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Chlorophyll with Sweet Wheatgrass Shots

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Because I always wanted to make Wheatgrass shots I used my time during the weekend and made these super cute and full packed healthy shots with my new Proteinworld Wheatgrass. I’m so happy. They are so cute and it is such a great benefit to drink these shots during the day. I never used wheatgrass in the past. That is my first time.

Wheatgrass is one of the best source of chlorophyll. Chlorophyll is an important blood builder and it is the first product of light, so it contains more light energy than any other food. This amazing element neutralized toxins from your body. Wheatgrass contains 13 essential amino acids and its full packed with lots of Vitamins. Drinking a shot a few times a week provides your body with all that healthy ingredients.

You can drink it really easy to your breakfast or at lunch time. Prepare a bottle and drink them during the week and store in the fridge. I used the Wheatgrass from Proteinworld. They offer a big range of healthy products in their shop and have Free Shipping worldwide. You find all the healthy products in their shop: Proteinworld. That is only one brand, there are many others who offer wheatgrass.

To make these shots sweetener I used dates and pineapple. Most of the times I use dates in my kitchen because they are really natural and have lots of health benefits. You can easily mix them in smoothies or for baking. I always store a lot of dates in my kitchen because for some sweat treats I use a lot of dates.

Sometimes it is very difficult to find real good pineapples here in Germany. Do you now a trick how to test if they are ready to eat?

Pineapples are a “happy” food because it makes feel you happy. They contains Serotonin, a neurotransmitter, which is available for a good mood. Serotonin brakes cravings as well. Perfect fruit to add in this green shot.

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Recipe
Healthy Wheatgrass Shots

For 8-10 shots

250ml water
1 tsp wheatgrass
1/4 pineapple
10 leafs fresh mint
1 leaf kale
2 Dates

Lime for squeezing

Preparation:

    1. Mix all together in a blender.
    2. If you like to serve it directly add some ice cubes. If not store in the fridge before serving.
    3. Squeeze come Lime Juice over the shots.
    4. You can store this shots in the fridge for up to three days.

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Blueberry Acai Berry Ice Cream

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Look at this amazing colorful BLUEBERRY ACAI BERRY ICE CREAM. No this Ice Cream isn’t UNHEALTHY! It is total healthy because it’s made from frozen bananas and frozen blueberries. It is such an adventure for me to discover all these wonderful opportunities to enjoy my food without feeling bad. Everybody needs to learn a lot to reconstruct life for a better life balance. I really enjoy all the connections I made in the last year via social media because I met a lot of people feeling the same. Who wants to change, who wants to discover, who wants to live more healthy.

Back to the Ice Cream. My hubby is a totally Ice addict. I prefer warmer treats but I am open to try out new things so I made a healthy violet ice cream with lots of healthy ingredients and some nutritious ACAI powder from Proteinworld (www.proteinworld.com). ACAI powder has amazing health benefits. In that case I use it very often not least because I really love that wonderful strong color. Remember me of a rainbow and happiness. And food is happiness right? We need to eat every day so why nor preparing is pretty to enjoy it much more? I already used ACAI in my ACAI mousse. You find the recipe here: ACAI BERRY MOUSSE WITH YOGHURT. ACAI Berry is a full packed antioxidant-rich fruit. I talked about skin protect food in my last post and for sure, this ACAI Berry is one of the best to protect skin. Many famous beauty products are carrying ACAI as well. It is used to some Anti-Aging products because it is full packed with many forms of plant antioxidants. This Berry is also really immune-boosting because it’s very high in Vitamin C.

This Ice Cream is made with healthy cashew nuts which contains good fatty acids and protect your skin as well because of the high Vitamin E Level. Dates are the perfect sweetener for treats like Ice and the bananas are perfect for the creaminess. You can store the Ice cream in the fridge and serve with fresh berries. It is so easy to make if you have a blender. You don’t have a blender and think about to buy one? My food blogger friend Lynn wrote an article about my favorite blender Vitamix. Check it out here if you are interested: Best Blender

By the way. The best I discovered a few months ago was to freeze banana in pieces. You easily peel them and freeze them in cubes to have them ready for a cold shake or ice cream.

Now I’m happy to share this delicious healthy Ice Cream Recipe with you guys:

RECIPE
BLUEBERRY ACAI BERRY ICE CREAM

3 small bananas, frozen
100g blueberries, frozen
50g Cashew Nuts
Pinch of Almond Milk (or any other milk you prefer)
2 Dates

Optional:
1 tbsp ACAI Powder

Preparations:

  1. First crash the cashew nuts in a blender before you add the other ingredients
  2. After that add the dates and mix a bit
  3. Add the rest but only a pinch of almond milk to make sure it gets not too liquid
  4. Mix until you get a creamy ice cream

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Creamy Vegan Spaghetti Carbonara

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I really often prepare this delicious Creamy Spaghetti Carbonara when I need a fast dish with keeps me full for longer. It’s make within 15 minutes.

