The Art Of Breakfast: The Pie with Dates

After experimenting with Date Balls I just cannot get enough. The best cake I made so far, without oven and of course with some baked apples. One cannot deny ones addiction for healthy sweets =)

Ingredients:

About 2dl of dates
3dl of oats
3 spoons of ghee
A hint of black salt
Cinnamon
1-2 spoons of tahini
1-2 apples
Less than ½ dl of coconut cream
Coconut flakes for decoration
The amount of ingredients depends on the size of your casserole.

What’s next?
Boil dates into a jam and add cinnamon. Toss oats with some salt and add ghee until crispy. Mix some coconut cream with oats and spread into a casserole. Cool in fridge and then spread a thin layer of tahini and a little thicker layer depending on your sweet tooth of date jam on top. Bake sliced apples with ghee and add some cinnamon. Cover pie with apple slices and decorate with coconut flakes. Cool in fridge, when the taste just gets better! Serve with warm coconut cream!

The Art Of Breakfast: The Dates with Balls

Ingredients:

Only natural date sugar, oats, ghee, coconut, cinnamon and love!

I’ve got balls! How do you get them?

Boil 1/2L of dates into a jam, add cinnamon according your taste and cool in fridge. Cook 1L of oats in a pan (yes, you need a huge pan, 3 smaller ones or one small to cook them in 3 portions) and add a hint of black salt. Then add 10-12 tablespoons of ghee and toss until crispy. Cool in fridge. Why to cool? To avoid warm oats and dates turning to a sticky porridge. Mix cooled dates and oats together and roll small balls (or bigger ones if that’s how you like them) and roll in coconut flake and cool again in fridge. Makes a healthy snack!

The art of breakfast: baking more cakes

Oh, summer!
Hitch hiking and experimenting in other peoples kitchen really gets you in to the flow of the moment. Last summer I really got lost into the world of baking cakes with carrots while putting my thumb in action in a Spanish bachelor kitchen. My guys really didn’t mind me cooking and even some of the devoted carnivores munched a nice breakfast for bunnies.

The only challenge was who was going to clean the kitchen afterward.
I get off from the drive of the flow on that moment =D

Stuff needed:
About 400g of carrots
4 dl of whole grain flour mixture
½ dl of cane sugar
½ dl of olive oil
+ 3 tablespoons of cinnamon (For me it’s an addiction)
Instead of 4eggs you might want to use 2 dl of organic fruit sauce (That smashed fruit stuff you give to babies)
A hint of Sea salt
About 3 tablespoons of raisins and maybe 3 tablespoons of crushed almonds
On the top some brain nuts (= hazelnuts) or almonds

What to do?
Peel and grade carrots and add olive oil and fruit sauce. Then mix all the dry ingredients together and add to the carrot paste. Spread in oiled baking mold, add brain nuts and bake in oven in 180C for about 45min.
Enjoy on a warm summer morning with a glass of lemongrass or herbal tea with lemon. Honey maybe added for us who owns a sweet tooth. For a salty version you might want to try some natural cheese spread on top of the cake. Quite good!

The art of breakfast: carrot sour milk tea breads

Though my body has traveled far and kitchen changed from my granny’s home in Finland to up in the Himalayas of India, I took a moment to travel back to my granny’s kitchen inside my mind. By the help of my laptop I finished up this bread recipe that I created one snowy afternoon with my joyful cousin while my granny had a rest in her chair watching us exploring the ingredients of her kitchen.

These can be eaten anytime, anywhere as long as you’ve got the love ;)

One day my cousin can bake them by himself to our granny and grandpa with his own talented way of seeing the world of our granny's kitchen.

What did we find?

About 4 carrots rated
About 6 dl of oats and brown rice flour mixture
About 3 dl of sour milk
Handful of raisins
For sweet version add cinnamon, cumin and vanilla depending on your flavor/ salty version add cheese instead
A hint of sea salt or rose salt

DO IT!

Keep the fun of life in your heart and it will be your secret ingredient in the taste of the bread. Peal and grate carrots and add raisins. Add spices in the flour mixture. If you make salty version, add grated cheese in with grated carrots. Add sour milk and flours with carrots and roll about 15 flat breads and bake in oven in 250C for about 15min.

Eat with some natural jam or butter and a herbal tea and enjoy every bite with a smile on your heart. It will spread ;)