Mango, Banana Oatmeal ft The Wild Peanut Chocolatey

THE WILD PEANUT CHOCOLATEY IS THE BAE.

 

Just saying to y'all who haven't tried this peanut butter you have been missing out on life. You know that whole in your heart, well it's this that you have been missing your whole life.

 

And the best way I could ever breakfast is by putting all my favourite sweet goods together into one bowl... and dear ones, here I will show you exactly how to do it Priyanka-style 'fist pumps with a massive grin on her face'.

 

 

My question to you is do you like peanut butter, bananas, chocolate, mangos, breakfast, sunshine, pretty food photos that make you happy?

 

Then a) keep reading... and b) you and I have way to much in common not to be friends

Ingredients:

 

- 1/4 Cup Oats

- 1 tsp. Chia Seeds/ Hemp Seeds

- Water / Soya Milk to cook the oats (or other Non-Diary Milk)

-Cinnamon 

 

 Toppings :

 

- 1/2 coined Banana

- 1 tbsp. of The Wild Peanut Chocolaty

- 1/4 Chopped Mango and pulp  (if unavailable use tinned mangos but these unfortunately usually  have added sugars) 

- Few blueberries

- Desiccated Coconuts

- 3-4 almonds 

 

Method:

 

- Cook your oats as you would, I usually add hemp seeds/ chia seeds, a sprinkle of cinnamon and use soya milk to cook the oats in the microwave for 2 minutes (a minute at a time adding more milk if needed).  Feel free to cook more oats but I thought that the toppings made this a filling breakfast.

 

-When your oatmeal if cooked, chop 1/2 a banana into coins and place on the side of the bowl on top of the oatmeal. Alternatively you can fry bananas with honey in a small frying pan and add this to your oatmeal instead.

 

-Mix up The Wild Peanut Chocolaty with a spoon as the honey, natural oil and peanut usually separate

 

- Add I tsp. of the nut butter and place on the centre of the bowl (remember to lick the spoon of course!)

 

-  Add the mango, almonds, blueberries and coconuts beautifully on top .

 

-Take a snap of your breakfast and tweet it to me/ tag me in your Instagram photo because I would honestly LOVE to see it! 

 

Take a spoon and enjoy the bliss.

 

Now that feels like freedom right?

 

I really hope that you enjoy this recipe and try it out. The one thing that is killing me at the moment is the fact that I can't find anywhere that sells The Wild Peanut near me. Asda used to but for some crazy reason they stopped.... I think they wanted to act in my best interest to kill my addiction because it was getting pretty unhealthy anyways...

 

Let me know how you like your chocolate peanut butter and any of your favourite breakfast recipes would be appreciated in the comments below!

Priyanka xx

Nutella Rocky Road Croissant Recipe

Ingredients:

- 1 Large Croissant (I recommend Costco, they seriously have the best!)

- Nutella (as much or as little as your heart desires)

-Mini marshmallows

- Cookies

- 1/2 Banana

 

Method:

-Preheat your oven on low, the croissants will become crispy easily so high heat may cause it to burn.

- Cut your croissant side ways so it forms a 'pocket'

- Spread Nutella on the bottom half of the croissant, making sure you get all  the edges covered

- Crumble 1 - 2 cookies and place on top of the Nutella

- Sprinkle marshmallows over the cookies and close the 'pocket' shut (BEWARE: This can be messy!)

- Place the Croissant on tin foil on a baking tray and place in the oven.

- Leave the croissant for 6 minutes and keep checking to see how crisp you would like it

- Optional: Chop the banana into coined pieces and stuff into the croissant near the top after you have taken it out of the oven to stop them from 'melting' in any way

 

-Serve immediately on a plate and enjoy with ice cream!

 

Dessert is intentionally made easy, trust me when cravings hit, they hit hard and chocolate is all that you heart desires...

 

Hope you liked this recipe and make sure you check out my post here on a great savoury use of you croissants. What are your favourite uses of Nutella? Let me know below!

