Sunday 19 February 2012

Azuki bean pasta salad recipe!

After basking in the patch of sun coming in through my window today, I became inspired to create a delicious pasta salad. This is now my favourite!
Ingredients-
100g pasta
1 tin Azuki (or any other) beans
1 stalk celery
1 avocado
1 tin sweetcorn
3 sundried tomatoes (in oil)
Handful fresh coriander
Handful spinach
1/2 lemon juice
2 tbsp tahini
Glug of garlic olive oil
1 tsp sweet smoked Paprika
Sea salt and pepper
Cook the pasta and mix with everything else (finely chopped ) in a bowl then serve!


Thursday 2 February 2012

Amazing everything super energizing smoothies recipe!

I've been feeling sluggish this week with moving house and bring super busy, I needed something to perk me up! Here's a few things I had in my kitchen and threw together to make the first of many more smoothies to come...with dates, coconut oil and matcha - super kaboom ingredients to get you going. It tastes fantastic too! I'm going to have one before capoeira tonight and the other for breakfast tomorrow with a sprinkle of linwoods amazing superfood seed mix. Enjoy!   

1tsp matcha
6 dates
1 Apple
1 plum
Handful spinach
1/2 glass soy milk
Thumb sized ginger
1 tbsp coconut oil
1 clementine
1 banana
2 stalks celery

Chop it all up and blend together for a truly delicious, addictive &  wholesome ( ...three words you rarely hear together) smoothie! Mmm