Lunch with the girls

The other week I had two gorgeus girls come over to make some yummy and healthy food. It was so fun we will have to do it again. Nothing like real food and real beautiful friends. We made a quinoa tuna salad and a banana coconut smoothie. I only recently discovered young coconuts and am in love with them at the moment and usually buy one every week. I have to get my hubby to open them for me because they are pretty hard to open. The young coconuts have lovely sweet water in them which is supposed to be really good for you. So to make a smoothie we just blended the coconut water and the flesh that we scraped out from the coconut in a blender with a banana. As for the quinoa salad it was really easy and I have made this salad again heaps of times since having the girls here. We used white quinoa but black and red work great too or a mix of them all. We just added the things I had in the kitchen at the time like lettuce, cucumber and tomato but basically you can put whatever you want in the salad. A roasted pumpkin and rucola version is super good. Oh yeah and the yoghurt makes it all nice and creamy!!

Quinoa salad
1 cup cooked quinoa
1 cup natural yoghurt
125g tuna
Juice of half a lemon
Lettuce, cucumber, tomato, avacado
Olive Oil
Salt and pepper to taste

Sourdough crackers

Crunchy and out of the oven 

Mixing in butter and oregano to the dough

 

Ready!

It's cracker time. With my sourdough starter baby that is now part of the family I have been making all sorts of things with it. One of them is these sourdough crackers. I like them because they are easy to make and nice and crunchy. I eat them on their own or with a dip like hommus. I don't have a specific recipe, I just go with the flow. But they are so easy I don't think you can go wrong. All I did was take some sourdough starter and mix enough flour to make it a stiff dough. Then I let it sit overnight in the kitchen in a covered bowl or for at least 8 hours. The next day I just kneaded some butter into the dough and then rolled the dough out very thinly. I put it on the baking sheet and cut into little squares and added some salt and herbs ontop. You can also brush the crackers with some olive oil before putting in the oven. Then I just baked them in the oven until crispy!