Back with vegetarian pasta dishes and some life updates, Yoga related!

Hello! I know it has been sooo long, but I have a good excuse this time! I trained to become a Yoga teacher and started working straight away 😀 I feel so blessed with the opportunities i have been given here in Italy..

Besides my teaching time in the beach during all summer I was working 3 days a week in my other half parents restaurant, so that took a lot of my time too, and it was exhausting.

We had a proper summer 3 months of sunny 35 degrees, actually i couldn’t take it anymore, after living so many years in London it will take awhile to get use to . As I was alone most part of the summer I really couldn’t justify cooking fancy food, or cook at all…I mainly ate salad from my garden, eggs, cheese, fruit and all the veggies you can eat raw 😉 It was quite healthy and refreshing actually.

But now I’m settling back in my routine and actually did a proper planner of my days, so they don’t go idle (watching series and instagram eheh) and I am back into the kitchen, when I a not practicing Yoga or teaching classes ( I still don’t have that many, but hopefully they will increase) or studying (which I tend to do a lot).

So I decided to pack a few pasta dishes, some vegan and some vegetarian, they are mainly for inspiration as they are very simple and quick to make, so we cannot use the excuse that healthy recipes take long time or are hard work. And pasta is healthy, just eat in moderation, with really good fresh ingredients and you are ready to go, and if you _really_ want swap regular pasta for wholewheat or quinoa or brown rice pasta, I don’t as I eat very once in awhile, may 3 times a month, as I am a rice kind of girl 😉

Enough of blah blah and let’s look at this delicious dishes, if I may say :

This is a really easy fresh pasta dish (which you just boil for 3 to 4 minutes) Mixed with a simple sauce of white beans, cherry tomatoes, good quality olive oil and some parsley ❤ Delicious and super healthy and quick, Can be done under 15 minutes.

This is the old school Pasta with Peas that is part of Italian tradition, I added some carrots because I had one laying around, the original is without but I love my veggies and I think it gave a nice sweetness to the dish. This is a one pot dish, so even better, it takes around 20m beginning to end. Fry onion and garlic in olive oil until soft and add fresh chilies to taste, add the carrot chopped as small as you can so it cooks really fast and let it be here for 5 minutes, add a touch of white wine (optional, but if used wait a couple of minutes before adding another ingredient). Add the peas, stir for another 2 minutes and add half a cup of tomato sauce (passata, good quality). If you would like add half an organic vegetable stock cube and some black pepper. Add boiling water to this mixture, enough water to cook the pasta and have some sauce left. You can add little by little too if you are not sure. Season with sea salt, and serve as soon as the pasta is ready ( to 10 minutes).

Hope all is well, and get used to see me often now! Have a lovely day/night depending on wherever in the world you are ❤

Easy peasy veggie tart / Tarte de vegetais super facil

Easy peasy pie :
Sorry I have been a bit lazy the last couple of weeks, but here it is an easy and delicious pie for you! The pastry is a shop bought one, just buy one without a lot of bad things.. In a pan fry finely chopped 3carrots, 200grs of mushrooms,1/2a leek and garlic(and some salt and pepper and herbs) with olive oil until tender. Beat 3 eggs with half a cup of water and 1 full tablespoon of tapioca starch (potato should work too) and some seasoning, add the cooked veggies and mix well. If you wish grate a tiny bit of Parmigiano cheese on top.Bake at 190C for 40m or until set and golden brown ❤

Tarte de vegetais sem super facil:
Comprar uma massa para fazer tortas tipo quiche (ou façam voces mesmos se tiverem tempo) 😉 de boa qualidade. Numa frigideira colocar azeite, 2dentes de alho, 1/2 alho frances, 200grs de cogumelos frescos e 3 cenouras cortados bem fininhos, sal e pimenta e deixar cozinhar ate começarem a ficar moles.Numa taça bater 3 ovos com meia taça de agua e 1 colher de sopa bem cheia de tapioca ou maizena, adicionar sal e peimenta a gosto. Colocar os vegetais junto com os ovos e mexer bem e colocar dentro da massa. Se desesjarem podem ralar um bocadinho de queijo tipo o Parmigiano por cima. Que previamente foi colocada na forma ja levemente untada. Assar a 190C durante 40m ou ate ficar dourada por fora e o recheio estiver cozido. Bom apetite 🙂

