Just an ordinary day, including 2 recipes!

This week I visited my sister with her new little little baby and my adorable 2 year old niece. She is just toooo cute and my little nephew is definitely one of the prettiest baby boy's I've ever seen. We went to a little farm with a big playing field so we could cuddle some animals and play around while drinking organic juices in the sun. Not that bad right? 

My sister told me she finds it really hard to eat healthy walking around with a baby boy and a 2 year old girl that is demanding a lot of attention (and then I mean a loooooooot). So I'm trying to give her as much tips as possible to be and stay healthy. Thats why I'm going to make her "a week schedule in food" so she has some inspiration and something to hold on to. To show her how easy it can be I whipped up a delicious salad for the two of us and a wonderful treat for my niece. 

Ingredients

for 2 persons

4 hands of lettuce

1/2 avocado

chickpeas

almonds, roughly chopped

goat cheese, soft

cucumber

cherry tomatoes

cooked beetroot

dressing: olive oil, balsamic vinegar, honey, salt & pepper

Simply chop up all the ingredients, arrange on a plate and drizzle with the dressing. Yup that easy ;-) 

And than, my little niece was begging me to bake pancakes for her, so of course I couldn't resist (and pssst look at her cute knife ;-))

Now you are probably thinking, pancakes? That's not healthy! Well these are. 

Ingredients (prepare for the long list)

1 banana

cinnamon

1 egg

a swirl of milk of choice

Yup, that's it. Incredibly healthy, easy and damn delicious! Just mash 1 banana, add a teaspoon of cinnamon a swirl of milk and 1 egg. Mix it all up until you have a kind of batter and fried in a pan with a bit of olive oil. Serve like it is, with extra cinnamon, yogurt, jam or whatever you are craving! 

Oh and can you believe it? My niece was eating 1 of the 2 pancakes and wanted to eat our salad as well.. haha amazing right! Well she eats everything, this is a picture of her eating home made sushi the other day.. I mean.. home made sushi, for a 2 year old!!! (Not with raw fish for her though, not good for kids that young)

Crunchy Veggie Pancakes!

Yum.. Yum.. Yummmmmmy!!!! I was planning to blog about a completely different recipe, but I just finished lunch with these baby's and had to share it with you. They may not look THAT beautiful.. but pleeeeease give this recipe a try it's low fat, low gi, gluten free, healthy and delicious. Great for a lunch, light dinner or maybe even breakfast.. why not? ;-) 

I wanted to eat something different for a lunch and try something out for my blog. Because this week was quite stressful and busy I didn't really had the time and energy to think of something different than my 'old' recipes I use all the time. Last week I bought some buckwheat flour and wanted to make pancakes all week. But then I thought, I want vegetables as well. And then I thought.. hey why not make vegetable cakes? So there you go, I created a new recipe for amazing healthy delicious pancakes. Well it's not really a pancake, it's not a cookie, it's something in between ;-)

Ingredients

100gram buckwheat flour
2 eggs
1 large carrot
1 zucchini
1 tsp of oregano and basil (so 1 tsp of each herb)
salt & pepper to taste
few drops stevia
150 ml water

Shred the carrot and zucchini in a food processor and add all the other ingredients. Combine until you have a well combined mixture and let it rest for 5 minutes. Grab a pan and add oil, start making little pancakes or make one big one. I made 3 in a large pan. You will get about 11 pancakes and they are not more than 60 calories each!!!

Serving suggestion: some mashed avocado or cheese and for the dutch; great with "appel-perenstroop" (without added sugar).