Smooth the smoothie

Something new in the kitchen peeps!!!!

I passed by lots of juice bars and healthy bars around here. So I had the urge to do it on my own. It is much cheaper too...
A colleague told me about smoothie with Spinach. I looked up on Youtube (yeah so long Google), for spinach and smoothie. Amazingly I found a lot of videos on how to spin the vegies in the blender!

So I have been experimenting on Spinach and different kinds of fruits combo.

For tonight, I tried with these ingredients:
Spinach, Freshly squeezed Orange juice, Banana, Strawberry Yodrink



Here is the result! I like the foam built on top of it.
OK so it does not look that appealing. The green color is something that you have to deal with when you are using green leaves.
But the taste... amazing!!!! It does not have the taste of spinach. From my experience, banana has a strong taste. So basically it tastes the sweet of banana and orange juice. I added the yodrink in order to make the smoothie a bit thicker.
Leave it in the fridge so that it is cold a bit, and then sip it away!!



I don't eat spinach, in fact I hate it.
But I just finished this glass which contains about 100g of raw spinach!
What a great way to get vegies in your body! :D

Kitchen is Open!

Amongst the boxes that I unpack first is the Kitchen boxes. As I opened one box, I saw my electric mixer! I had the sudden urge to bake... One thing I missed is to bake for my former colleagues. I know they will eat the cakes. But what about my new colleagues? Would they enjoy as much as the French?
I made brownies and banana cake this evening. This is the first time I make brownies. It is kinda like a suicide mission!
As I pack those square cut cakes in a plastic container, I was thinking of the what ids. What if they don't like my cake. What if there is other people who can make better cake than I am. What if this is too much and that at the end of the day there are a lot of leftovers. What if.. what if...
Anyway, the cakes are made. So what I could do is to bring them to office. That's about it!
I'll post the pic later.

Something for the V-day

My V-day gift :D

Hibernation

I'm hoping to settle in so that I could start cooking and baking huhuhu...
Although my kitchen in Nancy is small, but I kinda missed it.
I hope to be able to do the moving soon. It's so effing slow here. It is possible that I will be able to re-store my stuff in 2 weeks time.
Be patient my little pots and pans...

Jejemput Pisang

I dunno what is this thing called in english. It is like banana puff or beignet.
Anyway.. all you need ingredients: flour, banana of course, sugar, milk, bit of salt, bit of bicarbonate soda.



Mix all together:


Then deep-fry:

Lunch time! Grilled Salmon

Typical lunch on Sunday afternoon... grilled salmon, grape juice and fruits of the season. Bon app!

Feuilles de Vigne / Olives farcie feta

I've discovered the feuilles de vigne and feta cheese when I was on my first work trip to Sofia, Bulgaria.
Feuilles de vigne literally translated as vine leaves in english.
It is a typical food for those mediterranean countries including eastern europe and Greece. It is usually rolled vine leaves with rice inside it mixed with aneth, lemon juice or some other bit of spices. The feuilles de vigne is best eat with yoghurt sauce. But they are yummy even eating like that.
I bought feuilles de vigne at a market near my house where they also sell different type of olives. My fav is Olives with herbs. But as I like feta cheese as well, so I chose Olives stuffed with feta cheese this time. Feta cheese is a simply goat cheese.
Something that reminds me of the good ol warm Mediterranean weather during the icy cold time at the moment.