Pavlova with nectarines and kiwi

Lately, I'm quite unorganized about the blog. Not that I am an organized person or that I have a plan which I follow. No not that. But I have always prepare 2-3 posts prepared, so I don’t have time problems. But since my holiday this changed. Either the time is missing or I am not in the mood to work on new posts. And so it happens that the days pass and I have not prepared anything new for the blog. My last posts were spontaneous – I knew I “have to” publish something new…than I asked myself: what recipe should I publish next? Luckily, I still have some recipes that I have not yet blogged...but this will change in the near future... can you imagine that I haven’t been cooking for almost two months? Yes, a few things I cooked, these were also blogged. But I haven’t baked a cake or cook a main dish in a while. I must change this too. Today I knew it was time for a new post - but what? Then I noticed that I haven’t posted a dessert for a long time. So I looked into my dessert folders and I knew what to blog next. This pavlova with nectarines and kiwis waits now for 3 years to make it on the blog. Here is the recipe.

Orange-carrot banana smoothie

I started to drink smoothies again. Now in the cold season we should strengthen our immune system. I do not take vitamins, but I eat a lot of fruits and vegetables. And I drink smoothies. I take everything the refrigerator has to give and experiment cheerfully. Sometimes these experiments succeed, sometimes not. The orange carrot banana smoothie was a successful experiment and I want to share the recipe with you. Maybe you want to try it out.

Vegan lentil bolognese

Can you remember the recipe for the lentil soup? After I cooked it I still had some carrots, tomatoes and of course lentils. Since I hate to throw away food I had to prepare something delicious with these ingredients. I had seen on various blogs recipes for lentil bolognese. So I read the different recipes and then I start cooking. I haven’t used red wine or vegetable stock. I was out of fresh basil so I used dry one and fresh thyme (it survived the winter on the balcony) for garnishing. And I had no celery either. So I just took what was in the refrigerator and storage cabinet and created my own lentils bolognese. The vegan lentil bolognese looks just like the classic bolognese and I find it tastes the same. 

Cauliflower-romanesco soup

99% of the time I cook after recipes. Of course I always change something. Sometimes more, sometimes less. Developing recipes is not my strength. Respectively I'm too lazy to do that. But this has changed with this soup. I was in the supermarket to buy broccoli...I wanted to cook a broccoli soup. But then I saw a bowl with cauliflower and romanesco. Without thinking, I bought them. Not because I like cauliflower so good, no, it was rather because of the romanesco. I have never eaten it before, but I found it is a super food model. Sounds a bit crazy, I know. Now that I had bought and photographed it I had to cook it. So I decided to cook a soup. I did not have any recipe so I used what I had home. The soup tastes delicious, so the recipe made it on the blog.

Warm quinoa with berries

Sunday, 11am. In 45 minutes I have to be at the gym. And I woke up too late. I need also to eat something for breakfast. And then I realize that the rest of the bread I have is hard as a rock. What should I do? That it strikes me: why not use the remaining quinoa and the almond milk I have? I quickly prepare everything. The whole must boil for 20 minutes. In the meantime, shower, brush the teeth  and dress. Quickly take a few photos, quickly eat up and sprint to the gym to arrive on time. Good that this is within 5 minutes by metro. As you can see, it was not planned to cook this recipe. But it emerge from the need and it tastes so good that I had to share it with you. The recipe reminds strongly of the quinoa pudding.