Banana and chocolate muffins / Bolinhos de banana e chocolate

This is an update on this post : https://fionabluerecipes.wordpress.com/2014/03/03/best-ever-vegan-banana-bread/

Banana and Chocolate Muffins:
Who wants some healthy muffins? My banana bread recipe makes beautiful muffins. The good thing about this recipe is that you can change around the ingredients and it always comes out well. The original recipe is vegan but I’m giving indications for the picture version 🙂

-100grs of self rising flour ( you can mix white and other like rye or wholemeal, if you don’t have self rising you can add yeast like I did)
-200grs of barley or oat flakes (or just 100grs of oats plus some more flour)
-4 big mashed bananas ( or like I did 2 mashed bananas plus 100grs of natural whole yogurt and 50grs of apple sauce)
-1 cup of raisins (you can omit, this time I didn’t put it)
-5 tablespoons of maple syrup or raw sugar
-2 big tablespoons of melted coconut oil(or other oil) (if using yogurt no need for oil, but you can add 1 big tablespoon of peanut butter)
– 1 cup of cacao nibs or dark chocolate pieces

For the muffins I used the () version I also chopped 1 banana and mixed through the batter.
Just mix all the ingredients together and bake at 180C for 40 minutes, but check always as it varies.

Versao Portuguesa :

Bolinhos de Banana e chocolate preto

Se quiserem fazer um doce saudavel este fim de semana, podem fazer o meu “pao” de banana em formas para cupcakes e fica delicioso! Esta receita é super versatil, podem variar os ingredientes e fica sempre bem, ja fiz esta receita imensas vezes e quase sempre uma versao diferente e gostam sempre 🙂

-100grs de farinha para bolos (desta vez misturei farinha de bolo branca com farinha de centeio)
-200grs de flocos de cevada ou de avena (ou 100grs de avena mais 100 de farinha)
-4 bananas grandes amassadas ( ou 2 bananas amassadas + 100grs de yogurt branco + 50grs de aqueles potinhos de puré de maça ou simplesmente 150grs de iogurte ou queijo fresco)
-1 taça de passas (ou como fiz desta vez 1 banana cortada aos pedaços)
-5 colheres de sopa de xarope de acer or açucar escuro
-2 colheres de sopa de oleo de coco derretido (ou outro) – se usarem iogurte nao ha necessidade para adicionar oleo, mas podem adicionar 1 colher de sopa de manteiga de amendoim como eu fiz, que da um sabor bom.
– 1 taça de cacao cru ou pedacinhos de chocolate escuro

Misturar tudo bem misturado e assar a 180C durante 40m, mas tem que ir prestando ateçao pois varia de acordo com fornos e formas 🙂
Bom apetite x

Vegan pasta with cherry tomatoes,fried peppers and nuts/ Massa com molho de tomate cereja, pistachios e pimento frito <3

English Version:

Last week my sister came to visit, lots of love 😀 so I didn’t cook much, as we were out a lot. We had a lot of fun, went to see some fantastic caves with salt formations inside, went ice skating and to see some castles and amazing landscape, god bless Italy 😉 And tonight my other half and I are going to check out this voluntary work to see if it’s a good fit, really hope so, as I have been looking for awhile. This institution is quite small and they help people and animals in need.

So, for today’s recipe: 2 people eating well or a small leftover

1 packet of pasta (for gluten free you can use corn or rice pasta, vegetarian can use fresh pasta, just cook according to time in the packet) I used around 300grs

1 can of cherry tomato sauce (the one with whole tomatoes not passata)

1/2 small onion

2 cloves of garlic

5 fried peppers (the long ones,sweet, already fried in olive oil, I had mine frozen as I did a big batch and froze in little portions)

handful of cashews and pistachios

handful of rucola/arugula/rocket leaves

splash of white wine/ salt/pepper/paprika/pinch of turmeric/dry oregano/fresh basil leaves/fresh chili chopped (or whatever you have at home/fancy)

Boil the water for the pasta, add sea salt and cook pasta. meantime..

