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!

Berry stuffed fluffy oats

Gooooooodmorning!

I already mentioned I love oats and that they are full of health benefits.. (check out my overnight oats post as well). And I love breakfast, huuuuge breakfasts because I always wake up hungry.
So when I want to give myself a treat, it's all grey and rainy outside, I make myself this comfort bowl: A huge bowl of fluffy oats. It's huge, be prepared, but you will happy to see it doesn't contain that much calories. Isn't that a win-win situation? You get protein-good crabs-fruit, all round perfect combination.

Ingredients

30g old fashioned oats

1 egg white

1/2 cup frozen berries

5 fresh strawberries

handful of blueberries

1 tsp agave

1 tsp cinnamon

150ml unsweetened almond milk

Nut sprinkle on top

1 tbsp sliced almond, a few pecan nuts roughly broken, a teaspoon of hemp seeds (or your favourite combination)

Slice your fruit and set it to the side. Bake your nuts mixture in a clean pan until browned a bit (don't add oil). Then it's time to cook your oats in a bit of water until they are a bit softened, then add the almond milk and cook until done. In the meanwhile whip up the egg white in a clean bowl until amazingly fluffy (you can whip the bowl upside down without any of the egg white falling out). Now mix the frozen berries with the oats, sweeten it a bit with stevia if you like and add the cinnamon. Mix until the berries are not frozen anymore and then add the egg white, mix it well and let it cook for about 1 minute so the egg white is not raw anymore. Serve the oats in a big bowl and serve with the fresh fruit and nuts sprinkled on. Bon appetit!

Nutritional information: approximate 345 calories.

Heavenly Carrot Cake Oatmeal

I wanted to try out a carrot cake kind of breakfast for a while. But I just didn't look forward to stand in the kitchen for over an hour to just get breakfast on the table. Well, this dish is easy. I had a brunch at my boyfriends parents please, like I mentioned yesterday and I wanted to bring something with me. I thought this would be the perfect occasion, just hoped it didn't fail big time. But oh my the entire family loved the dish. YES! New favourite in town and hallelujah for the big batch ;-) Oh and the great part of the dish? It's amazingly low calorie, filled with healthy good stuff for your body and completely without added sugars and lactose free. And delicious, amazingly delicious but I mentioned that already, didn't I? haha

Because I was in a bit of a hurry I didn't really measured all the ingredients. I used a really average juice glass for measuring, and my hands! ;-)

Ingredients

Serves 6

1 juice glass filled with rolled oats (so flakes) huh
1 juice glass (quick) oats
1 tsp baking powder
2 tsp cinnamon
1 tsp cookie spices
a drop of vanilla extract
pinch of sea salt
1 huge carrot, grated
a handful of raisins, soaked in hot water for 5 minutes
4 tbsp linseed's
2 medium sized eggs
300 ml water
200 ml soy milk (I always use Aplro soya light)
about 3 drops of stevia

For the top layer
2 tbsp apple sauce
4 tbsp goji berries
1,5 hands almonds and pecans mixed, roughly chopped
about 50g of mixed seeds (sunflower and pumpkin seeds)

Preheat the oven on 180 degrees Celsius. Get a baking dish and fill it up with baking paper or grease the base of the dish with coconut or olive oil and set the dish aside. Combine all the dry ingredients ( so everything except the eggs, water and soy milk and combine in a mixing bowl. In a separate bowl, beat the eggs and the milk and water until well combined. Now it's time to mix everything up so you get a really watery mixture, yes it's supposed to be like this. Get the baking dish into the oven and bake for 10 minutes, in the meanwhile you can prepare your top layer. Mix all the ingredients for the top layer in a bowl until well combined, get the baking dish out of the oven and gently divide the layer on top with the bottom of the spoon you can flatten out the layer so everything is coated with this sweet and crunchy layer. Get the dish back in to the oven and bake for another 20 minutes. When it's done, the oatmeal should be set and the top should be browned and crunchy. Leave to cool a bit before digging in, I know it's hard ;-) Enjoy as it is or serve with a swirl of soy yogurt.

Seriously try it out!!! TIP: You can save the leftovers in the fridge and reheat this amazing dish in the oven the next day until warm and damp again, and repeat this the day after and the day after the day after.. ;-)

Healthy Superfood Osawacake

As soon as I've seen the cakes in my local organic stores I was always eager to try it out. And then Rens Kroes (renskroes.com) the sister of famous international model Doutzen Kroes came up with a recipe on her website. Inspired by this recipe I tried it out, a perfect on the road packed food since I'm at the Starbucks writing this blog at the moment. Out for a 2 day job traveling trip I know I will be tired as hell, traveling a lot.. and can use some power food! And oh my I love this cake!

