Showing posts with label healthy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label healthy. Show all posts

Wednesday, February 8, 2012

A failure: healthy muffins


I think a real blogger should not just post the successful recipes and also the failures so if you ever come across to something similar you should maybe consider improving the dish. I am obsessed with muffins and baking these days. i have tried the raspberry lemon muffin recipe from Cafe Fernando with blueberries couple of times and i loved it but i was striving for a healthy muffin. And there is a daily blog that i check almost everyday called simply breakfast. I decided to try the recipe for healthy breakfast muffins since it had loads of coconut in it. So i was excited to try the recipe and went down to the shop after work and had an accident during shopping with the olive oil ended up ruining my ugg boots :( Now that i think about it, it was a sign for me to not to bake these very healthy muffins. So here is the recipe,

  • 1/2 cup coconut oil
  • 2/3 cup desiccated coconut
  • 1/4 cup ground Almond
  • 3 eggs
  • 1 banana
  • 1 Tbsp greek yogurt
  • 1 tsp baking powder
  • 10-15 frozen blueberries


Combine everything and put them in muffin tin and pre-heated oven 350F until it is golden.

The original recipe has 2 Tbsp jam in it. It occurred to me that it wouldn't be sweet but honestly i though you would get a good flavor because of the massive amount of coconut. Also one more irritating think about this muffin is the presence of eggs is so dominant. I am not an egg lover so it was pretty hard for me to consume even half of it. When we were discussing with my friend we thought you might be able to get something out of it if you consume it like pancakes with maple syrup. If you like eggs and coconut it might be a good choice for you but not my taste...

Sunday, February 5, 2012

Winter Salad

I have started this blog long while ago but haven't posted much. I think the blog will turn out to be a food blog maybe you can also see some posts on science. I am not blogging on my work though since we are suppose to publish, although i would love to blog on the life of a grad student it is not very exciting. I think it has been summarised on one of the episodes in Simpsons by this statement "There is nothing wrong with them, they just made a wrong life choice." Anyhow, so i guess food is an important part of my life and i am very happy to read, write, try, eat, and talk about food. So without any further due here it comes the winter salad recipe;

4 medium sized carrots,
10 grams of root ginger,
3 celery leafs,
1/3 bunch dill,
1 medium sized lemon,
Extra virgin olive oil,
Sea salt,

Peel the skin of the carrots grate the carrots, roughly chop the celeries and dill, in a separate bowl mix the sea salt, lemon, and olive oil do not peel the ginger and grate in to the mixure for dressing. Mix the salad with dressing. Enjoy the salad:)