Dessert, Healthy Snacks

Raw Carob & Almond Brownie Bites 

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Ladies and gentlemen when you’re in need of something sweet…

These 2 minute brownie bites are just what you need to eat! 

Ingredients: 

  • 1 banana 
  • 1 cup of flaxseed
  • 4-6 tablespoons of carob
  • Handful of Almonds 
  • 1 tablespoon of dried grapefruit zest 
  • Dates/raisins/currants (optional)

Measure out your flaxseed into 1 cup…

  

Then add with the almonds and shake it all up! 

  

Give them both a good fine blend… 

Your consistency should look like this in the end:

  

Add the rest of the ingredients carob, banana and zest…

Blend well until the dough is mixed right through and is smelling the best! 

Then roll into balls or why not fill a shaped ice cube tray…   

  

And place in the freezer for 10 – 15 minutes, to become solid and stay! 

  

Then pop them out and you have the perfect treat: a soft and delicious sweet healthy bite to eat ❤️👌

 

Lunch, Salads

Red Cabbage Tahini Salad Wraps

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Ingredients:

  • 1 Red cabbage
  • Lemon & thyme tahini
  • 1 carrot julienned
  • Lettuce leaves
  • Cocktail Sticks
  • Salt & Pepper

Break off whole cabbage leaves, be careful not to tear…

…And wash them throughly ready to prepare. 

Fill with a spoon of tahini and give it a a good spread…

…and fill with lettuce and carrots or other salad vegetables instead.

Now roll into a wrap, secure with a cocktail stick and then your ready to crunch…


…delicious and colourful cabbage wraps – perfect for your next lunch!

👌💚😋

Healthy Snacks, Ice Cream

Watermelon Sorbet 

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Sometimes you need something refreshing and nice, There’s nothing like a cool bowl of watermelon ice!

Perfect when the sushine is bright in the sky, so simple to make – why not give it a try! 

Ingredients:

  • Watermelon

Method:

  • Chop melon into bite size chunks (We used 3-4 mini watermelons, though 1 large melon would work also.)
  • Freeze over night 
  • Blend in high speed blender or ice crusher.

   Suggestions: 

  • Add a small amount of water if you are finding your blades are struggling. 
  • Do not feel you need to completely blend the ice crush mixture, it can be rather appetising to leave a few frozen watermelon chunks in your sorbet! 


MMS (make me smile) endnote: 

What does a person enjoying this recipe retreating on a Sunday afternoon cry when the phone rings? Leave ME ‘LON! 🍉😂😎

Breakfast, Dessert, Ice Cream

Apricot Ice Cream 

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When it’s hot and the sun shines through, only an ice cold breakfast will do!

This delicious treat creamy and sweet is the perfect refreshing breakfast to eat! 

Ingredients:

  • 6 frozen organic apricots 
  • 6-8 organic frozen bananas
  • 1/2 cup of organic almond milk

Oh this recipe is so delicious – we could let out a large scream! 

Are you ready to make a bowl of sugar-free vegan ice cream?

Place all ingredients in your jug ready to blend… 

…🍑🍦

Place on the setting you use to crush ice… And in a minute or two – voila!: 

  


We can never have too many photos of this bowl of mmmhmmmm! 

 

Zoom in on this mouth watering delight …

  

Why not top with fresh apricots too?

  

….And enjoy! Waking up to breakfast this yummy is just such a refreshing start to the day!

 

A picture says 1000 words… 👌  

Bon Appétit!  

 

Dips, Salad dressings, Salads

Lemon & Thyme Tahini

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Ingredients:

  • Sesame Seeds
  • 1 peeled lemon 
  • Thyme (to taste)

Method: Add ingredients to Vitamix (or other high speed processor) and Blend!

We have been absolutely so excited about making our own homemade organic tahini, it’s so difficult to try and find it in the shops here in the UK. Tahini is scarcely available in supermarkets and organic tahini is even more scarce and so we realise,  just like everything else, if you can buy it… you can make it 😉 

We couldn’t believe how simple tahini is to make, it consists literally just of blended sesame seeds, (nothing our trusted Vitamix can’t handle!) and so after a wholefoods delivery of…..

…just a little delivery of sesame seeds😊 We were good to go! 

To make tahini you simply need to blend sesame seeds! Here we go, half the jug full…

  

The mixture can warm up so you’ll need to open the lid, give it a stir and leave it to cool down intermittently.

The first time we made plain tahini we decided it was a little too thick and a little too plain for our liking and that’s how we happened upon this fantastic recipe! 

We added an entire peeled lemon, a good dash of thyme and a splash of mineral water and after Some blending later…

Voila!   


 Oh it tastes so good – you just have to try this – you’re very own of lemon and thyme sesame cream ‘cheese’. 

The lemon smell and creamy texture reminded us very much of lemon buttercream and suddenly – like a lightbulb lightening flash moment  we thought – Why not use our icing tool!? 

Oh swirly swirl… Mmhhmm   

Well I say! Who said salads couldn’t look as pretty as cake 🎂!  

  
We hope this post will inspire you to dress up your dressings and salads. 

Enjoy! JA ladies x

Bread, Breakfast, Cakes & Muffins

Apple Spice Poppy Seed Bread Muffins 

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You know that feeling when you wake up, open the curtains, the sun is shining, and your mixing bowl just has that shining sparkle that says: it’s a bake-and-make kind of morning!?

This morning was one of those mornings. The great thing about this recipe is that it was completely spontaneous and turned out just right!

The final texture resulted in a hybrid between bread and muffin – a Bruffin? It is therefore perfectly suitable for any time of day.

