The Real Orange Juice

I call this 'The Real Orange Juice' because it is some really ORANGE juice. It's super healthy (loads of health benefits) and also super yummy. Back in Somerset, I used to walk down to a little store that we called 'Mozzies' (not its real name, though) and I bought some orange and carrot juice there that I loved. Since I got back to Southampton, I have kind of craved this juice for a while so today, I decided to try making it. It was a messy job (the juicer needs a guard or something at the tap area), but this juice tastes really good!

So, here's my recipe:

Ingredients

6 carrots
2 oranges


Method

In a juicer, juice 6 relatively long carrots. When done, place a sieve over the container (I used a jug) you juiced the carrots into. Place the oranges on a hard flat surface (I used the kitchen counter) and press down on it with either your palm or the side of your hand and roll the orange on the surface till it feels soft all over. Then cut it in half and hand squeeze it into the container with the carrot juice making sure the orange juice goes through the sieve (to prevent seeds from getting into the drink).
Et voila! That's all!

Ensure you shake or stir the juice before drinking it each time as the carrot juice will separate over time.

I promise you, this juice tastes really good!

Let me know what you think if you try it. :)

Onion Rings

Heyo!

I absolutely love onion rings! Dunno why. And I seem to be craving them right now. Yum! Yum!
So, here's a recipe for onion rings:

Ingredients:

• White flour
• Baking powder
• Eggs
• Onions
• Milk
• Salt
• Pepper
• Oil of choice

Method:

• Combine all the dry ingredients in a bowl
• Add the milk and the eggs and mix very well to form a batter
• Spice up the batter with as much salt and pepper as desired mixing up the batter again afterwards.
• Cut up the onions horizontally to form circles of your desired thickness
• Push at the inside of each circle you've cut out to let the other layers of onions (the other circles that form the inside of the onion) fall out.
• In a frying pan, heat up some oil (enough to do a light deep-fry)
• Once the oil is hot, pick up an onion ring and dip it in the batter then place the onion ring in the oil not touching it till it is ready to be turned over.
• Turn over when it's time and let the onion rings fry till they are golden.

That's all! Simple and easy! Voila! Voila! Et Voila!

Let me know what you think about the onion rings if you try them.

~Sammy

p.s It's 5:09am, I haven't slept all night, but I had to share this recipe!

Veggie Burger

¡Hola!

So, I'm sure it's no surprise that I'm going to be putting up a recipe for veggie burgers and not regular meat burgers.
Now, this recipe is going to have things that it's easier for me to get my hands on here. However, I will put in brackets (parenthesis) popular alternatives to those ingredients.
D'accord! On y va!


Ingredients:

• Black eyed beans (black turtle beans)
• Rice (quinoa)
• Onions
• Peppers
• Mushrooms
• Bread (breadcrumbs)
• Spices/Seasonings/Herbs
• Salt
• Oil of choice
• Optional ingredients - eggs, sun dried tomatoes, a bit of a sauce like piri piri or BBQ sauce
• Burger bread/bun
• Lettuce
• Tomato slices
• Cheddar cheese
• Optional ingredients - slices of onion, a bit of a sauce like mayonnaise, piri piri or ketchup

Method:

• Soak the beans for about 30-1hr in warm water (or slightly hot to reduce soaking time) then leave them out on a paper towel or cloth to dry up to at least 90%.
• Cook the rice till it's nearly done (not fully done)
• Cut up the peppers and onions and run them through a food processor then put them into a frying pan with a bit of oil and cook them a bit to release their flavour.
• Cut the mushrooms into halves or quarters.
• Stick a couple of slices of bread in the oven till they are hardened and can break relatively easily. Then stick them in a food processor or blender to make the breadcrumbs).
• Toss the mushrooms into a food processor and turn it on (you could use the pulse) till they are almost all pasty then add in the beans and the rise and turn on the food processor again. Add the onion and pepper mix and repeat. Put in your desired amount of salt, spices, seasonings and herbs (and the optional ingredients if you choose to use them (the egg helps with making the mixture stay together)) and repeat then add the breadcrumbs a little at a time turning on the food processor each time breadcrumbs are added till you have a kinda pasty mixture.
• Shape the mixture into patties of your desired shape and size (using wet hands to shape the patties might prevent them from sticking to your fingers. You could also spoon out some patties onto a surface with flour on them and sprinkle some flour over the patties before picking them up and shaping with your hands)
• Heat some oil in a frying pan and place your patties in the pan leaving them to fry for a while before flipping over.
• Slice you burger bread/bun in half (horizontally) and if you choose to have a sauce, spread some on the inner side of the bottom half of the bun then place your patty over it then your cheddar cheese then the tomatoes, lettuce, onions, a bit of sauce again (if you choose to have it) and then the top half of the bun (in the order mentioned).

Bon appétit! :)

An Amazing and Healthy Wrap

I made wraps yesterday for my cousins and I and they tasted WAY better than I expected so I decided to tell you guys about it and give you my recipe.

So, the wraps were healthy and I know people that that word (healthy) makes them cringe. Guess which word in this almost makes them stop breathing: it's vegetarian too.

I'm vegetarian so it is expected that when I cook, there's a 99% chance that I'm going to make something vegetarian and a 95% chance I'm going to make something vegan.

Okay! So here are the ingredients:

• Cut and frozen bell peppers (red, green, yellow and orange)
• Sunflower Oil
• Frozen plum tomatoes
• Frozen onions
• Eggs
• Salt
• Wraps (bought from ASDA)
• Peri-peri sauce

Here's how this delicious wrap was made (oh! and I made this for 5 people):

• I got out as much of the peppers, onions and tomatoes as I thought was needed and put the rest back in the freezer (you shouldn't let them defrost if you're not going to use them immediately)
• In a sauce pan, I heated up about a tablespoon of sunflower oil then tossed the onions in and sprinkled some salt on them. I let them cook for a while before adding the tomatoes and stirring.
• After about 2 minutes, I added the peppers, stirred it and left it to cook stirring occasionally.
• I broke 11 eggs and beat them till they were fluffy, added a pinch of salt and beat them again.
• In a large frying pan, I heated a little of sunflower oil then moved the pan around to make sure the oil got everywhere I thought the eggs would then I poured in the eggs.
• As the eggs were heating up and the sides starting to solidify, I used the frying spatula to move those solidifying parts to the middle for a while (the liquid part of the eggs will run to where the solidifying parts were over from).
• After doing that for a bit, I let the egg be and fry then I turned it over so the other side could fry. Once done, the eggs where cut up into much smaller bits and then put in a large bowl.
• Still stirring the contents of the sauce pan occasionally, I added a bit more of the sunflower oil (because the water content from the frozen veggies had reduced till it was practically all gone). 
• I stirred the contents up a bit more and let them cook then took the sauce pan off the heat once I thought the veggies were done.
• The wraps were heated in the grill part of an oven (they had been kept in the freezer to preserve them between when they were bought (in October) and now).
• Once the wraps were warm enough, they were placed on individual plate and one 1/3 of each wrap, the veggies where put in a vertical line then then the eggs put on on top of them. A few drops of peri-peri sauce was added then the wraps were rolled into a perfect cylinder with the veggies and eggs (with the peri-peri sauce on them, of course) in the middle of it. One end was folded up and that was it!

This wrap filled me up quickly (and 3 of the wraps filled up one of my cousins :) ). We all loved it and it was great that it was healthy.

Let me know if you try it out some time, okay?

Ciao,

~Sammy