Pumpkin Pie Smoothie

Hello lovelies!! Autumn is finally here to stay and I'm so excited to make all those recipes I love from this season!! Here in Catalonia we eat a lot of sweet potato and chestnuts during autumn and since we don't have this ingredients available the rest of the year I put them in a lot of my recipes, so basically I become a sweet potato and chestnut lover during this season!! The problem with sweet potato is that it's too dense and in some recipes it works greatly but in others I prefer to use pumpkin, pumpkin has a similar taste to sweet potato but it's lighter. When I started to think about this smoothie I was tempted to make it with sweet potato, but then I changed my mind and I finally came up with the recipe I'm going to show you now, I hope you like it!

Ingredients

• 2/3 Cup pumpkin puree
• 1/2 Cup rolled oats
• 1 Cup milk or substitute
• 1/3 or 1/4 banana (depending on the size of the banana)
• 1/2 Tsp cinnamon powder
• 1/8 Tsp vanilla extract
• 1/8 Tsp ginger powder
• A pinch of salt
• Sweetener

*Depending on your ingredients (homemade or canned pumpking pie for example) the smoothie might be too thick, adjust it by putting more milk.
*Don't skip the pinch of salt when I tried it,

Procedure

• It can't be more easy than putting everything inside a blender and pushing the button hahaha!

Here you have the YT video:

Health Haters

Hello everyone :D I hope you are having a wonderful week! So I've noticed a while ago that with all this healthy movement of course there are some health haters. I really don't understand haters if you don't like something why to bother thinking about it? I mean... is your life so boring that you have to think about something that you don't like and make other people happy? Why not spend your time thinking in what makes YOU happy and leaving others alone? Anyway, I don't understand haters but especially those who are health haters, why you may ask? Because healthiness is not about a trend, it surely is a trend right now but it's not about it, if you are healthy you lower the risk of having several diseases and feel better, how can that be something bad? Of course people who push healthiness to the limits are annoying, but aren't we all obnoxious when we are obsessed with something?

I really believe that having a healthy lifestyle doesn't mean that you have to eat fruit and veggies all the time or go to the gym every day. Everything is about a balance, you can't control everything you eat and how much calories do you burn... a healthy lifestyle must consider a healthy mind as well as a healthy body, and most restrictive diets mess up with your mind, our brains love to have everything under control and counting calories is somehow fun for our brains (stupid brains).

Something that people don't realize is that having a decadent meal like pizza or a cheese burger once in a while (let's say twice a month) is also healthy, maybe not for your body, but for your mind! And if you have a healthy lifestyle that food won't have the same impact as if you are a sedentary person and have shitty food all the time.

I really believe that having a healthy lifestyle is about making smart decisions, eating the right foods, I've found that a lot of people eat wrong because they don't know anything about nutrition, not because it is expensive to buy healthy ingredients but because they don't understand how their bodies work, just think about it... we only have one body for the rest of our lives, let's eat smart and take care of our bodies by giving them the right nutrients, this way we will feel better and be more happy :)

Mexican salad

Hello everyone and welcome to the first entry of this blog :) I'm starting with a mexican salad, not like a real traditional mexican salad, it's just a salad with Mexican flavours. This salad was meant to be a light dinner with everything you need to finish your day. It has a base of lettuce, and then typical mexican ingredients such as corn, black beans, avocado, onion and tomatoes. Black beans provide us with carbohydrates, proteins and fats, while corn only give us carbohydrates and avocado good fats. If you want to add more proteins then add a water canned tuna, just remember to drain the excess water. The salad dressing is just a combination of lemon/lime juice and olive oil, some cumin powder and salt and if you like spicy food you can add a little bit of cayenne pepper or tabasco. This recipe is really easy to put together so you don't have to expend a lot of time preparing it, I hope you like it!

Ingredients

• Lettuce
• 140 gr Corn
• 1 Cup of cooked black beans
• 1 Avocado
• Some cherry tomatoes
• 1 Chopped onion

Ingredients for the dressing

• Lime or lemon juice
• Olive Oil
• Cumin powder
• Pepper
• Salt
• Optional: chilli powder or tabasco

Procedure

• Cut the lettuce with your hands, or if you prefer with a knife.
• Chop the cilantro into medium size pieces.
• Put the cilantro inside the bowl with the lettuce and then add the corn, and then the beans.
• Cut the cherry tomatoes in half and add them to the salad.
• Add the chopped onion.
• Cut the avocado in half, and remove the seed by hitting it with a knife and then twist the knife to loosen the seed from the meat. Now, just cut the avocado horizontally and vertically and then scoop the meat with a spoon.
• In a bowl, squeeze a lime or lemon. Then add some olive oil, some salt and pepper to
  taste and some cumin powder, you can also add some pepper and chilli powder or tabasco if you like spicy food. And that's it there you have this delicious Mexican salad.

Let's begin!

Hello people!! I'm Giselle I'm starting this little project called Tiny Healthy Kitchen. I love food, I love eating but I also love being healthy! To me food is one of our greatest pleasures, not only because is a human necessity but also because we enjoy the flavours, the smells, the textures and the environment where all this food magic happens. Food is always present in important moments of our lives such as birthdays, marriage, Christmas, New Year celebrations, you name it! food is always there. Food get people together around a table, around a barbecue the list is endless, there is no doubt that food is an important aspect of our society and that’s why it’s a good target for business. I am by no means and activist or a hippie, but I do believe that the food industry is what make us fat, but is not entirely their fault, the actual guilty is us, humans. The way our bodies are build makes us crave sugars and love fats, that’s why that orgasmic combination between fat and sugar in a delicious cheesecake drive us nut! The food industry just takes advantage of it, they sell more adding more sugar and fats simply as that, they don’t care about our health, they care about the money.

As I said before I love food and also being healthy, so you may think I’m a crazy woman who spends hours at the gym… and the answer is NO, I’d rather be experimenting in the kitchen than lifting weights and doing push ups hahaha. I go to the gym but only three times a week. What I do to stay in a healthy weight is to eat the most healthy way I can when I’m at home and when I go out I eat whatever I want, of course I don’t eat fast food every time I go out, Asian, Moroccan, Lebanese food is way more delicious and nutritious than fast food.

Healthy doesn’t mean to eat a lettuce for breakfast, lunch and dinner, healthy is to eat a fruit smoothie full of all the nutrients you need to start a day, having some snacks (nuts, fruit, yogurt) to keep you rocking through the day, having a delicious lunch and dinner with your favourite recipes but an improved and healthier version of them. And that’s why I started this project, lots of people ask me what I do to keep a healthy weight, well… through this project I will show you how. I hope you enjoy it as much as I do. Cy!