Surviving winter

Dark early evenings are almost gone but the freezing weather still holds strongly. 

While I'm stopping to dream about spring and summer, I'm doing my best to survive and even more - enjoy winter season. 

Here are my favourites things to do in winter ( not including here any snow or ice related sports. The country I'm leaving in doesn't get much snow)

- warm breakfast 

Oh I love porridge with almond milk and cinnamon. But recently I got hooked on milet groats with coconut milk, pomegranate and maple syrup. It's like best party in my mouth. Also I started warming up brown flakes with almond milk and coconut. Delicious!

- warm smoothies

My favourite is warm almond milk with banana, two dates, walnuts and cinnamon 

- evening Netflix sessions 

We are finishing Homeland on our projector screen. Brilliant view and no ads at all!

The V day weekend

We never cared to much about Valentines but it would be risky if one of us forget about it. Simple flowers are enough to mark the occasion and this year I got lovely no fuss bouquet of red roses. Love them! We also decided to give each other a book and cook for each other. Mine was the desert and I created it according to my own recipe. The challenge was that there has to be no added sugar as we are both trying to give it up. The result was amazing I must say and we felt great after it. I made a blueberry tower. The layers are made of paste of raisins with dates, ground almond, bit of corn flour and a tbs of row cocoa powder. I baked them for 10 mins. On the top there is Greek yoghurt with almond flakes and it's all garnished with some grated hazelnuts in Orange juice. Delicious! 

Other then this we were tiding up the house. Very romantic.

It's a getting better weekend

Last week was really tough for all of us. Our nanny got sick and poor baby Plum had to be taken out of her rutine and transported to her granny so she could be minded in her house. The temperature dropped down again and we all got sick. Runny noses, blocked noses and chesty cough. Not fun for an adult and definitely nothing pleasant for a little girl. When I start sneezing I always reach for a natural remedy. I am strong believer that nature can cure us from anything. It's also been well documented in many books but where I got that from was my own mother and grandmothers advices.

So here is what I was drinking all day yesterday and previous evening. I feel great now. I know it's easy to buy lemsip, fervex or any other over the counter quick chemical fix-me-ups. But they actually cause more bad side effect and all the chemicals stay long in your body. 

Than why not trust old Mother Nature?

This quick hot drink is easy, accessible and delicious. I put a slice of lemon, slice of ginger and a tablespoon of honey into a cup and pour hot water in it, voila! 

Na katar i przeziebienie zawsze najpierw siegam po naturalne sposoby radzenia sobie z nimi. Pyszny napar z cytryny i imbiru z odrobina miodu jest moim sprawdzonym przepisem na cieknacy nos i pierwsze symptomy choroby. Tym razem po raz kolejny mnie nie zawiodl!

Winter mornings

It is so cold at the moment, middle of winter here. I'm looking for delicious views and tastes and flavours to wake me up and make the process a bit less harsh for me. So far I love:

- my orchid flower blossoming 

- hot water with lemon - I love lemon flavour

- warm soya milk with my bran flakes and bit of coco

- winter sky

Co tu zrobic by zimowe poranki byly lzejsze. Oto moje pick me up!

Sweet dreams smoothie

After a super busy day and last nights visit to hospital emergency dept with our little one, I was dying to relax and just chill out. As I decided to try to quit sugar, I'm getting creative with evening deserts. 

This time I came up with a hot smoothie. It's beyond delicious! Creamy, sweet and coconuty. Here's how I made it. It takes literally 5 minutes!

Heat up a glass of plant milk - I used soya and almond.

Pour warm milk to a blender with two dates, 4 walnuts, 3 tbs of desicated coconut, couple of raisins and blend it all for 3 minutes. Voila! 

Yoga challenge

I'm back practising yoga again! Finally I had no choice really as my Christmas indulgence went a bit overboard. I just had to do it! So I'm delighted to exercise again and trying out different classes. For me it's not really exercising which has a slightly negative connotation. To me yoga is simply delicious pleasure!

The begining was hard, but three weeks on I feel a little bit fitter and definitely more calm inside. I tried the following classes: hot yoga, vinyasa, ashtanga, mindful yoga and yoga- pilates. My favourite are vinyasa and yoga-pilates. Genius!

Also trying out new green juices. So far I hate them, maybe using wrong recepies. But nothing that is both delicious and healthy will not get my aproval.

Wreszcie udalo mi sie wrocic do jogi! Wyprobowuje rozne zajecia, jak narazie moje ulubione to vinyasa i joga- pilates. Sama przyjemnosc!

Po trzech tygodniach juz odczuwam pozytywne zmiany. Ach jakie to cudowne uczucie, wiedzac, ze cos dziala!

Super delicious balls (and sugar & gluten free)

Struggling a bit during my transition period of quitting refined sugar, last Saturday I whipped these beauties up! Not only beautiful outside but also inside. No added sugar and gluten free too - if you into that. Simply delicious and deliciously simple. Genious.

Rasin & dates balls:

You need:

- raisins (handful)

- 3 dates

- ground almond ( about 5 tbs)

- ground hazelnuts (4 tbs)

- zest of half lemon

- one ts of vanilla extract

- two tbs of organic raw cocoa

Soak the raisins and dates in hot water for at least 15 minutes. Then remove the water ( keep it just in case it gets to thick) and mix all the ingredients in a blander for 4 minutes or until smooth. Form little balls and roll them in raw cocoa, hazelnuts or desicated coconut. Makes around 12 little balls. Enjoy!

Super delicious and healthy! 

Chcecie odciac sie od cukru i slodyczy na dobre ale jednoczesnie nie tracac na jakosci zycia? Oto rozwiazanie idealne - pyszne kulki rodzynkowo orzechowe.

Ukrecilam je probujac zastapic czyms moje niezdrowe slodkosci. Nie wroce do nich juz nigdy!