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There's always opportunity to learn in the kitchen. Despite loving to experiment with all sorts of unusual and exciting ingredients, can you believe that I'd never actually poached an egg before today? I think that's probably because I didn't grow up eating poached eggs; if we had egg, it tended to be boiled egg and soldiers 🥚🍞 A couple of weeks before Christmas I met up with my dear friend @florilegia in Cardiff. We'd both been unwell with various afflictions, and were looking for something gentle to eat for lunch. She introduced me to eggs florentine, and since then I've been intending to recreate my own version of it.
Thanks to @jamieoliver 's brilliant #foodtube I instantly found a video on how to make the best poached eggs, and although mine need a bit more work, they tasted delicious on my @lidlgb rye bread toast with smashed avocado and golden blush cherry tomatoes ❤🍒🍎 Just a little simple lunch inspiration for the new year 😊
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Have you seen my little story for this super healthy and delicious lunch? It's unbelievably simple, and absolutely rammed with goodness, and it takes the amount of time to toast a couple of pieces of rye bread plus one minute to put together 💗💚💗 It also combines some really great flavours, including fennel seeds, which pack an unusual yet harmonious punch with the other ingredients. If you're not a fish eater, may I recommend mackerel if you want to add it to your diet but aren't sure how. Mackerel is a very mild fish, with a texture almost comparable with chicken. It doesn't have a fishy taste, and is actually very pleasant to eat 😊 Alinflg with the other ingredients in this recipe, the fish certainly doesn't stand out as one of the strongest by any means.
Here's the recipe 👇😄 Ingredients
2 slices rye bread
Half an avocado
Half a tin of mackerel fillets
Half a pomegranate
1 tbsp olive oil
1 tbsp red wine vinegar
2 tsp fennel seeds

Toast the rye bread to your preference.
Meanwhile, remove the seeds from the pomegranate into a medium-sized bowl and add the olive oil, red wine vinegar, and fennel seeds. Mix together.
Butter the toasted rye bread, then cut the avocado half into halves, and mash one half onto each toast. Divide the mackerel between the slices, and top with the pomegranate mixture.

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I just posted the recipe for this yummy fridge soup in my stories 😄 I love making soup from whatever I have lingering around in the veg drawer. Without fail, every soup will taste slightly different, even if the recipe is pretty similar each time, since I often have similar veggies leftover. But many people lack the confidence to experiment like this; to just look in their fridge or store cupboard and come up with something tasty making use of what they have. If that's you, I've put the recipe for this on my highlights, under Fridge Soup. It tells you not only how I made this version in particular, but how you can adapt the recipe (which, tbf, can barely be called a recipe) to make use of what you have, and enjoy yourself in the process. Good luck 😊
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Well, last week was a productive, throwing myself back into things kind of week. This week has started far more slowly, with things to deal with and less time. This recipe is a breakfast I made a week or so ago and have been meaning to share since then, and not having anything I made today to post, I thought it was the perfect opportunity 😋
It's a baked porridge recipe, and I think it's one of my favourites! All the ingredients are simply delicious together, and you can easily adjust the amounts to fit the number of people you are feeding. This amount feeds one adult and one smallish child, giving the adult about 60% and the child 40%. If you are an adult with a smaller appetite (unlike me...) you could serve this to two of you. Enjoy 😄

Ingredients
100g jumbo rolled oats
1 tbsp dessiccated coconut, plus extra to sprinkle
1 tbsp almond butter
Oat milk (or other non-dairy milk)
1 tbsp honey
Couple of handfuls blueberries
5 medjool dates, pitted and roughly chopped
Handful of whole almonds, sliced lengthways, or flaked almonds

