Basic Buckwheat Pancakes

from scratch:

Ingredients:

• 1 cup buckwheat flour
• 1/2 Tbspn baking powder
• 1/2 cinnamon
• 1/2 tsp  vanilla extract
• 1 egg
• 1/4 cup apple sauce
• 1 cup water

How to make it work:

1. In a large bowl, stir together flour, baking powder, and cinnamon.
2. Add the vanilla, egg, apple sauce, and water.
3. Stir until  just mixed.
4. Portion out about 1/4 cup of batter onto hot pan lightly oiled with coconut oil
   and cover with a lid.
5. Let sit on medium heat until the center starts to bubble and becomes sturdy.
6. Flip pancake over and cook on other side until golden brown.
7. Repeat process until all the batter is gone.

Option:

Add blueberries to make blueberry buckwheat pancakes…yummmmmmy

Topping ideas:

• Spread with coconut oil and drizzle with agave nectar and vanilla flavouring then sprinkle with cinnamon.
• Spread with almond butter and sprinkle with cinnamon and eat as a snack.
• Top with protein smoothie – any from my smoothie recipes will be delish.
• Keep the leftovers in fridge and heat in the toaster for another breakfast or snack later.

If you are pressed for time or you don’t have all the right ingredients to begin with use this mixture from Woolworths, but I highly recommend making your own from scratch in the weekends. Fresh is always best!

Gluten Free Buckwheat Pancakes

 

I LOVE MY PANCAKES!!!!

I actually use the premade Gluten Free mixture from the supermarket often.  But will be posting some great ‘from scratch’ gluten free pancake recipes for those of you who have the time, and prefer to make them this way.

I have added frozen BLUEBERRIES to these.  Berries in pancakes are awesome.

Topping options:

I will more often than not add a protein shake to balance the carbs. Just make the protein with a small amount of water as opposed to milk – exactly like the recipes posted under healthy smoothies here on my blog.

One serving is one pancake with protein sauce.

YUMMMM

 

 

 Greek Yoghurt with Blueberries are scrummy:

 

If you want to PUT ON WEIGHT or just go for a treat….:

Coco Luscious do the most delicious dairy free, gluten free, soy free icecream. SOOOO GOOD!!! What is a treat meal with pancakes without 100% pure maple syrup? But as you can see – you don’t need to choose the calorie intense options to enjoy pancakes!! SOO many options out there. Add some bananas to this to truely fire those calories up!

 

Baked Eggs

These are delish. You can add and substract your fav greens and meats as you like but you must keep the spinach and garlic! I cook with either rice bran oil or coconut oil only as they are safe at hight temperatures and maintain their integrity.

These are the bomb if you are trying to impress for breakfast!

Ingredients:

• 1 leek, white part only, washed well and finely sliced
• 1 tspn rice bran oil
• ¼ tspn crushed garlic
• 100g prosciutto meat, thinly sliced.
• 2 bunches English spinach, washed, drained and shredded
• 2 Tbspns finely grated parmesan cheese
• Sea salt and pepper to taste
• 4 x L eggs.

How to make it work:

1. Preheat oven to 170C.
2. Grease 4 individual, shallow baking dishes- ramekins are best.
3. Heat the oil in a fry pan and sauté the leek till soft. Add the garlic, spinach and prosciutto and stir only until the spinach is starting to wilt. Remove from the heat and drain off the excess moisture. Stir through the parmesan cheese then season with sea salt and pepper.
4. Divide the mixture between the baking dishes, make a little hollow in the spinach and crack one egg into each.
5. Back until cooked to your liking. About 10 minutes for soft yokes. 15 minutes for set yokes.

Serves 4 very impressed people

Fried Eggs on Toast

 

As you can see from my picture, two very special girls are eating this breakfast and loving it. I wouldn’t give these special girls anything but the best. Teaching children from a young age how to eat, and when to eat sets them up for the rest of their lives. Breakfast for kids is imperative to setting their day up and balancing blood sugar levels. These girls do not demand sweets like the great majority of children today because they have been brought up eating well. They are within the healthy weight for children their age and they are active all day long. And HAPPY.

