SO WHAT EXACTLY IS THIS?

Olla peeps,

Trust you're over the valentine weekend and all its attendant brouhaha😃😃. 

It's amazing the frenzy that proceeds this "love" day. Phew! Personally it goes beyond flowers, chocolates and dinner. If you don't show love up to that point one day is not going to make a ripple in the ocean shikena!

Anywho #movingon 😃 I have done a bit in the last few weeks but haven't updated the blog so today I give you my beautiful meal of steMwd yams and a cheese omelette with an anti inflammatory ginger pineapple smoothie from preventdisease.com which I found on Pinterest posted by simple pure beauty.

I don't boil my starches in water anymore and by starches I mean potatoes sweet and Irish, yams including cocoyams and plantains. I simply was them properly and slice them almost thinly and place in a bamboo steamer over simmering water for about 15-20minutes and voila! My stach is ready and absolutely yummy. Sometimes I sprinkle with salt sometimes not.

My eggs had red ata rodo(scotch bonnet), 

onions, 

garlic, 

tomatoes, 

parsley, 

spring onions, 

cheddar cheese, 

salt and 

a bit of dry yellow pepper. 

I sautéed the onions, garlic and pepper in a combination of unsalted butter and coconut oil, added the salt and pepper after about 3minutes, stirred then poured in the whisked eggs and the cheese..

I normally stir all the ingredients in the pan once and then leave to cook. Most times I try to flip the egg over and it's not much of a pretty sight so I end up folding.

The smoothie had

2 cups Pineapple 

1 cup mango

1 piece of Ginger

1/2 a cup of celery stalk and leaves

Just under 1 cup of water 

1tsp of vanilla extract

All poured in a blender and blended till smooth.

It was truly refreshing. 

Bonus Smoothie

11/2 bananas 

Half a beetroot 

About half a mango

1/4 of an avocado

1" of ginger 

Enough freshly squeezed orange juice to blend. 

Enjoy a fruitful flourishing week. 😘😘

WHAT TO DO ABOUT BREAD!

So y'all know how I loooooooove bread abi? So I've come to the conclusion that until I can do without it I will find healthier ways to eat it when I get the cravings hence my salad sandwich😃😃😃

You also know by now that my salads consist of everything and the kitchen sink 😂😂😂.

So this is a partnership my tummy was bound to enjoy.

Pictures will do most of my writing today (albeit only 2 but hey) but let me list the ingredients😃

I bought bromate free bread from a supermarket on the island.

4 slices of pan toasted bread

Grated cheddar cheese

Lettuce

Cabbage

Tomatoes 

Dill

Parsley 

Carrots

Homemade peanut butter 

Kerrygold butter(it's from grass fed cows)

Hard boiled egg or eggs

Spring onions

Feel free to build your salad anyway you would prefer and let me know how it turns out. 

Enjoy eating healthier 😃😃😃

GREENPASTA😃😃😃

Olla peeps,

Trust y'all are fantastic. So January has gone into the history books and we all get a fresh start with February abi? Let's all make it count as life as we know it can be gone in an instant. 

Ok on to food💃💃💃💃💃. Hunger as usual propels me to cook and the quicker it's ready the faster I can eat it all up yum yum yum.

So I had spinach tagliatelle pasta and boneless chicken breast perhaps one pot cooking coming up abi? Tee hee hee.

With pasta one can't really do one pot as the pasta will definitely turn to mush. So I cut up chicken in to cubes, seasoned with turmeric, sweet basil, mint, dry yellow paper and pink Himalayan salt. I let that sit for a bit while I roughly chop up peppers(tatashe), tomatoes, onions, garlic, ginger and scotch bonnets( ata rodo) in a small food processor. 

I put on water to boil for the pasta and salt it just as it comes up to a boil, place the pasta in the boiling water for 3minutes(use a timer o no guessing here o ehen). Drain immediately and set aside.

I used a bit of coconut oil and butter( butter is good for you that's my story and I'm sticking with it!) to kind of brown the chicken cubes for about 3-5 minutes as I wanted them juicy not dry.

Took out the chicken cubes and set aside and poured my pepper mix into the butter and coconut oil mix and cooked for 15-20minutes.

Taste for readiness and then toss your pasta in the sauce for just over a minute. Turn of your burner and serve. 

I garnished with hard boiled eggs. Aside from the Very spicy peppery nature of this particular dish( I love pepper but I didn't quite mean it like that😃😃🙈) it was quite yummy. I had the left overs the following day with cheddar cheese and leeks(no photo as I didn't like how it looked warmed up, it tastes awesome sha. 😃😃😃

Write you soon😘