Put the oven on at fan 200°C.
Measure the oats into a large bowl and add the coconut. Add the blueberries and dates and mix in, then pour over the oat milk until about 1/2 cm over the mixture. Add the honey and almond butter and stir in well.
Scatter the almonds over the surface, followed by the extra dessiccated coconut.
Place in the oven and bake for 30 minutes until the top is golden and the blueberries are bubbling. When you serve, make sure you scrape dow the sides so you don't miss out on the delicious crispy side bits 😋😄😂 #breakfastoutsidethebox #breakfast #breakfastbowl #breakfastrecipe #yourbreakfast #porridge #oats #bakedporridge #baking #cookingforsanity #nutrition #nutritious #healthystart #energyfood #healthylifestyle #plantbased #wholefood #wholefoods #eatrealfood #youarewhatyoueat #eatwell #dates #medjooldates #learntocook #easyrecipe #vibrantfood #nutrients #homecooking #foodblogger

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The last few days I've been going through my lists of recipes, trying to decide which one to publish next. Considering the horrendous weather we're having at the moment this recipe may not entirely chime with the season... but perhaps it will bring a burst of springtime sunshine into your day 😄🌄🌞💐
This really delicious and super healthy light meal is totally plant-based, colourful, smooth, crunchy, sharp, and soft! It's called Sesame Tofu with Orangey-soy Dressing, and is now up on the website. If you've never eaten or cooked with tofu before, this is an ideal recipe to get you started. The tofu is simply sliced, dipped in egg then sesame seeds, and fried until golden. It's a fab introduction to a very adaptable ingredient 😊 It also makes use of black sesame seeds, which are as delicious as white, but look so striking. If you can't find them, though, feel free to use all white.
The recipe is up on the website and the link's in my bio 😋
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I *love* soup! I love looking in my fridge to see what exciting ingredients I can throw into it, and most of all, I LOVE baking fresh bread or rolls to dip into it 😋 But sometimes bread *isn't* what you want to dip into your soup (rarely is this the case, I hasten to add 😂). Sometimes you desire a steaming bowl of soup, especially if the weather's cold and autumnal like today, but you know bread isn't what your stomach wants, and you want to add some extra nutritious ingredients in the form of toppings.
Now, I have never, before today, topped my soup with baked kale, but I happened upon two tupperwares of soup in the freezer in the late morning, and decided to defrost them super quickly (by placing them in a sink full of hot water) so my husband and I could have them for lunch. What I did *not* want to accompany them, however, was bread! I had a little think, and decided to quickly toast some sunflower seeds and pine nuts in a dry frying pan until golden, and to bake a load of kale, tossed in olive oil, turmeric, nigella seeds, and smoked paprika, to throw on top with a drizzle of rapeseed oil. Oh WOW! It was delicious!!! I can't actually remember what ingredients made up the base of the soup, though no doubt it was some sort of root veggie, but the kale and toasted seeds were perfect complements, both to each other and to the soup.
So next time you're thinking of what to top your soup with, raid the fridge and think outside the box as to what might complement and enhance your bowl. Do you already have a favourite alternative accompaniment for soup? I'd love to know what it is; I'm all for thinking creatively about how to combine our everyday foods 😊😄
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I had a hard time choosing a photo for this recipe, out of the approximately 20 I took; it's never easy to make brown look appetizing, even if it does involve chocolate! This combination of chocolate and pear, though, is a winner every time, and the fact that every ingredient in this lip-smackingly delicious porridge bowl is crammed with nutrients just makes it even more appealing 😄
Here's the recipe if you want to make your own 👇, and check out my stories to see it looking more appealing! 😂

Ingredients
45g jumbo rolled oats
1 pear
1 dessert spoon dessiccated coconut
2 dessert spoons raw cacao
1 dessert spoon honey
Splash of coconut milk
Handful of dark chocolate covered sunflower seeds
Dollop of almond butter
Knob of butter

