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  1. Spiced apple and goji berry healthy muffins

    September 12, 2012 by potatoface

    spiced apple and goji berry muffins

    spiced apple and goji berry healthy muffins

     I have been indulging myself recently in lots of butter and sugar (icing on cupcakes, etc.) because I felt sorry for myself (don’t we all).

    But enough is enough! I’ve decided it’s time to go back to healthy baking.

    Will power or what?!

    I really wanted to use goji berries as they have been used in Chinese medicine for the last 2000 years and apparently they can even slow the ageing process (among other amazing health improving tricks).

     So I made really really healthy muffins. They are so freaking healthy, they should be prescribed by a doctor or something…

    spiced apple and goji berry muffins

    spiced apple and goji berry healthy muffins

     For the muffins:

     2 cups of wholemeal flour

    1 cup of plain flour

    1 teaspoon of baking soda

    2 teaspoons of baking powder

    1 cup of agave syrup

    2 tablespoons of cinnamon

    1 tablespoon of all spice

    3 apples, diced

    1 cup of dried goji berries

    300 ml of buttermilk

    1/2 cup of grape seed oil

    3 eggs

     For the topping:

    2 tablespoons of grape seed oil

    3 tablespoons of plain flour

    1 tablespoon of cinnamon

    2 tablespoons of brown sugar

    100 grams of sunflower seeds

    100 grams of pumpkin seeds

    spiced appleand goji berry muffins

    spiced apple and goji berry muffins

    1. Preheat oven to 180 C

    2. Mix flour, baking powder and soda, cinnamon and all spice in a big bowl.

    3. In a separate bowl mix oil, eggs, agave syrup and buttermilk.

    4. Add wet ingredients to the dry ones, mix carefully and gently until combined.

    5. Peel and dice apples and add them to the mixture with goji berries. Mix gently.

    6. Line muffin tray with muffin cases. Scoop batter into them.

    7. Mix all the ingredients for the topping and crumble on top of muffins.

    8. Bake till skewer comes out clean and muffins are golden on top.

    9. Stuff your face without guilt – your are extending your life eating them (see: goji berries).

    spiced apple and goji berry muffins

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  2. ricotta crescents

    July 20, 2012 by potatoface

    ricotta crescents

     Sometimes I think baking keeps me from going insane. It’s zen, it’s like meditating. It makes me feel a bit like a witch making potions (evil laugh).

    So when you feel down, save yourself by baking.

    And give the product of your labour away if you tend to comfort eat. After all what they say is if you love it, set it free…

    ricotta crescents

    ricotta crescents

    Ricotta crescents

     Ingredients

    for the dough:

    50grams of fresh yeast or two sachets of dry ones (15 grams)

    cup of lukewarm milk

    2 table spoons of sour cream

    1/4 cup of sugar (or 1/4 cup of honey)

    pinch of salt

    3 eggs and 1 egg white (you will have one after making the filling)

    100 grams of melted butter

    3-4 cups of flour

     for the filling:

    220 grams of ricotta or quark cheese

    zest and juice of one lemon

    1 egg yolk

    1 mashed banana

    1/3 cup of honey

    1 egg for brushing

    1. Put yeast in a big bowl, add sugar or honey and warm milk. Mix and leave it for 10 minutes.

    2. After 10 minutes when the yeast has started working add eggs, butter, sour cream, pinch of salt and 3 cups of flour.

    3. Start to kneed the dough. If you need it, add more flour…no pun intended.

    4. Leave the dough to raise.

    5. After half and hour kneed it again and leave it for another half an hour.

    6. Mix ingredients for the filling.

    7. Sprinkle your working surface with more flour. Divide the dough into 4-5 parts.

    8. Roll out one part of the dough on the floured surface. Cut into triangles. Brush with beaten egg.

    9. Put about 1 small tablespoon of filling on the end of the triangle. Start rolling from that end making the shape of a crescent. Repeat with the rest of the dough.

    10. Transfer crescents onto a baking tray lined with greased paper. Brushed each one with beaten egg and sprinkle with more sugar.

    11. Bake in the oven at 170 C till they are golden brown.

    Breath in and out…eat it. Be happy.

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  3. blueberry pancakes – much healthier than the american version

    September 12, 2011 by potatoface

    blueberry pancakes

    blueberry pancakes

    I’m blessed to have a few but dear friends I can always count on. One of them, the best one, recently visited me. She’s like a sister to me and I love her very much. She has lived for the last 12 years in California, so the last time I saw her was about 6-7 years ago. We always pick up where we left, I never felt like there was a break at all. It feels almost like having a twin – we always know without talking and with the ocean between us when something happens in our life, when we are sad, or we are going through something dramatic.

    If you have a friend you truly love and don’t need words to communicate with, you know you are lucky.

    First morning after she arrived I made pancakes – my interpratation of an American favourite. It will always remind me of her.

     

    Pancakes but much healthier than the American version

    Ingredients

    1cup of wholemeal flour

    1/2 cup of spelt flour

    1/2 cup of ready oats

    1 teaspoon of baking powder

    1/2 teaspoon of baking soda

    1 spoon of cinnamon

    2 eggs

    blueberries

    maple syrup or agave nectar

    1 or 2/3 glass of soya milk

    knob of butter

    1. Mix all dry ingredients in a bowl. In a separate bowl mix eggs, milk and melted batter. Add those to the dry ingredients and leave the mixture for at least half an hour on the side.

    2. Warm heavy frying pan. Wait until it’s really hot. Add blueberries to your batter, fold gently.  Using a ladle pour some batter, wait till the top of the pancake begins to bubble, turn over, and fry until golden brown.

    3. Repeat till you use all the batter, if you are making a lot of pancakes for many people, keep the ones you made in a warm oven until they’re all ready.

     

    pancakes

    pancakes

    If you just want simple pancakes, instead of wholemeal flour and ready oats use normal flour and ordinary milk instead of soya – and voila!


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  4. vegetable omelette – breakfast has never been easier

    June 11, 2011 by potatoface

    vegetable omeletteIn ‘Pulp Fiction’ there is a scene where the character played by Quentin Tarantino says that he doesn’t eat Big Kahuna Burgers ‘because my girlfriend is a vegetarian, so that pretty much makes me one too..’

    And that’s pretty much Boyfriend’s life. To make up for it I’m sometimes using Quorn. Some of it is not too shabby, for example the bacon. Totally kosher as well.

    Here’s a recipe for vegetable omelette. Basically you fry anything you find in the fridge with some eggs and top it up with cheese. Breakfast has never been easier…

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  5. Healthy crepes

    June 8, 2011 by potatoface


    healthy crepes

    When you have a day off (for some people it is usually the weekend, for myself and Boyfriend it is a random day) you could make something different for breakfast. I quite often make crepes. They are a healthy version with oats and wholemeal flour and they are yummy. They are also good for brunch or lunch. When we’ve got friends staying over it’s always a winner.

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