I never make bread with exact quantities of the ingredients, but I simply follow my basic recipe and adapt it: if the dough needs more moisture, then more water or oil is added, etc.
Ingredients
spelt flour (ca. 500-800 g)
1 fresh yeast cube
1 tbsp sugar
2-3 tbsp vegetable broth
3-4 tbsp olive oil
water
Instructions
Pour all the flour into a big bowl.
Also add the vegetable broth.
Now dissolve the yeast cube with a bit of warm (not hot!) water and add the sugar. Pour it in the bowl.
Now mix it a bit and then add slowly luke warm water to it. Start with only a bit, knead look if it needs more water, add a bit more etc.
Knead knead knead until it gets smooth.
Let the dough rest for at least 45 min minutes. (the longer the fluffier the bread will be). I sometimes let it rest in the oven at 80 °C .
Now knead it again. If you want to you can now add chopped up nuts, dried fruit, dried tomatoes and basil, banana (but if you add banana, don’t use vegetable broth, use regular salt. But in this case it would be less salt, more sugar. 1:2 ratio).. whatever you want to. You can either make buns (And then maybe freeze some of them to always have homemade bread at home) or you can make one big bread.
Bake it at 200 ° C for about 25-40 (buns) or 45-55 (bread) minutes.
Sushi can be filled with anything. My personal favorites are:
mango
avocado
vegan mayo
cucumber
fried tofu
bell pepper
sprouts
pumpkin
Teriyaki- sauce
Sushi – Rice iNstruction
Rinse it with water several times.
Put twice as much water than rice into a large pan.
Bring it to a boil. Put a lid on the pan!
Reduce the heat – the rice should now simmer on low temperature for 10-12 minutes. SET A TIMER!
Keep the pan on the stove, but turn off the heat and DO NOT open the lid for another 20 – 25 minutes!! As longer as the rice can steam the better it gets!
Teriyaki – Sauce InGredients
soy sauce
agave syrup
ginger
garlic
olive oil
Instruction
Mix the soy sauce and the agave syrup. Mixing ratio: 1:1
Add olive oil to the mixture. Mixing ratio: 2:1 ( soy-agave mixture: olive oil)
Add also 1 clove of minced garlic and add a bit of fresh grated ginger.
All you have to do now is to spread the rice equally onto a nori sheet, put your ingredients on to it – and roll it. Store the finished Sushi rolls in the fridge, take them out one by one after you have finished to roll and cut them into pieces with a sharp knife.
A. Endurance sports do not have any effects on the body, therefore no special measures are needed after the sport.
B. THE ultimate source of protein exists.
C. A hobby athlete doesn’t need protein shakes.
D. Athletes have an increased need for water.
E. An extremely carbohydrate-rich meal before an intensive workout is the best.
So what do you think? Which of these propositions are correct? Which ones are wrong?
Solutions
A. False
During endurance sports, acids (lactic acid and carbonic acids) are increasingly formed. Measures should be taken after training to remove these acids from the body as quickly as possible. These measures help: Relaxed and consciously slow breathing: helps to degrade carbonic acid, as it can be exhaled as carbon dioxide. Alkaline baths and Alkaline mineral preparations: accelerate the process of removing the acids in the body. Warm showering: supports sustained blood circulation and thus accelerates the removal of acids. Sauna sessions: faster acid drainage, but liquid deficits must be compensated. Sufficient sleep: to allow the organism to concentrate on the drainage of acids.
B. False
The ultimative protein source doesn’t exist. But to eat a variety of food and to combine different protein sources such as vegetables with grains, vegetables with nuts, vegetables with legumes is important to get all essential amino acids covered.
