Detox Thai Soup

As I already told you in my latest post, I went allll the way with my juicing cleanse. An incredible experience, which I am seriously proud off. Created it myself and didn't cheat! But your body is still getting rid of all the toxins in your body the 3 days after your cleanse.  So especially these 3 days are really important to eat as clean as possible. No dairy, meat, coffee, alcohol etc. The key is light food, you do not want to stress your organs and your digestion by eating heavy foods right away. Keep drinking lots of water and keep taking your pro-biotics and vitamins. What can you eat? Fresh vegetables, fruits, nuts, quinoa, buckwheat, salads, soups, almond milk, coconut milk. For example:

Breakfast

• fruit salad (with some nuts and almond milk)
• porridge (oat or quinoa) like my Pear & Pecan Treat
• smoothies (no milk except almond milk)
• banana pancakes 

Lunch

• salads
• eggs (scrambled, omelet)
• fresh soups like My Yummy Creamy Soup, but swap the soy milk for almond and leave the cheese and fish out. You can add some fried tofu instead.
• quinoa, buckwheat, brown rice as an addition to your salads and soups

Dinner

• steamed, grilled, roasted vegetables
• eggs
• tofu, falafel
• quinoa, brown rice as an addition

So off with a recipe to get you going!!

SUPERFOOD THAI SOUP

Ingredients

For the paste
2 small onions
4 cloves garlic
1 small piece of fresh ginger
1 tsp ground coriander
1 tsp ground cumin
1 red chili (If you don't like spicy get the seeds out)
1 tsp coconut sugar
juice of 1 lemon
splash of coconut milk
1 tbsp soy sauce
1 tbsp fish sauce
1 tsp sereh

for the soup
fresh vegetables! I chose 1 zucchini, some mushrooms and carrots
1 can coconut milk
1/2 litter vegetable stock
thai basil, parsley or coriander for garnish
pumpkin seeds for garnish

Start with your paste, process all the ingredients for the curry paste in a blender or food processor. Mix until it forms a well mixed paste, adding more coconut milk as necessary. Set aside, and start slicing the vegetables.

Add the paste, remaining coconut milk, vegetable stock to a big pot and bring to a boil, add your vegetables and cook the soup (under a lit) for about 30 minutes.

Serve with your fresh herbs and pumpkin seeds and enjoy your comfort bowl!

Creamy Delicious Soup

Celeriac soup just doesn't sound sexy, but believe me.. this is an incredibly delicious soup. It serves about 4 persons for lunch or light supper. Except you have a boyfriend like me than it serves 2 ;-)

For the Dutchies, reading my blog, this is the famous vegetable: Knolselderij ;-) 

Ingredients

300g celeriac (about half of the vegetable)

a small sweet potato 

1 big white onion

1 liter vegetable stock

150 ml soy milk

smoked salmon

cream cheese (I used a typical Dutch version: "Heksenkaas")

A couple tablespoons of olive oil

Preheat the oven on 220 degrees Celsius. Chop the celeriac (without skin) in cubes, the white onion in big chunks, drizzle with olive oil a bit salt and pepper and roast in the oven for about 10 minutes. In the meanwhile chop the small sweet potato in cubes (also without the skin). Then heat a big pot on the stove, add a tablespoon of olive oil and add the sweet potato, then the celeriac and onion and stir for a bit until slightly browned. Add the vegetable stock and let the soup cook for about 20 minutes. Get a blender or food processor and blend the soup until done. Add the milk and give it a stir and add some salt and pepper to taste. Then it's almost time to eat! 

Grab a plate and place a handful of slices smoked salmon and a big dot of the cream cheese in the centre, pour in your soup and spoon in! 

Tip: serve with some toasted spelt bread and the remaining cream cheese, delicious!! 

A hectic week as a model!

Heey Guys!

I'm incredibly sorry, I have been sooooo busy there was like zero time for blogging.. I went for a trip to Hamburg where I met my new agency MGM models check my Portfolio. And after my meetings I had a date with one of my friends, gorgeous sweetheart Sanny (Bartlema).

Me and Gorgeous Sanny

The first day in Hamburg I did some serious meal prepping at home (very important if your on the road all day long), I made a simply salad to go (quinoa, smoked chicken, cucumber, avocado and cherry tomato). Healthy, easy to eat on the road and very delicious. Because I had meetings all day I knew there wouldn't be time for a quiet sit-down lunch. And since I'm always hungry.. yep I NEED food prepping ;-) hahaha of course I also had some snacks in my bag as always: some fresh fruit, nuts and this time I also took the NAKED bar with me. It's all natural, has a great taste and it's easy to take with you wherever you go! So some tips you can maybe use when you are planning a trip anytime soon!

