Hello foodies! ❣️
I'm here again with my weekly food post and we're in Week 5 already!
In today's post, you'll find plenty of cooking ideas and recipes!
Time in the kitchen wasn't little and I always get the feeling I spend more time in here than I want to. Hmm....I don't know about you but sometimes cooking time is exhausting for me, especially if my kid is around or if I'm really busy with some other chores.
Anyways, here they are!
Our Food this week: Week 5
Guacamole and Salmon bruschetta
I had 2 over riped avocados and made a delicious guacamole.
Toss the avocados with a fork or use a vertical blender. Add onion, garlic, lemon juice or lime juice, salt and pepler, olive oil, red bell pepper. I didnt add tomatoes this time.
Serve on bread. You can have on the side some smoked salmon, pancetta or whatever you'd prefer or have in the fridge.
I had some slices of Mortadella too.
Avocado Chocolate
This is like the best recipe you could find if you need to hide the avocados. My 4 year old was in love with avocados and actually these were some of the first foods to include in his diet when I started to give him foods as well, other than breastmilk. And he accepted to eat, around 8 mo old. It was the first food to accept eating more than just 2 teaspoons.
The recipe is so simple. You have two choices.
- A little bit of milk, avocado, banana and cacao powder.
- Coconut cream, avocado, honey and cacao.
I tried them both. They are perfect! Its like eating chocolate pudding, but a healthy one.
Oven baked Chicken and Veggies
This was something I came up for dinner one day.
Add some olive oil and water (not much) in a tray, add all the veggies (spices included like paprika, garlic powder, salt and pepper). You can use rosemary or thyme if you like.
I seasoned the meat with spices like again, paprika, onion and garlic powder, salt and pepper. I start cooking it in the pan for about 30 minutes and then I put it in the oven with the veggies. You can do this before putting the veggies in the oven and this way you cook everything from the start in the oven.
The idea is that the chicken needs more time for cooking than the veggies so find a way for that. You can even cook it in the oven before the veggies.
Kiwi breakfast
LOL. We dont have always breakfast like eggs, bruschetta, salmon or whatever. Sometimes is just a fruit. Like these two kiwies I had one morning.
I usyally dont have breakfast and I try to keep it clean enough. Not animal products or whatever
My favorite Italian Pizza in town
There's no week without going out for the most delicious pizza in town. These guys are making the best Italian pizza I've ever had in Romania. I mean all clients say this is exactly like the one they had in Italy.
And I'm not surprised because the owner is Italian and did the school in Napoli to the Napolitean Pizza Chef Institute or something like that. They are making pizza exactly the way this Institute showed them to. They use only Italian ingredients anf they're not making changes to the recipes. For example, they dont serve extra ketchup in the restaurant, they dont have corn on the pizzas. And they wont let you make any changes that are not accordig to the manual.
If I ask a quatro formaggi without one of the cheeses they'll say no because they consider its not 4 Formaggi anymore and the original taste its...gone.
I guess that by now, with all these explanations, you get their philosophy. We adore this place and the pizza.
Chicken Breast, Curry Rice and Broccoli
First the rice. Boil in water with a bit of salt, cardamom and pepper. After that, heat a bit of butter, add curry spices and fry the rice for a couple of minutes.
Meanwhile, grill the chicken and saute broccoli florets.
Easy dinner or lunch!
Baked apple with nuts and cinnamon
This no needs for instructions. Mix some walnuts (pecans or your favorites) with honey and cinnamon.
Bake apples for like 10-20 minutes just to make them softer. You can have them raw as well, if you'd prefer so.
Green Smoothie in a freezing day
Ingredients: Spinach, green fresh parsley, banana, apple and lime.
But you can add some more (like kiwi, pear, other leafy greens) or maybe cut some of the ingredients I used for this smoothie.
Smoothies don't have a precise recipe. You can get creative with smoothies. 💚
Oven Baked Mozzarella Veggies
This you can serve as a side dish together with a steak or some grilled cheese. Or you can simply have these mozzarella veggies just like that.
I had here zucchini, tomatoes and sweet potato, seasoned with salt, black pepper and paprika.
On top I added a mix of mozzarella cheese and fresh mozzarella. Added a bit of basil olive oil too.
Put veggies in the oven for like 15-20 minutes and then add mozzarella on top. Bake for another 5 minutes.
Lentil Cream Soup
This is my favorite! I really need to post this separately, step by step photos.
Basically, it's not hard at all. Add olive oil in a pan, saute onion for a few minutes. Add dried mint, basil, thyme, salt, pepper, paprika, fennel seeds (or powder). Add carrots, celery, one tomato and parsley root. You can replace tomato with tomato paste.
Saute for another 5 minutes. Then add red lentils, cover with water.
It should be 1 part lentils and 4 parts water. Around that.
Let simmer until every ingredients is cooked.
You can add some heavy cooking cream in the end or fat cocout cream.
Use a blender or a vertical one to make it smooth.
Serve with toast, crutoans and aromatic olive oil.
Just a regular nothing fancy Egg Breakfast
This is nothing but a scramble egg with ham and spinach. It was for me and I added my favorite secret ingredient: freshly ground black pepper. 😋
Creamy Coconut & Espresso Breakfast Shake
This is one of my favorites: Smooth, Silky, Full of Flavour and Chocolatish
For this you'll need:
- one espresso
- coconut milk
- coconut heavy cream
- cacao powder.
- Added 1 Tbsp of Olive Oil too. (cleeeever; you won't feel the taste at all.)
- 1 Tbsp of honey (optional)
I can only say this: D.E.L.I.C.I.O.U.S. !!
Ohhh and I add my collagen peptides daily dose in here too.
Greek Yoghurt, Walnuts and Honey
Again, nothing fancy.
But this breakfast can easily replace a snack or a dessert. It's so soo good!
Chicken and Ginger Broccoli Skillet
In one skillet, add a bit of olive oil. Saute one onion, ginger then add one tomato (cut small).
Add chicken and cook until it's almost done. Now it's time to add a few cloves of garlic, oyster sauce and 2-3 Tbsp water.
Meanwhile, steam the broccoli florets until 90% done. Add them to the chicken pan. Add salt and freshly ground black pepper.
You can add other aromatics as rosemary, oregano or thyme.
Potato & Bacon
This is something easy to make, we love it. If there's a salad on the side, even better.
First you need to boil the potatoes in their skin. After that, cut them in half, season with salt, paprika or your favorite seasoning, add bacon and put them in the oven for another 10 minutes.
I usually add mozzarella cheese on top. This time, for some reason, I didnt. But 99,99 I use cheese too.
Serve with cream cheese, olive oil, fresh green parsley or a salad.
Well, these were some of the last week's foods and recipes. I hope you'll enjoy this compilation again and why not, maybe even try some recipe? Or at least get some inspiration to try your own!
Thank you everyone for reading!
Have a great week everyone!
missdeli 💛
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