Fry the onion, garlic and peppers together in olive oil until the onion is cooked and with a light color, add a splash of white wine and let it cook for a couple of minutes. Add the can of tomatoes and spices and let it cook while the pasta is cooking(if necessary add a bit of water from the pasta so it doesn’t get dry). When done add most of the rocket but leave a bit to put on top. Drain pasta and mix it into the sauce, let it cook for 1 minute and dish up. add fresh rocket and nuts on top. If you are not vegan you can shave some cheese on top, but it’s so tasty that it doesn’t need ❤

Lots of love,

Sandrina

Portuguese Version:

A minha irma veio visitar-me na passada passada por isso nao fiz nenhum update por aqui, para dizer a verdade mal cozinhei, so uma sopinha, porque estavamos sempre fora. Andamos a ver grutas com formaçoes de sal, castelos a patinar no gelo e comer muita massa e pizza 😉

Hoje a noite vamos ver uma instituiçao para começar a fazer voluntariado para ajudar pessoas necessitadas e animais abandonados, hoje vamos falar de coisas praticas, pois nao estamos muito disponiveis no verao por causa de trabalho, espero que nao seja um problema!

Mas vamos là a receita: serve 2 pratos bem cheios ou entao sobra para uma marmita pequenina

300g de massa (para ficar sem gluten podem usar massa de milho ou arroz, se nao forem veganos tambem podem usar massa fresca, como quiserem, mas sigam o tempo de cozedura do pacote)

1 lata de tomates  cereja em molho (se nao houver uma normal, mas nao usem ja em creme pois por norma usam tomates ja passados do seu tempo)

1/2 cebola pequena picada

2 dentes de alho picados

5 pimentos doces fritos em azeite daqueles longos, eu por norma tenho conglado em porçoes pequenas, pois é uma maneira facil de adicionar sabor aos pratos

mao cheia de castanha de caju e pistachios (ou o que tiverem por casa)

mao cheia de rucula

um bocadinho de vinho branco/ sal/pimenta/paprika/açafrao das indias/oregano seco/folhas de basilico/malagueta fresca (ou as especiarias que tiverem por casa, mas mais associadas ao mediterraneo para este prato)

Ferver a agua para a massa, colocar a massa dentro e sò depois o sal, cozinhar a massa e entretanto fazemos o molho.

Fritar o alho, a cebola e pimento tudo junto, ate a cebola ganhar uma cor,adicionar o vinho e deixar evaporar durante 2 minutos. Adicionar a lata de tomate e especiarias (ise começar a ficar seco adicionar agua da cozedura da massa, este molho nao é muito seco). Quando a massa estiver cozida,adicionar metade da rucula ao molho e guardar o resto para por por cima. Escorrer a massa e misturar no molho e deixar cozinhar durante 1 minuto e colocar nos pratos. Juntar a rucula e as nozes por cima, se nao forem veganos podem adcionar um bocadinho de queijo ralado por cima, mas realmente nao é necessario pois é mesmo saborosa!

Bom apetite,

Sandrina x

Delicious maple roasted sweet potatoes and brussels sprouts / Batata doce e couve de bruxelas assadas no forno com xarope de acer

English Version :

Another beautiful day in Italy, absolutely stunning blue skies and calm sea, as I went with my partner to a long walk this morning. We are trying to get enough vitamin D for the winter (yes, the cold weather here is going to get much worse) 🙂

I have been practicing yoga consistently around 2 hours a day, spread between morning and night. I’m feeling good with myself, my life and others, when one is able to focus and be grateful, life gets better, or simply we give up complaining so much and just realize that we are blessed after all 🙂

Onto food now! This amazing roasted veggies were our lunch alongside some spiced rice, I can’t describe how good they were.

For the roast veggies cut 1 big sweet potato in 1cm slices and then halve them, there is no need to peel them as the skin is very nutritious, just make sure to wash it well, all the veggies. Cut the little end of the brussels sprouts and halve them, chop some carrots in thin stripes and slice 2 onions, add a couple of garlic cloves, olive oil, sea salt, 2 tablespoons of maple syrup, dry chili, paprika, black pepper and oregano and mix all together, coating all the veggies. Bake a tray with baking paper and bake the vegetables on a pre heated oven for 50m at 190/200C . It should be cooked through, soft and caramelized.

The rice was very simple. Wash your rice 3 or 4 times. On a pan add olive oil, 1 clove of garlic, 2 bay leaves, half a teaspoon of turmeric, half a teaspoon of cumin seeds and half a teaspoon of oregano, let it fry until garlic is golden. Add a cup of rice (like a normal size mug) let it fry for a few minutes, add some white wine and let it cook for another 3 to 4 minutes, add 2 mugs of water (maybe a bit less like 1/3 less of the 2nd mug) and add some sea salt. Let it boil, when boiling put the heat to the minimum cover with lid and let it cook for 10 to 15m (depends on pan, etc, keep an eye, when you can’t see water turn off and leave the lid on for another 5m).