 

Priyanka xx

The Wild Peanut Buttter

The other day I was in Asda doing my usual weekly shopping (and picking up my usual Whole Earth Peanut Butter when I bumped into this beauty called The Wild Peanut Chocolatey. At first glimpse it looked like just another delicious but sugar filled unhealthy version of Nutella but it proved not to be the case when I looked at the ingredients. This chocolate peanut butter only contains roasted peanuts, dark chocolate (cocoa mass, vanilla extract) and honey! There is really no reason to say no to this little jar of goodness. The chocolate flavour is definitely my favourite; it fulfils all cravings for chocolate without even tasting healthy, is luxuriously creamy, smooth and running just as I like it! Other favours that I have tried is the 'I'm Bananas' and 'Hello Honey' flavours of which the honey one is my second favourite. I was looking forward to the banana one but found that it did not taste like banana even the slightest and the consistency was not the same as the others.

Here are some of my favourite ways of eating this chocolate peanut butter:

- Banana dipped into peanut butter
- On top of oatmeal
- Oatmeal with mango slices, chocolate peanut butter, sweet potato brownie pieces, bananas, blueberries and pumpkin seeds.....check out my post on that here.
- Straight out of the jar
- On top of healthy banana bread / banana cake
- On a spoon into my mouth directly

I hope that you go out and buy this peanut butter because I am sure that it will not let you down. What is your favourite nut butter flavour and how do you most enjoy eating it?

Priyanka xx

Super Easy and Healthy Chocolate Fudge Sauce

Chocolate mousse? Hot chocolate sauce? Chocolate banana dip? Chocolate oatmeal topping? Chocolate anything?

Yes,please.

This is a great, super easy and healthy chocolate sauce recipe that you can put together in no time (and practically with no brain power at all!).

Ingredients:

- 1 Can Full Fat Coconut Milk (Unmixed)
- 100% Cocoa Powder / Bar of Dark Chocolate
- 2 Tbsp. Honey / Alternative Sweetener
-Cinnamon
-Pinch of Salt

Method:

-Boil 1/3 saucepan of water and place glass bowl on top
-Add thick coconut milk from the top of the can into the bowl without any of the excess water
-Add dark chocolate, honey cinnamon and salt to the bowl and allow the heat from the water below melt the ingredients
- Stir frequently until a sauce like consistency is reached and check the sweetness (I know that sweetness varies between people a lot!)
- Move the sauce into an open glass container to cool before refrigerating,

When the sauce is cool it has a mousse like texture but you can always warm it up in the micro oven to use as a hot fudge sauce.

Let me know if you enjoyed this recipe and how you enjoy eating the sauce the most.

Priyanka

Browned Paleo Banana Coconut Cookie Recipe

 

Overly sweet tooth like me? In need for chocolate? Want to become a cookie monster without the 'unhealthy' feel?

 

Dear ones, join me.

 

I accept that my cooking skills are not perfect and that these cookies are a little over browned but doesn't mean that they taste bad at all!

 

To make these quick and easy yummies, you will need:

 

- 2 Bananas

- 1/2 Cup Ground Flax Seeds

-1/2 Cup Shredded Coconut

-1/3 Cup Hemp Seeds

-5/6 Dried Dates roughly chopped

-2 Heaped Tbs Honey

 (more or less depending on your preference; you can also sub any other sweetener)

- 4 Squares Dark Chocolate (I used Lindt 85%) Chopped

-1/2 Tsp Cinammon

-1 Tsp Nut Butter

-2 Tbs Olive Oil/ Coconut Oil

 

Method:

 

- Preheat the oven to 200 °c

 

-Line an oven tray with tin foil and spread with olive oil to prevent cookies from sticking to the foil

 

- Mash the bananas (TIP: Peel and warm the bananas for 40-50 seconds to make mashing them up easier) and mix flax and hemp seeds, coconuts, oil, cinnamon, honey and nut butter together in a large bowl.

