Tasty pancakes, weekend breakfast!

I am a pancake and crepe lover, love all kind with all sort of toppings! I decided that in the US the meal I’m going to make sure to eat out all the time is going to be breakfast, as they have big and varied one….and pancakes, and pancakes!

So today I woke up really starving, maybe because I went to the pub and didn’t have a proper dinner yesterday, really good night by the way 😀 and did 2 hours of exercise too!  and decided that it was a pancake day. The basic recipe is from a Jamie Oliver tv program that I can’t recall the name, and all the extras are mine .

The ingredients :

This will make 2 pancakes each for 4 people.

1 mug of white flour

1 mug of semolina ( original recipe asks for 2 cups of white flour)

3 eggs

2 mugs of milk

1 teaspoon of bicarbonate of soda

Now the extras :

Raw cocoa nibs

A handful of oats

poppy seeds

linseeds / flaxseeds

matcha powder ( this is just a mix from ,H&B that contains goji berries/chia and other things )

Note : the extras can be anything you like, it won’t affect the basic recipe, you can add nuts, dried or fresh fruit, it will always taste delicious!

The reason why I added all of this is to pack more nutrition, and keep the family fuller for longer 😉

Mix all together, you can leave it to rest for 5m so the soda reacts, but I didn’t because I was very hungry!

In a non stick pan add a bit of sunflower oil, and put in 1 soup ladle of the mixture. When you see little air bubbles ( after around 3 minutes) the pancake should be ready to flip, I use a spatula as I can’t do the french flipping thing . let it cook for another couple of minutes or until golden brown.

On the table we had blackberry jam ( my favorite) , honey, peanut butter, cocoa powder … you can top it anyway you want, I think yoghurt and fresh berries would be nice too.

The pancakes are fluffy, tasty and really filling, so I think 2 it’s plenty.

What are your favorite pancake toppings? Best pancake recipe? And for the Americans, any good pancake place in NY or SF that you can recommend?

Enjoy your weekend, here in London is raining a lot, so I’m staying in today.

Lots of love xx

Power lunch and some homemade bread!

After a crazy month at work finally have some days off.  I will be staying in London this time, just relaxing, cooking meeting friends and going to the gym. So yesterday as I was off I had the time to make something nice for lunch, really tasty and healing. I bought a book called Medicinal cookery, and I am trying to pack as much good ingredients as I can, sometimes just swapping white onion for purple makes a difference!

Ingredients :

Tomatoes

Kale

Spinach

Potatoes

Cabbage

Purple onion

Sausage (optional, without for vegan)

Spices : Turmeric, Cumin, rosemary, chili, black pepper, salt

Method :

Wash, cut and boil the potatoes.

Pan fry the sausages.

In a wok put a bit of  oil, I used carotino to try, mix all the vegetables and cook them for 10 m maximum,so it doesn’t lose all the nutrients.

Slice sausages and mix them with the potatoes and vegetables.

It’s a really nice filling meal, that gets it’s kick and flavor from the spices! Try it, I’m sure you will love it 😉

Wholemeal bread with sesame seeds crust

Ingredients :

I always use the same formula , 1kg of flour for 700ml of water, plus salt, oil and raising agent. This time I used the cake one, but you get much better results with proper yeast to bake bread imo.

I mix the ingredients,  600 g of whole meal and 400 g of white flour, salt, oil, baking powder, pumpkin seeds and poppy seeds, and combine. Add the water little by little until all is homogeneous and knead for 10 m. Let it rise for 1 hour, knead a bit more, let it rise for another hour if you have the time.

Bake for 60 m at 180 degrees in the oven bottom shelf.

This bread was made a couple of weeks ago, today I’m baking Rye bread. There is nothing like doing it yourself, it’s creative and you know exactly what goes into it! 😀

Tomorrow I’m making dinner for some friends so some more posts are coming soon!

Take care!x

Organic Box Delivery

Wednesdays are always exciting days! It’s organic delivery day!

Awhile ago we decided to start eating more organic, tried supermarket goods but somehow defeats a bit the idea of locally sourced, helping farmers and everything, so I did some online searches and decided to order through a London company. They get all their produce from around London and deliver very early in the morning which suits working people. I really like it, because I never run out of fruit and vegetables during the week, and always get something a bit different which makes me vary our meals, and that can just be good! Where do you get your organic products from?

This week I didn’t order fruit as I still had quite a lot, so we got veg, flour for the bread, and some sausages

And because we deserve it aswell, life cannot be just work and exercise (even though I did go to the gym today to do body conditioning, but shhhhh), this was our dinner (plus some salad), very portuguese/italian style!Homemade rye and seeds bread plus yummi goods from Paris!

What are your meal treats?