A healthy Breakfast never killed nobody

Hi everyone :)

The ones of you that follow me on Instagram will have seen that I posted a picture of my breakfast on Tuesday and promised a blog post with a recipe. So here it is:

Ingredients:

3 tbsp curd

2 tbsp yogurt

1/2 tsp agave syrup

2 tbsp porridge oats

1 small handful of cashew nuts (chopped)

1tbsp honey

1 tbsp apple sauce

2 strawberries

a couple of blueberries

This breakfast is really easy to make and wont take long at all. Mix the curd, yogurt, and agave syrup together in a bowl and roast the chopped cashew nuts and the porridge oats in a pan. 

Don't use any oil or butter and stir until they start to turn brown. You have to really stay on that otherwise you might burn them. 

As soon as they start to turn brown you add a tablespoon of honey and mix it together thoroughly, then take it off the hob to let it cool down for a bit.

After that you only have to chop up your strawberries and your are practically done.

Get your curd and yogurt mixture into your breakfast bowl and pour the apple sauce on top as well as your roasted ingredients.

At last add the strawberries and the blueberries and you are good to go :)

don't you just love that evil little smirk that my bowl got going on? :D

I would recommend drinking a smoothie with it but I might just be a bit obsessed with those. If you, however, feel the same: here are a view smoothie recipes!

Enjoy your breakfast :)

x

J.

Food Friday- Sweet Potato and Goat Cheese

Hi everyone :)

Wow we haven't done one of these in a while have we? I don't even get why, I love cooking and baking so much but I tend to get so carried away with it that I forget taking pictures.

Last Monday, when I was cooking for my boyfriend I didn't forget though. So here is a slightly changed recipe from a Jerusalem cook book that my mum bought my grandma but somehow ended up on my bookshelf. 

Ingredients:

4 small sweet potatoes (1kg)

5 tbsp olive oil

40 ml balsamic vinegar

20 g sugar

8 spring onions

1 red chill

6 fresh figs 

2 about 1,5 cm thick slices of goat cheese

2 tbsp honey

a bit of Parmesan

sea salt, pepper

Preheat oven to 240°C.

Wash the sweet potatoes, cut in half lengthwise and slice up each half into 3 pieces. 

Mix 3 tablespoons of olive oil with 2 teaspoons of salt and a bit of pepper in a bowl. Add your sweet potato in and spread the spiced oil evenly. 

Put the slices with the skin on the downside onto a griddle (I would advise you to use baking paper, so the sweet potato doesn't stick to it).

Roast all that in the oven for 25 about 25 minutes. The sweet potato should be soft but not fall apart.

Heat the balsamic vinegar in a small pot and add the sugar. Let the mixture boil up and cook for about 2-4 minutes on a lower heat. It should get slightly thicker in it's consistency that's when you know you can take it off the stove.

sorry for the dirty stove. I do live with 3 guys :D

 It will still get thicker while it cools down so don't worry if you are not sure if you took it off to soon. If it doesn't turn out to be a sirupy texture then just add a bit of water when it's to thick or heat it up again (there really is no way this can go wrong).

Chop up your spring onions into ca. 4 cm long slices.

Next chop up the chili, don't chop it into too small pieces as you won't be able to avoid it in your food then. Cause with this dish you will be able to taste the chili, so if you have people that don't like it to spicy they can take them out. 

Put the rest of your olive oil, the spring onions and the chili in a pan and roast them gently for about 4 to 5 minutes.

After that only your goat cheese is left and you have to bear with me on this one as I can promise it will be delicious although it will probably not look like it :D

Heat up a bit of olive oil and the tablespoons of honey in a pan and roast your goat cheese in it. 

After that you just have to slice your figs in quarters and you are all set. Put the sweet potato on your plate and arrange them with the fig in any artsy way you can come up with. Or just stack everything on your plate that works too, especially if you are hungry :D

Add the spring onions and chili with the oil from the pan and sprinkle it with the balsamic vinegar sirup.

Grade some parmesan over the top if you feel like it :) 

Now find a free space for the goat cheese and you can get stuck in!

I didn't have the figs in there on Monday because they didn't have any at the store but it is good with or without them :)

Enjoy your meal.

x

J.

Food Friday - Marley's

Hi everyone :)

While my dad and I were wandering around Hamburg hungrily, we came across a hotel that seemed to have a lovely restaurant attached.

We read the menu they had outside and decided to give it a go, as just by reading it we had already seen quite a view things we felt like eating.

Marley’s is the quite elegant restaurant on the ground floor go The Madison in Hamburg, with great food and friendly, courteous waiters.

The chairs look a lot less comfortable then they actually are and the decorations on the table are simple but quite tasteful.

I can’t for the life of me remember what my dad ordere but it was an Asian dish that they had on their daily menu so you are probably not very likely to have that. I had a ceased salad with salmon as I wasn’t feeling to adventurous. 

Before our food arrived we got a bit of bread and butter. I don’t know exactly what it was but they gave us this really thin almost crisps like bread that had caraway in it and it was soooooo good. I could have happily eaten a bathtub of that stuff, even though I do have no clue what exactly it was.

We both enjoyed our food a lot but the salmon I had was just exceptional. It just fell apart and was cooked to perfection. 

meet my very smug looking Dad :)

I have to say my dad and I quite enjoyed our late night dinner at Marley’s, they don’t have a lot of food on their menu but the things they do have are cooked with a lot of love.

