Eggvocado

Mornings, bleurgh. I am not a morning person. I hate having to crawl out of my warm, snuggly, bed every morning to spend ages making a warm breakfast then shoved out the door into the cold to make my way to an even colder place to work. So when i stumbled across the eggvocado a little light shone down from heaven and i swear i heard angels sing (ok, maybe i'm exaggerating a little but it definitely felt like that!).

You will need:
1 egg
1 half of an avocado
foil
chilli flakes
golden syrup

Preheat your oven to 190 degrees. Halve your avocado, take out the seed then grab a spoon and hollow out the avocado a little.

Place your avocado on piece of foil, crack an egg and put it in the hollowed out bit of your avocado. Drizzle with golden syrup and sprinkle a few chilli flakes. Carefully wrap it all up and pop in your oven for 14-15 minutes. (I like my yolk really runny, if you want it done a little more pop it back in for a few 2 more minutes.) (NOTE: if you put the syrup on before it will be running and may look like egg whites so don't be fooled. Test the yolk instead or just add syrup after.)

Take it out of the oven and enjoy the gooey goodness that requires minimal effort- what more could you ask for?

BREAKFAST SMOOTHIE

Even though food is Talisa's speciality on this blog, I personally couldn't not share my easy to make breakfast smoothie, (perfect at any time of the day, not just breakfast!!)

I made it in around three minutes this morning, thats pretty decent if you ask me.
But before i tell you how to make it I better leave a rough description of ingredients.. oh and not forgetting, unless you're able to bash and beat frozen berries into a pulp using a rolling pin you also need an electric blender.

Ingredients:
(for one person)
1 banana
(around) 2-3 large table spoons of Greek Yoghurt - use healthy alternatives if you wish 
(around again) 2-3 handfuls of frozen summer berries
And a good few splashes of apple juice 

Ever so sorry the vague amounts of ingredients, but it's really up to you how much of each ingredient you put in, if you want the smoothie fruitier; add more berries and apple juice, sweeter; add another banana or creamier; add more yoghurt!

Banana

Step 1, add the banana in chopped chunks (easy for the blender)

Yoghurt and Apple Juice

Step 2, pour in the yoghurt and apple juice

Frozen Berries
Step 3, chuck in the frozen fruit

BLEND!!!

Step 4, JUST PRESS THAT BUTTON TILL THE TEXTURE IS SMOOTH,

*Add more apple juice if required, you want the texture to be that of a drink not melted ice cream. Also if you decide to use fresh fruit rather than frozen, I suggest adding a few cubes of ice to be able to serve at a cold temperature.

All together now, (cheeky instagram edit)

Finish with a handful of oats, specifically for breakfast 

                                                            And the finished product!



I hope you enjoy.

Love Becky
x

Low fat peanut butter ice-cream

I love ice-cream. My only problem with it is that it isn't very healthy and the fat free ones tend to taste like absolute muck. After experimenting in my kitchen for a few hours i came up with the perfect recipe: Low fat peanut butter ice-cream. Simple to make and so scrummy.

You will need:

3 bananas

3 tbsps Peanut butter 

A Food Processor

A scraping spatula (Not essential, a spoon does the job too)

Baking tray

Slice up your bananas.

Pop them all on a tray, cover with cling film and freeze them. I tend to freeze them overnight but anything past 7 hours will do. When they come out they should be rock hard. 

(TIP- when freezing the bananas make sure they're separated, it's easier to get them off the tray)

Chuck them all into your food processor.

Weeee watch them go!

When it reaches this stage it will seem for the next few minutes that nothing is happening- trust me, something is but it's just happening very slowly! The banana parts will start to stick to the side of the processor, just used your spatula/spoon to move it down next to the blade. (Make sure the processor is off every time you push the banana down of things could get very messy...)

Told you something would happen! You're left with this creaaaamy fat free goodness. Time to make it a little naughty, add your peanut butter and put the processor back on for 1 more minute.

Prep time- 7-12 hours

Cooking time- 6-10 minutes

Serves- approx. 4

Sit back and enjoy your guilt free ice-cream. Peanut butter isn't the only flavour you can have, when you get to the part where you add the peanut butter swap it for whatever tickles your fancy.  Some of my favourite flavours are:
Nutella - use 3 tbsp Nutella

Berry - use 1 cup of frozen berries

   

                                                                                                 Enjoy!