My favourite brownie, made healthy topped with some homemade chocolate, also made healthy

I love this brownie recipe.  Technically I love the original. A friend brought a few pieces once when she was visiting and I fell in love with it. Few days later she gave me the recipe and I started making it myself. Honestly, it is so good that I could eat the entire tray myself. I skipped a few of the ingredients she gave me, simply because I don't like them, but it is still a delicious, soft and moist brownie magic.  Remember when I said I've been keeping a diet for time time now? Well, I had to give this guilty pleasure of mine up. Until I came up with the idea for the healthy substitute. And when I made it the first time it was yet another surprise - very tasty, very savoury and still kind of juicy. So, here's what you're gonna need for you healthy, gluten-free, sugar-free and dairy-free brownie:

• 3 cups flour(I usually combine all the flours I have at home - spelt flour, buckwheat flour, millet flour, rice flour, carob flour; there is no exact proportion - just kix them together to get the needed quantity)
• 2 teaspoons baking soda
• 6 tablespoons cocoa
• 1 teaspoon salt
• Vanilla extract
• 3 tablespoons vinegar
• 3/4 cup sunflower oil
• 2 cups cold water
• 5-6 tablespoons honey(if you like a sweeter taste, put few more spoons)

The preparation is really easy - first you combine all dry ingredients, I aslo put them through a sieve. Then add all the liquids and stir until you get a homogeneous mixture. Here's another trick of mine - before I put the honey, I heat it on the stove. I am not really sure if it helps the batter in any way, but the aroma in the kitchen is incredible.  Not it's redy for baking. You'll need your oven preheated to 180 C and it will take about 45 kinutes to bake. BUT. I always check it with a toothpick, because the size and the depth of the tray effects the baking time. And the tray I currently use is longer, wider, but more shallow and it takes about 20-25min to bake.  Once it is ready you can top it with the chocolate. It is also very easy to make and very tasty to eat. You will need:

• Hazelnut tahini
• Honey
• Cocoa powder

The proportion is 3:2 units tahini to honey aand for every 200g of that mixture you put 1 table spoon sieved cocoa powder. I mixed the hazelnut with just a bit of sunflower seed tahini just to try it out and it came out great. I prepared the chocolate over a water bath because I needed a more liquid texture - this way it spreads easier. But if you decide to kame the chocolate as a solo desert, you can skip the bath and mixthem cold - they still blend perfectly. Well there you have it, my favourite brownie gone healthy topped with homemade chocolate, surprisingly - also gone helathy :) I hope you try and enjoy it!

A more..... interesting.... vegetable soup

So for the past few months I have been on a diet that excludes everything I love 😃 That is why I have been trying to find and to make interesting recipes with the products I can eat.  I love my soup with lots of potatoes and noodles in it. But I can't have it this way now, so I came up with this combination of vegetables for my garden soup. I have to say I love the result. It is different than what I am used to, but it is still delicious.  The veggies you will need:

• Cauliflower
• Broccolli
• Fresh green peppers
• Fresh red peppers
• Fresh carrots
• Fresh onion
• Canned green peas
• Canned beans (I used Cannellini, but you can use the kind you prefer)
• Fresh celery (1 stalk is enough)
• Tomato juice or canned tomatoes

Of course, you'll need salt, pepper and olive oil. And to make it even more interesting, tasty and exotic, I added some freshly cut dill and a pinch of turmeric powder. You can adjust the quantity of the products to your taste, if you have a favourite among them - put more of it :) If you don't like celery - take the stalk out once the soup is ready. If you don't mind it - chop it in smaller pieces and leave it in.  The result? Delicious and aromatic meal that is a bit more different and not so traditional (at least around here). I hope you try and enjoy it as much as I do.

A little bit more different and a lot richer tuna salad

Do you like salad?  

I love salad! All kinds of salad! The richer it is - the better! Actually this is my way of making salad - I put almost everything I have in the fridge in it! I actually have this one friend that,most of all, loves my salads :) She says that I'm the only person that makes salads as she likes them(that's probably because we share a zodiac sign and we're almost the same person, but that's a different matter).  And then I have this other friend that goes "I don't like this and I don't eat that" but then she comes for dinner at our place with her family and and she leaves with a wider food experience 😃  Ok, back on topic, I was making a salad for dinner the other day and, as usual, I went into the closet to check what I have, besides the fresh green salad in the fridge, and I decided on a tuna can with a few other stuff.  So if you would like to experiment and try something different, here's what you'll need:

• Fresh green salad
• Fresh dill
• Sweet corn
• Canned tuna 
• Canned chickpeas (yes, chickpeas, I love chickpeas on a salad!)
• Sundried tomatoes in olive/sunflower oil(if they are regular - slice them, if they are cherry - they're good to go)
• Salt
• Lemon
• Olive oil(you could use some from the tomatoes)

That's it. This is a salad, so you can combine them as you like, in the proportions you prefer. If you like fish - put more tuna, if you love greens - put more salad, if you like sour taste - put more lemon. You can adjust it to your taste. To be honest, I was surprised by the fresh taste that the dill gave the whole thing, Hopefully, you will be surprised, too. Pleasantly surprised I hope :)  Well, If you like the idea - try it. If you enjoy the result - do tell :) Have a nice evening, World!