You can sweeten if you would like to make it more dessert like or the apples when cooked in pieces alone inside the mixture make it a perfect more savoury bread without added sweetner.

Enjoy!

Ingredients:

  • 1 1/2 cup of ground raw buckwheat (or buckwheat flour)
  • 1/4 cup of olive oil (or coconut oil)
  • 1 peeled and diced apple
  • 1 teaspoon cinnamon
  • 1 teaspoon of mixed spice
  • 1/2 teaspoon of baking powder
  • 1 handful of poppy seeds
  • Maple syrup/agave nectar/ sweetner of choice (optional)

1. Preheat your oven.

2. Ground your buckwheat groats or measure out your flour – we blended our buckwheat into flour in our vitamix dry jug… 
3.Then measure out your oil
4. Peel and chop one apple (green or red would be fine)  

Apple peeled and diced. You can leave the peel on if you prefer. 
5. Measured out your spices….  

6. Add all ingredients to a mixing bowl and stir well…  Stirring in those poppy seeds 👌    Really giving the mixture a good stir!   

7. Now time to fill up or muffin tray! You could also use muffin cases


Zoom in on that oh so delicious mixture!

8. Now 30 minutes cooking time in the oven at 200 degrees Celsius on the clock!   
They’ve risen and they’re done!   

9. Mandatory test bite! Oh so fluffy and warm 😆  

Looking good!

Good and golden 💛
10. Voila!  Enjoy! 

Ice Cream

Cacao & Vine Fruit Ice Cream 🍦

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Delicious chocolate-like sweet ice cream in less then 30 seconds and only 2 ingredients necessary – are you ready 🙉🍦🍫🍌 

Ingredients 

  • 5-6 sliced frozen ripe bananas 
  • 1 cup of cacao powder 
  • Handful of mixed vine fruit (raisins, currants, sultanas) (optional)

Place bananas and cacao powder in your blender with just enough water to cover your blender blades. 

Then if you’re using a Vitamix – put on the ice/frozen setting or if using another blender, blend as you would if you were crushing ice. The result should look something like this:
    

Serve immediately topped with vine fruit or other topping up choice 👌 

Perfect to satisfy an afternoon need for sweetness, dessert or even a Monday Morning breakfast 😉


Healthy, nutritious and delicious 😋 

Burgers, Dinners, Lunch

Spinach & Potato Buckwheat Burgers 🌿

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We love making our own homemade burgers, we’ve made experiments galore! Here’s one we particularly enjoyed for you to have a go and explore! 

Ingredients:

  • 2 handfuls of washed fresh spinach leaves 
  • 1/2 red pepper washed and chopped
  • 3 fresh garlic cloves 
  • 1/2 white onion peeled & diced
  • 1/4 cup of buckwheat flour 
  • 1/2 tsp cayenne pepper 
  • 2-3 tsps dried chopped mint, 
  • 2-3 tsps dried chopped basil, 
  • 2-3 tsps dried chopped thyme, 
  • A generous pinch of Maldon salt
  • Ground pepper 
  • 1 tbsp olive oil

Add the spinach, onion, garlic, pepper and some water to blend…

Pulse for a few seconds, this is the kind of mixture your aiming for in the end…

Steam your potatoes and mash until fluffy – oh this part is such fun!

Then add all the herbs and seasonings each and every one!
Pour in now, the spinach, pepper, onion and garlic mixture too;And stir and mash again until the mix is completely green right through!    Now add the flour which will make the mixture thicker,

Then create your burgers, perhaps using a press like this will be much quicker!    Drizzle the tops with olive oil which will give them that extra crunch…  

And bake for 30 minutes one side and 30 minutes on the other and they’ll be soon be ready for your dinner or lunch! 👌       

Dinners

Buckwheat Flour & Potato Gnocchi 

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Ladies and gentlemen here’s another delicious simple recipe for you to create…

…you’ll soon be making your own gnocchi at a speedy efficient rate!

 Ingredients

  • Some peeled and diced chopped potatoes
  • 1 cup of Buckwheat Flour 

Steam potatoes until soft enough to mash through…  

Then use a fork, masher or ricer to soften – don’t use a blender whatever you do! Here’s the final result fluffy, silky and smooth:  
You can add any seasonings at this point if you’re in a real culinary groove 😉  

Then measure out one cup of buckwheat flour ready to pour…  

…into your mixing bowl and make a hole in the centre for…   

…your fluffy potato, add to the centre in a ball……and knead the flour into the potato here’s what it should look like in all…  
Roll the dough into little round balls just like so…  

  …and place them in a pan of boiling water, and when they’re ready how will you know?

Because in a minute or two they’ll rise up to the top! And that’s when you take them out so the cooking will stop!

Then serve warm with your favourite sauce, we used tomato as you can see here…    

After this delicious meal you’ll soon be in good cheer!   

Dinners, Lunch, Salads

Red Pepper & Onion Quinoa Balls

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Ladies and Gentlemen these Quinoa Balls are a delicious bite to eat! Round and scrumptious and so beautifully neat!

Ingredients

  • A bowl of cooked quinoa
  • Half an onion diced
  • Half a red pepper diced
  • Salt/pepper to taste
  • Coconut oil for frying 
  • Basil or other seasoning of choice 

Fry your onions and shiny pepper red…

  

…Add and mix with salt, pepper and basil in their fluffy quinoa bed.  

Use your hands to roll a handful of mixture into a neat and round ball…  

…And whilst preparing do your very best not to eat them all! 😊😉Serve with salad and enjoy your round burst of protein!

  

A meal fit for any Quinoa King or Queen! 👑     

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