rye bread | fionabluerecipes

I love soup, all kinds of soup, really, and it tastes even better with some homemade bread 🙂 I have a recipe here :

https://fionabluerecipes.wordpress.com/2013/06/07/adventures/ you can substitute the sunflower seed for rye flower .

To make this soup you will need :

1onion
2 cloves of garlic
1 can of Bertolli beans ( or soaked from dry )
3 big potatoes
2 big carrots
400grams of kale
olive oil/ salt and pepper

cut all the veggies, put everything in a big pan/pot except the kale. Boil water and pour over the veggies. let it cook until soft, around 30m. Blitz everything in a blender, until soft with no lumps. Put it back in the pan add the kale, cook for another 10 to 15m, and it’s done!

Spread some butter or olive oil on the bread and enjoy.

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Enjoy the weekend xx

Yesterday I was busy doing my new facebook page — https://www.facebook.com/fionabluerecipes , add me if you have an account there 🙂 — and my other half was away, so for dinner I wanted something quick, healthy and not very expensive to make. This was I came up with :

Ingredients :

1 can of organic lentils

1 can of tomatoes

2 organic carrots

Kale

Spinach

Onion

Garlic

Olive oil

Bacon ( always optional)

Spices : Paprika, oregano, salt, black pepper, red chilies, parsley.

Method :

Cook garlic, onion and parsley with olive oil, until soft. Add the tomatoes and let it cook for 10m, add spices and a bit of water/wine if necessary. To this add the lentils and let it cook for a further 5m. The spinach and kale need no more than a couple of minutes, so do it at the very end. If your version has bacon, I would add it with the onion.

Always remember to wash your vegetables well. A bit of vinegar when washing is said to help cleaning them.

Had the stew with a piece of rye bread that I baked in the afternoon, was really nice, filling and not too heavy. It produces an amazing gravy, which I love, so if you are like me, you are in for a treat!

Benefits of kale : Helps with high cholesterol. It has a very high level of sulphur based compounds, which help to increase cells ability to process and break down potentially cancerous chemicals. There is a long accepted link between the consumption of cruciferous vegetables and reduced risk of cancers ( ex : kale, broccoli, cauliflower, cress, cabbage, bok choi, rocket and many more!)

So remember to top up on this every time you can 😉