The most important meal of the day is... breakfast! If you leave it out, it has an impact on your entire day. Speed up your metabolism with a yummy & healthy breakfast. Did you know that people who are most successful at losing weight eat breakfast every day? How about preparing your own granola? It's fun, easy, healthy and delicious - and definitely worth trying! Liisa's crunchy muesli 6 dl organic oats 2 dl nuts 1 dl coconut dessicated 1 dl almonds 1/2 dl sesame seeds 1/2 dl sunflower seeds 1/2 dl flax 1/2 dl pumpkin seeds + ... anything you desire! 1 dl sunflower oil 3/4 - 1 dl honey brown sugar dried fruit, chocolate etc. 1. Mix all dry ingredients together in big bowl 2. Combine oil and honey in pot and heat until honey runny. Pour over dry ingredients 3. Stir until everything is evenly coated 4. Bake in oven at 170 C and stir every 5-10 minutes for 45 mins up to 1 hour 5. This looks nice! This is how it

The other week was Mexican culinary week . So when I started to look up some recipes in the internet I encountered this Azteque-Gold drink.  I checked the ingredients of the recipe and imagined how it would taste like. In that moment I had this flash back to the year 2012, end of May: Berkeley, California, some small Mexican café. What I remember is the Mexican Hot Chocolate I drank in that café.  In fact it was always on my mind after I left Berkeley. Every time I had a Hot Chocolate I wished it could have been a Mexican one. But never did I think of preparing it myself until I found the Azteque-Gold recipe. What I want is to share it with you, so that you can be part of this Mexican Hot Chocolate dream as well! Enjoy! Mexican Hot Chocolate / Azteque Gold Ingredients: 1/5 cup water Cocoa powder or pieces of your favorite chocolate Vanilla essence or vanilla sugar 4/5 cup milk Some cinnamon A touch of salt Some chili powder, more or less Whipped crea

I would like to mention culinary misfits . Der Spiegel (Germany) published an article about them; they are vegetables and fruits that have some aesthetic fault (asymmetric apples, two- or three legged carrots etc.). Around 25 – 50 % of the entire vegetable harvest on a small/normal sized vegetable farm in Germany (I think this information is transferable to a lot of other countries or fruit farming as well) would be useless in the point of view of the farmer, since retailers i.e. supermarkets wouldn’t buy them. The consumers- we people- don’t want to buy products that are out of our standard norms, it’s simple as that. Note that there is no health risk in eating a two-legged carrot or a crooked cucumber!  These farms experience a financial loss in culinary misfits. They end up most likely being chucked away or fed to animals etc. So what can we do about it? First of all I as a consumer need to change my attitude and be ready to pick the ugly vegetable instead of the perf