Serve together, such a nice winter meal, couldn’t wish for better!

Yesterday I spent the day buying and making beautiful (or at least I hope) Christmas baskets to give as presents, I love giving presents, especially this ones as are food related 😉 but going to the shops is so stressful,full of people in a rush, not good..

Have you finished your presents yet?

Love,

Sandrina

Versao Portuguesa :

Hoje estava mais um dia lindo para fazer uma caminhada, entao la fomos dizer ola’ ao mar 😉 E’ importante estarmos ao sol o maximo de tempo que pudermos no inverno por causa da vitamina D. A nossa caminhada ainda foi longa de 1 hora e meia, entao ja fiquei feliz. Tambem tenho andado a practicar yoga consistentemente, por volta de 2 horas por dia, oque me tem deixado num bem estar total, tanto fisico, porque sinto o meu corpo muito mais flexivel e forte, mas tambem ajuda a ver a vida de uma forma mais positiva e bela, temos de dar “mais graças” e resmungar menos, eu tenho muita sorte e sabe-lo deixa-me feliz 🙂

Mas agora e’ tempo da receita, vamos la :
Estes vegetais sao um bocadinho doces, mas nada exagerado e combinam muito bem com o arroz que e’ aromatico e maravilhoso, eu adoro arroz, por isso nao ha’ como errar.

Lavar bem todos os vegetais, cortar as 2 cebolas (usei uma branca e uma roxa), 1 batata doce grande (500grs, se nao tiverem batata normal tambem fica bom), tudo as rodelas, cortar 2 cenouras as tirinhas fininhas e cortar o caule da couve de bruxelas e corta-las ao meio (eu nao descasquei nada, so lavar mesmo bem, basta). Colocar tudo num recipiente e adicionar 2 dentes de alhos cortados em 2 ou 3 pedaços, azeite, sal grosso, pimentao doce, sementes de cuminhos (ou po’), 2 colheres de xarope de acer (quem nao tiver pode usar mel ou melaço), chili seco, pimenta preta e oregaos (secos), misturar tudo muito bem e levar ao forno pre aquecido a 190/200C durante 50m, mexer a meio. Eu costumo colocar papel vegetal antes de colocar os vegetais na travessa de ir ao forno, e’ melhor para limpar e nao se ataca. Depois deste tempo os vegetais devem estar bem cozidos e a caramelizar, principalmente as couves de bruxelas, devem ter uma cor um bocadinho acastanhada.

O arroz e’ muito simples. 1o lavar o arroz 3 ou 4 vezes. Colocar azeite, alho, 2 folhas de louro, 1/2 colher de cha’ de açafrao das indias, 1/2 colher de cha’ de sementes ou po’ de cuminhos, 1/2 colher de cha’ de oregaos secos e deixar fritar ate o alho ganhar cor. Adicionar uma caneca de arroz e deixar fritar mais um bocadinho, quando começar a agarrar colocar um bocado de vinho branco, mexer bem e deixar evaporar. Adicionar a agua (depende do arroz, mas para arroz normal, nao de risotto) 2 canecas de agua (menos um bocadinho 1/3), adicionar sal grosso a gosto e deixar ferver. Quando começar a ferver, tapar e colocar em lume brando. Cozinhar durante 10 a 15m (ateì a agua toda ser absorvida). Nao destapacar logo. Deixar assim pelo menos 5 minutos, para acabar de absorver a agua e cozinhar mais um bocadinho.

Depois e’ so servir, e’ delicioso e satizfaz bastante, tem sabores interessantes e nao deixa a desejar por carne nenhuma vos garanto 😉

Como vao esses presentes? Eu ontem ja fi os meus cabazes de Natal, estao giros, mas ainda nao acabei vou fazer umas bolachinhas caseiras para adicionar, mas isso so faço dia 23 🙂

Sandrina x

Best Dal / Dahl ever! Delicious lentils dish :) Estufado de lentilhas

Versao portuguesa mais abaixo 🙂

Best Dahl ever! But before just let me know that I finally bought my camera on amazon, so from next week no more bad quality pictures, yay! Now on to the recipe, this dish is amazing, really tasty and filling, can be eaten with bread, rice or by itself, it can be made heavier or lighter according to the amount of fat used. I kept mine quite low. This dish requires a few spices, but you can always adapt to suit your taste or pantry. This recipe serves 3 if served with rice, or 2 (that eat a lot, like me) if by itself.

