Friday Recipe: Smoothie Bowl

The smoothie bowl, is the latest breakfast trend. I have seen an increase in photos people are posting of their artistically berry and nut decorated smoothie bowls sprinkled with chai, flax or sunflower seeds on Instagram. I decided that it was finally my turn to give the smoothie bowl a whirl.  

Ingredients I used 
two large scoops of Greek yogurt
spoonful of almond butter
handful of blackberries & frozen blueberries
1 tablespoon each of chia seeds, sunflower seeds and chocolate chips

I put greek yogurt, frozen blueberries, blackberries and almond butter into a blender with coconut water to loosen into smoothie liquid form. I then poured smoothie substance into a bowl and decorated the top with blackberries, blueberries, sunflower seeds, chocolate chips and chia seeds. The result was like a cold fruity soup. It was tasty but I think next time I will put less coconut water in and let the chia seeds sit in the smoothie bowl for a couple minutes to let the smoothie thicken out.
This weekend try making your own smoothie bowl for breakfast there are so many different fruit, berry, seed combinations you can really make it your own! 

snacks

I realized that I never talk about food on here which is weird because I am probably the biggest foodie of all time. On my twitter I just tweet photos of meals I make myself, and thats about the only reason I have one. But last night and today I made myself some kale chips. Let me tell you they are the yummiest, healthiest and most addicting snack on the planet. I thought I would share my first ever recipe yipeee!!

What you need:
Kale
olive oil
cajun spice
sea salt
pepper

1. Preheat your oven at 350. Rinse off you kale and cut the trick stems off so you are left with the leafy curls. (the photos above don't show this however you should cut the stems.
1. Place the kale in a bowl and drizzle a little bit of olive oil on them. This was my first mistake I dumped olive oil all over the kale and it resulted in very limp and greasy kale chips. For best results you only need a minimal amount.
2. Put your hands in the bowl and toss around the kale so the olive oil coats each leaf. Add sea sale, pepper and cajun spice as much or as little as your like. Keep tossing the kale so that all the leaves are covered.
3. Lay the kale on a baking sheet and stick in the oven for 10 minutes. Be careful on timing they burn quick. By ten minutes they should be crispy and green, if not leave in a little longer like 1 minute. You don't want your kale chips to turn brown.
4. Place on a plate and eat them with ketchup, hummus or lemonaise. Be careful once you start eating these its hard to stop!