You can use whipping cream instead of cashew nuts. I prefer cashew nuts because they contains more healthy fatty acids than dairy products. To make it more healthy use spelt spaghetti or whole grain. We used these kind of spaghettis for a long time but decided to use normal ones because they taste much better for us. Sure they aren’t that healthy but sometimes it’s ok to eat not “perfect” food. My vision is to keep a good balance between healthy food and unhealthy food. I don’t like to forbid me something I really love (like semolina spaghetti for example). Life is to enjoy every single minute and for me the enjoyment rank first. I hope my English is ok, sometimes I’m not sure to explain right.

Spring is coming here in Germany and my herb garden will be ready soon to pick up all these fresh herbs for my kitchen. It is such a great feeling to cultivate the own herbs. I started with herbs because that is my first garden in my life. We moved to our house three years ago and I wrote a long list for my garden design. I was full enthusiastic! Then I noticed the pile of work and decided to learn slow how to build up a perfect “kitchen garden”. I don’t want to stress myself to much.

Beside parsley you find smoked tofu in this creamy Spaghetti Carbonara. Smoked tofu is one of my favorite ingredients. It is spicy, aromatic and super easy to prepare and use in the kitchen. You can eat smoked tofu raw on bread or in salads. Or you can fry it to get a “bacon” flavor in your meals. Don’t understand me wrong, I’m a vegetarian to the core but I love adding a smoked taste. I don’t miss anything since I change my diet to a vegetarian diet. To change was one of my best decisions in my life.

This recipe is vegan because I often eat vegan meals. I made a full vegan week last week and it wasn’t really difficult for me. I was curious how I feel after and during this week.
I feel good and free of any body complaints. I’m sure vegan works very well for the body. My body feel happy about this well-tolerated diet, I noticed that.
But I wouldn’t become a full vegan at the moment. I love eating real cheese and a real pizza from time to time. So let’s see what the future brings to me.

RECIPE
CREAMY VEGAN SPAGHETTI CARBONARA

Serve 4

200g Cashew Nuts
400ml Water
Salt and Pepper

2 Zucchini
1 red Onion
200g smoked Tofu
10 stalks Parsley
1 tbsp Coconut oil

250g Spaghetti

Preparation:

  1. Grind the Cashew Nuts
  2. Chop the parsley
  3. Chop the zucchini and smoked tofu in cubes
  4. Chop the onion
  5. Fry the onion and the vegetables with the smoked tofu for 5 minutes in coconut oil
  6. Set aside in a separate bowl
  7. Add 1/3 of the water in the pan until boil
  8. Stir in 1/3 of the cashew nuts until the sauce get a bit thick
  9. Add water and cashew nuts little by little until you get a creamy Sauce
  10. Season with salt and pepper and spread fresh parsley in
  11. Add the fried vegetables and set keep it warm
  12. Cook the Spaghetti
  13. Serve with fresh parsley

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Green Antioxidant Smoothie-Bowl

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Always when I see green Bowls I decided to eat more greens. This delicious Green Antioxidant Smoothie-Bowl is a new start for me to eat more green during the week. My hubby always say he don’t like to eat this “Hulk” bowl because of the color? Hey Man! What’s wrong with that color? Green stays for live, for freshness, for healthiness. I love to look at my bowl and I really get mouthwatering. Because I always mix up sweet fruits and healthy greens my green bowls become a sweet flavor and they are really delicious. You can easily hide greens in every smoothie you drink and you will not taste it when you don’t add too much. But you will get the healthy benefit.

In the spring and summer time it is so easy to get into the garden or wherever you want outside and pick up some dandelion. Enible wild herbs can be used very easily in your smoothie. Enible wild herbs have very special health benefits you don’t find in any other green. Dandelion is great to get B complex vitamins, trace minerals, organic sodium, and even some vitamin D too. We often have Vitamin-D shortage because we are not outside enough to get Vitamin-D from the sun and there are less food ingredients contains Vitamin-D. Dandelion also contains protein, more than spinach. It has been eaten for thousands of years as a food and was used for skin problems, blood disorders and depression. You can use dandelion optional in this bowl if you like to try it out but also eat the bowl without.