-250grs of brown lentils soaked overnight (or yellow, red or black, but adjust cooking time)
-200grs of black beans,or kidney, white… (have been previously soaked and cooked but you can use either canned ones or just soaked like the lentils)

In a pressure cooker, fry 2cm of fresh ginger with 3 cloves of garlic, both finely chopped in a little olive oil, when the garlic starts to have a bit of color add the lentils and the beans and cover them with water ( not a lot, I wanted a thick dahl) maybe 3 to 4 cms above the lentils.Add 1 teaspoon of black pepper, 1/2 teaspoon of paprike, 1/2 teaspoon of chili flakes and sea salt to taste, bu don’t be too shy, otherwise it will be bland. Cover the pan and cook for 30 minutes, if after this you think they are under cooked, just let it cook other 10m.

On a frying pan fry 1 teaspoon of cumin seeds with 1 teaspoon of nigella or black seeds, when it starts to kind of pop add 2 cloves of garlic,1 large onion, 1cm of ginger and half a fresh chili, everything finely chopped, add a pinch of salt, let cook down for 10m. Add 2 tablespoons of tomato paste and let it cook for another 5 to 8 minutes, stirring often.

Once the lentils are cooked (you can mash it a bit with a spoon or not, up to you), add the tomato/onion paste to it and cook for 5 m and serve. I can’t describe the party in my mouth ;D
It may look long, but if you do both at the same time, you will have this epicness in 35 minutes. Enjoy x

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Dahl e’ um prato tipico da India, Paquistao, Banglades, etc e consiste de um estufado feito com lentilhas e /ou feijao, e bastantes especiarias. Acompanhado normalmente por arroz ou pao. Se nao tiverem estas especiarias podem sempre usar as que tiverem por casa, mas diria que e’ mesmo necesario pelo menos o gengibre, o chili e os cuminhos. Este prato ‘e super saboroso, acolhedor, perfeito para uma noite mais fria ❤ Esta receita serve 3 pessoas com arroz ou pao, ou so’ 2 comiloes como nos 😉

-250grs de lentilhas castanhas (ja demolhadas durante a noite, tambem se pode usar outra qualidade de lentilhas, mas tem que se ter cuidado com o tempo de cozedura)
-200grs de feijao preto ( omeu ja estava demolhado e cozinhado, mas pode estar so demolhado, ou tambem se pode usar de lata. E tambem se pode variar a qualidade do feijao)

Colocar numa panela de pressao um fio de azeite, 3 dentes de alho e um pedacinho de 2cms de gengibre, ambos muito bem picados. Quando o alho ganhar cor adicionar as lentilhas e o feijao e agua suficiente para cobrir, talvez uns 3 ou 4 dedos acima das leguminosas. Adicionar 1 colher de cha’ de curcuma(acafrao das indias), 1/2 colher de cha’ de pimenta preta, 1/2 de parika ou pimentao, 1/2 de chili seco e sal marinho grosso a gosto, nao colocar pouco,pouco senao ficara’ desenssabido. Tapar a panela e deixar cozinhar durante 30m em lume medio. Usar o senso comum, se nao estiver cozinhado tapa-se e cozinha-se durante mais uns minutos.

Numa frigideira, colocar azeite , 1 colher de cha’ de sementes de cuminhos (ou po’, mas a semente tem mais sabor), 1 colher de cha’ de sementes de nigella (ou pode-se substituir por sementes de coentros, ou po’ ou fresco, ou por 2 colheres de sementes de cuminhos, tambem se pode juntar louro). Quando as sementes comecarem a fritar adicionar uma cebola grande picada,2 dentes de alhos,um bocadinho de gengibre fresco por volta de 1cm e meia malagueta, tudo bem picado e uma pitada de sal (pouco, so para ajudar a cebola a caramelizar), deixar cozinhar durante 10m, quando a cebola estiver translucida adicionar 2 colheres de sopa de pasta de tomate (nao e’ polpa, aquela mais concentrada) e deixar cozinhar por mais 5 a 8 minutos.

