Smoked salmon and veggie frittata

It's been a while since I've posted anything. I've been a bit preoccupied with a little man that arrived in the beginning of August. I haven't really had time to make that many new things and the ones that I have made I haven't really had time to post about. Anyway, hopefully I'll have a little bit more time in the future to both cook, bake and post some recipes.

We had some smoked salmon in the fridge and I was thinking about what I could do with it other than have it for breakfast. So I decided to make a frittata for dinner. Result: delicious. Unfortunately I didn't manage to take a picture of it though. Next time :)

Ingredients
serves 3-4
8 eggs
100-150 g smoked salmon, diced
1 small red onion, halved and thinly sliced
½ red capsicum, thinly sliced
1 carrot, thinly sliced
1 boiled potato, sliced
2 tbsp chopped fresh dill
1 tsp garlic powder
1 tsp onion powder
salt and pepper to taste

Preheat oven to 180° Celsius. Sauté onion, capsicum and carrot in butter. Whisk eggs in a large bowl, add the salmon, cooked veggies, garlic powder, onion powder, dill, salt and pepper. Pour the mixture into a oven proof frying pan (or greased glass baking dish) and press down the potato slices. Bake for 20-30 minutes or until middle of frittata is completely cooked through. Serve with a salad and some sour cream.

Paleo muesli

Being pregnant makes you hungry, that's something pretty certain. And I'm especially hungry when I wake up in the morning and I don't always feel like eggs so I decided that muesli would be a good and easy thing to just grab in the morning together with some fruit and almond milk. I found this recipe on Paleo Cupboard. I didn't want it that sweet so I only used half the amount of honey. I think it might've turned out a bit crunchier if I used all the honey but I'm very happy with the result.

Ingredients
240 ml raw almonds
120 ml raw cashews
120 ml raw walnuts
60 ml raw pepitas/pumpkin seeds
60 ml raw sunflower seeds
60 ml unsweetened coconut flakes
60 ml coconut oil
120 ml honey
1 tsp vanilla extract
1 tsp salt
raisins/sultanas

Preheat the oven to 135 degrees Celsius. Place the almonds, cashews, walnuts and coconut flakes in a food processor and pulse a few times to break into smaller chunks. Put in a medium sized bowl together with the seeds.
Heat up the coconut oil, honey and vanilla extract in a pot on low heat  until completely combined. Add this to the seeds, nuts and coconut flakes and stir to coat.
Spread the muesli mixture evenly on a baking tray lined with baking paper and cook for about 20-25 minutes or until lightly browned, stirring once or twice. Remove from heat, add the raisins and sprinkle with salt and mix around a bit. Allow to cool for about 20 minutes or until hardened. Then break apart and keep in a jar with a tight lid.

Banana bread with chia seeds

Got in the mood to bake something easy and delicious yesterday and found this recipe. It turned out that I had all the ingredients at home so I decided to start baking. It turned out extremely well.

Ingredients
makes 1 loaf/serves 12
400 g ripe banana (about 3 bananas)
6 eggs
4-6 fresh pitted dates (depending on size)
1 tsp vanilla bean paste
60 ml coconut oil
½ tsp ground cinnamon
2 tsp baking powder
120 ml coconut flour
60 ml chia seed
2 tbsp protein powder - optional

Preheat your oven to 150 degrees Celsius.
Combine banana, dates, oil, cinnamon, vanilla, eggs and baking powder in a food processor and blend until creamy and combined. Add the coconut flour and chia seeds and mix through.
Rest for about 10 minutes to allow the chia seeds and coconut flour to expand.
Lightly oil one loaf tin and line with baking paper.
Add the batter to the tin. Decorate with some shredded coconut and a sprinkle of cinnamon.
Bake for about 50-55 minutes or until a skewer inserted into the centre will come out dry.

Sweet banana omelette

I haven't been very good with updating lately but we have actually made a few nice dishes in the past months. Last weekend we made this really delicious Paleo butter chicken with Paleo naan. It was extremely good but I forgot to take photos so I'm gonna have to post it next time we make it. Considering how good it was it won't take long before we make it again.

Anyway, previously I've made apple and cinnamon omelette for breakfast but I've found an even better sweet omelette; banana. I know it sounds a bit weird to people to make a sweet omelette but it's actually really good.

Ingredients
makes 1
2 eggs
½ tsp vanilla essence
½ tsp cinnamon
2 tsp coconut or almond milk
a handful almonds or walnuts, roughly chopped
½ banana
coconut oil for frying in

Whisk together eggs, vanilla, cinnamon and your choice of milk. Heat a frying pan and grease with coconut oil. Add your omelette mixture and cook on low heat. While this is cooking you can chop your nuts and mash your banana, then mix them together. Once the omelette is almost cooked on the top, flip it over for just a couple of minutes. Spread your banana and nut mixture to one side of the omelette and fold the other side over. Serve with some extra banana and some maple syrup.