Furthermore I add some spinach leaves, because Spinach is one of my favorite greens to add into a smoothie bowl because the taste is not that strong it almost every mixer can mix it. You can use frozen or fresh spinach. Spinach is an excellent source of vitamins like Vitamin-K or Vitamin-A. Vitamin K is very important for maintaining bone health and it is difficult to find vegetables which are richer in vitamin K than spinach.

As you know I love to add superfoods in my smoothie bowls. So I pimp up my smoothie with more green healthiness I use “Detox Blend” from boostyourself. Detox is a powerful superfood blend designed to give your body the perfect combination of nature’s most nourishing, cleansing and potent superfoods. Great for healthy weight loss and rich in essential nutrients and vitamins. This is a super-easy way to supercharge your health. You find the following superfoods in this blend: camu-camu, spirulina, chlorella, wheatgrass and barley grass. High concentrations of living chlorophyll, vitamin C and plant-based protein helping to boost your natural metabolism and to aid weight loss, while cleansing your body of toxins and providing a vast array of vital vitamins, minerals & important antioxidants.

I use dates in all my smoothies as a natural sweetener. Normally 2 are enough to get a sweet taste but you can you use more when you like it more sweet. The banana also gives a natural sweetness. Ripe banana are the really best to add in a smoothie.

Recipe
Green Antioxidant Smoothie-Bowl

Serve 1

250ml almond milk
1 frozen banana
2 dates
some spinach leafs

Optional:
some dandelion leafs
1 tsp Detox Superfood Blend (from boostyourself)

Topping:
Coconut Flakes
Fresh Blueberries
Almond Butter

Preparation:

  1. Place all Smoothie Ingredients in your Blender and mix until smooth
  2. Top with fruits or dried berries and yoghurt.

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Mr. and Mrs. Chickpea Burger

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A healthy chickpea Burger

I love to introduce you two of our absolutely new best friends. Mr. and Mrs. Chickpea Burger! We met each other 4 weeks ago and decided to continue a close relationship for the rest of our life. Both are so delicious, easy to prepare and ready to enjoy a wonderful evening together with friends or your hubby. Both are really sociable comrades.

Vegetarian or vegan Burger are one of the meals we prepare very often. We made our own natural potato fries and can experiment with different sauces and vegetables. Sometimes we bake our own buns and sometimes we buy ready toasties. You can easily use the Toaster to roast them and warm them up! Depends on the time we have. The potato fries are so easy to prepare. I recommend to bake them with peanut oil because of the light peanut flavor. Season with Salt and Pepper – Ready!

Mashed Avocado and Peanut Sauce

Mashed Avocado and Peanut Sauce (I used this one from earthyandy) works very good to this healthy crispy chickpea patties. The peanut sauce was a left-over from my rainbow rice rolls we made. We are really surprised it works so good with this burger. So we decided to save this recipe until the rest of our life. That’s the reason you find it here ;).

The patties are made from chickpeas, tahini and spring onions. The cumin gives the special flavor. Oh, I really love cumin. I could eat it in every meal. For frying I often use coconut oil. Take care you use good high quality organic oil. There are a lot of differences between the different brands.

Mr. and Mrs. Chickpea Burger
 
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Recipe type: Burger
Ingredients
  • 6 patties
  • 800g chickpeas, canned
  • 100g spelt flour
  • 2 tbsp tahini paste
  • 1 organic egg (if you prefer vegan use 1 chia egg)
  • 2 tsp ground cumin
  • 2 tbsp coconut oil
  • 150g natural yoghurt
  • Salt and Pepper
  • 6 spring onions, chopped
  • To serve
  • 6 Toasties or buns
  • salad leaves
  • fried onions
  • 1 Tomatoe
  • red cabbage, chopped
  • spicy peanut sauce
  • I used this one from earthyandy
  • Avocado mash
  • I easily mash 2 Avocado with salt and pepper
  • Potato Fries
  • I cut potatoes and add peanut oil and bake them 15-20 minutes on 200C until they are golden
Instructions
  1. Prepare all ingredients you need for the serving!
  2. Chop the spring onions in small slices
  3. Mix 400g (HALF!) of the chickpeas together with spelt flour, tahini paste, egg, cumin, yoghurt and salt and pepper
  4. Add the chopped spring onions and other half of the chickpeas. Mix carefully. Add flour when the dough is to liquid.
  5. Head up 1 tbsp coconut oil in a pan and fry the patties for about 5 min each side until they are golden. I use my hands to form them immediately I add them to the pan.
  6. Serve on buns or toasties with Avocado Mash, Tomato, Salads, fried onions and peanut sauce. I start with a salad leave.
  7. Enjoy!

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