 

-Allow to cool a little before gently stirring in the dark chocolate chips and chopped dates

 

- Place mixture on the foil and press into cookie shapes

 

-Bake in over for 6-10 minutes

 

TIP: To prevent over burning keep checking the cookies and take out of the oven before it goes too brown , pretty self  explanatory but I always seem to find the simple things in life too straight forward.

 

I ate my cookies with hot almond milk hot chocolate whilst I watched Vampire Diaries like a typical girl on a typical Friday night.

 

Let me know if you know if you liked this recipe and any variations you may have made.

 

Priyanka xx

Bannana, Mango Nut Oatmeal

Breakkkfassttting with Priyanka once again!

 

Oh yeah baby (I know you love it).

 

Life couldn't get better with a stack of mangos/ mango puree in my fridge. Literally, all week I have been jumping out of bed (which is very difficult since its pitch black every morning) excited to eat my mango filled breakfasts.

 

Here is a way I have been loving to incorporate my favourite fruit into my first meal.

 

Banana, Mango Nut Oatmeal:

 

-1 Tbsp. Oats (you can cook as much oats if you usually do)

-1 Tbsp. Chia Seeds

- 4-5 Chopped Slices of Mango

- 1 Small Handful of Blueberries

- 1/2 Banana

- 1 Tsp. Pumpkin Seeds

- 1 Tsp. chopped almonds

 

If you want to be really cheeky like I was this week add a heaped Tbs of CHOCOLATE PEANUT BUTTER. I found one from Asda called The Wild Peanut Chocolatey which has honey and no added sugar so therefore is 'clean' to eat.

 

- Cook the oats with chia seeds in the microwave/ hob

- Place the chopped mangos in the centre of the oatmeal and coined banana slices around the edge

- Add you toppings; chocolate peanut butter/ chopped almonds, pumpkin seeds and blueberries on top.

 

There are so many variations of this breakfast you could try. I've had my mango oatmeal with healthy sweet potato brownie chunks on top and oh it's delishhh.....

 

Let me know how you like your morning oatmeal so I can test them out in my own kitchen.

 

Priyanka xx

Things That Make Me Happy #8 Pancakes and Sleeping In

You, your bed, a candle, a movie or a book and a long good nights sleep - isn't that what everybody wants on the weekend?

 

Yes, it makes me very happy to lie in on the weekends and I feel that I should not feel bad about doing it either because my body needs it's rest especially after a week of non stop school and work...or I just like sleeping - take which ever excuse you want.

The best thing is when I decide to wake up late and make pancakes because those days seems to bring the ultimate happiness within me. Its a fact - food is not just food for my body but food for my soul :)

Don't worry I try to keep my pancakes as healthy as I can by using oats instead of flour, not adding sugar (you can use honey to sweeten it on top), dark chocolate instead of the purely indulging nutella (oh, sneaky birthday treat I need you) and topping it with fruit such as bananas (natural sweetener) or blueberries.

Trust me, on one of these mornings you would want to be here with me but I would like to apologies in advance and warn you of how I tend to fangirl over the smallest things like cute breakfasts and coffee. Well that's me for you.

How do you like to unwind or relax on the weekends? Music, movies or mates?

Priyanka xx

Berry Belicious Breakfast Yogurt Parfait

 

 

BREAKFAST.

 

It is the most important meal of the day.

 

I'm not even going to let you try and argue.

 

Its a fact.

 

So don't skip it !

 

 

I bet you are all grabbed by my 'spur of the moment' title idea.

 

Because I'm pretty surprised by my own creativity :)

 

Its so important to kick start your day the right way and there is not better way to do it than a fully nutritious, filling, healthy meal to provide you with plenty of energy in the morning.

This is quick and easy, so as long as you have the ingredients you have no excuses.

You will need:

- Your favourite bowl

- 1 Banana Sliced into 'coins'

- A handful of Raspberries / Blueberries/ Blackberries/ Strawberries... (what I am trying to say is - any berry of your choice!)

