Monday 25 February 2013

Nutella French Toast

Probably the best breakfast food you could make or feed someone.

My recipe is good for 3 Nutella French toast sandwiches.

Inside of the French toast
What you'll need is:
6 slices bread
1/2 milk
2 eggs
tsp vanilla extract
Pinch of salt
Pinch cinnamon
2 tbsp sugar
Powdered sugar for dusting
Butter for the pan
3 tbsp Nutella
Syrup for ontop -- although you won't need it
Since I love fruit, I usually add berries and bananas on top.

Start by mixing together with a whisk eggs, milk, cinnamon, salt, vanilla, sugar.
Then pair up your slices of bread. Apply a table spoon to one slice of each pair.
Close the pair, dip into your egg mix.
Place on your pan (which should be on medium heat).
Flip, and repeat.

When finished remove from heat, put your fruit of choice on top dust your powdered sugar and serve.
You can add syrup if you like, but I usually don't need it.

Enjoy!

Tuesday 19 February 2013

Peanut Butter Banana Sandwich

The only way I'll enjoy peanut butter is with sliced bananas in the center.
Just as easy as the Strawberry Nutella Sandwich, this is a quick fix.

You'll need:
- 2 slices of bread -- any kind (or 1 slice if you want an open faced sandwich)
- 1/2 a banana sliced
- 1 tbsp. of smooth or chunky peanut butter

Optional: drizzle of warm honey

Toast the bread, spread the peanut butter, and add the sliced bananas. If you choose to, drizzle the honey and close the sandwich.

Quick, easy and simple. I enjoy this with a glass of cold milk, it also helps get the sticky peanut butter out of your teeth.

To mix it up a little, add any other fruit you wish. Strawberries, blueberries, raspberries and apples go great with this sandwich too.

If you wanna make this healthier, instead of bread use tortilla wraps and warm the wraps over a pan on the stove.

Friday 15 February 2013

Yogurt Berries

This super easy snack takes no time at all, and is extremely easy to make!

What you'll need is:
- fresh or frozen fresh fruits;
I used, blueberries, cut strawberries, raspberries, and a diced apple.
- your choice of yogurt; best yogurt to work with is probably a plain vanilla one.
This time I used the yogurt cups no one really like, raspberry and mixed berry.

Pour your yogurt into a bowl, and either individually dip the fruit into the yogurt and place onto a tray. Or you could do the quicker way, throw a bunch in at a time and using a fork fish them out.

Freeze for 20 minutes, enjoy! If you don't finish all your fruits no worries, they last me at least a week in the freezer. Just place them in a freezer safe bag or container.

Friday 8 February 2013

Pesto Pizza Bread

Since today is a snow day, I thought of testing out a new recipe for lunch.
Pesto pizza bread. Common, anything with pesto is amazing!

What you'll need for this is:
- 2 slices of bread
- choice of veggies -- I used quarter red onion sliced, quarter red bell pepper sliced, 5 sliced mushrooms, 4 slivers of sundried tomatoes, and 9 spinach leaves. You could also add hot peppers, zucchini, fresh tomato slices etc.
- 3 or 4 pieces fresh mozzarella cheese (usually comes in a ball form) thinly sliced
- 1 tbsp pesto sauce
- olive oil for drizzling

Start by warming the bread slices stovetop. Also turn your oven on to bake at 400.
Then on the slices spread the pesto sauce evenly. Add all your veggies except the spinach and bake on a pan  in the oven for 6-8 minutes.
Remove from oven, drizzle olive oil over slices with veggies and bake for 2-3 minutes.
Remove once more, add the spinach leaves and mozzarella last and bake until cheese melts and turns golden brown.
Slice, and serve!

Monday 4 February 2013

Strawberry Nutella Sandwich

This quick snack, with a cup of milk is always my go to snack.
Think about it, Nutella which is basically a chocolate spread, with fresh cut strawberries layed in two slices of bread. Doesn't your mouth just water thinking about it?
Imagine what it tastes like.


What you'll need is:
- 2 slices of any kind of bread (or 1 slice if you're trying to be healthy, and want to make it an open faced sandwich)
- Approx. 3-4 rinsed strawberries sliced
- 1 tbsp. of Nutella

Start by toasting your bread, usually while the bread toasts I slice the strawberries so I'm not just standing around waiting.
Once the toast pops, spread 1/2 tbsp of Nutella on each slice of toast and place the cut strawberries on top of the Nutella.
Close, cut and serve with a cold glass of milk!
Trust me you'll love this, and it's a perfect student study snack.
Quick, healthy and easy.