Sweet potatoe-courgette quiche

Like having a quiche for lunch or dinner?

Great, so lets make your own one with ingredients you know and you prefer.

Ingredients needed:

2 sweet potatoes

2 courgettes

1 onion

2 garlic cloves

2 eggs

1/4 cup olive oil

1 cup buckwheat flour

salt

pepper

herbs

*salad to serve

Instructions:

Coarsely grate sweet potatoes and courgettes.

Chop onion and garlic. 

Mix it all with the rest of the ingredients, taste with seasonings as you wish.

Bake on 180°C for about 40mins.

Best to serve warm, but it is tasty yummy also cold.

You can also use just courgettes or combine them it with carrots :)

Enjoy x 

GF/SF/WF/V

Beetroot stuffed pan-cake

This recipe is for everyone who loves pancakes and especially BEETROOT! 

This veggie is not only super healthy, but makes an amazing colour for your food too, wherever you use it.

I made this savoury version for today's lunch, but pancakes can be eaten also in sweet version. 

Please send me your sweet ideas or share with others :-)

Ingredients needed for about 25 medium pancakes:

3 roasted organic beetroots (roast in oven at 200°C for 15-20mins)

2 eggs

1 cup of gluten free flour (I used buckwheat one)

1/4 cup olive oil (or melted coconut oil)

1/2 cup milk (I used oats one)

1 tsp baking powder

pinch of salt

black pepper

1 tsp apple cider vinegar

coconut oil for making pancakes

Ingredients needed for a filling:

fresh spinach leaves

fresh fennel

green olives

cottage cheese 

Instructions:

Mix all pancake's ingredients together and start to make pancakes :-) 

I am sure you all know how to make them. 

In meantime prepare your filling: blend all ingredients together.

And now serve.

Enjoy x 

GF/SF/WF/V

Healthy Apple Pie

Remember that juicy tasty grandma's apple pie you used to enjoy every time you visited her for holiday? Or mom's one she used to make every Sunday after lunch? This is it!!! 

Now, in healthier gluten free vegan version ready for you to get addicted to. 

As I did after my first bite...

Ingredients:

150gr oats

150gr buckwheat flour (or any of your choice)

80gr coconut sugar

180gr melted coconut oil

5-6 juice sweet apples (or 3 apples and 3 pears, up to you)

cinnamon

1tsp vanilla powder (or drops)

pinch of salt

Instructions:

Grate coarsely apples. 

Have 2 bowls ready to make a "dough".

Mix oats, flour, sugar, cinnamon, vanilla and salt together and divide the mixture in half. 

Or, if this is easier for you, prepare identical 2 mixtures 

(each 75gr oats, 75gr flour, 40r sugar, cinnamon, salt together) in 2 separate bowls.

Preheat your oven to 180°C and line your baking tray (20x20cm) with a baking paper. 

Pour 1 mixture on the bottom (don't press too much!),  then add all grated apples (again, don't press too much!) and pour the other half of mixture on the top. 

Now pour all the melted coconut oil on the top of the cake.

Bake for about 30-40minutes until golden and leave to cool down completely before serving. 

But I am telling you it will be hard to wait :-)

Enjoy x 

PS: Inspiration taken from FITNESS GURU. Slightly altered to even healthier (gluten free) version.

GF/WF/V/V+

Cashew ginger granola

Here I am with another granola combination for you to try.

Granola is great as you always mix just ingredients you fancy or have available and you have a great breakfast or snack ready in few minutes.

This time I decided to make one with a hint of ginger and quinoa.

Ingredients needed:

2 cups oats

1 cup soaked and drained quinoa

1 cup cashew nuts (coarsely cut)

handful dried apricots (cut in small pieces)

1/4 cup melted coconut oil

1/2 cup maple sirup (or date sirup)

sesame seeds

ground ginger

bit of fresh grated ginger (as I didnt have caramelized one)

cinnamon

salt

Instructions:

Mix oats, quinoa, sesame seeds and cashew together.

In a small bowl mix remaining ingredients together (a part from apricots) and pour over the dry ones. 

Mix well and spread equally on the baking paper sheet on the pan. 

Bake at 150°C for about 20-30mins until fragrant and light brown. 
Its necessary to mix it time to time so you prevent it from burning!!!  

Leave to cool down, add apricots and store in an airtight container at room temperature for 3-4 weeks or in the refrigerator for up to 6 weeks.

Enjoy x

DF/GF/SF/V/V+

 

Buckwheat salad with salmon and mango lime dressing

My improvisation of today's lunch/dinner made my man very happy and full:). And myself too.

It was really tasty. The mango lime dressing goes very well with the fish, so I can only highly recommend this combination.

Ingredients needed for salad:

1 cup buckwheat

green beans

yellow pepper

green olives

1 shallot

coconut oil

organic salmon (or any other fish, fillet or even chicken)

Ingredients needed for dressing:

1 ripe mango

1/2 cucumber

1 lime (juice)

1 garlic clove

handful cashew nuts

black pepper

salt

vinegar

Instructions:

You can either make this salad totally raw or half raw, the way I did it. 

Cook 1 cup of buckwheat. Melt some coconut oil on pan, add cut shallot, green beans and pepper.
Steam for a while. Set aside. Prepare your fish.

Now make your dressing mixing all ingredients together in blender for about 3mins.

All ready. 

Enjoy x 

DF/GF/SF/WF

Almond quinoa nut bowl

Gluten free and nutritional breakfast

Overnight soaked quinoa, 

cooked in almond milk in the morning.

Add bit of coconut sugar,

top with chestnut flakes, chopped walnuts and hazelnuts, some bananas, 

dip in and enjoy x 

Doesn't it taste great? :)

GF/SF/WF/V/V+

The healing properties of clove essential oil

The therapeutic properties of clove are endless. It is a stimulant and has stomachic, expectorant, sedative, carminative, antispasmodic and digestive qualities. It helps flatulence, stimulates digestion and restores appetite, so is good for convalescence. It is a general tonic for both physical and intellectual weakness; and for those suffering from frigidity.

Its principal therapeutic value, though, is antiseptic because of the high proportion of eugenol. 

This is used for intestinal parasites, and for prevention of virus infections. It is good for the immune system, and particularly effective in mouth and tooth infections.

Below are only few areas in which you can find clove very helpful:

- Dentistry

- Skin cancer

- Diabetes 

- Menstrual pain

- Depression

- Parasitic infections

- Lung damage

...and much more

If you are curious how is it produced, how it grows, how and where to use it, how to even make your homemade clove soup, carry on reading on below links:

original source

slovak translation