Quinoa Chia Bread – Healthy Healing Bread!!

Chia Bread

Soak  – 1 cups quinoa –  ¼ cup chia seeds – 1¼ Cup Water  overnight

Mix  – Soaked items – ¼ Olive Oil – ½ tsp Baking Soda  – ½ tsp Salt – 1 tbsp. Lemon Juice –  (Or Quick Blend – thick coarse batter) +/- extra water if needed.

Pour – Batter  – Baking Pan – Mix and Garnish – Handful Sunflower seeds – Pumpkin Seeds.

Bake –   Preheat oven –  160 C – 90 minutes.

Cool – Before slicing.

Enjoy this Gluten Free,Sugar Free, Eggless Bread !! Delicious and Healthy All in One!!  I call it the Healthy Healing Bread!!

Note : Lemon Juice is important to activate the baking soda. Add Ghee instead of Olive Oil.

Thank You Svetlana for sharing this recipe . I made this bread  and snacked on it the whole day!!  I will make a bigger one next time.   And thank you for all the Mind Body integration tips you shared with me. I am always Thirsty for more tips.

This Recipe was shared by my good Friend  who is truly passionate about physical and psychological health.  Having had a lot of cases of diabetics in her family back in Russia she is striving to control  her own family’s sugar intake and maintain a healthy diet. You can see more information about  Mind Body Interation on her web page sited below.  

https://riseempowered.com/about/

Baingan Bharta – Baba Ganoush

Eggplant Aubergine Spread Baingan Bharta – Baba Ganoush

Roast – 3 large Aubergine on Fire or Oven  20-25 mnts  – Peel Skin – Chop Roughly.

Chop – 1 Onion – 3 Long Green Chilli

Puree – 6 tomatoes – grind roughly

Fry – Heat 2 tblsp. Oil – Splutter – 1 tsp. Cumin Seeds – Chopped  Green Chilli – Onion –  1 tsp Garlic Paste -1 tsp Sesame seeds –  Salt 2 tsp. – Pinch Turmeric – 2 mnts.

Saute – Add Tomato Pureeto above +/-5 mnts- Mashed Aubergine  – Saute +/- 8 mnts till thick consistancy.

Garnish –  Sprinkle tsp. chilli Powder- mix – Handful Coriander Leaves – Done.

Serve with Chapati or Paratha or sides for rice. Or use as sandwich spread.

Delicious Gooey Yummy Spread.  Quick and Easy.

Note : Add Salt to Taste.  Use capsicum instead of green chilly.

Many versions of this recipe exists around the world with many different names.  All delicious and well loved.   We are addicted to our Friend Gina’s Romanian Zacusca which she serves at parties and  gives some to take home with us every year.  Hope she will share her secret recipe soon.

Roasted Eggplant Spread Easy Recipe – Aubergine Baingan Bharta – Baba Ganoush

 

 

A Magical Garden in Brussels – Park Tenbosch

 

Today I would like to share the Joy of Tenbosch Park  with a few words and many pictures.

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Park Tenbosch

Brussels a City of Contradictions. Hidden among the hige rise Buildings  and Busy traffic,  are many Beautiful Parks and Lakes.   Natures Limitless Beauty !!  Secret Paradise known only to the Locals!!

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Camilias entwined with other Spring Blooms
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Magnolias in Full Bloom

Park TenBosch is Magical Heaven right in the Middle of the City.  Close to Avenue Louise a few meters from the Indian Embassy.

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Crocus Blooms
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Oops call from Sita!! Magnolias Again.

As you Step into the Narrow Entrance of the Park  nature welcomes you with the fragrance of the flowers!!   It is Natures Aroma Therapy. Whole Body relaxation.

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In April the park is filled with Spring flowers of all kinds.   Beauty Everywhere. Winding paths  with Flowers , trees, ponds, playgrounds and picnic spots filled with easy chairs.  Small Park with so much to Offer!!

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Sooooo Many Flowers!! 

A Brisk afternoon walk in the Park is Tonic for the Soul.  My collegues  and I have enjoyed countless picnics here.

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Tranquil Moments – Beautiful Park – Beautiful Friend

Playing tourists during Lunch time!! The Beauty of Expat life!!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Vishu Katta / Pachoru – Rice Cakes Served with syrup

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Soak – 1 cup white Rice 1/2  Hour

Boil  – Soaked rice  – 2 cups Water – 2 cups Coconut Milk – Vanilla powder – Pinch salt Simmer till all liquid is absorbed – Creamy texture

Mix  – 2 tbsp. Grated Coconut   – Mix – turn off stove – tight lid – 5 mnts.

Spread –  Flat Plate – cool – Slice – Garnish with nuts.

Syrup – 1/2 cup Jaggery – 1 cup Water – Boil – simmer  – till melted – pinch of Cinnamon – done – 5 mnts.

Serve Delicious cakes with Syrup.  Easy delicious and Traditional dessert for festivals or Weddings during my Grandma’s time. Enjoy!!

Note : Replace regular Milk for Coconut Milk. Flavour with Cumin instead of Vanilla . Eat with Maple Syrup.

Happy Feast my Friends.

Easter Sunday with Gina and Andy,  eating Baked Italian Rice Cake  reminded  me of  Eating Pachoru with my cousins. 

Living in a Joint Family with Parents, Cousins, Aunts , Uncles and Grand Parents.  12 Cousins some same age,  others 1 year apart in age.   Browny our pet dog the  only obedient one in children’s group. 

Fun and Happy times running around in the garden.  It was Party Time all the Time for us Children.  Ofcourse the Odd  Stressful Parents Moments in the Kitchen was just the Background Music.

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Delicious BBQ with Tzatziki  – Tabbouleh -Mushrooms – Stuffed Aubergine  (mmm….)

Andy is a BBQ Master  and Gina is a Genius with Cakes and Ofcourse  her Garden.   Andrei and Emma and Sarah and Tina  are like cousins. Our Friends Our Family in Belgium.

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BBQ Master and Anto

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Potato Flower Pancake

 

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Potato Flower Pancake

Slice –  Wash  1 Big Potato – Slicly thinly – Coat with Oil

Arrange – Grease  Plate – Spread  Grated Cheese  – Arrange Slices overlapping

Microvave –  3 mnts – Turnover – 3mnts – Turn Again – spread grated cheese – pepper -salt to taste – Final 3 mnts ( Total 9 mnts)

Serve –  With Sauce of Choice.  Or eat Plain.  Delicious Cheesy Potato.   Quick Snack for Cheesy Cravings.  Enjoy!!  mmm…….

Note – Make 2 pancake with 1 big Potato.   Use herbs instead of Pepper.

P.S.  Pan Fried Version without Cheese is in Trial Stage.

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