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Chicken in Korma souce with rice

Grilled fish and vegetables

This recipe is easy to prepare, healthy and it is also time saving.
To be able to do it you need to be equipped with a grill. Mine for example is especially designed for a gas cooker. It has a top cover, which helps the steaming of the food.

Method:
1. Before starting to cook you need to prepare in advance the following:
Courgettes - cut in small round pieces.
Aubergine – cut in small round pieces.
Fish – cut in medium size pieces and brushed with salt from both sides.

2. Start to grill the vegetables in first place, because they take more time to cook than the fish. It is important to supervise the grilling process often. Don’t forget to brush the grill with oil so that it won’t stick.

3. When everything is ready add some fresh tomatos in the dish and sprinkle with little olive oil and basil.

How to be “200 percent more productive if you make the right eating choices”

Today I discovered very interesting article by David Zinczenko the editor –in-chief of Men’s Health magazine. According to him the brain represents only 2 percent of the body weight and 20 percent of the energy demands. That is way when providing your body with the right nutrition will improve memory, “sharpen your senses, improve your performance and activate your feel-good hormones”.

Here it is what Zinczenko recommends:
1. For short-term memory: Drink Coffee
It helps to improve attention and problem-solving skills. However don’t forget that if caffeine is taken more than necessary it can obstruct sleep.

2. For long-term memory: Eat Blueberries
The antioxidants in blueberries help to protect the brain from free-radical damage and cut the risk of Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s diseases.

3. To think faster: eat salmon or mackerel
The omega-3 fatty acids found in fatty fishes are a primary building block of brain tissue, so they’ll speed up your thinking power. Salmon is also rich in niacin, which can help ward off Alzheimer’s disease and slow the rate of cognitive decline.

4. To Energize: eat high –protein salads with vinaigrette
It is very important to understand that using oil in the salads will just slow down the digestion of proteins and carbohydrates, which are responsible for stabilizing blood-sugar levels and therefore keeping energy levels high. The autor recommends as to use vinaigrette instead. Besides we can add more proteins like chicken meet and hard –boiled eggs.

Another ideas is to use a tl spn of ground flaxseed in salads. Although it is recommended to take it daily, because Flax is the best source of alphalinoleic, or ALA—a healthy fat that improves the workings of the cerebral cortex, the area of the brain that processes sensory information, including that of pleasure.

5. To calm down: Eat law-fat yogurt or mixed nuts
Yogurt is one of the best food sources of lysine, while nuts pack loads of arginine.

6. To concentrate: Drink peppermint tea
The scent of peppermint helps you focus and boosts performance, according to researchers.

Source article: http://health.yahoo.com/experts/eatthis/31477/best-and-worst-brain-foods/

Pumpkin and carrots cream soup

Serves: 4

Ingredients:

• 4 tablespoons olive oil
• 2 medium onions, finely chopped
• 2 cloves garlic, finely chopped
• 800 grams pumpkin, sliced
• 200 grams fresh cream
• 1 teaspoon honey
• 3-4 medium sized carrots
• 1 litter water
• Salt and black paper to taste

Method:

Heat the oil in a pot and sauté the onion until tender. Add the garlic and sauté for 2 minutes. In a separate pot boil the pumpkin and the carrots, until they become very soft. After that, carefully take away from the boiling water the pumpkin and the carrots and place them in a container, where using a liquidizer mix these into a homogeneous paste. Add fresh cream and a tea spoon of honey. At last slowly add the mixture back to the boiling water in the pot and stir well. Add salt and black pepper to taste. Decorate with parsley and fresh basil when serving.

Marinated eggs

This is an excellent starter for lunch or dinner. It is healthy, but only if it taken once or twice per month, because eggs are rich in cholesterol. However is very fast to prepare. I hope that you will enjoy it.

Serves: 2

Ingredients:

• 6 eggs

• Some oil, white vinegar and salt to taste

• Paprika
  

Method:
Boil the eggs. Cut them in small pieces and add salt, oil and white vinegar to taste. At last garnish with paprika. This will give the dish a unique taste.

Salmon with side salad (cabbage and carrots)

Serves: 2

Ingredients:

• 2 stakes of salmon
• Olive oil
• Half small cabbage
• 2-3 carrots
• Mint
• Salt
• Lemon

Method:

Salmon
Heat some drops of olive oil in a non sticky frying pan. Add the two fish stakes and fry for 2 or 3 minutes on each side. It is important to remember that, while frying the salmon you should leave a small circle in the middle slightly raw. This is the case, because when you take the fish out from the frying pan it will continue to cook from its own heat. On the other hand if you leave it to fry till it becomes golden you risk that it will become too tender and fall apart in parts.

Side salad of cabbage and carrots
Grind the carrots (make them in large strips). Cut the cabbage in thin strips. Mix the two together. Add olive oil, salt, and vinegar to taste well.
Place together in a dish. Decorate the meal with lemon pieces and fresh mint.

Stuffed peppers with Aubergine sauce

Serves: 2

Ingredients:

• 6-8 peppers
• 400 gr. Ricotta
• 3 eggs
• 2 aubergines
• 300 ml tomato sauce
• 1- 2 cloves garlic
• Parsley
• Mint
• Salt
• Pepper
• Oil olive
  

Method

Stuffed peppers with Ricotta cheese and eggs.
Cut around the stalks and remove the very tops off the peppers. Remove the insides and seeds of the peppers.
Stuff the emptied peppers with this mixture: 400gr. Ricotta cheese mixed with 3 eggs and some parsley.
Place in a baking tray and season with salt and freshly ground black pepper, and drizzle with olive oil. Also put some oil on the bottom of the backing try.
Cook them in the oven for about 20-30 minutes until soft and cooked through

Aubergine sauce
Bake the aubergines for 20-30 minutes until soft. After you take them from the oven place those a bit in a closed container and soon after peal them off.
Cut in small pieces and fry on a low temperature with garlic and some tomato sauce.
Finally place in a dish and decorate the meal with some fresh mint and crunchy bread. ;-)

Salad “Vitaminka”

Serves: 1 person

Ingredients:

• half tomato
• half cucumber
• 1 or 2 leaves green salad
• half pepper (orange or red)
• 1 boiled egg
• 3 or 4 olives
• 1 soup spoon yogurt
• 1 tea spoon olive oil
• parsley
• salt
  

Method:

Cut the tomato, the cucumber and the paper in small pieces.
Separate the yolk of the boiled egg from the white. Mix the yolk with 1 soup spoon yogurt, 3-4 olives and some parsley. Use liquidiser to prepare a homogenous souse, which to put in a small jar in the middle of the salad.
Than render the white part of the egg and add it near the rest of the vegetables.
Finally cut the green salad. Put some olive oil on all vegetables and a pinch of salt.