Oven baked Veggies with Mediterranean herbs

Side dish, oven baked mixed veggies with Mediterranean herbs

Ingredients:

 2 aubergines, 3 peppers (1 of each colour), 1 onion, 2 zucchini, 1/4 cup olive oil, handful of parsley, 10 leaves salvia, handful of rosemary, 3 cloves garlic.

 Chop up the veggies and arrange in tray top up with salt and pepper, put the herbs with garlic and olive oil in a cup and blend then put ontop of veggies and massage throughout so that the flavour is uniform.

Bake for about 20 minutes on 200 Celsius.

The amount lasts for 2 to 3 days

Enjoy!

Elf Smoothie / Batido Verde de los elfos

#elf for health Kelly @nsSweetlife created Elf Juice, so I thought I called this one Elf Smoothie, even if the combination is quite summery, remember that I leave in the South of Spain, so winter here is quite non existent!!!

   Ingredients (for 2 smoothies, you cn either share or save it for later!):

1/2 orange with skin

1 banana

1/4 pinapple

1 small mango

1 cup water

3 handfuls spinach

ESPAÑOL

Ingredientes (para 2 batidos, tu eliges: comparte o guardas para mas tarde!!!): 

1/2 naranja con piel

1 banana

1/4 de piña

1 mango pequeño

1 vaso de agua

3 puñados de espinacas

How important are raw foods in our diets?

                    Now this is important, so all of you take good note: starting on the 1st of January for dinner I started a 3 days liquid detox to clean my body between the New Year and 3 Kings long weekends.
                    Today (as per the 5th of January) for lunch I broke the detox and after my savoury smoothie I had 50 grams of pasta with truffle butter (gluten and dairy). 
To start with, I'd say the flavour wasn't as good as I remember and then, and here goes the important thing, after about an hour I started to feel extremely tired and in bad mood, so when I got home after work, I made myself a carrot/apple/ginger juice, which I sipped with the last rays of sun of the day. 

Within 10 minutes I was myself again.


                   Yesterday afternoon (as per the 4th of January), the end of day 3, after work I went shopping in a crowded mall, got home and cooked dinner for the kids, made juices for hubby and myself, cleaned up the kitchen and still had tons of energy to spare.

Now, what does this make you think?

                 The vitamins, minerals, enzymes and superfoods contained in a raw food diet are impossible to get on a onmivore cooked food diet. And even not going deep into this, just the fact of having so much energy and needing less hour's sleep (and be able to do more) should convert people to at least 50% raw foodism aiming for 80-90% which is the ideal.

Listen to THE raw food expert David Wolfe here but only until the 11th of February, so hurry up!

http://foodmatters.tv/m/day-1-david-wolfe     if the link doesn't work, copy and paste in your browser

More on my raw food journey HERE

Celery Salmorejo with soy sprouts / Salmorejo de apio con brotes de soja

It's the second time I make this soup, but this time it surprised me with its great taste as not only I put celery sticks, but also the leafs, which gave it a great savory taste contrasting with the sweetness of the sprouts.

Ingredients:
6 plum tomatoes
6 celery sticks with their leaves
1 or 2 cloves of garlic
3 leaves of basil
2 Tbsp olive oil
1/2 tsp salt

Blend and serve in a warm bowl topped with handful of soy sprouts and enjoy with love and joy!

ESPAÑOL/SPANISH

Es la segunda vez que hago esta sopa, pero esta vez me ha sorprendido su maravilloso sabor, ya que ademas de los palos de apio, le he añadido también las hojas, lo que le dio el sabor salado en contraste con la dulzura de los brotes.

Ingredientes:
6 tomate pera
6 palos de apio con sus hojas
1 o 2 dientes de ajo
3 hojas de albahaca
2 cucharadas soperas de aceite de oliva
1/2 cucharadita de sal

Bate y sirve en bols calientes y termina con unos brotes de soja and disfruta con amor!

Oven Baked Veggies with quinoa

Oven baked veggies with quinoa

Make the vegetables with my recipe for OVEN BAKED VEGETABLES
And add some boiled quinoa and voila and healthy main course!

Haz las verduras con mi receta
Y añadele quinoa hervida y voila un plato principal!

The dawn of a new era

                      We've all been bombed, throughout the last few months with news on the end of the world, the change of an era and the end of the Mayan calendar and the consequent jokes on the various social medias, some of which, I must admit, were really funny.

                     The truth is, nobody knows the truth, and personally I hope it is the beginning of a new era (some says our DNA spiral is also muting) when we all become better beings, respectful with the environment, the most vegan as possible, helpful with others, positive and fearless, I hope for a world in which money isn't as important as someone's hearth BUT in which there's no extremism from the "natural, vegan, healthy" who openly dislike and attack whoever doesn't agree with them.

                     I believe in a society where everyone lives by his own moral standard and respects everybody's point of view.

                     Now, moral issues on the side, the picture was taken driving downhill on the cost in Southern Spain, opoosite Africa and the Atlas mountains. I had been looking at it for about 5 minutes, enjoying the light and the peace of the moment, when I decided to stop to take some pics. These are the best.

I have done some research and the round element on the right is Venus, visible in this part of the world at sunrise, but the funny thing is, it wasn't visible to the eye, I only discovered it when I later looked at the pics.

Have a great day everyone!

Cinnamon Green Smoothie

Ingredients: 2 bananas, 3 pears, 2 handfuls of spinaches, 1 cup of orange juice, 1 Tbsp cinnamon ( I love cinnamon, if you're not too keen, reduce the amount to 1 tsp)

Blend on high and enjoy with joy!

Ingredientes: 2 bananas, 3 peras, 2 puñados de espinacas, 1 taza de zumo de naranja, 1 cucharada de canela ( a mi me encanta la canela, pero si te resulta demasiado fuerte, pon media cucharada)

Pon la batidora al máximo y disfruta con amor!