Carrot protein slices

I've made this recipe once before but I never put it up on the blog because the result wasn't that good. This time it turned out so much better. I love these! Perfect as a snack. The recipe is from paleomg.com. I used a slightly bigger dish than the recipe so I got 12 slices but they were much thinner and therefore I only cooked them in the oven for about 25 minutes. I also excluded the raisins because I'm not a huge fan.

Ingredients
makes about 8 slices
2 large carrots, finely shredded
160 ml almond butter
2 eggs
3 tbsp honey
35 grams of whey protein powder (vanilla flavoured or unflavoured)
1 tbsp cinnamon
1 tsp vanilla powder (exclude this if you're using vanilla protein powder)
½ tsp baking powder
pinch of salt
120 ml raisins (optional)

Preheat the oven to 175 degrees Celsius.
Shred the carrots as thin as possible. Add them to a large bowl. Add in the almond butter and eggs and mix well. Then add honey, protein powder, cinnamon, vanilla, baking powder and salt and mix well again. If using raisins, fold them in now. Grease a 20 x 20 cm large baking dish with a bit of coconut oil, pour the cake batter in the dish and place in the oven for about 25-35 minutes (depending on thickness). The top of the cake should have a nice crust to it.
Take it out and let it cool slightly before slicing it up.

Chocolate coffee chia pudding

This is a super easy thing to either have as dessert or for breakfast instead of yoghurt or something like that. It's very easy to make and you can just make it the night before and it'll be all done the next morning. The recipe is from paleomg.com.

Ingredients
serves 2
120 ml brewed coffee, chilled
120 ml coconut milk
1 tbsp almond butter
1 tsp vanilla extract
2 tbsp maple syrup or honey
1 tbsp cocoa powder
60 ml chia seeds

Mix coffee, coconut milk, almond butter, vanilla, sweetener and cocoa powder together in a blender. Place the mixture in a large jar with lid and then add the chia seeds. Mix around with a spoon or put the lid on and shake the jar a couple of times. Place in the fridge for at least 3 hours. Enjoy!

Paleo bread rolls

This is once again a recipe from undervarttak.blogspot.se. I just love their website. Since I'm Swedish it's a perfect place for me to find traditional Swedish things made Paleo. I'm gonna try some day soon to make their ginger bread cookies so that I won't miss Sweden too much over Christmas. Today however, I decided to make these sort of bread rolls which turned out alright. I wish they would've been a bit fluffier but I guess I'll have to work on that.

Ingredients
makes 6
300 ml almond flour
50 ml sunflower seeds
50 ml crushed linseed
1-2 tsp bread spices (I used caraway seeds, fennel seeds and cumin)
2 eggs
50 ml coconut milk
poppy seeds for decoration
coconut oil for the muffins tins

Preheat the oven to 225 degrees Celsius.
Mix all the dry ingredients together in a bowl. Whisk together the eggs and the coconut milk and pour this over the dry ingredients. Mix it all together to a soft and quite runny dough.
Grease six muffin tins with some coconut oil and fill them with the dough. Even them out with a wet spoon. Sprinkle on some poppy seeds on each roll. Bake in the oven for about 10-15 minutes.

Paleo waffles

Since it's a long weekend I decided to make something extra delicious for breakfast today other than the usual eggs and bacon. I got the recipe from Undervarttak.

Ingredients
makes 4-6 waffles
4 eggs
200 ml coconut milk
200 ml almond flour
1 1/3 tbsp psyllium
2 2/3 tbsp coconut oil
2 tsp baking powder
2 pinches salt

Start heating up the waffle iron. Whisk the eggs and coconut milk until fluffy. Melt the coconut oil and add to the egg mixture. In a separate bowl mix together the dry ingredients and whisk these into to the egg mixture.
Once the waffle iron is hot, brush it with some melted coconut oil and pour in enough mixture to cover the surface. Close the lid and cook until golden brown.
We served ours with some fresh fruit or berries, maple syrup and some shredded coconut.

Carrot bread

Ok, I must admit that I do miss bread and although I do have the real thing occasionally I've been searching for a relatively easy Paleo recipe so that I can have it a bit more often. So when I found this recipe on http://undervarttak.blogspot.se/ I was really happy. I was a bit scared when making it since the previous times I've tried to make Paleo versiouns of bread they've turned out really dense and not great tasting. I made this and not only was it really simple to make, it was also really tasty. Wish I could've taken a better photo for you but I'm afraid I'm not the best photographer.