C. True
A hobby athlete does not need protein shakes because a healthy, varied and balanced diet normally provides him with sufficient proteins. To consume occasionally Protein shakes can be helpful in general low protein diets. But be aware: the conventional protein shakes contain synthetic sweeteners, emulsifiers often based on gene soya, artificial flavours, artificial colourings and citric acid. In addition, they are usually enriched with synthetic vitamins and minerals. This harms the body more than one could benefit from. However, a high-quality protein preparation that comes from a first-class source and gentle processing, such as rice protein from germinated and fermented whole grain rice, organic lupin protein, organic hemp protein, etc. could be beneficial. These powders are not isolated proteins, as is the case with ordinary protein shakes, but they also contain fibre and micronutrients and are free of synthetic additives.
D. True
Yes, athletes have an increased need for water. Because they lose a lot of body water through sweating. A loss of fluid of only 2 percent contributes to premature muscle fatigue and reduced performance. It is therefore important to drink plenty of water during and after exercise.
E. False
Extremely carbohydrate-rich food before intensive training is not advisable. The glycogen reserves are already exhausted after 2 hours of intensive training, so that an increase in performance, if at all, can only be of very short duration. It makes more sense to eat a varied and balanced dish (as described above) a few hours before exercise. The general carbohydrate demand should be covered with healthy carbohydrates such as millet, cereals, potatoes, root vegetables, etc. During training, it makes sense to maintain glycogen reserves with complex, long-chain carbohydrates. Complex carbohydrates are found in vegetables, fruits and nuts. It also makes sense to enrich your mineral balance with natural isotonic drinks (coconut water). It therefore makes no sense to maintain your carbohydrate store with dextrose, because the consumption of dextrose leads to fluctuations in blood sugar and thus to hypoglycaemic phases, which can lead to performance drops.
What do you want to achieve today? What do you want to have achieved in a month? In a year? For your life? Whatever it is you can achieve it – if you really really want to. I’ve read that 93 % of the people don’t achieve their goal. Doesn’t this make you want to achieve your goals even more?
The following quotes and speeches won’t do the work for you – but they might make you want to do the work it needs to achieve your goal.
“Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.” – Arthur Ashe
“Don’t watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going.” – Sam Levenson
“Don’t limit your challenges. Challenge your limits”- Tony Robbins
“Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.” – John F. Kennedy
My newest addiction: sweet salty popcorn! Way back then people looked at me weird when I ordered half sweet, half salty popcorn in the cinema. But now, it’s all legitimate and the best thing is that I knew it all the time. – Sweet and salty popcorn is a delicacy.
In Switzerland the very best sweet salty popcorn is the “Zweifel popcorn sweet and salty”!! But some sneaky people go to the stores and buy it all leaving me with nothing! The only way to survive this is to make my very own sweet and salty popcorn.
Ingredients
Corn
Sugar
Salt
Oil
Instructions
Add the popcorn and the oil into a large pan with a lid.
Heat the pan to a high temperature.
Before it pops, add 2-3 tablespoons of sugar and stir it.
Reduce the heat, wait until most of the corn has popped and shake the pan from time to time to prevent burning.
Remove the pan from the stove, put all the popcorn into a large bowl and sprinkle salt over it.
I once also tried to make a caramel “syrup” and pour it over the popcorn but it turned out way too sticky. Also this way of making the popcorn is really fast. You just have to be careful that you don’t put the sugar in the pan to early, because otherwise it burns.
This popcorn is yum, but unfortunately it’s not as good as the bought Zweifel Popcorn. Their popcorn is crisp, deliciously sweet with a cheeky bit of salt, not too much, just the right amount. Also it’s not as unhealthy as it could be – it only has 4 ingredients (corn, sugar, oil, salt) so the secret must be in the preparation. Long story short: I want to eat all of it. I want to find a store and buy and eat it all. Bless you you beautiful popcorn.
PS: Isn’t it funny that there’s a corn.. it pops… it becomes a popcorn. #deep
There are a variety of different plant based milk out there. Most of them have been processed a lot and one can only guess how much or how little vitamins are left. So if you wanna be sure to have high quality vitamin and mineral rich milk – make your own!
