Pineapple curry

simply

fast

& healthy

curry

Ingrendients:

1 tablespoon red curry paste 

coconut milk

red lentils

pineapplee 

onion

coconut oil

curry leaves

dried chilli pepper

fresh ginger, chopped

salt

pepper

To serve: 

fresh corriander leaves

some sprouts (eg. broccoli or alfalfa)

cardamon rice (just cooked with cardamon pods and some turmeric)

Heat the coconut oil in a wok. Then fry curry paste for a while and add spices and onion. Fry for the next fer minutes, then add the pineapple. Mix. After few minutes stir the coconut milk and throw red lentils. Cook until the lentils will be ready to eat :) 

Serve.

Enjoy!

Sweet almond horseshoes

Almonds.

Chocolate.

Germany.

In Germany these sweets are called "mandelhörnchen". I ate them in Frankfurt and they tasted so good that I decided to make them at home. Mine look diffrent from the traditional, but I tried to turn them into a healthy snack ;)

Home-made marzipan:

100g dates

200 g almond flour

2 tablespoons (or more) rum or amaretto

Blend well all the ingrendients to a paste.

Horseshoes:

marzipan about (300 g)

200 g almond flour

200 g almond flakes

3 egg whites

100 g xylitol powdered (or sugar)

some vanilla if you want

200 g dark chocolate couverture

Mix almond flour, 100 g almond flakes, 2 egg whites and xylitol or sugar into a sticky dough.

Form horsechoe shapes on a baking sheet. Cover them with an egg white and sprinkle with the rest almond flakes. Tighten to stick them to the mass. 

Bake in 180 Celcius degrees for 15 min (no longer).

As they cool, cover with a chocolate couverture.

Enjoy!

PS. Here you have the original ones from Frankfurt:

Cheese stuffed mushrooms

Simple. 

Green.

Winter cheesy dinner.

Hi guys ! That was my dinner today. Mushrooms stuffed with some cheese, roasted broccoli and kale salad was all I needed today after whole day spent on writing chemical reactions ;)

Some energy for tired brain. 

Start from the mushrooms stuffing:

Ricotta 

Grana padano

Pecorino

Low fat camembert

Fresh herbs: parsley, thyme, oregano, basil

Salt

Pepper

Hack the herbs. Mix all kind of cheese in proportion as you like. Try to experiment. 

Stuff the mushrooms.

To prepare the broccolis:

Cut the broccoli into stems, spice with some salt, pepper and smoked paprika. Put them on a baking sheet and roast in oven for 20 min in 180 Celcius degrees.

You can roast the mushrooms in the same time or grill them in aluminium foil for about 30 min.

Meanwhile prepare the salad from:

Avocado

Kale

Broccoli sprousts

Kiwi, sliced

Dressing: mustard, honey, pesto, olive oil

In the end, make cheese sauce:

Ingredients:

Corn flour

Butter, clarified 

Cheese eg. Gorgonzola, goat cheese, parmesan

Milk (I used soy milk)

Thyme

Pepper

Heat the butter in a sauce pan and add the corn flour, fry for a while until it smells like popcorn. Stir into milk. Throw the cheese. Mix. Add spices. Cook until 

getting the sauce coinsistence.

Put everything on a plate.

Enjoy.

Almond cheesecake bites

Snow, where are you ?

Yes, we're completely out of snow. 

Yes, it's global warming.

Yes, we have a problem.

A global problem.

Be aware.

Ok, time for the recipe:

Ingredients:

250 g cottage cheese or ricotta

4 egg yolks

4 egg whites

50 ml + 3 tablespoons xylitol (or sugar)

50 ml honey

70 g butter

2 tablespoons amaretto

2 tablespoons orange liqueur

100 g almond flour

50 g almond flakes

50 g candied orange peel (or less), finely chopped

Mix the butter and xylitol to a bright yellow mass. Add egg yolks and mix again for a few minutes. Add cheese and honey. Mix. Then throw into the orange peel, almond flour, almond flakes and enrich the taste by adding amaretto and orange liqueur. Mix the mass well, but not too long. In a separate bowl mix egg whites with 3 tablespoons of xylitol - like making a meringue. Add the whites to the mass and carefully mix it with spatula.

Bake in a form in 180 Celcius degrees for  about 30 to 40 minutes. 

The best are still warm with some white chocolate frosting... Yummy.

Red wine spaghetti with broccoli

My version of red wine spaghetti. Here you have a good portion of carbohydrates you need during winter. It's because your metabolism speeds up to keep the warmth at optimal level. You need energy. You need pasta. 

It's good for you.