Ingredients
makes about 12 pieces
400 ml almond meal
50 ml coconut flour
5 tbsp psyllium husk
50 ml crushed linseeds
2 tsp baking powder
1 tsp salt
2 tsp 'bread herbs' (I crushed some caraway seeds, fennel seeds and cumin together)
200 ml finely shredded carrot (approximately 2 small carrots)
6 eggs
200 ml water
olive or coconut oil to grease the pan

Preheat the oven to 200 degrees Celsius.
Peel and shred the carrots finely. Mix together the dry ingredients in a bowl. In another bowl, add the eggs and water and whip them together. Pour the egg mixture over the dry ingredients and mix together until it forms a dough. Lightly squeeze the liquid out of the carrots and mix these into the dough. Let the dough sit and expand for about 5 minutes.
Grease and ovenproof pan (approximately 20x30 cm big) with one of the oil.
Add the dough to the pan and push it down with your hand until it's evenly flat.
By using a fork make a dotted pattern in the bread.
Cook the bread in the oven for about 20 minutes and has got a nice light brown colour and your test stick comes out clean. Take the bread out of the oven and let it cool slightly.
Cut the bread into squares, break apart and let it cool completely on a rack.

Carrot, spinach and bacon breakfast hash

Sometimes I feel like our breakfasts don't have enough veggies so I found this recipe on http://taylormadeitpaleo.com and thought it could be nice to make on a Saturday morning with some avocado on the side for some healthy fat. I swapped the sweet potato for carrot since that's what I had at home.

Ingredients

serves 2

4 slices of bacon, diced

2 small carrots, grated

2 big handfuls of spinach

½ onion, finely chopped

4 eggs

salt & pepper to taste

Add bacon to a frying pan greased with coconut oil over medium heat.

After the bacon has cooked for a minute or two, add carrots, spinach, onion, salt, and pepper mixing frequently. When the bacon is almost cooked through, add your eggs and cook to your preference.

Cold Paleo porridge

I'm a person who gets bored quite easily with dishes. I try to come up with new things to have so that I don't have to eat the same thing everyday. Breakfast is one of the more difficult one to come up with and the thing with breakfast is that it can't take too long to make during weekdays. So I found this recipe on http://undervarttak.blogspot.se once again.

Ingredients
serves 2
100 ml almonds
100 ml dessicated coconut
1 tbsp linsseed meal
200 ml coconut milk
100 ml water
1 tsp vanilla powder
100 ml blueberries

Put the almonds in a food processor and chop coarsely. Mix the coconut milk and water in a bowl. Pour in the chopped almonds, coconut, linsseed, vanilla powder and stir.
Pour the mixture in a jar with a lid and put the blue berries on top. Put the lid on and keep in the fridge over night to let it thicken a bit.

Moroccan tomato and bacon baked eggs

It's been a long time since I posted something now. I got a new job so I haven't had that much time to cook a lot of food and we've had a few busy weekends this past month. Now we're getting in to the season when there's a lot of rain and cold weather so there's probably going to be more time for us to cook some new delicious recipes. I tried something new today which is perfect for a rainy weekend morning when you have some extra time to cook breakfast. Found this recipe on eatdrinkpaleo.com.au.

Ingredients

serves 2

4 free range eggs

1 small red chili, chopped

1 medium red capsicum, chopped

1/2 red onion, chopped

1 garlic clove, chopped

2 slices of bacon

1 1/2 tsp Moroccan spice mix (paprika, cumin, coriander seeds, cayenne pepper, oregano etc)

1 cup tomato passata

2 tbs butter

1 tbsp olive oil

Fresh coriander, roughly chopped

1/2 tsp salt

We used a stainless steel small frying pan with a lid to make our baked eggs.

Brown off the bacon in a non-stick frying pan. When bacon is nice and crispy, drain it on a paper towel and dice up.

Saute onion, capsicum and chili in a the stainless steel pan with 2 tablespoons of butter for 3-4 minutes on medium heat. Sprinkle with a pinch of salt and pepper.

Add garlic and spices to the pan and stir through for half a minute. Add bacon and tomatoes, stir and cover with the lid. Cook on low heat for 12-15 minutes, giving it a stir a few times.

Using a spoon, make four wells in the tomato mix and crack an egg into each, letting the egg white spill over the edges. Sprinkle each egg yolk with a little salt and pepper, cover with the lid and cook on low heat until the egg whites settle and firm but the egg yolks stay soft. This took a bit longer than I expected (approx 10-15 minutes) and we still got some raw egg white and the egg yolks were slightly harder than expected. I think we might have to try this recipe more times in order to master it fully.

Try it! It's delicious!

Banana bread no 2

Last time I made banana bread I wasn't actually that fond of the outcome so I found another recipe. I had some very ripe bananas that I needed to get rid of so I thought today was the day to try out the new recipe. I found the recipe on: http://www.crossfitvitality.com. I'm much happier with the outcome of this one, it's delicious!

