A rainbow of tastes

Spinach Kiwi smoothie, a pure green energy What a better start of the day or midday energy boost than a Spinach Kiwi smoothie? Healthy, full of vitamins and nutrients, what not to like about it? And the colour is absolutely gorgeous. Who could say no to such a beautiful and tasty treat! Ingredients for 2 servings of Spinach Kiwi smoothie: 200 g fresh spinach 4 kiwi 200ml soya milk (or any other vegetarian milk) a blender to mix all the above How to make the Spinach Kiwi smoothie: Place all the above ingredients in a blender and pulse few times until smooth. And the smoothie is ready! Facts: Spinach was named for a while “Spanish vegetable”, a shortening of this name giving the current name that we are used with today. As a matter of fact, this wonderful green vegetable is original from Persia. It was spread from there into Nepal and China and then brought into Europe by the Moors, through Spain. Spinach is well known because of the famous Pope...

Simple Mushroom Soup Mushroom Soup is one of our favourite cream soups. Easy to make and tasty! Ingredients for Mushroom Soup: 500 g mushroom (I’ve used white buttons, but you are welcome to use whatever kind you prefer) 2 thin carrots 1 celery stalk 1 small onion (optional) salt and pepper 1 tablespoon olive oil 1 handful fresh chopped parsley 750 ml vegetable or chicken stock (or more if needed, depends on how much you want to cook your vegetables) juice of 1/2 lemon 2 tablespoons of crème fraîche (optional) The ingredients listed above are for 4 servings. How to make Mushroom Soup : Clean the mushrooms very well, removing all the traces of dirt. Also, if you want, you can peel off the skin just to be sure that no traces or blemishes are left. Try to buy fresh mushroom without dark spots or spores. Slice the mushrooms. No need to cut them very thin, so don’t spend to much time with this step. Wash and peel off the carrots, then cut them into th...

The receipt for today is a quick option for a lunch or dinner: rolled puff pastry with vegetables and anchovies. The bellow ingredients can be used for 4 pastries of about 16cm x8 cm. Ingredients for Rolled puff pastry with vegetables and anchovies : 4 sheets of frozen rolled puff pastry (thawed) of 20×10 cm. Obviously you can use larger sheets of pastry or cut them in bite sizes as you like it 50 grams of cream cheese (Philadelphia is a good option for this) few pieces of anchovies, cut into thin stripes 50g of olives, halved and with their seeds removed 150g mushrooms (either fresh or canned) chopped in small pieces  *** sliced half of a bell pepper cut in thin stripes salt, black pepper, oregano to each one’s taste (be careful on the amount of salt because anchovies are normally quite salty) one tablespoon of olive oil a handful of canned kernel corn one tablespoon of capers The good part of this recipe is that you can easily change one ingredient with an...