Tuesday, December 21, 2010

Pumpkin-carrot-potato soup


For to 6 servings you need:

  • Pumpkin meat - 1 kg
  • 3 Carrots
  • 3-4 Potatoes
  • Pepper to taste
  • 1 teaspoon of paprika
  • 1 teaspoon of nutmeg
  • 200 ml of soy cream (can be replaced with a liquid low-fat cream)

How to prepare:
Peel and chop vegetables.
Boil them in water until tender.
Pass through a blender until puree.
Add soy cream, pepper, paprika and nutmeg. Mix well.

Done! Bon Appétit!

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Diet chocolate mousse

Sometimes during your diet you are crazy about some sweets, especially chocolate. In this case, you can manage with one wonderful dessert, healthy and very tasty. Why is it healthy?
To prepare the mousse, we need:

  • 1 ripe of avocado fruit
  • 1 / 4 cup (85 g) of honey (in the original is maple syrup)
  • 1 tbsp of small brown sugar (we do not put)
  • 1 tsp vanilla extract (we had a vanilla sugar)
  • 1 / 2 tsp balsamic vinegar (ideally, if it is sustained)
  • 1 / 4 tsp soy sauce
  • 1 / 2 cup natural cocoa powder


Clean avocado (required ripe), cut and put it in a blender, add some honey, sugar, vanilla extract, balsamic and soy sauce, make a puree. Add cocoa powder and mix all thoroughly with blender once again.
Balsamic vinegar and soy sauce give a faint spicy fragrance to this dish. But be careful not to overdo it with these ingredients. But honey, sugar and cocoa do not regret, so add them as you like.

Serve this dessert with fresh berries and mint.

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Monday, December 20, 2010

Rice with yellow zucchini

This is a very simple recipe from whole-grain rice with zucchini.


For 4-6 servings you need:
  • 2 large zucchini (I used yellow zucchini)
  • lemon juice and zest (one lemon)
  • 3 tsp of olive oil
  • 1 tsp of turmeric
  • 1 L chicken or vegetable broth
  • 100-150 grams of brown rice or replace it with basmati rice

What to do:

Cut the squash into small cubes. Fry in a pan with olive oil.
Add lemon zest to squash. Mix it and cook on medium heat for 5 minutes.

Then add turmeric powder, broth, lemon juice and rice. Cook without closing the lid for 10-20 minutes, checking for the readiness of rice. The dish is ready, after the rice is cooked.
Bon Appétit!

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Sunday, December 19, 2010

Vegetable casserole with pumpkin

Here we can change the ingredients :^)

Ingredients:

  • 4 eggs
  • 2 tablespoons of olive oil
  • 1 cup of flour with baking powder
  • 1 cup of shredded cheese, to your taste
  • 1 small zucchini, grated and squeezed lightly
  • a few feathers of green onions
  • 300 g of pumpkin, cutted into small cubes
  • 100-150 grams of mushrooms (champignons), we had oyster
  • a little chopped salad
  • salt and pepper to taste


Quote cooking method:
Lightly blend eggs with butter. Combine grated and squeezed zucchini, sliced squash, sliced mushrooms, sliced green onions and parsley in a separate bowl. Add the grated cheese, flour and salt and pepper to taste. Mix it. Add the egg mixture, mix it quickly again.
Put it all into a greased baking dish with high bumpers (you can also sprinkle the form with breadcrumbs).
Bake in a preheated 190 ° oven for 40-45 minutes until golden brown.
Allow to cool for 10-15 minutes. Served pudding can be hot or cold.

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Saturday, December 18, 2010

grapefruit salad


Need for 2 servings:
- Grapefruit, 1 piece
- Avocado, 1 piece
- Cucumbers, 2 pcs medium size
- Red onion, 1 clove
- Leaf lettuce, 1 bunch
- Parsley, 1 bunch
- Pine nuts, 2 handfuls



For the filling:
- 1 tablespoon of olive oil,
- 1-2 tsp of lemon juice,
- 1 / 2 tsp of honey,
- Salt and pepper to taste
So:
- Clear the avocado from the skin and the bones; cut it into large wedges
- Cut the cucumber into large slices
- Cut the onion in half rings or quarters
- Clear the grapefruit from the peel, do it with each slice of peel; break into large chunks
- Cut large lettuce leaves and parsley; mix all ingredients including pine nuts

- For filling: Mix a little olive oil, lemon juice, salt, honey and black pepper.
- Fill before serving.

Bon Appétit!

