Recipe-picture style!

I love recipes that are done in pictures- I understand them better- so I decided to do one. I guess it won't be a complete pictures only recipe- but close enough!

So yesterday I had one last plain greek yoghurt sitting in my fridge and thought- hmm, what else can I do with this?
So... I got this:
My mini food processor:

A frozen banana

My last plain greek yoghurt

And a spoonful of peanut butter (any nut butter is fine :)

 And whazzed them together:

I then placed it in a bowl

And stirred in about 1/4 cup of muesli

Then.....
I got these bad boys out:

And filled them up (about 3)

They were then placed in the freezer overnight
Next morning wake up bright and early and go for a run..
Reasons behind this- in Australia, it's winter right now and I had made ice creams for breakfast- I had to be hot and sweaty! Reason two- it's my favourite time for a run:

 Finish run- arrive home:

 Take ice creams out, slide a knife down sides:

 Place in bowl of water for 20 seconds:

 They should pop out then:

 Oh and don't forget to make a mistake!

 Melt some coconut butter with a touch of milk (any milk) in the microwave:

 Drzzle over ice cream and push on any toppings you like (it should set hard)
I chose cheerios!

 Enjoy!

 Look it has buttons!

 Piece of fruit from muesli:

How to eat the mistake! With a fork of course!

Sooo, what are you still doing here- go make some ice creams!
Have a great weekend! :D

Simple=delicious

I think sometimes I get caught up in extravagant meals with heaps of ingredients and sides and random foods, that usually don't really end up going together (but are still gobbled up- come on people.. it's food!) for example, roast veggies, with a side of chili pesto pasta and some steamed greens topped with nutritional yeast.
So, occasionally I take a step back and get back to basics, I truly believe my favourite meals are the most basic kinds..
I mean- beans and toast, tomato and pesto pizza, or simply a bowl of roasted/steamed/anything veggies.
With that in mind, here's some meals and loose recipes for any inspiration :)
OATS!
I've been known to put multiple types of fruit in my oats, create oat ice creams, bowls, pizzas and more.. but my favourite is definitely simple whipped banana oats:

Ingredients:
1 banana
1/2 cup oats
1 tablespoon chia seeds
1 cup milk of choice (I used oat)
optional 1 tablespoon coconut butter
any topping you like (in the picture I used almond butter)

Method:
1. Place oats, chia seeds, thinly sliced banana, optional coconut butter and milk in a saucepan, stir to combine
2. Place on medium heat and leave to thicken- once bubbling whisk until all the banana chunks disappear and your oats are thickened to your liking
3. Top with anything and enjoy!
SO SIMPLE!

SO GOOD!

The next meal was simple and didn't need me to hang around in the kitchen- which was great because I was super hungry (it was past dinner time... I had just seen The Fault in our Stars! SO GOOD!) and I needed to shower and do some homework etc. So I didn't want to cook an elaborate dinner- I wanted it to taste good though!

Enter mug of deliciousness!
Here's what you do:
Steam up some veggies (like- pumpkin, parsnip, potato, sweet potato and beetroot) for about 20-30 mins) and mash!

Chop up some chili tofu:

Add some greens (spinach and frozen peas)

Stir:

Place in mug (I have a thing with mugs, hey?)

Top with a big spoon of hommus:

Enjoy!

While the veggies steamed I could do everything else :)
Lastly a simple green brekky:

Two slices of rye toast, topped with some vegemite and mashed avocado

and two soft boiled eggs with runny yolks for dipping :)

Also- in the background:

A green nudie juice (no added sugars- all natural, just fruit and veg!)
YUM!

See- sometimes simple is best! I still love my extravagant creations, but sometimes you just need to get back to basics- my tummy seems to thank me for it :)
Have a great weekend! :D

Thinking Out Loud Thursday!

Hello people! And welcome to my first ever Thinking Out Loud Thursday- hosted by Spoons- where I can ramble on about anything and everything! Finally!

So lets get started shall we?

Did you know it was National Running Day yesterday? Yeh, I didn't! And so I decided to have a rest day! I made up for it this morning though- in the wee hours of the morning (5:30am!) and ran my little heart out- I'm always a little late with everything it seems!

So what did I do yesterday?
Well, I ate a fabulicious breakfast of overnight greek yoghurt oats, with some home made peanut butter cheerios and a mango drizzle... and once again left my cameras memory card in the computer.
So- no pics, and no recipe... yet!

My exercise may not have been running yesterday.. but it was the high ropes course at school! In our out-door education program we get to do rock climbing and belaying and all that kind of stuff, so I got to act all awesome and walk on a beam and wire, almost touching the roof! I also became my inner-spiderman coming down... #upside down :)

 Yep- that was me :)
I also had never belayed before (which is like pulling the rope so there's is no slack and making sure you lock off if the person climbing falls..) and probably didn't pick the best time to tell the climber this- as she was climbing the ladder

Hmmm.. that's a pretty scary cat..

That's better- does anyone else love lolcats as much as me?
Well that's the majority of stuff that's been whizzing about in my brain, there will be recipes soon- if I remember my memory card! :)
Now I will leave you with some fun facts:
There are more fake flamingos in the world than real ones! 

 

Goats have rectangular pupils!

 

And lastly:

Turtles can breathe out of their butts!

 

Thursdays are for thinking out loud- getting random and being silly- head on over to Spoons to see what everyone else is thinking!