Updated Heavenly Scones

Remember these yummy treats? I sure do! I made them again for the second day of Easter a perfect brunch dish to add to the table. I tweaked the recipe a bit, not completely lactose free anymore because I added "kwark" (for the Dutchies) also known as "Fromage Blanc". Maybe you can substitute it with soy yogurt as well, I haven't tried that one out yet. But because I added "kwark" I didn't had to use ANY fat. So that safes some calories and adds up the protein intake!

Ingredients

250g whole wheat spelt flour

150g oats

25g palm sugar

10g stevia sugar

16g baking powder

1 egg slightly beaten

2 tbsp apple sauce

100g kwark/Fromage Blanc.

50ml soy milk

1 teaspoon vanilla aroma

pinch of salt

Preheat an oven on 200 degrees Celsius. Than mix all the dry ingredients in one bowl and all the wet ingredients in the other. 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 and it should be a bit sticky! Divide the batter into 8 balls and bake them for 20 minutes in the oven. Make sure they are done, you can cut one in half and feel it should be completely dry. If it's wet pop them back in to the oven for an extra 5 minutes.

Note: Feel free to add currants, raspberries, chocolate or whatever you like! 

Serve with a dollop ricotta cheese, cottage cheese and (strawberry) jam.. hmmm.. bon appetit!

The Real Deal Burger with a wonderful side salad

Yup this baby is the real deal, but waaaaaaay healthier. I mean you can make it even more healthy using lean turkey mince or chicken mince or make a veggie patty. But if you want something that aaaactually tastes like a damn good burger without all the fat and calories, here you go ;-)
Mine is all made from scratch and I can't give you real nutritional information because it depends what kind of beef you use. And I grilled my burger so that will trim off a loooot of fat as well, no added oil, so less calories than the package will be. Of course you don't have to make your own burger buns, but damn these are tasty, healthy and you know exactly what's in there. But probably they sell something similar in your local organic shop as well so if your lazy, just buy one ;-)

Ingredients
For the bun (7 buns)
400g spelt flour
5g yeast
few drops stevia
2 tbsp olive oil
240ml warm water
big pinch of sea salt
sesame seeds for sprinkling on top

for the burger (2 servings)
300g lean organic minced beef
1 tbsp Worcester sauce
1 tsp pepper spicy powder
1 tsp palm sugar
1 tsp cayenne
1 tsp garlic powder
good pinch of sea salt

Mix all the dry ingredients for the buns and the wet ingredients in a different bowl and combine with a mixer or your hands until you have a firm dough. Cover the bowl with a kitchen towel and let it rest for at least 15 minutes. Now you can pre heat the oven on 180 degrees Celsius. Combine all the ingredients for the burgers and shape them until you have 2 patties (tip wet your hands a bit this makes it way easier to handle the meat). Form little balls of the dough and place them on a sheet of baking paper on the rack in the middle of the oven and sprinkle with the sesame seeds. Bake them for about 20 minutes until done and slightly browned. Grill your burger in your burger medium, rare or well done (I like it well done, it's better to digest when the beef is done all the way). Serve your burger on your bun with whatever you like. For my burger I used: Bun, organic ketchup, caramelised onions, burger, goat cheese crumbled on top, lettuce, cucumber tomato, alfalfa and the other half of the bun and served it with some greens and a wonderful celeriac salad from one of my favourite new cookbooks: Le Pain Quotidien.

Celeriac? You probably think now, yes this ugly looking vegetable you probably have seen in your local shop is actually really yummy and healthy.

EXTRA RECIPE: For the salad you simply mix 2 tbsp mayonnaise (I use a reduced fat one) with 2 tbsp of Greek 0% yogurt, salt, pepper, agave syrup and 1 tsp turmeric. Combine until you have a nice dressing and then it's time to add half of the celeriac, shredded. Add a big hand of goji berries or dried cranberries and mix until everything is well combined, let it sit for at least 15 minutes so the celeriac and berries will soke up the dressing.

Enjooooy!!!!

Spelt Crackers

If you know it's that easy to make, you really don't want to spend so much money on expensive spelt crackers in your local organic store. Last week I've been baking all day, my osawacake, these crackers a wonderful salad (coming up soon) I had to much inspiration haha. Anyway, hope you will enjoy these ones. I made one batch and split the dough in half to make one part a bit sweet, delicious as it is but it goes amazingly well with some goat cheese, honey and some nuts on top. Or with almond butter, some slices banana and sprinkled with cinnamon. I love to eat the plain ones with hummus, vegetable spread, cottage cheese and veggies. So don't hesitate to try both or add your own favourite herbs and spices.



Ingredients

125g spelt flour (whole wheat)
65g spelt flakes
65g buckwheat flakes
25g sunflower seeds
35g pumpkin seeds
1 big pinch of sea salt
3 tbsp extra virgin olive oil
200 ml water

Pre heat an oven on 250 degrees Celsius. Measure all ingredients and add in a bowl, mix it into a dough with your hands or a spoon  (I did both haha). If you have some time left, it's best when the dough rests for half an hour.
If you like to make sweet crackers as well, divide the mixture in half. In half of the mixture add a drop of stevia, tsp cinnamon and a handful of raisins.
Now spread the dough over a baking sheet, evenly and thin but no to thin.. just the thickness of a cracker. Cut the dough with a knife in the size and pieces you want to have your crackers later on
Bake the crackers for 5 minutes, the low down the heat on 200 degrees and bake 15 more minutes. Flip the crackers when they need about 10 minutes more. Cool down and enjoy!

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.