So if you ever are in Hamburg, or even staying at The Madison do please check out this place. I can guarantee you will enjoy the food!

x

J.

Hamburg - 'Schönes Leben'

Hi everyone :)

Are you up for another post about Hamburg? I so am ready to relive this memory, because let me tell you it was a really really good one!

Both my dad and I enjoy some good food and since we only had the breakfast situation covered by our hotel, that meant finding places to eat for lunch and dinner. 

And we did find some pretty good places if I may say so myself. 

For now lets look at the cute little place we went to for dinner on Saturday.

‘Schönes Leben’ is situated in the ‘Fächerstadt’, which my dad and I stumbled upon by accident. 

We hadn’t really made any plans for dinner but were quite hungry, so we just strolled through Hamburg in search of some food.

And ‘Schönes Leben’ is what we came across. It was one of many little places in one street but it just looked a lot more inviting from the outside then the others did. And boy am I glad we chose to head in, as the food was absolute heaven.

The restaurant itself is placed in a really old house from the 17th century. Its decor is slightly tacky but did fit the place extremely well.

All the lighting is provided by chandeliers that are probably as old as the house itself and the painted ceiling is especially beautiful to look at.

As I did like the place quite a lot and couldn’t stop taking pictures I was very happy to hear that the toilet was on the second floor and I was able to see more of the gorgeous house. 

Upstairs they do have more dining room space that I presume is used for special occasions. The gallery is something I am quite envious of because I love these things and am quite keen on having one myself one day.

But enough of the interior design lets get to the good part: FOOD.

And my god was it good. My dad went for a classic dish very well known in Hamburg called  ‘Labskaus’ and I wanted something salady but just a plain salad sounded a bit boring so I went with goat cheese backed in honey with wild herbs salad and pomegranate. 

Before we got our mains however we got a little special from the kitchen which versprechen an excellent main course.

We also got some bread with a very tasty dip/spread.

Our waitress was really aufmerksam and was quick to answer all our questions, not only about the food but also the house itself which was a welcome surprise, that my dad took full advantage of. 

By the time our main course arrived, which was fairly quick might I add, my dad and I had happily demolished both starters we were given and were waiting for the rest of the food that was coming our way.

It looks great right?

I can tell you it tasted even better. I was fairly certain what my dish was going to taste like and what I had in mind but my dad was completely in the dark as he actually had no idea what exactly he had ordered.

He is a bit weird that way :D He just wanted to try ‘Labskaus’ no matter what it was, neither of us are completely sure yet about it’s ingredients but it did taste really good. Or so my dad said since I didn’t try it because we didn’t know what was in it :)

The goat cheese was more than delicious, it wasn’t completely melted yet and fell apart when you ate it. The strong taste of the cheese was evened out by the sweetness of the honey and the combination of both was absolutely great. I wasn’t so sure about the pomegranate but I couldn’t have been more wrong. It really turned the dish into something absolutely divine. 

I could have quite happily eaten twice the amount of cheese, that is how god it was.

So if you ever are in Hamburg and are in need of a good place to go to for some food please take my advice and make your way to ‘Schönes Leben’

Schönes Leben

Deichstraße 37

20459 Hamburg

x

J.

Food Friday - Nando's

Hi everyone :)

While I was in London there was obviously no way around Nando's. To all of you who don't know what that is: Shame on you :D And to all of you who don't have a chance of going there because you don't live in the Uk or New Zealand: I feel bad for you because Nando's is probably the most amazing place in the whole wide world.

Ok I might be exaggerating a bit but they do really have amazing food there.

So if you ever walk past a place that has this sign outside

go in and I am about to show you why you should :D

All Nando's restaurants are different in their interior so don't worry if yours looks different from the one we were at.

My friend and I were lucky enough to have a Nando's just minutes away from the hotel we stayed at so we decided to go there one day since he had never been.

The Nando's restaurants originate in South Africa and therefore do specify in South African cuisine. It is sooooo good people :)

They have short texts written on the walls which describe the legends about the recipes for their most famous food. 

And yes before you ask: That is a picture of the toilets but look at those sinks I just really fell in love with them  :)

Okay since I can already tell no one is excited about these as I am: lets move on shall we. 

Ordering at Nando's is fairly easy and if you have problems, there are a lot of very nice people who can help you out. 

I honestly have never met an incompetent waiter in a Nando's restaurant. 

My friend and I settled for some garlic bread, coleslaw and half a chicken and I had 3 chicken wings and fries and a chicken breast filet burger. We are both not that brave and only went for the Lemon & Herb seasoning with it.

And I mean you only have to look at it and it will make your mouth water. Just writing this made me crave Nando's so make sure you are ready for what you are about to see :D

With your food you can also choose from a variety of sauces to have with it. And when I say variety I mean this :

I am sure every single one of you will find something to suit them :) 

But the other thing that I love so much about Nando's is that they have a really creative menu. I mean they tell you how to order best and it literally says on there: Grab yourself any cutlery you need ( eating with your fingers is heartily encouraged)

What restaurant would put that on their menu? 

We had a great time not only because of the food but also because of the eating experience. Things like that sentence on the menu made us laugh more then once. So did the napkins :D

So if you haven't been to Nando's yet, which I am sure you have if there is a restaurant close to you, go! Definitely go. 

I will leave you with their website for any further information.

x

J.