Food

One thing I miss during busy days is a proper meal. Some days I have classes from 11 a. m. to 6 p. m. and no time to go for lunch. The most logic thing is to buy a sandwich and eat it during a 5-minute break, but since I don’t eat wheat, it is literally impossible to find anything sandwich-wise. One thing I’ve been preparing for days like these are gluten-free sandwiches! Obviously, you can make it out of any type of bread, but I chose buckwheat bread and I usually buy it in DM. This sandwich has lots of flavor, you may find the sage a bit odd, but it goes together extremely well, believe me ;) I haven’t used sage in cuisine until my sister told me she ate it with pasta in London. I’ve been in love with adding sage to almost everything ever since.

 You’ll need:

2 turkey steaks  ♥  coconut oil  ♥  salt  ♥  pepper  ♥  sage leaves

4 pieces of buckwheat bread  ♥  butter  ♥   4 pieces of Emmental cheese  ♥  2 leaves of chinese cabbage

The first thing to do is to add salt and pepper to the steak. Then add the sage leaves, I used the dry ones, but you can use fresh sage as well.  Do the same on the other side. Add some coconut oil to the pan and fry those steaks! Fry for about 4 minutes or more on each side, this way the steaks will become crunchy. When you’re done, let them cool on a plate. The next thing to do is to apply a generous amount of butter on one side of the bread, then add a leaf of chinese cabbage, one turkey steak and last but not least, two pieces of Emmental cheese. Cover with another piece of bread.

You can serve it right away or wrap it in aluminium foil for take-away. It is great in both ways! ;) Take care ♥

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I’ve been raving about chai lattes over the past two months and it seems only fair to finally share the recipe with you. The main ingredient is coconut milk, and since I prefer a bit more natural coconut milk over canned, I’ve been making it out of the Alnatura (DM) coconut flour. As you will see, the recipe is insanely easy and can be prepared in about 10 minutes (with a bit of a mess, whoops!). Let’s go to the recipe:

50−100 g coconut flour  ♥  2 dl water

Cover the coconut flour with water and let it steep for about2 hours or overnight. Then add a bit more water, depending on how thick you want your milk to be. Then take a blender and blend it well! A few minutes will be enough. Cover a jar with a cloth and secure it with a rubber band. Pour in the mixture, when the cloth fills up, just remove the coconut residue. However, don’t throw it away, because it still contains a lot of milk. Repeat again, pour in the mixture and remove the residue. The most messy part comes after you’re finished: take out the cloth and try to squeeze as much milk as possible. Then remove and repeat with the residue from the first part. You can use the coconut residue in your homemade granola or mix it with coconut sugar and eat it, as I did! :)

I found out only now that you can as well use a strainer. I will definitely try it the next time, because doing it with cloth makes it much more messy. But you cannot squeeze it as much, so I believe every method has some pros and cons. The taste of this milk is great, but it’s not as thick as the canned one. If you want to use it for cooking, you may as well make a thicker version.

Coconut chai latte

There are several ways to use up this goodness… You can use it for cooking, drink it as it is or, as I prefer it, have it with a tea! You just fill a mug with how water and steep a tea of your choice for a few minutes. I currently love almost all teas from DM, especially the plain rooibos chai and chai with vanilla and orange ♥ But you can use any type of tea, if you ask me. Then add stevia (or honey, sugar…) and a bit of the coconut milk! Yumm :)

Chai lattes have completely replaced my coffee addiction, I even prefer them over coffe now! Nevertheless, I still enjoy a cup of good coffee from now and then. :) Have a wonderful week,

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After a long break, I am writing again – this time from Greece! Me and my boyfriend finally went on vacation in the middle of the last week. I’ve been waiting for it quite impatiently this year. Vacations in autumn are somehow unpleasant – you can hardly wait for the summer months to pass, but you are aware that all the nice weather (even though there wasn’t any in Slovenia this year!) ends in September at the same time, and even a vacation in warmer parts cannot substitute that. I know that I’ve been a bit slow with publishing, considering we are returning really soon, but I still hope that I will manage to present all the highlights of our stay. :) Our main transportation to Zakynthos was a ferry and although the “journey” itself takes quite some time (first, a bus to Ancona, then a ferry to Patras (Greece) and another ferry  to Zakynthos), we really enjoy long journeys, but a 24-hour journey with a ferry has a charm of its own :) I am always fascinated by landscapes, so I hope that the amount of landscape pictures I took on the way here won’t bother you. :)

Po dolgem premoru se vam ponovno oglašam – tokrat iz Grčije! V sredini prejšnjega tedna sva se s fantom končno odpravila na dopust. Letos sem ga res neučakano čakala. Jesenski dopusti so vendarle malenkost neprijetni – komaj čakaš, da poletni meseci minejo, hkrati pa se zavedaš, da je septembra praktično konec prijetnega vremena in (čeprav ga letos res nismo imeli!) da tega tudi dopustovanje v toplejših krajih ne more nadomestiti. Vem, da sem z objavljanjem malenkost počasna in da se najin dopust že bliža koncu, vendar upam, da bom počasi vendarle predstavila najljubše detajle počitnikovanja :) Na Zakintos sva odšla s trajektom, čeprav se potuje kar dolgo (najprej z avtobusom do Ancone in nato s trajektom do Patras (Grčija) in še enkrat trajekt do Zakintosa), so nama daljša potovanja v veselje, poleg tega pa ima tudi 24-urni prevoz s trajektom ima zelo poseben čar :) Vedno sem navdušena nad pokrajinami in okolico, zato mi ne zamerite, ker bodo v tej objavi samo slike, ki sem jih naredila na poti naprej. :)

The first two days / Prva dva dneva

Beautiful landscapes, yummy food and a geeky on-deck fashion ;)

We are going back tomorrow, the rest of the pictures will be online after I get used to the Slovene rain once again :) Have a lovely week ♥

Jutri se žal vračava nazaj, preostanek slik pa objavim, ko se bom spet navadila na slovenski dež :) Prijeten teden želim še naprej ♥

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