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Friday, December 17, 2010

Potato salad with asparagus


Ingredients for 4 servings:
600 g of potatoes (can take an ordinary potatoes, not just purple)
1 bunch asparagus
100 g sour cream (can replace a sour cream with mayonnaise)
a couple of green onions
1 tbsp lemon juice
1 tsp grated lemon zest
Salt and pepper
1 clove of garlic
1 tsp mild grainy mustard

Vegetarian pizza



Dough:

Basis for pizza (frozen) is sold in supermarkets. Or DIY: link is here.








Filling:
  • Mushrooms 100g
  • 1 large onion
  • Tomatoes 4 pc. medium-sized
  • Sweet pepper 3 pc. medium-sized
  • 2 tablespoons of mayonnaise
  • 50g. of cheese
  • Spices: Turmeric, Curry, hop-suneli, salt, black pepper
  • Parsley
  • Dill


What to do:
A halve of sliced mushroom fry in sunflower oil. Cut onions, tomatoes and peppers into rings. Prepare the ground for a pizza (thaw if necessary). Lubricate well the upper side of the foundation with sunflower oil; put a sliced tomato on top. Put layers of mushrooms, onions and sprinkle with spices partly. Once again pave a layer with pepper and tomato, and then pour mayonnaise, sprinkle with grated cheese. Sprinkle with spices.
Put in preheated oven (temperature of 200-220 C) for 30-40 minutes on low heat.

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Monday, December 13, 2010

Broccoli puree soup

You’ll need
for serves 4

400 gram of broccoli
4.3 potatoes
1 onion
a couple sprigs of parsley
500 ml vegetable broth
salt pepper to taste
nutmeg pinch (optional)

Boil the chopped pieces of broccoli and potatoes in the broth (one welded rosettes broccoli can wait for the scenery). Finely chopped and fried in butter onion add to soup. When the vegetables are ready, make a puree with blender. If necessary, further dilute the hot broth to the density of the liquid cream. Serve it sprinkled with parsley or finely chopped broccoli.

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Saturday, December 11, 2010

12 general guidelines for healthy eating

The way you eat, even more important than what you eat.

Even the foods that commonly cause an energy imbalance can be perfectly assimilated by the body, if you follow the rules set forth below.

Similarly, if you eat the right foods the wrong way, then your digestion will be in jeopardy, and it will cause flatulence in the intestine and the formation of toxins.

If you follow these rules and to select the right products, your digestion is normal.

Below is a sort of list for verification, which should be regularly re-read, especially when you are in the beginning of the road to recovery through a healthy diet.
If you follow these rules and to select the right products, your digestion is normal.
Below is a sort of list for verification, which should be regularly re-read, especially when you are in the beginning of the road to recovery through a healthy diet.


Friday, December 10, 2010

Spices: tasty and healthy

Charlemagne became famous by the fact that he did much to promote and implement all kinds of useful plants, including spices. When asked: "And what spices?" - He replied: "The doctor’s friends and praise to the cook."



Spice plants are good not only because they give the dish a unique flavor, but, as the scientists said: "Spices contain vitamins and enzymes, mineral salts, organic acids, volatile, and many physiologically active substances that have a variety of therapeutic and prophylactic effect on the organism healthy and sick person. They treat the body, possessing antiseptic and antibiotic properties, beneficial effect on metabolism and activity of the nervous and cardiovascular systems.

Some spices help the digestive system, others - strengthen the immune system and increase the resistance of the nervous system to stress and significant mental stress. Others help you to cope with colds.

 It remains only to admire the infinite wisdom of our Mother Nature, which gave us such a variety of spices that will not only decorate our dishes, making them more fragrant and tasty, but give us health.

Thursday, December 9, 2010

pizza dough

Often my brother and I tried to cook the dough for this recipe. In my opinion, this is the best recipe for pizza dough! In addition, the filling could provide everything that will be able to find in the fridge - from cheese and vegetables to mushrooms, olives, canned and sauces. We very much recommend it! Quickly and easily.
So
Ingredients are:

250 ml warm water
25 g of fresh yeasts
0.5 tsp. of sugar
1 teaspoon of salt
2 tbsp. tablespoons of olive oil
350 g. of flour

In warm water breed yeast and dissolve the sugar. Leave for 10 minutes.
In a separate bowl, combine flour and salt.
Add water to flour with yeast and olive oil, stir smooth dough. We cover it and put it in a warm place to rise. Coming up the dough properly settle down.

It is ready for pizza!