After all that was done me and Sanny went food shopping in rainy Germany, definitely time for some comfort food! We bought a bottle of Italian wine (Nero d'Avola, my favourite) and had tapas for dinner! We chose a variation of cheeses, spelt bread, salad, grilled eggplant, olives, corn salad, fresh grapes, fig jam and some nuts. And as a dessert we had my healthy home made brownies (recipe coming soon). Heaven on a little side table!

Fooooood and wine!

The next day we went on a very healthy detox after all the cheeses, nuts and wine and had a lot of fresh fruits and veggies. We went to the cinema, "the other woman" with Cameron Diaz and amazing model Kate Upton (still don't understand the hype about her, but yeah she is gorgeous). A really good woman movie, so I would say check it out!
After the cinema we went out for some shopping and bought some amazing sale items in town, scoreeee! After are big shopping succes we ended up having dinner in Dean & David, you may remember the name? I told you about them in one of my older posts Click! We had an amaaaaaaazing carrot, ginger and coconut soup. One of the best soups I ever had.. really.. we thought about it the entire evening haha and shard a huge chicken salad with coconut-satay dressing. Please if you are ever, ever, ever in Germany try out Dean & David.. the smoothies, juices, wraps, panini's, salads and soups.. it's ALL good! =)

The Carrot-Ginger-Coconut Soup

After the food we went home and rented some more movies, a very chilling movie day it was! The day after it was time to go home, I needed to continue healthy eating and work out.. seriously.. because I booked an amazing job.. The cover of Men's Health!!!

So excited to book the job, that would be on Tuesday. 2 days left, to be in my very best shape I needed some prepping. For me that means eating healthy 100% of the time: lots of fresh fruit, vegetables, chicken and fish. Not food that will blow you up, but things like beetroot, celery, ginger are very good. And also it's very important do drink a lot of water and green tea, to get rid of all toxics and it cleanses your body well.

The photoshoot was amazing, wonderful people, a great photographer, good looking male models ;-), amazing make up by such a sweet make up artist. Really the entire day was having such a good vibe!! And yes, we also had very nice food! We could choose our own salad or bread, of course all the models took salads since we weren't wearing that much clothes ;-) I chose a chicken salad with avocado, pine nuts and parmesan cheese. But most important, I had soooooo much fun! These are the kind of jobs that make me so happy and feel blessed I'm able to do this work for a living!

Backstage at Men's Health

Well so far the start of my week and I promise I will tell you all about the rest soon and upload some recipes!

xoxo

Roasted Parsnip Soup

I Love Soup! 

Soups are really easy to make plus they are filling, nutritiousness and tasteful. So yes I love to make soups. During winter time I'm addicted to butternut squash, parsnips and carrots. So no wonder I came up with the recipe for this lovely soup. It's really easy, your soup is preparing while you are watching your favourite soap and then the blender does the rest of the work for you ;-) 

Ingredients

600 gram parsnips + 1 extra

400 gram carrots

2 big white onions

2 garlic cloves

oil

cumin

rosemary

salt & pepper

250 ml coconut milk

1 litter vegetable stock

Preheat an oven on 225 degrees Celsius. Prepare a baking tray with baking sheet and cut the parsnips, carrots and onions in big chunks and divide with the garlic gloves over the tray. Sprinkle with the herbs and olive oil and let it roast in the oven for about 30 minutes. Get the roasted vegetables out when browned and soft and transfer them to a big pot. In the meanwhile turn down the heat to 190 degrees Celsius. Now add the stock and the coconut milk to the soup and bring to a boil, if the soup is to thick don't hesitate to add more boiling water. 

Prepare your leftover parsnip in thin pieces and sprinkle with coconut oil and sea salt, roast them in the oven for about 20 minutes until crispy and golden. Grab your blender and blend the soup, taste and add some salt or pepper if desired. Now it's time for your soup too cool down, so the chips are getting crispy in the meanwhile don't taste them! You will finish them before they make it until they can reach the soup hahhaa. Transfer the soup to a bowl or plate and sprinkle the chips on top! 

The unexpected delicious soup

Today one of my best friends came to visit me in my hometown Groningen. For everyone it's really far away, 3 hours from Rotterdam for her.. so I wanted to make a delicious lunch when she would arrive. I was planning to make a squash soup, but my squash was not as good looking as I thought it was ;-) So I quickly opened the fridge and looked what was left, the result? A wonderful broccoli-parsnip soup was invented!

Ingredients

1 head of broccoli in chunks (keep the heads separate)

2 small parsnips in chunks

1 big white onion

2 cloves of garlic

a bit of oil for frying

1 liter vegetable stock

salt & pepper to taste

thyme

Heat up a pan with some oil and fry the chopped onion until translucent. Add the garlic, parsnip, the broccoli stalk and the thyme. Fry until a bit browned and then it's time to add the stock. Wait until the soup starts to boil and cook until the vegetables are a bit softened. Than add the rest of the broccoli. Bring to the boil again and cook for about 10-15 more minutes. Carefully transfer to a blender and blitz until smooth. Season with salt and pepper and serve.