I don’t know about you guys, but I ran out of groceries and money somewhere around the 50th of January. I honestly don’t know how I managed to live in London for 8 Januaries. It’s hard enough over here with the sunshine and beaches, but add freezing grey weather to your dry salticrax and what is life – honestly, wtf is it!
Much like ‘make America great again’, this headline at first seems as mythical as saddling up a unicorn and candy-mountaining off into the distance (I swear I’m not smoking anything – right now). But I feel the humble brussels sprout (that’s with an S, as it was first grown in…you guessed it, Brussels) gets a bad rap.
A few weeks ago we had friends from the US visit us. He eats meat and she’s vegan – a change from the last time I saw her when she was a raw vegan! We had a good old saffa braai to welcome them and I was given the task of bringing a vegan salad.
Oats are a big thing in my house. Mark eats them every morning – usually soaked overnight in yoghurt with nuts and berries added – and Lexi eats them cooked with peanut butter, cinnamon and a portion of fruit. I’m not really a sweet breakfast person…I can wake up and eat a spoon of Bovril. On its own.
I’ve written quite a few posts about having a baby, but not much about feeding one. Luckily whether I’m feeding myself or my daughter, it works out to pretty much the same menu – so don’t worry, this is not about to turn into a baby food blog! I have a very straightforward approach to to healthy eating.
I was making brownies the other day and I got halfway through the recipe before realising I had no cacao powder. I did, however, have cacao nibs, so I made a few hasty adjustments and came out with Accidental Blondies – brownies that aren’t brown, but in this case have chocolate flavour from the nibs and dark choc chips.
I’m super excited about this recipe! I love Asian food. I just love all things noodles – it’s why I consider 2 minute noodles a greater treat than chocolate – although let’s face it, chocolate is probably not as nutritionally devoid as 2 minute noodles. ‘Here Madame, enjoy this bowl of MSG with your Chardonnay.'
Sometimes I wish I had more of a sweet tooth. I realise that’s a strange thing to say. You see, I’m the savoury person who smugly says no thanks to chocolate, only to savage an entire family-size bag of chips the second no one is looking. The fact is, it’s easier to turn sweet recipes into healthy versions.
Muffins have always been my go-to snack option. I love that you can be creative and even a little weird in your combinations – cheese and cranberry, anyone ? If you can dream it, you can make a muffin out of it. I tend towards not following a recipe for my muffin mixes, mainly because I always think that I can a) do it better and b) make it healthier.
As we established in my last post, healthy cooking has been a rare occurrence in my house over the past 6 months. I thought about it a lot though. I thought, how nice would it be to have protein balls to snack on – while elbow deep in a bag of Niknaks.
Rocky Road is the stuff childhood dreams are made of. The crunchy biscuit surprise as you bite into the sticky chocolate square, the stringy marshmallow that stretches like melted cheese tightropes to your mouth. It’s hard to imagine a world where kids don’t get to experience this delight.
I’m getting lazy in my third trimester – baking seems like such an effort. I’m far more likely to reach for a bag of Tumbles than I am to break out the cacao and rustle up a healthy snack, but every now and then I rouse myself from my human-growing stupor and manage to bang something out.
I don’t know about you guys, but I ran out of groceries and money somewhere around the 50th of January. I honestly don’t know how I managed to live in London for 8 Januaries. It’s hard enough over here with the sunshine and beaches, but add freezing grey weather to your dry salticrax and what is life – honestly, wtf is it!
Much like ‘make America great again’, this headline at first seems as mythical as saddling up a unicorn and candy-mountaining off into the distance (I swear I’m not smoking anything – right now). But I feel the humble brussels sprout (that’s with an S, as it was first grown in…you guessed it, Brussels) gets a bad rap.
A few weeks ago we had friends from the US visit us. He eats meat and she’s vegan – a change from the last time I saw her when she was a raw vegan! We had a good old saffa braai to welcome them and I was given the task of bringing a vegan salad.
Oats are a big thing in my house. Mark eats them every morning – usually soaked overnight in yoghurt with nuts and berries added – and Lexi eats them cooked with peanut butter, cinnamon and a portion of fruit. I’m not really a sweet breakfast person…I can wake up and eat a spoon of Bovril. On its own.
I’ve written quite a few posts about having a baby, but not much about feeding one. Luckily whether I’m feeding myself or my daughter, it works out to pretty much the same menu – so don’t worry, this is not about to turn into a baby food blog! I have a very straightforward approach to to healthy eating.
I was making brownies the other day and I got halfway through the recipe before realising I had no cacao powder. I did, however, have cacao nibs, so I made a few hasty adjustments and came out with Accidental Blondies – brownies that aren’t brown, but in this case have chocolate flavour from the nibs and dark choc chips.
I’m super excited about this recipe! I love Asian food. I just love all things noodles – it’s why I consider 2 minute noodles a greater treat than chocolate – although let’s face it, chocolate is probably not as nutritionally devoid as 2 minute noodles. ‘Here Madame, enjoy this bowl of MSG with your Chardonnay.'
Sometimes I wish I had more of a sweet tooth. I realise that’s a strange thing to say. You see, I’m the savoury person who smugly says no thanks to chocolate, only to savage an entire family-size bag of chips the second no one is looking. The fact is, it’s easier to turn sweet recipes into healthy versions.
Muffins have always been my go-to snack option. I love that you can be creative and even a little weird in your combinations – cheese and cranberry, anyone ? If you can dream it, you can make a muffin out of it. I tend towards not following a recipe for my muffin mixes, mainly because I always think that I can a) do it better and b) make it healthier.
As we established in my last post, healthy cooking has been a rare occurrence in my house over the past 6 months. I thought about it a lot though. I thought, how nice would it be to have protein balls to snack on – while elbow deep in a bag of Niknaks.
Rocky Road is the stuff childhood dreams are made of. The crunchy biscuit surprise as you bite into the sticky chocolate square, the stringy marshmallow that stretches like melted cheese tightropes to your mouth. It’s hard to imagine a world where kids don’t get to experience this delight.
I’m getting lazy in my third trimester – baking seems like such an effort. I’m far more likely to reach for a bag of Tumbles than I am to break out the cacao and rustle up a healthy snack, but every now and then I rouse myself from my human-growing stupor and manage to bang something out.