Quando as lentilhas estiverem bem cozidas, adicionar esta pasta ja feita de cebola e especiarias. Deixar cozinhar durante 5 minutos e servir. Espero que experimentem pois e’ delicioso! Parece bastante longo, mas nao e’, se for feito ao mesmo tempo em 35m estara pronto o prato 🙂 Bom apetite x

Fall jams, falafel and other stories… Update on my new Italian life! :)

A few months have passed since I made a proper post, but it had to be this way. Had so much to do during summer, it flew by almost without a notice. So I left London and moved to Italy where I worked really hard during summer, 10 to 12 hours a day without days off, so that meant no summer for me 😦 but it’s ok, no hard feelings… After that my other half and I had to go back to London by car (with a stop in Switzerland where he has family) to ring back all our things, specially mine as I was living in there for 8 years, so imagine the amount of crap I accumulated 😉 It was very tiring the trip, but really wonderful to see all my friends and sister ❤

Anyway, it took me a long time to get internet in our house, but now it’s all working good, so I can update my blog more often. I did update Instagram and facebook as it requires less bandwidth..

A note on Italy so far, I love the country, it’s wonderful full of colours and flavors and nice people AND bad bureaucracy….omg…it takes ages to do anything and it’s very frustrating but if we keep calm and be patient at some point things happen, which is the most important thing..

Regarding my food , lately we have been eating even less meat and fish than before, for our health and for our wallet too. Choosing high quality over quantity. And nowadays, more than ever before, I make everything from scratch as I have the time and we are given so much produce by my new family 🙂  And I do have a small allotment with fruit trees, and I want to start planting a few things too, if anyone knows any tips for beginners I would appreciate!

Onto some food now :

Figs, walnut and seeds jam Very easy recipe just cut in 4 500gr of fresh figs. In a pan add a heaped teaspoon of cinnamon, the figs, 2 tablespoons of pure maple syrup or honey( I used maple), a dash of water, 4 dates cut in 4 ( or maybe another tablespoon of sweetener of choice) and let it cook in low heat for 20m. Check for liquid content if its too dry add a bit of water ( I needed extra and I had organic apple juice at home so I used that, but water is just fine). Mix 2 tablespoons of mixed seeds like flax, sesame, poppy and let it cook for a further 5m. Chop 10 walnuts and add to it at the end ( when it’s not cooking anymore). Let it cool and put it in some jars. I leave 1 out and freeze the rest. As it doesn’t have any chemicals it last around 1 week in the fridge. It’s so lush!! Sweet and amazing. Over bread, yogurt, pancakes, oatmeal…so many options..

Here is a link for a bread recipe of mine :

Adventures!

And one for pancakes :

Yes, pancakes 🙂

Persimmon, apple and chia jam :

6 ripe gooey persimmons

2 apples

2 TBS of organic brown sugar

1 TBS mixed spice like cinnamon,cloves, nutmeg, cardamon, but more cinnamon!

1TBS of chia seeds

3 TBS of apple puree, not really necessary but I had some open

add a bit of water if needed

Cook for 40 to 60m until very soft and blend, if it’s not thick enough just add a bit of tapioca or potato starch (1 teaspoon is enough) just to thicken it a bit 🙂

From my garden.. we have figs, rosemary, persimmons or khaki, tomatoes and onions 😀

Presents from the south of Italy, what more can I say??

For the Falafel : soak dry chickpeas for at least 6 hours. On a food processor mix the drained chickpeas with raw garlic, onion, parsley, cumin, chilli powder, turmeric, salt , black pepper and a bit of olive oil. Don’t over process. Fry or bake I have been on a spice kick, like to try new things. What is your favourite spicy dish ?

The rice is a normal plain rice cooked with garlic and olive oil. The cabbage was kind of steamed with chili flakes and garlic, chinese inspired 🙂

Food diaries :)

Let me leave you a link in case you wonder what portuguese food looks like, in a way more unhealthy but totally delicious way :

http://www.momondo.co.uk/news/portuguese-mouth-watering-dishes/

What I have been eating! Lentils, healthy cookies, chickpeas, soup and a lot of fruit , portuguese fruit tastes soooo good!

