Recently I received a very nice mail from a busy mom of three asking me how I find the time to give my kids healthy and fresh food on a daily basis. I must say it is all in the prepping and stocking up on the right supplies such as canned corn and chickpeas, rice…
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Super Turkey stuffing and more on our Christmas menu
The house is ready for Christmas, the gifts are wrapped, the ugly sweaters ready to be worn now I just need to figure out the menu…. Last year I have prepared a Christmas turkey for the very first time, and I mean the real deal not a pre stuffed Turkey, but home made filling. …what…
Chocolate Quinoa breakfast
As you might have read in my previous posts I have eaten no sugar in September. To accomplish this I needed to be quite inventive about breakfast. Lunch and dinner were ok but what is breakfast without granola, toast of waffles? I came up with this easy recipe, based on my Sunday Morning Quinoa but…
Salade met zoete aardappel, broccoli en kerstomaat
Ik heb dit gerecht nu al in een aantal variaties gemaakt en het leuke is dat het telkens lekker en verrassend blijft. Het is bovendien een salade die je makkelijk op voorhand kan bereiden en die je perfect ook als lunch mee kan nemen. Ik vind persoonlijk de combinatie van geroosterde zoete aardappel, kerstomaten en…
Asparagus and parmaham with quinoapancakes
A while ago a friend of mine sent me some recipes for gluten free pancakes she found in Elle Magazine. All salt pancakes that are a nice equivalnet for a simple sandwich, something different from a foccacia or brushetta. Inspired by these recipes I have come up with the following creation. So easy and quick…
Delicious salad based on a recipe by Yotam Ottolenghi
This is a delicious salad based on Ottolenghi’s Quinoa Salad with dried Iranian Lime out of the cookbook Plenty. I heard and read a lot about this chef and his cookbooks and restaurants but quite frankly I was a bit afraid of his Middle Eastern and Jewish influenced recipes. For instance I don’t like dates,…