Place the oats in a saucepan and cover with water by about 1" above the oats. Bring to the boil then turn down to a simmer. Simmer, stirring frequently, for around five minutes, until the oats have started to become nice and gloopy, then splash in the coconut milk. Continue to stir until it reaches the desired texture. Add the honey and raw cacao, then stir in well until lovely and chocolatey.
Meanwhile, place a small frying pan on a medium high heat and add the butter. Halve the pear and remove the seeds, then place each half cut-side-down in the butter and fry until golden. Turn over and fry the rounded side too.
Serve the porridge into a large bowl and place the pear on top. Dollop on the almond butter, then scatter the dessiccated coconut and sunflower seeds across the surface.
Gobble up immediately 😋

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The loveliest, most flavoursome and nourishing of lunches 💚 Hoping I'm finally ready to spring back into creating delicious recipes for you to salivate over, be inspired by, and recreate or adapt in your own kitchens!
I threw this together for my lunch today, knowing I really needed to pull myself together and fill myself with some beneficial nutrients, so I used a base of spinach, then had a rummage in the fridge to see what delights I could add. Here's what I came up with.... Ingredients
Few handfuls of spinach, washed and sliced
About 7 radishes, very thinly sliced
Half an avocado, peeled and sliced
Few handfuls piccolo tomatoes, halved
Handful of dried sun-dried tomatoes
1 tbsp olive oil
1 tbsp raw organic apple cider vinegar
1 tsp turmeric
1 tsp nigella seeds
1 tsp honey

Place the sliced radishes in a small bowl and add the olive oil, cider vinegar, turmeric, nigella seeds, and honey. Stir together and set aside.
Place the washed, sliced spinach in a pasta bowl. Arrange the sliced avocado on top, with the two types of tomato.
Drizzle over the dressing.
ENJOY! 😋

Seriously, this is one of the simplest lunches you could make, but the flavours are incredible! Turmeric is one of my favourites, but I added the nigella seeds on a whim and it was the perfect pairing 😊 I feel absolutely satisfied after eating this, and it would transfer perfectly into a lunchbox for taking to work 😄

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Trying to find somewhere with sufficient natural light this morning 🙈 to photograph this delicious breakfast bowl. It's simply frozen banana, pear, and blackberries, a generous handful of oats, and a teaspoon of honey, all blitzed to an ice-cream consistency in the food processor. The blackberries were from the field behind our house and had been in the freezer since we collected them when they first came into season, so it was good to use them up. I topped it with toasted buckwheat, cacao nibs, and a dollop of almond butter 😋
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MINT CHOC CHIP OVERNIGHT OATS!!! I've never been the biggest fan of ice cream, but when I was little, mint choc chip was my flavour of choice 😄 Nowadays I love to recreate the flavours I used to enjoy, in a new and healthier context. The other night I was thinking about making some sort of chocolatey oats, and remembered I had a lot of fresh mint I needed to use up, and out of nowhere the idea of mint choc chip overnight oats popped into my head. I included chopped up cacao beans (or cacao nibs) for the choc chip element, and I have to say that soaking them overnight in the mixture really created that slightly soft but still crunchy texture encapsulated by the ice cream we all know and love.
So here's my version, oats instead of ice-cream, but I feel a nice-cream flavour might be coming on...🤔😄💚 Ingredients
45g jumbo rolled oats
1 tbsp desiccated coconut
1 tbsp raw cacao
Handful of cacao nibs or chopped cacao beans
Oat milk
Large handful of fresh mint leaves
About 16 frozen raspberries
1-2 tsp honey
Dollop of almond butter
Dark chocolate covered sunflower seeds
Method
Set aside a few of the mint leaves, then finely chop the remainder.
Measure the oats into a lidded jar then add the coconut, raw cacao, chopped mint leaves, and about nine of the raspberries, making sure to keep the rest in the freezer. Mix together, then top up with oat milk to about 1cm above the mixture. Add the honey then mix it all together. Pop the lid on and refrigerate overnight.
In the morning, dollop on some almond butter, then place the remaining raspberries on top, finely chop the remaining mint leaves and sprinkle those on, then scatter over the dark chocolate sunflower seeds.
Incredible!!! 😄😋❤
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