Ingredients
water
organic nuts
dates
pinch of salt
vanilla
Every kind of nut works, but I prefer cashews and almonds. When you make the milk with cashews you don’t have to strain the milk after blending. Almonds on the other hand leave small chunks in the milk. That’s tasty too, but it’s not necessarily how you want your milk.
The ingredient-ratio depends on your desires. If you want a thick milk use less water and more nuts, if you want to have a sweet milk use more dates etc.
Instructions
Soak the nuts for at least 10 minutes in water (over night would be ideal).
Mix all the ingredients with a high speed blender.
I definitely want to reduce my plastic waste! All this plastic everywhere starts to annoy me. First of all: let me give you some plastic facts I have copied from https://plasticoceans.org/the-facts/ (check out their website and their blog! 🙂
Plastic facts from plasticoceans.org
Packaging is the largest end use market segment accounting for just over 40% of total plastic usage.
Annually approximately 500 billion plastic bags are used worldwide. More than one million bags are used every minute.
A plastic bag has an average “working life” of 15 minutes.
Over the last ten years we have produced more plastic than during the whole of the last century.
Beverage Bottles Alone
According to the Container Recycling Institute, 100.7 billion plastic beverage bottles were sold in the U.S. in 2014, or 315 bottles per person.
57% of those units were plastic water bottles: 57.3 billion sold in 2014. This is up from 3.8 billion plastic water bottles sold in 1996, the earliest year for available data.
The process of producing bottled water requires around 6 times as much water per bottle as there is in the container.
14% of all litter comes from beverage containers. When caps and labels are considered, the number is higher.
Wow. Wow. Wow. Wow. Wow. Wow. Wow. Already upset? I am. I have personally come to the conclusion that I want to change and reduce my amount of waste – especially my plastic waste. But where to start?
Of course, I can’t just throw away everything plastic I have at home. Well, I will, but not all at once. I only throw things away when I’ve finished using them, for example my shampoo bottles. But I want to live according to the motto “vote with your dollar” – or in my case “vote with your Swiss francs”. That’s why I want to replace my stuff (slowly but surely) with more sustainable plastic-free stuff. If possible, I don’t buy things with plastic, or at least wherever there is a plastic-free option, I buy the plastic-free version.
As soon as I’ve replaced everything I’ll show you the products I have found. And maybe I’ve already replaced even more things in my bathroom or elsewhere.
As slower as you eat and as more you chew the more enzymes can be set free and are able to predigesting your food before it goes down to your stomach. As most of us eat way too fast we almost don’t give our stomach a break! The food also stays in the stomach way longer than it is supposed to be. Roughly digested food now arrives at the small intestine where bacterias decompose the undigested food pieces. This then leads to bloating and toxic gases which not only harms your digestive system but also your entire body. So remind yourself to eat slowly and to chew a loooooot.
2. The right combination of food
Our stomach likes it easy. For example veggies+protein , veggies + fat, veggies + carbs. This could look like this:
(veggies + protein) Steamed broccoli and cauliflower with scrambled tofu and spicy tomato salsa
(veggies + fat) carrot & cucumber sticks with coconut-yogurt chives dip sauce and guacamole and celeriac Schnitzel
(veggies + carbs:) big salad (kale, tomatoes, cucumber, parsley, mango) with quinoa and hummus. This way your digestion will work much faster.
3. Water
Drink 1 glass of water right after you wake up and wait 1 hour before you eat. This will boost your metabolism and you will also feel much more satisfied. Try to drink at least 2 liters of water per day: this will help your body to get rid of toxins, it will keep you hydrated and it supports and relieves your organs.
4. Don’t drink and eat
While it is very important to drink a lot of water it is not recommending to drink while eating as liquid dilutes the gastric juices and therefore makes it more difficult for your digestive system to do it’s job. The best thing to do: drink 1 hour before you eat and 1 hour after you have eaten.
5. Move yourself!
Sometimes you might feel full and bloated and especially in those times light exercises can bring big relief! Try it out – you won’t be disappointed. A small yoga session, a walk around the block, a few sit ups – quite everything does it – and gets your digestive system going!
3. Water