The recipe:

Let's get started from preparing the sauce. Yey, one of my favourite. Bagna cauda. Or something like that ;)

ingredients:

some anchovy fillets

one garlic clove

lemon juice

dried chilli pepper flakes

pepper

olive oil 

Heat a tablespoon of olive oil in a sauce pan. Crush the garlic with a knife and throw on the olive oil. Fry a while. Add the anchovies and fry until they start to crumble. Then mix them, add lemon juice     and olive oil to turn it into sauce coinsistence. Taste. Add spices.

*tip: you can add cream to make it more smooth and mild in taste

Pasta:

ingredients:

spaghetti (whole grain, I used the one with oat fibre)

red wine (I used dry)

water

pinch of salt

To make the purple spaghetti, you have to cook it al dente in water and red wine (in proportion like 1:1) with a pinch of salt.

In the meantime prepare the broccoli. Cut them into small stems. Sprinkle with spices and olive oil, then grill them or roast in the oven.

Mix the pasta, sauce and broccoli all together. Serve with grated grana padano  or pecorino cheese.

Buon appetit !

Cheesy spinach soup

Spinach.

Cheese.

One of my favourite soups.

Hi there ! I've done recently this super creamy fish soup. Yes, there is a smoked fish inside. It's a smoked whitefish (in Poland called 'sielawa'). I added it to the broth to enrich the taste, I think it really suits to cheese. I used low fat camembert, grana padano and some salty goat cheese. Yummy. 

Ingredients:

500 ml of broth (add some smoked fish to it. That can be codfish, whitefish or diffrent)

200 g fresh spinach leaves (or more)

1 low fat herbed camembert, sliced

20 g grana padano (or more), grated

a few slices salty goat cheese (I gave about 100g)

2 onions, chopped

some olive oil

3 whitefish (mine were small, so you can use less or more)

2 cups milk

2 cloves garlic

some spices: salt, pepper, thyme, basil, bay leaf, allspice (to taste)

First, heat a tablespoon of olive oil with crushed garlic cloves in a quite big pot. Add the onions and fry for a while. Throw into spinach leaves and sautè them. After a few minutes, pour the broth, milk, throw into the cheeses and spices. Cook it for about 30 minutes and try. Add some fish (I mean filets, without fishbones). Cook for the next couple of minutes. Serve with fresh parsley and croutons with garlic butter or fresh homemade pesto.

Buon appetit !

Hummingbird bread

Banana.

Pineapple.

Dates.

Creamy home-made  hazelnut chocolate creme.

Cup of hot chocolate. Or matcha tea.

That's the perfect breakfast.

Hey ! Christmas is coming as we can see in our shops or tv, but I must admitt I haven't felt them yet. No snow, no cold. Well, the forecast promising. We'll see. I'm going to ski a lot this winter ! 

So guys, as in the 'Game of Thrones' :

"Winter is coming"

Keep calm.

Oh, I forgot sth. The recipe:

Ingredients:

2 cups mashed ripe bananas

1 cup pineapple juice (I mixed fresh pineapple in blender) or pineapple smoothie

a few dates (I think I gave 5) finely chopped

1 egg

1 cup oat flour

1 cup millet flour

a handful of finely chopped nuts (eg. pecans, walnuts, hazelnuts or almonds, I gave some walnuts and almonds)

1 tablespoon soda

a pinch of salt

2 tablespoons vanilla extract

1 tablespoon cinammon

2 tablespoons flaxseed

50 ml coconut oil 

50 ml maple syrup 

Good. When we have all the ingredients prepared, let's mix liquid coconut oil, maple syrup and egg. Heat a little if needed. It should be a liquid. Add the bananas and pineapple and mix. Then mix the  all dry ingredients. Then mix everything all together. Put the dough to a form. Bake in 180 Celcius degrees for about an hour.

Buon appetit ! 

Autumn nut roast

Well, autumn. I have for you a recipe for a nut roast. My inspiration was a recipe from Hemsley sisters' cookbook. Perfect with frankfurter Grune sobe made from local fresh herbs or cheese sauce but the green sauce from zucchini noodels also works :) I think this has perfect taste harmony. It's rich in strong walnut and aromatic thyme mushrooms taste while the dried peaches and chesnuts make it not so heavy and intensive. And everything is connected by quinoa which make the smooth coinsistence of that dish. You will enjoy. I promise. 

PS. Of course if you aren't allergic to nuts  :)

The recipe:

Ingredients:

1st layer:

25 g butter, clarified

2 small onions, finely chopped

100 g dried apricots, chopped

200 g chesnuts (boiled, peeled and chopped)

10 sage leaves, chopped

salt and pepper to taste 

Heat the butter in a pan, add chopped onions. After few minutes throw into the apricots, chesnuts and sage. Cook it for about 5 minutes or more, mixing from time. Add some salt and pepper to taste.

Put the baking paper into the form. Then put the sticky mass from the pan to the bottom of the form. 

