling apart!
I guess I've been trying to do this for over a year now (sooo many pancake scrambles people) but today was the day when I did it!
VEGAN CREPES: (Don't like crepes? Those cookies I mentioned before will be featuring too!)

Ingredients:
chia gel- 1 tablespoon chia seeds mixed with 1 tablespoon milk ( I used oat)
1/2 a cup of wholemeal spelt flour
1 tablespoon coconut flour
1/4 banana
milk of choice ( I used oat milk)

Method:

1. Break apart the 1/4 banana and place in a small bowl, heat in the microwave for 20 seconds, then mash:

2. Place the wholemeal spelt flour and coconut flour in a bowl and stir to combine
3. Add the chia gel, banana and a splash of milk and whisk (It should be pretty hard to whisk)
4. Keep adding milk until you get a pouring cream consistency (I added quite a bit 1 cup+)

5. Heat a large frypan with a light spray of oil. Transfer crepe batter to a pouring jug:

6. Pour 1/4 mixture into pan and immediately start shaking pan back and forth until the batter is thin and not moving/ running any more. Wait for about 30 seconds, keep nudging sides up with a spatula, then shake the pan and hopefully the crepe will start moving about- then you can flip it!

*Now remember the golden rule in pancake/crepe making- the first one is always a dud, don't be disheartened if it doesn't work first try... mine didn't!)
This was my second attempt:

7. Leave on for another 30 seconds or so to brown up the other side, then place on some paper towel to drain away the oil
8. Continue with 3 more crepes (or however many you get from your mixture)..

 ..when you finish one, place filling in and roll up so it can melt while the others cook!
Coconut butter:

 Nut butter:

I also made a smoothie with my leftover banana. It was 3/4 of a banana, 1 handful frozen mango, 1 handful frozen berries, 2 handfuls of spinach and a splash of soy milk:

Once your finished making and rolling your crepes.. EAT!

Another sign it was a good day:

I couldn't resist:

 They were soo thin and scrumptious and tasted exactly how I remembered crepes tasting.. YUM!

WHO WANTS COOKIES?

Ingredients:
1 cup of muesli plus 2 tablespoons
1 dried fig chopped
1 banana
1 tablespoon nut butter
chia gel- 1 tablespoon chia seeds mixed with 1 tablespoon milk of choice

Method:
1. Preheat the oven to 180 degrees celsius. Line a baking tray with baking paper
2. Chop banana and mash with a fork, then microwave with nut butter for 20 seconds, stir to combine:

3. Place muesli in a bowl with the dried fig (optional- brings such a good taste!) and banana mixture and chia seeds, stir to combine- it will be quite wet:

4. Form into balls and place on the baking tray:

5. Bake for 10-15 minutes, until slightly golden brown:

6. Top with anything you like (I went for coconut butter- you can't beat coconut butter)
7. EAT!

Maybe even with some grapes and soy milk :)

So soft and chewy- just the way I like it :)
But really, the star of the show was the crepes:

I mean egg-free- come on!
Have a great Mother's day tomorrow!
:D

Finally!

I LOVE VEGGIE BURGERS! They also appear quite regularly on this blog..
See:

Problem is.. I never write down the recipe! Well, not to worry, I wrote down yesterday's! And yesterday's was scrumptious:

Placed atop some seet potato mash and hidden beneath some tomatoes is..
Spicy bean burger!
Ingredients: For one
125 g can four beans
2 tablespoons rolled oats
1/2 teaspoon ground coriander
1 teaspoon ground cumin
1/2-1 teaspoon dried chili flakes
1 teaspoon garlic
few sprigs of parsley

Method:
1.Drain and rinse the beans, heat for 15 seconds in microwave and place in a small food processor. Add your spices, garlic and parsley and about 1/2-1 tablespoon of water- process until just combined (you don't want it complete mush, texture is important!)

2. Place mixture in a bowl with oats and stir to combine
3. Use hands and roll into a ball. Place on a piece of baking paper on a small plate and leave in freezer for 15-30 mins (I made the rest of my dinner in this time)

I steamed some sweet potato (20 mins)and roasted some beetroot (30-40 mins in 180 degrees celsius oven)and brussel sprouts(10 mins). Then I mashed the sweet potato with some hommus.

4. After 15-30 mins, remove bean burger from freezer, heat a small frypan with a bit of oil (1-2 tablespoons) on medium/high heat. Cook bean burger on both sides until golden brown:

 5. Place on paper towel, then serve- in a bun, on top of sweet potato mash or just plain straight bean burger- however you like it!
I went with burger without bun.. and then had fun with some different angles:

 BEETROOT!

Enjoy!
Also- have a great weekend! YAY!
:D