Monthly Archives: July 2014

No butter, no flour oat cookies

Time to be healthy

Actually, I started to search for no flour cookies because my sister can’t eat any wheat products. Lately, it seems that there are more and more people close to myself that have some product intolerance. Thus, this recipe is dedicated to all my loved ones in that situation: Livija, Elina Evelina, and Marian. I’m offering several alternatives to prepare these cookies – just pick the one you can eat or that sounds better to you

no flour, no butter cookies

Yield: 20-30 cookies depending on size

Ingredients:

150g oatmeal
150g of mixed nuts & raisins of different kinds – select the nuts and proportion as you wish
1 medium size ripe banana or 100g of applesauce
1 egg or 2 tablespoons cornstarch (you may add some more applesauce/ banana if you use cornstarch)
100g of peanut butter
100g of sugar – you can vary the amount of sugar you put in, the more you put the crunchier and sweeter they’ll be

Raspberry-blueberry ice cream

Easy to make and healthy ice cream

I really love ice cream but unfortunately I don’t have my own ice cream maker to be able to make the traditional one at home. At the same time, I was searching for some healthy recipes so that I can eat ice cream and stay fit during summer. Two years ago, my husband gave me as a present ¨30min meals by Jamie Oliver¨ and there, amongst many other great recipes, I’ve found a perfect summer ice cream recipe: you just need some frozen berries, a little bit of sugar and natural yogurt. It takes only 5 minutest and turns out very tasty!

raspberry-blueberry ice cream

Yield: 4 portions

Ingredients:

300g of frozen raspberries & blueberries (or any other frozen berries)
2-3 tablespoons of sugar or honey
250g natural yogurt (I usually choose low-fat one)
optional: one spoon of lemon juice, some leaves of fresh mint

Cottage cheese pancakes – pankūkas pildītas ar biezpienu

My mom’s pancakes filled with cottage cheese

There is this one dish that, once you’re back home at your mom’s place, you could eat non-stop. For me, these are the pancakes filled with home made cottage cheese. They are delicious and my absolute favorite. So, since I’m in Latvia for the holidays, now is the time to write down this adorable recipe and share it with you all. I hope that you will love them and, if you don’t have time to make them, just come to my mom’s place and she will prepare them for you ;) I usually get them in the morning for breakfast – the perfect start for my day!

Cottage cheese pancakes

Yield: 12-13 pancakes, 2-3 per person

Ingredients:

Pancake dough

250g flour
0.5l whole milk
2 eggs
1 spoon olive oil
2 tea spoons of sugar
a little bit of salt

Cottage cheese filling

0,5kg whole milk cottage cheese
2 eggs (from free-range chickens is best)
100g of sugar
half a tea spoon of vanilla sugar
a pinch of salt

To accompany them jam, fresh cream and some fresh cut fruit work best.

Crème brûlée

“Burnt” custard cream

Crème brûlée is a sweet & creamy dessert with crunchy sugar on top. In Spain it is also known as ¨crema catalana¨, and everyone will affirm that it comes originally from Catalonia. To the Spanish version of creme brûlée you usually add lemon or orange peal as well as cinnamon. Here, I’ll share with you first the traditional French creme brûlée recipe, which I got from the Larousse ¨Pierre Herme¨ dessert book. I usually make it in small individual ramekins that perfectly serve one person.

creme brûlée

Yield: 8 portions

Ingredients:

500ml milk
500ml cream
4 vanilla beans
9 egg yolks
180g powder sugar
100g brown sugar