Main course

Quiche with corn flour

Sep 9, 2015 | Posted by in Main course | 0

Ingredients: For the Polenta: Cornmeal: 200 gr Water:  600ml For the sauce: Carrot: 1 pc Onion: 1 pc Garlic: 4 cloves Mushrooms: 100gr Cellery: 50gr Zucchini: half of a medium sized pc Red bell pepper: half of a medium sized pc Topping: Chilli tomato sauce Eggplant: 4 thin circular slices Cherry tomatoes: 1 pc Preparation: I decided to experiment a bit this time, but not too much because during a busy weekday none has time for that. I wanted to cook something warm and filling because when cold strikes I just long for a “wintery” dish. Preparing the sauce: Cut all ingredients upfront. I cut the onions in a medium size because I want them to be quite visible. I perform the same with the mushrooms, garlic, and cellery. I cut the carrot in long 4-edged shaped thin stripes using the pealer. I cut the zucchini and the bell pepper in a stripe shape too. In a non sticking pan I warm up a bit of water with spices (of your choice) and add the veggies one by one, starting from onion and garlic and the order of the rest does not matter too much. I cook them in a…Read more …

Oil-Free French Fries

Jul 15, 2015 | Posted by in Main course, Snacks | 0

Whaaaat? Healthy french fries? Does such a thing exist? Of course it does. I was surprised too when I first got introduced to this simply made dish due to my background: – french fries are a No No No food – .  Today all the parts of the puzzle make sense to me. The main struggle with getting pounds easily or manifesting several serious diseases, is not sugar, but the processed sugar combined with fat (let it be saturated or unsaturated.) All we do is following the short cut and blaming potatoes, flour, pasta, right away, without stopping for a while and paying a deeper thought to the phenomenon. We are frying those little potato babies in a huge amount of oil; we tend to overfill the flour with butter when cooking and we forget to check that in most of the cases the topping sauces of our pasta or rice are fatter and perhaps higher in calories compared to the pasta or rice portion themselves. Not to mention the food industry who made an excellent job in fooling us with the ‘sugar’ argument. The general trend states that sugar is the enemy and that healthy denotes eating everything but…Read more …

Cornmeal Pizza

Jul 7, 2015 | Posted by in Main course, Starter | 0

Vegan Cornflour Pizza is what I had for dinner and it tasted like heaven. All it requires are the healthy hormone-free and oil-free ingredients and loads of love. Ingredients: Polenta My drag&drop oil free sauce Cellery leaves Cashews Mix it all together and bake for 20 minutes in 180 degrees. It is a clean vegan food from which you can eat as much as your body wants and it is packed in nutrients. Make yourself a favor, keep an eye on your food! 😉

Cornmeal Porridge

Jul 2, 2015 | Posted by in Main course | 0

A satiating, yet healthy, no-guilt vegan dish I feel the responsibility to make it clear up front. Beware, this is basically a drag and drop cooking process… you can’t find any easier to make – yet tasty – recipe 😀 1. Ingredients 150 gr cornmeal 600 ml water A bit of salt (approx. 1 tbs) Spices of choice. Mine (black and red pepper, garlic, thymian, basil) Some tabasco drops (if you want it spicier) 2. Preparation In a medium heat bring the water (almost) to a boil but make sure to pour the salt and the spices after the water is heated up and slightly before it starts to boil. Pour the cornmeal in the pot with the (almost) boling water and stir continuosly to thicken the content and to avoid a granulitic texture. At this point, lower the heat and continue cooking the content for 10-15 minutes. Stir from time to time to make it a consistent texture. 3. Tips-Top(ing)s and side dishes I used to eat it for breakfast – Yes! you read it right! – and I got addicted. I could have the exact same breakfast, every day, in a row, for a month. The reason is…Read more …