Overnight Summer Breakfast Goodness

Goooodmorning!!

Remember I have a big addiction to oats? Well I told you all about the benefits of oats in my post Overnight oats with a twist. This is kind of a similar breakfast recipe, but great in summer. It's my ideal to-go-to breakfast options, because you simply prepare at night just before you go to bed and then you wake up and all you have to do is get this yummy treat out of the fridge, top it off.. get a spoon in.. and enjoy waking up!

Ingredients

for the oats

30 gram oats

1 tbsp lineseeds

nuts (I used 3 almonds, 3 hazelnuts)

a few cranberries or raisins

handful of mixed fresh or frozen berries (I used raspberries and blueberries)

pinch of cinnamon

125ml soy milk

100ml soy yogurt

optional toppings

more nuts, seeds, goji berries, more fruit, beepollen, mulberries take your pick! 

All you have to do is grab a bowl and mix in all the ingredients for the oats, chop the nuts roughly and stir until well combined and then cover the bowl and set a side in the fridge. The berries make the yogurt taste amazing and it creates a great pink colour to your breakfast, a perfect combination! 

The Next morning you add your toppings and off you go!

What to eat for lunch?

Today I'm writing about what to eat for lunch. A lot of people have trouble to think of a healthy lunch idea, especially when you are full time working or are on the road a lot. You need something, easy, delicious, healthy and the most important: portable. Ofcourse there is noting wrong with a slice of (good quality) bread, when you top it off right, but you can bring a lot more vitamins, minerals to your tummy with creating something different. Today I help you to create a easy portable lunch with some veggies.

Tip 1: Always buy a lot of vegetables, healthy grains, nuts and seeds. This way you already have your kitchen stuffed with healthy food!

Now here we go: For a quick healthy lunchyou can make a simple dressing with olive oil, lemon, salt and pepper. Grab a tupperware box and start with the dressing on the bottom. Next up you choose a leaf, than a grain/lentils/chickpeas or other bean, than you need a crunch like nuts and seeds, to make it more tasty choose something sweet like dried or fresh fruits. After step 2 you can choose whatever vegetable you have in your fridge to make this meal even better. Say you have leftover cooked broccoli from yesterday, add! Or sliced tomatoes, cooked beetroot, corn, cucumber, bell pepper, mushrooms...

My favourites?
Rocket -> quinoa -> beetroot and tomatoes -> roasted pine nuts -> dried cranberries
Mixed leafs -> lentils -> broccoli and cucumber -> pesto and alfalfa

Easy Sunday: healthy snack ideas

Today I will show you some of my healthy snack ideas. Not 1 but 10 food tips and recipes today and they are all easy, quick and healthy!

1. Carrots & Hummus dip
You can make variations with other vegetables like tomatoes and cucumber.

2. Apple sprinkled with cinnamon and almond butter 
Also great when you add some raisins and microwave the apple until soft and then with the juicy almond butter, it's like apple pie in seconds!

3. Rice cake with 2 tablespoons of cottage cheese mixed with 1 tsp peanut butter and honey
This dip is also great with some sliced fruit, bananas or apple.

4. Yogurt with a sprinkle of granola, nuts or seeds
Use a small portion of yogurt with a few spoons of your seeds, nuts or granola as a quick snack.

5. Smoothies
Smoothies make great snacks, one of my favourite is half a frozen banana, soy milk and 1 fresh pear. Try to add some kale or spinach in your fruit smoothies to get some extra vitamins in!

6. My model bonbons! 
I posted the recipe before in one of my earlier blogs, so this one is a bit of a cheat.. but had to include this in the list!


7. Hand full of nuts and dried fruits.
Love to take almonds with me, or mixed nuts with some raisins and cranberries.

8. Fresh fruit
Always a great option.

9. Pickles and chicken
Roll up a piece of chicken fillet around a pickle, easy, protein, vegetable, crunchy and delicious!

10. Juice
If you have a juicer make a wonderful carrot & ginger juice!

My Coconut Cream Pie

Guys, I think you are going to love this one..

For my birthday last year, I came up with the recipe for this beauty. I was searching online and in my million cookbooks for a great recipe for a delicious healthy pie but none of the recipes I found were healthy enough or were exactly what I was looking for. I noticed that a lot of people stop using flour and are only using almond flour or soaked nuts in their recipes. You end up having a delicious pie, but it can definitely give you a lot of calories in return. So I looked around in my kitchen and grabbed the things I love, banana, coconut.. I had no idea if it was going to work, but damn.. I guess it did ;-)

My lactose and gluten free Coconut "cream" Pie

Ingredients
for the crust
4 spoons of unsweetened applesauce (for the dutch this is appelmoes)
2 spoons of coconut oil
200 gram coconut flour
2 eggs
2 spoons of honey
50 gram of shredded coconut
pinch of sea salt
1 spoon of water

stuffing
1 egg yolk
25 gram custard powder
100 ml almond milk
120 ml soy milk
2 spoons of stevia
1 whipped egg white

garnish
hand of shredded coconut
banana
some fresh raspberries

To make this delicious pie, preheat the oven on 180 degrees Celsius.
For the crust mix all the dry ingredients (flour, salt and shredded coconut) in a bowl and all the wet ingredients in a different bowl (coconut oil (heat up until liquid), applesauce, 2 eggs, honey and water). Then combine until you form a pastry, gather the dough into a ball, then pat into a greased pie pan. Bake for 20 minutes and let it completely cool down.
You can start with the filling when your crust is baking, place the custard powder in a medium-sized saucepan and add a little of the milk. Whisk until the powder is completely dissolved. Pour in the remaining milk and place the saucepan over medium heat. Heat, whisk frequently, until the mixture becomes visibly hot. Add stevia, then drizzle in the beaten egg yolks, still whisking. Cook over medium heat until thick - about 5 to 8 minutes. Fold in the whipped egg white and pour the mixture over the the crust, so it can cool down to room temperature. Then, move the pie over to the fridge so it can completely cool down. Let it sit for at least 2 hours. When serving the pie garnish with the shredded coconut, fresh raspberries and banana.

NOTE: When I use stevia, I often use a variation of stevia that looks like sugar. Sometimes I use liquid but then I will mention it as stevia drops. So make sure if you use a different kind you taste after adding a bit to make it not too sweet or not enough sweet to taste.

Easy Sundays

It's Sunday, that means time to relax and not doing all too much. That's why I decided to write a blog on every Sunday that is all about "easy". Food in seconds, easy to prepare, not to much work but still mind blowing in taste. 

My first blog is about one of my favourite snacks - Bonbons. It's perfect when you are at home and want to eat something healthy, snacky, delicious without standing in the kitchen for too long.


You just need a few ingredients

Bananas
Shredded coconut
peanut butter (chunky is my favourite)
strawberries, blueberries, cherries or raspberries

If you use frozen fruit, make sure they are room temperature first. Slice the bananas, spoon a bit of peanut butter on top, sprinkle with shredded coconut and serve with a blueberry, raspberry, cherry or strawberry on top. Done - Delicious!