-Fat Free Yogurt (I used Onken Strawberry)

- Granola - I would suggest Special K Granola because not only does it taste good but it is lower in calories, fat and is notorious :)

-Chia Seeds (Optional)

- A Spoon

- A Chair

- Yourself

- Your mouth

I think that covers pretty much everything.

Let me know what your all time favourite breakfast is and if you enjoyed this recipe!

Priyanka xx

Things That Make Me Happy #6 Coffee

We all saw this one coming eventually...

I love the brumble of the kettle in the morning, the bitter sweet smell that drifts in the air once the  water bubbles into the coffee; releasing the aroma and energy that bursts softly in the room.

Most of all, I adore the bitter but not quite sweet taste that sparks all my neurons; awakening and  breathing life into me and preparing me to be more than energetic to live the day.

Sometimes I put my unwinding, drifting dreams into my cup of coffee whilst other times I realise I spend too much time admiring it.

I think that this picture puts all my ideas and feeling about coffee into one photo: coffee comes from different, exotic parts of the world and by drinking coffee it takes me to so many places and inspires me to do so many new things with an open, active mind.

The fact is that any country you travel to, there must be a coffee shop somewhere, being there for someone who needs it.

I might get excited over coffee often, but there is a good reason - it's an act of celebration towards life :D

Take me to a coffee shop and you won't get rid of me.

Tell me you like coffee and that's all I'll talk to you about.

Drink coffee with me... you must be my best friend.

I am scared that by drinking coffee regularly it will stop affecting me and that it will merely be a drink rather than a stimulus.... is that really true?

Who else loves coffee mornings?

Priyanka xx

Healthy and Filling Chocolate Breakfast Smoothie

Normally I'm not one for breakfast smoothies because they tend to lead me unsatisfied and hungry in the morning. One thing I've learnt is that I really don't like being hungry in the morning because I then go and snack on everything in my fridge. Not good.

When I came up with this, I chucked loads of random ingredients, that I would normally eat for breakfast, together and blended away... I don't know how but it came out much better than I expected.

So here is the recipe: (Serves 1)

- 1 cup of Hazelnut milk (sub any milk but this gives a different taste)
- 1 Banana
- 1 Tbsp Chia Seeds
- 1 Tbsp Smooth Peanut Butter ...( I still can't believe I got through the hole tub in a month. That's some kind of record)
- 1 Pack of Quaker Instant Oats or 1/2 Rolled Oats
- 1 1/2 heaped tbs Cocoa ( depending on how chocolaty you'd like it)
- Handful of ice cubes (optional)

Throw all your ingredients into your blender and blend away!

This is probably my favourite smoothies at the moment and I love sippin' it with my smoothie straw! Maybe its just me.  Also, I have been using my blender a lot during the summer holiday for baking and smoothie-ing  - I love it.

I really hope that you enjoy this smoothie recipe! Let me know if you substituted or added anything that makes it taste  better.

Priyanka xx

Things That Make Me Happy #4 Breakfast

Breakfast time... It's the motivation of my uprising from my (very) comfortable bed to my (also) comfortable kitchen.

I love breakfast. Its a statement and a fact. I'm not going to bore you with 'because breakfast is the most important meal of the day' even though it is true. If you start to make that little effort every morning to make something healthy and yummy to eat, you will start to feel a whole lot more fuelled and energized (I promise!) To be honest my brain does not work until I have satisfied my tummy and my mind in the morning... I am also proud to say I have never left home without breakfast (how is that even legal?)

Sometimes, I'm so sad that I plan the night before...but that's just me and I do it because it makes me happy :)

If you were to minus my Coffee Mondays and Thursdays from my routine, I would no longer have any motivation to get up any day of the week.

How do you like my oat pancakes topped with, bananas, berries, almond butter (my version of coconut almond butter from http://www.delightedmomma.com/2012/03/almond-coconut-butter.html), and not to mention to be drizzled with dark chocolate; because really who doesn't need chocolate in their life?

 

Happy Breakfasting!

 

Priyanka xx