Breakfast || The best meal of the day ♡

Hej peeps, 

for me, breakfast is the most important meal of the day. It gives you the energy you need for a long day at work/school/university. Honestly I don't have that much time in the morning during my workweek, so I always end up with oats topped with apples/bananas and some sweetener. 

BUT at the weekend I devote my morning time for some really yummy breakfasts.

This weekend I had two really really good breakies that I now want to share with you...

So here's a yummy breakie I enjoyed today. On christmas eve we had a lovely nordic dessert, with pearl barley and raspberries. So this bowl is inspired by the dessert we had.

I cooked the pearl barley in milk for round about 20 minutes. Then add a sweetener of your choice, I used maple syrup. Fill in your favourite breakfast bowl and top it with fruits, kernels, nuts and other yummy things you like. 

Enjoy ♡

The second breakfast is based on a recipe by my friend Olivia www.nothingbutdaydreaming.com

For that I peeled two carrots and rasped them into thin slices, then I filled them in a pan together with oats, coconut cream, cinnamon, kardamom, a bit of ginger, juice from 1 orange, a bit vanilla and a pinch of salt. Then I cooked it up until it was creamy and filled it in a bowl.

I added apple slices, fresh blueberries, even more coconut cream and coco chips on top!

Yum yum yum!

all photos by me

Recipe: Making Chai Syrup

Like last year, I want to share my Chai Syrup recipe for cold winter days with you. I hope you all had lovely christmas celebrations!

You need for 250 ml:

10 g ginger
 6 capsules of cardamom
 1 teaspoon of black pepper
 1 vanilla bean
 3 cinnamon sticks
 4 cloves
250 g sugar
3 bags of black tea

1.
  ➳ Shell the ginger and cut it in thin pieces.
  ➳ Cut the vanilla bean lengthwise & scrape out the core.

➳   Crush the cardamom and pepper in a mortar so that the  capsules open up.

 


2. 
 ➳ Put the cardamom, pepper, cinnamon sticks and cloves in a pot.
 ➳ Roast them with stirring until they start to scent.


3.  
     ➳ Add 500 ml water.
    ➳ Add ginger, sugar, vanilla core and bean in the pot.
    ➳ Boil it up.
    ➳ Add the teabags and let all simmer for 10 minutes.
    ➳ Remove the teabags after 5 minutes.
    ➳ Let everything brew for 30 minutes.

4. 
      ➳ Pass the liquid through a fine sieve, then allow the liquid (in the pot again) to reduce to
         almost a concentrate of 250 ml.

     ➳ Fill it hot in a clean bottle and allow it to cool down.

I've made a bunch of this yummy liquid for me and my friends ♥

All photos by me

You can drink it in tea, cacao or coffee or use it for desserts or your breakfast porridge!

♡ Enjoy ♡

Lavender Dreams

Summer is here and the garden is in full bloom. Time to share my favourite recipe for lavender cookies with you.

All you need is:

100 g soft butter

  80 g sugar

1 teaspoon vanilla sugar

150 g wheat flour

 a hint of salt

1 tablespoon of fresh or dried lavender blossoms

 How to:

1. Heat the oven up to 150 degrees.

2. Mix the soft butter, sugar and vanilla sugar until it's a creamy mixture.

3. Put the dry ingredients together with the lavender

     blossoms and give them to the butter mixture.

  

4.  Mix it to a crumbly dough.

5. Form the dough to little balls and set them on a baking sheet with baking paper.

6. Let them bake for 15-20 minutes in the middle of the oven.

All photos by me

Enjoy!