This is a perfect breakfast, lunch or snack cake. It contains nuts, seeds, dried fruits, natural sugars, brown rice, oats and spelt. Hard to not love this cake!

Ingredients

200g brown round rice

125g spelt flour

5 tbsp sesame seeds

150g almonds

75g black raisins

75g blonde raisins

2 tbsp coconut oil

3 large dried figs, chopped up

3 dates, chopped up

180ml organic thick apple-pear syrup

1 tbsp vanilla powder

100g oats

1,5 tbsp cinnamon

1 tbsp cookie spices

1 tsp sea salt

Soak the raisins in hot water. Than pre heat an oven on 180 degrees Celsius and cook the brown rice according package. In the meanwhile you can prepare a cake tin with a baking sheet. Because you use non-fat baking sheets you don't have to use extra fat and the cake will be easily removed out of the tin, a healthier solution for all of your cakes and pies! Roast the sesame seeds and sprinkle on the bottom layer off the tin. Keep the rest of the seeds separated, chop the almonds roughly and roast them as well until fragrant and slightly browned. Mix all of the ingredients in the bowl with the cooked brown rice until you have a sticky dough mixture. Spread the mixture over the tin and press firmly. Sprinkle with the remaining sesame seeds and bake the cake in the oven for 50-60 minutes.

A little breakfast cake

Maybe you have heard about it, maybe not.. Well than let me please introduce you to one of the best inventions ever: The mugcake.

Yep, looks delicious right?;) this is my favourite version of it and I love to eat it for breakfast, but its perfect as a snack as well! 

Ingredients

For the cake

35g quick oats

2 egg whites 

1 tsp baking powder

half a mashed banana with a fork

1 tsp cinnamon

a drop off vanilla aroma

2 tbs almond or soy milk

1 drop stevia 

For the topping

Soy yogurt

the other half of the banana (slices)

frozen mixed berries

In a mug or small bowl combine all of the ingredients for the cake, mix it up well and put it in the microwave for about 2 1/2 minutes. Get it on a plate and remove the bowl/mug. Now get the frozen berries in a bowl and heat up in the microwave for a minute. Drizzle the cake with soy yogurt and top it all off with the sliced bananas and hot berries. 

Bon appétit! 

Chocolate cookie dough for breakfast

Be aware, you will have a new addiction. This recipe is incredibly delicious and healthy as well. It's fast, easy and doesn't require a lot. It does need a bit time, like 5 minutes of your real time and the rest it does for you while you are sleeping. And then... when you wake up, it's time to spoon in and enjoy this treat! Try it, it will become your favourite new breakfast, lunch, snack.. or even as a dessert!

Ingredients

30grolled oats
half a mashed banana
1 tsp cacao
100g soy yogurt
1 tsp (hemp) protein powder (optional but great for extra protein)
dash of vanilla powder or aroma
100ml non-dairy milk of choice (I had soy milk sweetened with apple)
tsp stevia sugar

And now the easy part, mix it all and transfer to a bowl. Cover and let it sit and rest overnight in your fridge. The next morning this delicious treat is waiting for you to spoon in.

Serving suggestion: sprinkle with some nuts and/or hot blueberries
Psst: the portion, serving size is bigger than this glass but this way it just looked too cute ;-)

Yummy porridge

Sometimes I wake up really really really hungry, you know the feeling? Well in that case I always choose for a Porridge recipe. It's comforting, smooth, creamy, delicious, very filling and has many health benefits as well. What more do you want on a hungry morning! 

I was looking in my fruit basket and in my fridge and thinking about a new combination, caramelised pears? Goji's? Raspberries? Sounds yummy right? Well no ordinary bowls today.. I created this delicious bowl and now you can try it out yourself! 

Yummy Raspberry & Caramelised Pear Porridge

Ingredients

For the porridge

1 heaping tablespoon of oats
1 heaping tablespoon of buckwheat flakes
1 heaping tablespoon of spelt flakes
Almond of Soy Milk
Vanilla aroma
(Of course you can also just use buckwheat or just oats as your porridge)

For the add-ins
half a cup of frozen raspberries
table spoon of goji berries
some chopped almonds and pecans
half a pear
cinnamon
coconut oil
maple syrup
optional: almond butter

In a small pot combine all the grains with 150ml water and bring to a boil with the lit on top, make sure you use low heat otherwise you overcook the oats easily. In another saucepan heat up half a teaspoon of coconut oil with a teaspoon of maple syrup (I overindulged a bit with the maple syrup ;-)) Add the pear in dices and bake with a sprinkle of cinnamon until the pear is browned and caramelised. Heat up the raspberries in the microwave and chop up your nuts in the meanwhile. Check the porridge once and a while as well, when the water is absorbed add some milk of choice, vanilla aroma, cinnamon and stir until everything is well combined. Pour the oats in a bowl and top off with the pear, raspberries, goji's and nuts (I love a big teaspoon of nut butter in my oats, so I added almond butter as well).

