Beetroot Smoothie

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Beetroot Smoothie

A quick beetroot smoothie with oranges and honey, delicious before a run or other form of exercise. 🙂

Ingredients

1 whole fresh uncooked beetroot washed and peeled

2 large oranges

1 tsp of Nomi friut powder or other superfood of choice

1 tbsp of Hemp Seeds

1 Tbsp of raw honey

Pop all of the ingredients into the blender, top up with water and blend until smooth.  Share amongst two or three glasses and serve.  I like to have beetroot before working out as there are benefits for our bodies.  Check out some benefits listed in the link below.

http://www.weightlossresources.co.uk/exercise/beetroot-improves-exercise-endurance.htm

 

Salad Crispbreads

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Salad Crispbreads

So for a quick dinner I mixed up some chopped tomatoes, chopped red onion, dried mint (use fresh if you have), some olive oil and seasonings for a tomato salad and served it along with some plain and simple sliced avocado and cucumber with a squeeze of lime on top and some chopped coriander.  I finished this off with some sliced oranges and a couple squares of chocolate.

Ingredients

Sliced Tomatoes

Red Onion

Dried Mint (fresh if you have)

Olive oil

Sliced Cucumber

Sliced Avocado

4 pieces of artichokes (jar in olive oil)

Chopped coriander

Lime

Crispbreads of choice (I used aldi’s organic multiseed)

Blood oranges (although my oranges were not very red in the picture!)

Simple chop the tomatoes and add to the sliced onion with the mint and a drizzle of olive oil. Season!  Slice up the avocados and cucumber and drizzle with a sliced lime.  Serve on top of the crispbreads in the order you wish.  Enjoy!

 

 

Greek Falafel & Salad Wraps

greek_wrapsThese are so super easy to make and I can’t personally take credit for them as my husband made them for us all.  All you need to do is chop your vegetables of choice, you can see what I used from the picture but Ive also listed the ingredients below.

Black Olive

Tomatoes

Hummus (lots of)

Cous cous (I used a premade one)

Cucumber

Red Pepper

Lettuce

Falafel

Tofu pieces (optional)

Tortilla Wraps

Avocado

Red Onion

So you quite simply chop everything up and serve into little dishes and everyone gets to make their own.  My kids love their vegetables raw and would rather eat them this way, its the cooked veg I have to bribe down them, they would eat plates and plates of raw veggies.  My youngest son is actually a cucumber addict lol!  He would eat cucumber for breakfast, lunch and dinner if he could. 🙂

So anyway, once you have all your veggies chopped and into dishes, put your wraps in some tinfoil and stick them in the oven for a few minutes to warm up.  Once warmed spread with hummus and top with the vegetables of your choice.  Wrap up and serve with the cous cous on the side.  I also added in a little spicy sauce.

Enjoy! x

Boogie Woogie Cafe Review Scotland

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So this is what I get up to when its snowing outside, my house is freezing and I cant feel the ends of my fingertips anymore I go to one of my fave Scottish cafe/gift shops in Keith, Morayshire, Scotland.  I went to Boogie Woogie for some homecooked delicious comforting food.

 

So what did I have?  Well to defrost my hands I had a naughty hot chocolate, which was a delicious sweet treat!

I followed that with a huge bowl of tomato pasta and roasted vegetables topped with feta cheese and a basil garnish.  There was a good selection of vegetables on the top and it tasted freshly made, I found the dish inspiring and might make a vegan friendly version at home for the family.  I cant eat too much cheese due to an intolerance but it was delicious and I cleared my plate! 🙂

It took my husband ages to persuade me to have some delicious cake afterwards lol! 😉  So I choose a piece of lemon and raspberry cake which was really moist and very yummy!  Everything tasted homemade as usual!

They also have an awesome gift shop upstairs and some really interesting and quirky things located around the cafe.  I love the clothing range they have where I noticed some things were very well made and I hope to purchase a thing or too in the future.

I also bought a lovely book which I can’t wait to read in front of the fire tonight

So if you want to check out one of my favourite local cafes click on the website below.

http://www.boogiewoogieshop.com/

Tom yum Thai soup vegan

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Tom Yum Thai Soup

This was a really delicious soup that I made with the Tom Yum soup kit I purchased from the Chinese supermarket.  You could also purchase the ingredients separately and it’s so easy and simple to make.

Ingredients

tom yum soup kit –

1 x veggie stock cube

2 cups of mixed vegetables, I used red peppers, carrots and broccoli

4 x lemongrass stalks

1 piece of galangal

5 -6 lime leaves

2 x red chillies (really hot)

Green Thai curry paste (optional)

soy sauce

salt and pepper

1 handful of chopped coriander

Bring to the boil the stock cube and about 6-800mls of water, you can add more or less depending on the amount of vegetables you put in.  Next add the galangal, chopped chillies, and lime leaves. Simmer for five minutes then add a soy sauce to taste and green Thai curry paste to taste if you wish.  I also added a dash of almond milk at the end.  Sprinkle with chopped coriander.

Another recipe I prepared alongside for the kids is pictured below for some inspiration.  Their is a Japanese buns recipe on my blog at

https://atomic-temporary-115465039.wpcomstaging.com/2017/01/07/steamed-yo-sushi-style-buns/

you can also view the recipe in the video below.

 

Steamed Yo Sushi Style Buns

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Steamed “yo sushi” Style Buns

Delicious steamed Japanese buns filled with stir fried garlic cabbage, cabbage, green pepper and sweet chilli sauce.  These are super easy to make.

Ingredients

Sliced cabbage

Sliced Green Pepper

1 x sliced garlic clove

chopped mushrooms

soy sauce

sweet chilli sauce

Instructions

Cook the sliced cabbage, garlic and sliced green pepper with  little soy sauce.  Steam the buns a bamboo steamed on top of a pan of water.  Fill the Cooke shuns with the filling and top with sweet chilli sauce or other sauce of choice.

To see a video of this please check out my video on YouTube at the link below.

Veggie Buddha bowl

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Veggie Buddha Bowl

A quick vegan friendly veggie Buddha bowl made with brown sushi rice, and a selccection of cooked and raw vegetables.

Ingredients – 

Brown sushi rice

4thsp Rice vinegar

2tbsp Sugar

Avocado

Carotts

Potatoes

Spring Onions

seasame seeds

Wash the brown sushi rice several times then out the rice in the pan with 1 cup rice, 2 cups of water, cook for 35 mins at a simmer with the lid on and switch off the heat.  Keep the lid on for a further 10 mins then add the rice vinegar and sugar.

Cook the potatoes and carrots in the oven whilst the rice is cooking, slice the raw vegetables and serve on top of the rice with the cooked veg and a splash of soy sauce and some sesame seeds as a garnish.

You could also add some tofu or veggie sausages to this dish and mix up the cooked and raw vegetables with your own preference.

Enjoy!  😎

Tropical Green Smoothie

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Tropical green smoothie with spirulina and tumeric.

Tropical green smoothie recipe

Half a pineapple chopped

1 whole young coconut 🌴 including the water and the coconut meat

Top up with bottled coconut water – (not from concentrate)

2 tsp of spirulina

2inch piece of tumeric

This recipe is good for three small smoothies and two large ones i.e. a family of five!

 

Chinese supermarket shopping trip

Check out my third YouTube video after a quick trip to the Chinese supermarket in Aberdeen.  Here’s  selection of vegetarian and vegan finds we bought there, if you want to watch the full video check it out in the link below…there are recipes to follow! 😎