Ingredients
makes 1 loaf
3 ripe bananas
3 eggs
1 tbsp vanilla
1 tbsp honey
60 ml coconut oil
480 ml almond flour
¼ tsp salt
1 tsp baking soda
1 tsp cinnamon
handful walnuts, roughly chopped

Preheat the oven to 175 degrees.
Mix bananas, eggs, vanilla, honey and coconut oil together in a food processor. Mix in flour, salt, baking soda and cinnamon. Lastly add in the walnuts and mix around a little bit. Place the batter in a greased loaf pan and bake in the oven for about 30 minutes.

Nut, banana and coffee smoothie

So I had some almond milk at home and I have just come back from a nice walk. I decided I needed some energy so I came up with this recipe of an energy smoothie.

Ingredients
serves 1-2
1 frozen banana
1 tbsp nut butter (I used a mix of Brazil nuts, almonds and cashews)
1 small espresso shot
1 tbsp chia seeds
1 tsp vanilla extract
250 ml unsweetened almond milk

Put it all in a blender and mix until smooth.

Really good banana pancakes

I was amazed by how good theses pancakes where when they only contain 2 ingredients (in the original recipe). I added two more ingredients for some extra flavour and texture.

Ingredients
makes approx 20 small pancakes
2 ripe bananas
4 eggs
3 tbsp shredded coconut
½ tsp vanilla

Cut the bananas in pieces and mix to a purée in a food processor. Add the eggs, coconut and vanilla and mix to a batter. Heat a frying pan and fry the pancakes in some coconut oil on medium heat. Enjoy with some fruits or your choice of topping.

Breakfast bake

I wanted to try something else to have for breakfast other than the usual eggs and bacon or pancakes. So I found this recipe which we decided to try; Paleo Breakfast Bake. I put a little bit of whatever I had at home in it.

Ingredients
serves 3-4
6 eggs
3 beef sausages
3 slices bacon
1 onion
½ capsicum
1 tsp paprika powder
½ tsp garlic powder
½ tsp turmeric
salt and pepper to taste

Preheat the oven to 180 degrees.
Fry off the sausages and the bacon for a couple of minutes. Let them cool.
Put all ingredients in a bowl (including the sausages and bacon) and fold gently to combine everything.
Pour into a greased oven-proof dish.
Bake for 45 minutes.

Banana pancakes

We had a lot of bananas that started to become uneatable so I decided to prepare tomorrow's breakfast today already. I made a batch of banana pancakes that I can just heat up again in the morning tomorrow. Perfect.
The batter is kind of difficult to handle so I recommend that you fry very small pancakes; maybe 5 cm in diameter otherwise they are quite difficult to turn without breaking.

Ingredients
serves 2 people
4 ripe bananas
2 eggs
4 tbsp almond butter
100 ml almond flour
100 shredded coconut

Mash the banana and add the eggs. Mix together well. Add the almond butter and make sure that mixes in properly. Stir in the almond flour and coconut until everything is thouroghly mixed together. Fry little pancakes on both sides in some butter on medium heat.

Banana bread

I've been wanting to make banana bread for a while now because it seems like one of those things that would be good to keep in the freezer and just take out every now and again. I found the recipe in the Paleo Recipe book.

Ingredients
3 ripe bananas
240 ml almond butter
240 ml almond flour
2 eggs
1 tsp baking soda
1 tsp baking powder

Preheat the oven to 175 degrees.
Mash the bananas with a fork in a bowl. Add the almond butter, almond flour and eggs. Mix together. Add the baking soda and baking powder and make sure it's thouroughly mixed in. Fill a greased loaf pan with the batter and bake in the oven for about 40 minutes.

Berry omelette

I think most people have this idea that omelettes should be savoury but it doesn't have to be like that. This morning I made a sweet omelette for breakfast and it was really tasty. Try it! It's quick and easy to make. I used frozen berries but it would probably be even better with fresh ones.

Ingredients
(serves 1)
3 eggs
a splash of vanilla essence
1 small handful raspberries
1 small handful blackberries
1 small hanful blueberries

Whish the eggs together with a fork. Add the vanilla essence and mix it all together. Fry the eggs on low heat in a pan greased with some butter. Fry the omelette until it is almost set on the top. Then flip it and add the berries on one half of the omelette. Fry for a couple of more minutes then fold in half and serve.

Best paleo pancakes yet

I've made quite a few batches of pancakes lately because I think it's a really nice weekend breakfast. These ones are defintiely the best ones so far and they are also paleo. I found the recipe on 321paleo blog.

Ingredients
(makes about 10, with about 8 cm diameter)
3 eggs
1/3 cup coconut milk
1 banana
½ tbsp vanilla
½ tsp baking soda
½ cup coconut flour
coconut oil for frying

Mix all the wet ingredients first. Then sift in the coconut flour since it usually lumps really easily and also the baking soda. Mix it all together and fry on low heat in a frying pan greased with coconut oil or butter. Serve with fresh berries or whatever else you prefer.