2nd layer:

50 ml lemon juice

1 teaspoon butter

2 large onions, finely chopped

some thyme, fresh or dried

500 g mushrooms, grated

200 g quinoa

100 ml red wine 

100 g walnuts, finely chopped

70 g brazilian nuts or pine nuts, finely chopped

100 g almond flour

a handful of fresh parsley, chopped

1 egg 

salt and pepper to taste

a clove of garlic

Heat some butter in a pan. Add some onions and cook for few minutes. Then add quinoa. Mix. Add mushrooms, lemon juice, wine, thyme and garlic. Cook for about 10 minutes or longer to reduce the liquid. Then throw into the nuts, parsley, salt and pepper. Mix. When the mixture cool a little, add an egg. Mix and then pour the mass into the form. 

Bake it in the oven for about an hour in 160 Celcius degrees. 

Buon appetit ! 

Here's the version with cheesy sauce:

And with the green sauce:

Zucchini noodels with bean balls

Today I was in a little hurry so I have for you a recipe for a quick green meal.

It's fast if you have that brown balls. No, it's not meat :) I made them a few days ahead. Well not only me, I can say now that I've got that kind of sister who likes me a little bit and helps sometimes when it comes to cooking ;) She's 11 and likes vegetables so much (!) Today she wanted      to cook spaghetti noodels without water, but made the sauce herself. 

Yeah, so funny. The Recipe :

Ingredients:

Zucchini noodels (I made a kind of pappardelle)

Avocado

Some olives (I used the anchovy fillets stuffed ones)

Sauce :

About a handful of parmesan + pecorino 

brazil nuts (a handful)

almonds (a handful)

garlic

pepper

salt

basil

3 tablespoons olive oil

About 100 g kale 

Blend well all the ingredients. Now you've got kale pesto. Then add pelled avocado and 100 ml water. Blend again. That's the sauce :) Add more water if needed. Taste it. Yummy. 

That's the essence of green kitchen.

The balls (I made 20 small balls)

one cup buckwheat

one can black beans (dranied from the liquid)

1 shallot (finely chopped)

4 tablespoons pumpkin seeds

2 tablespoons linseed

3 tablespoons flour (I used buckwheat flour, but all kinds will be fine) 

2 tablespoons olive oil it coconut oil

3 tablespoons fresh finely chopped chive

a few broccoli stems

Salt

Pepper

Smoked paprika

Cumin 

Corrianer seeds

Some fresh herbs

Put all the ingredients into a blender. Blend well. Add some spices to taste. 

Then form balls in your hands. If the mass will be sticking to your hands, I recommend you to wet your hands with some water. 

If formed, you can grill or fry them. 

Oh right. 

Now, heat the sauce in a wok or sauce pan, put the noodels into. Cook for a few minutes. If ready, put it on a plate with some bean balls and olives.

Buon appetit ! 

Tahini pear cake with almonds and chocolate frosting

Tahihi.

Chocolate.

Almonds.

Moist.

My favourite.

First post. What can I write ? 

It's autumn. Sooo sad outside. Just wind and rain. All the time. 

I'm sitting in big cosy armchair near the fireplace watching Star Wars (no I'm not a mad fan, it's just marathon on axn).

It's the Independence Day of Poland today so everybody have a day off. You know, we don't celebrate it like in other countries. Actually, we don't celebrate it at all. Just a day off. OK.

Well, time for the recipe:

Ingredients:

300 g tahini 

250 g honey

1 tablespoon soda

220 flour (can be rice flour or millet flour, I prefer the millet flour, it's healthier because contain more protein)

1 tablespoon cinamon

1 tablespoon vanilla extract

100g almond flakes

200 g pears (cut into slices or cubes)

250 ml apple juice

a small handful of whole almonds

Preheat the oven to 160 C degrees. Blend tahini and honey. Taste it. It's gorgeous. Than add soda, flour, cinnamon and apple juice. Blend well. Throw in the pears and almond flakes and mix carefully. Pour the mass into a form.

Sprinkle with some almonds. 

Bake the cake for about an hour (or more).

I made the chocolate frosting from home made hazelnut chocolate cream and soy milk, but I think caramel sauce also would be a good idea. Try to experiment. 

Buon appetit !

Anna

Hi guys !

I'm Anna and I've just started writing my first blog about food.

I'm 19 and I've got a gap year now (I want to study medicine next year)

My friends are biology and chemistry :) yeah, I'm a nerd.

Why blogging ?

Firstly, I love cooking, eating, tasting etc.
Secondly, I've always wanted to share my recipes and ideas with people. 
Thirdly, I just want to provide the recipes from being forgotten.


I believe that we are what we eat - the food affects on our body and mind, it gives power to our body so that I'm trying to cook healthy and nutricious meals. 

I hope you'll enjoy.


Anna



PS. I'm writing in English because I'm going to pass fce exam in few months so it would be a good writing exercise.
Please, forgive me the mistakes. If I would make any, you can just tell me :)