Food, Glorious Food

I've whipped up some amazing dishes as of late, all super easy as I'm super lazy so I thought I'd share a few with you..

Firstly;

 Beetroot, Feta & Quinoa Salad

This was so incredibly good. All you need is some fresh beetroot, quinoa, feta, red wine vinegar, and olive oil, and all you do is roast up the cubed beetroot at 180 for 35 mins & cook the quinoa as per instructions. Mix those together. Then you mix 2 tablespoons of red wine vinegar with 3 tablespoons of olive oil & toss that through the quinoa & beetroot. Crumble over some feta and you're done! I made a big tub and in this instance threw in some prawns, spinach and avo and squeezed some lemon over it all, I repeat- really freakin good. 

Caprese Salad;

This salad is literally 3 ingredients & is a classic summer Italian dish. Normally, the 3 ingredients are Basil, Tomatoes & Buffalo Mozzarella, alas- I substitute the basil for rocket & spinach as I was served it like that in a cafe a few months ago & loved it. So there's no need for a recipe here you just toss together those 3 ingredient, drizzle some olive oil or balsamic if you wish and you're away! **Buffalo Mozz can be hard to find but normally an Italian deli will have it, I just buy a ball and chop it up that way.

Now I know what you're thinking- this looks super healthy and I'm constantly stating I'm anything but at the mo. Well the next couple of recipes aren't so easy on the waistline;

Homemade Choc Frappe;

Last week I had the biggest urge for a Starbucks choc frappe but turns out Perth doesn't have any Starbucks (????) so that kind of burst my bubble. Then I realised they're probably not that hard to make, so I googled a few recipes & got a general idea, went to the supermarket & picked up; choc syrup, milk & choc chips. I blended up about 15 cubes of ice with half a cup of milk, 5 or so big squirts of syrup & a handful of choc chips and voila! I had successfully pulled it off. It was pretty amazing too, so amazing infact that I slurped it back before getting a pic.. Oops. 

Mac n Cheese

My personal fav for the week!! I said last week I was going to attempt my first lasagne, well I didn't end up doing it as Oli wasn't going to be home that night & I couldn't be bothered making such a huge meal for myself, so this was the substitute. And I'm so glad I tried it, cheese heaven. I followed this recipe;

 http://www.kitchentreaty.com/the-best-macaroni-cheese-ever/

And this was what it turned out like;

As I said in my last post: this is batch number two this week. Incredible. Try it! 

Lastly, I made a green smoothie last night with so many ingredients that I didn't know how it was gonna turn out, but it turned out to be my fav yet. I think it must be the pear as I've never used pear in a smoothie before.. 

The Best Green Smoothie;

Handful of ice

Handful of spinach 

Cup of water

1 banana 

2 kiwis 

1 pear 

4-5 strawbs 

Some cucumber

1 tsp chia seeds 

Blended up to perfection. Tasty! 

Last week I bought some kale for the first time just to give it a jam, mix up the ol' spinach smoothies and what not. It smelt like cat piss. Literally like cat piss. I washed it but the stench lingered so I threw it out. That was my first and only experience with kale, I'll just stick to spinach I think. 

That's about it from me, hope you enjoyed them & feel free to leave any suggestions to jazz those recipes up! 

Gemma