O que tenho comido em Portugal, lentilhas, grao de bico, bolachinhas saudaveis, muita fruta e sopinha. ❤

For the soup : chop 4 potatoes, 2 big carrots, 2 garlic cloves 1 medium onion, salt, pepper and olive oil. Let it boil for 30 minutes and blend. In the mean time wash and chop 2 types of cabbage ( you can use kale and white cabbage for example), when the soup is blended add the greens and let it cook for a further 15 to 20m (depends on the thickness of the cabbage). I never peel potatoes or carrots just wash them very well.

For the chickpeas makes 4 good size meals : 800g of chickpeas (in a jar, already cooked) and 3 eggs. Boil in water and salt for 25m. Drain and take the skin out of the eggs and chop them. Dice a small onion (white), add chopped parsley and 3 tablespoons of olive oil, adjust the salt and add chili flakes or piri piri or black pepper. Mix everything together (very well until the eggs fall apart and tyhe yolk sticks to the chick peas) Add black olives on top and it’s done.

Chocolate chip healthy cookies made with almond meal,oats, pieces of dark chocolate, 2 tablespoons of olive oil and 2 of dark mascavado sugar and 2 eggs. #glutenfree #dairyfree

 

Soak lentils during the night, next day chop onion and garlic and cook it in olive oil, add tomatoes and courgetter and let it cook for a bit, add lentils and plenty of water with salt and chili flakes. Cook for 30 minutes or until soft.

Vegan dishes – sweet potato, quinoa, millet, kale!

Today I have a few simple dishes for you, the 1st is a side dish of golden couscous with kale: lightly cook the kale on a pan with a touch of oil, add water with quite a bit of turmeric, salt and pepper to the couscous, once done mix Kale and couscous together. Serve as a side dish or let it cool down and use as part of a salad.

2nd is baked sweet potato with quinoa and millet cooked with asparagus and mushrooms.
Bake the sweet potato for 40m at 160C or until sof, no need to add salt or oil. On a pan cook garlic, onion with olive oil, once soft add the mushrooms and asparagus, let it cook for 5 minutes, add quinoa and millet (soaked previously for a few hours), and fry lightly, at this point you can use a bit of white wine or beer (if you want), otherwise just add water like you would with rice, add seasoning and let it cook for 20m or until water is absorbed.

Hoje fica aqui 2 pratos simples, o de cous cous e couve : cozinhar o couscous com bastante açafrao das indias sal e pimenta (de acorodo com as indicaçoes). Numa frigideira adicionar um fio de azeite ou agua e cozinhar a couve ate tenra, mas nao desfeita. Misturar a couve com o couscous e servir como acompanhamento ou deixar arrefecer e fazer uma salada, adiconando vegetais crus.

O 2o prato é batata doce assada no forno durante 40m sem condimentos a 160C e quinoa e painço (ou sò quinoa) : cozinhar uma cebola e 1 dente de alho com azeite, depois adicionar aspargos e cogumelos e deixar cozinhar durante 5 minutos, acrescentar vinho ou cerveja se desejar, colocar a quinoa e painço e fritar durante 5 minutos, adicionar agua (mesma quantidade como se fosse arroz 2 para 1 ), colocar sal, pimenta e outros condimentos que gostar, deve estar pronto em 20m ou quando a agua estiver completamente absorvida. Bom apetite!

Yes, pancakes :)

This pancake recipe, besides the banana, eggs, oats combo has baking soda and coconut too, very light!

Desta vez adicionei a banana, aveia e ovos, um bocadinho de coco ralado (seco) e bicabornato de sodio, o que fez com que as panquecas ficassem mais leves ❤

Another list of dirty 12 and clean 15, have a look, save yourself some money, and invest it where needed. I should carry this list more often as I end up buying organic where it doesn’t make a difference and the other way around..

Link : http://www.ewg.org/foodnews/summary.php

Mais uma lista das frutas e vegetais com mais ou menos pesticidas, chamados os 12 sujos e os 15 limpos. O link esta em ingles (nos comentarios), mas os limpos sao : abacate, milho, ananas,couve, ervilhas congeladas, cebolas,asparagus, mangas, papayas, kiwis,beringela , toranja, melao, couve flor e batatas doces.
Os sujos, ou seja aquelas que deveriamos comprar biologicos sao : maças (sem duvida a pior, este compro sempre biologico), morangos, uvas, aipo, pessegos, espinafres, pimentos, pessegos carecas, pepinos, tomates cereja e batatas.
Devia ser uma lista que levamos sempre connosco para o supermercado, eu pelo menos acabo sempre por confundir as 2…