• Two fried ORGANIC eggs in organic virgin coconut oil.
• 1 x piece of gluten free toast.
• Organic cucumber pieces and avocado.
• Optional: Prosciutto (Italian meat) cooked with the eggs to give the eggs a really special flavour.
• Smoothie on the side.

“Farm Fresh”

 from:

Lola’s in Broadbeach

1 Old Burliegh Road, Broadbeach.

 

I had this delicious breakfast served to me in a relaxed stylish restaurant in Broadbeach. I will definitely be sampling more from their menu. LOVED it. This dish is easily made at home with fresh ingredients so go for it! Healthy and delicious. My girlfriend and I ordered the same meal and we both ate every last crumb!! That’s a testament in itself!! I think food served TO  me always tastes better than making it myself BUT when I make it myself I know EXACTLY what is going in it and where I got my ingredients from.. organic..or not.

• 2 poached eggs – always use organic
• Grilled fresh asparagus
• Grilled fresh button mushrooms
• Herb crusted tomato (herbs from your garden of course
• 1 piece of gluten free toast
• Dressing (optional) chilli, lime and coriander.

Baked Omelette/Quiche with Spinach and Ricotta Cheese

The magic thing about this dish is that is can be breakfast, lunch, dinner or a snack. It keeps well in the fridge, it takes 10 minutes max to prepare, and you can add any veges or protein to the mix to spice it up for flavour. The options are endless. It is up to your imagination, and what ingredients you have in the fridge at the time! As you will see from some of the photos and options I post after this.. I am a quiche/omelette fanatic- they are healthy, fast and cost effective. No crust means no excess and unwanted calories. I LIKE IT!

Ingredients:

• 2 med red onions, finely sliced sautéed in water.
• 1 bunch English spinach, washed well and chopped coarsely
• Fresh basil from your garden.
• 250g ricotta cheese
• ½ C olives
• 6 eggs
• 1 tspn salt – not too much as olives are salty too – easy to over do it.
• pepper and paprika to taste. (paprika will help speed metabolism)

How to make it work:

1. Preheat over to 180C
2. In a frypan sauté the onions in water until soft.
3. Add all other ingredients to a bowl and stir together.
4. Add the onions.
5. Once ingredients are stirred thoroughly pour into a pan, or crockery bowl approx 24cm.
6. Bake for about 30-45 mins till puffed and evenly browned.
7. Remove from the oven and allow to firm up in the pan for a few minutes – the omelette will sink back while cooling.
8. Turn out onto a plate to stop further cooking, or leave in the pan/bowl and allow to cool.
9. Serve warm or at room temperature.

The cheese in this recipe is not necessary – but a treat for the odd occasion. I will post other healthy options without cheese soon.

Serves 6

Scrambled Eggs on Gluten Free Toast

Ingredients:

• 1 egg
• 2 egg whites
• touch of trim/skim milk if necessary. Personally I dont opt for milk and recommend you wean yourself off it in your scrambled eggs.
• diced onions if you like them
• fresh herbs from your garden- these are like shoes- they will make or break your scrambled eggs. Break them if you don’t have them. There is nothing like fresh herbs to spice up a healthy delicious meal.
• Sea salt or himalayan salt, and pepper to taste. I go against the grain and definately recommend salt in the diet BUT if you have table salt in your kitchen pick it up now and throw it out right now. Do yourself a favour. Eat only sea salt or himalayan salt. Table salt is not fit for human consumption.
• 1 piece of toasted gluten free bread. No butter/margarine – you don’t need it. The yolk is enough good fat for the morning and the scrambled eggs are moist enough to soften the toast.

How to make it work:

1. Saute you onions if you opt for them
2. Add the eggs, herbs, salt and pepper; and milk if you are using milk. Whisk constantly. Egg whites cook faster so do not let them sit on the heat without watching them or they will burn.
3. Once cooked to your liking, serve them on your toast and sprinkle with more chopped up fresh herbs.

Again, this is a breakfast fit for a king or queen, and made in a flash. Good food does not have to take a long time, nor does it have to be boring. Delicious fast HEALTHY food that will help increase your metabolism, by you nourishing your body with the right combinations of nutrient dense food, easily digested.

Enjoy xx