Easy Yummy Cookies

Today a wonderful healthy cookie recipe because it's valentine.. That asks for a delicious treat right?

This recipe seriously could have been a easy Sunday recipe.. they are soooo easy to make!! I made them in Capetown maaaany times with my roommates. They are wonderful because you can find the ingredients in any country, in any city, in any home! So if you have a banana left.. and an oven.. and your craving cookies but you don't want to snack those buttery, sugary unhealthy cookies... try these!

Oh and let them cool down just a bit before eating, but they taste the best straight out of the oven ;-)

All you need is
2 bananas
100 gram oats
pinch of cinnamon
A spoon of runny honey

toppings!
- chocolate nibs
- raisins
- peanut butter
- vanilla
- you choose ;-)

How to? Maybe even easier, prepare a hot oven on 180 degrees Celsius. Mash the banana with a fork and combine with the oats honey and cinnamon. Now you can divide the mixture and put your most favourite adds in there. I love a spoon of peanut butter in the mixture, a handful of raisins and chopped almonds with some vanilla extract or choose the chocolate nibs! Or even better.. make it all ;-) combine a ball and press them on a baking sheet, make sure you make them not to thick because this way you get a better crunch. They need about 15 minutes, if you like them more crunchy make that 20 minutes, enjoy your valentines day =)

Heavenly healthy scones

It's weekend yaaay! That means you can make yourself a delicious treat for breakfast, because my friend was still here, I of course had to promise her to make a delicious breakfast. My friends and family already knew for years I love to cook and bake, but since my blog went online nobody is hesitating to ask me if I have some leftovers to bring by ;-) Hahha well anyway, I was thinking about what to make in the morning.. pancakes.. granola.. we had a million times.. but what about a delicious treat like a scone? YES, PLEASE! Ofcourse it had to be healthy, so I swapped out the butter for apple sauce and coconut oil, made it lactose free and not so sugary! So a low GI, healthy scone version was created in minutes. Point made, you have to try this recipe when you love scones ;-)

Heavenly healthy scones

Ingredients

250g whole wheat spelt flour

160g oats

25g palm sugar

10g stevia sugar

16g baking powder

1 teaspoon baking soda

1 egg slightly beaten

90g apple sauce

30g coconut oil

100ml soy milk

1 teaspoon vanilla aroma

pinch of salt

Preheat an oven on 200 degrees Celsius. Than in a bowl mix the dry ingredients, the flour, oats, sugar, baking powder, baking soda and salt. In a separate bowl mix the egg, apple sauce, milk, vanilla and coconut oil (make sure it's liquid before adding). Than it's time to mix the dry and wet ingredients and form a big bowl of the batter. If it's to wet and sticky, add a bit of flower but these amounts should give you exactly the perfect batter. Divide the batter into 8 balls and bake them for 15 minutes in the oven. I divided half of my batter and added some frozen blueberries to make it a bit different! Feel free to add currants, raspberries, chocolate or whatever you like! 

Serve with a dollop ricotta cheese and strawberry jam.. hmmm.. bon appetit!

Not your ordinary pancakes

When I posted this picture a while ago on instagram, everybody wanted to know... OMG what is this? At that time I was doing a diet for the amazing program modelworkout (www.modelworkout.nl) and was having a strict diet. My nutritionist was immediately thinking I was cheating big time, but guess what? I didn't.. Yup.. this recipe is completely clean and diet friendly. And did I already mention finger licking good? ;-)

Ingredients

Mixed frozen fruit

30 gram oats

100 ml soy yogurt

100 ml almond milk

1 egg

cinnamon

vanilla extract

dash of stevia

coconut oil 

Grab 2 bowls, one small for the frozen fruit and one to make the pancake batter. Combine oats, milk the egg, cinnamon and vanilla extract and give it a good mix. Let it stand for about 5 minutes so the oats will soak up some of the milk. Check your batter, if it looks to dry just add a bit of water and then you can start heating up a pan with a bit of coconut butter. In the meanwhile put your bowl of frozen fruit in the microwave so they heat up, make sure the fruits stay intact so they won't get toooo soggy. Bake a few small pancakes in the pan and then you can grab a plate and start layering up. Pancake, soy yogurt, pancake, soy yogurt until you have the last pancake. Now its time for the fruits to join the party and then it's your turn to start your morning feast meal!