It's been a busy past few months! The blog rather fell by the way side amidst making 2 wedding cakes and 2 celebration cakes in the space of a month (perhaps I shall share some photos later), travelling around the south of England on research and studying. I also gave my first conference paper this week, oh my pretty scary stuff but quite fun, they also feed us and free food is always a bonus, especially accompanied with free alcohol, I think I could get used to this conference thing!
Anyway, I do have quite a backlog of recipes to share with you now that things have quietened down a little. Today though I want to share something really really simple yet incredibly delicious, just to ease us back into this game!
Peach season is upon us! I think peaches have to be my favourite fruit and I can demolish a punnet of peaches in a day, but thats ok because they're totally healthy so I don't feel too bad about it. My favourite has to be the yellow flesh peaches they just seem so much sweeter and juicer than the white flesh, and necatrines? forget about it. Is it just me or do they taste weird? But yes, peaches. Peaches are delicious and I'm so happy that I can get them in the supermarkets again. I love that they are only sold in season since I think that fruit sold out of season is just kind of meh... you know the strawberries in December that just taste like water or Blueberries that have literally no tartness or sweetness just mushiness. Ick. Well its the season for Peaches, Strawberries and Blueberries so I am one happy camper right now! My three favourite fruits right at my finger tips in all their sweet, tart, juicy glory! It's also the season where the weather gets warmer which seems really nice at first, until it's too warm, you know that british thing right? There's like a 3 degree window of too warm... too cold. Yesterday was one of those days that it was a case of nope... too hot. But a girl still want's dessert! Just, not turning on the oven because oh dear god please no more heat.
This is where today's recipe comes in. Here at the grad house we try to eat healthy, sure the odd bar of chocolate sneaks its way into my belly more often than it should occassionally... but we try to get plenty of fruit and wholegrains and cook things from scratch so we know what's in them. We're still working on the vegetables because we have very different tastes in those! I love broccoli, sprouts, green beans, cabbage, Mr Grad... not so much. But that's another post and another recipe! So, eating healthy, this fruit salad is a really easy way to get delicious fruit into you diet without having to munch your way through endless apples. As a bonus it also has the flavours of Mojito in it which has to be like the best drink ever. What's not to love??
Now the warmer
weather is coming in I don't feel like filling up on a steaming bowl of
porridge in the morning, but I do like my oats! They are so very
healthy and tasty. What's a girl to do??
But then I
discovered this wonderful, magical food called overnight oats! Have you
heard about overnight oats? I think I'm quite late coming to this party
but they are pretty amazing! Basically you toss oats, milk, chia seeds
and whatever flavours you like into a jar, shake it up and throw it in
the fridge overnight. In the morning you have gloriously thick oats that
have absorbed all the liquid and become tender and delicious!
I
also love them because they are so simple, no faffing about in the
morning with the stove when you're sleepy and likely to burn down the
house. No bowls/saucepans to wash up. Everything gets made into the jar
and shaken up and then you can eat out of that jar too. Bonus! You make
them the night before so it's just grab and go and you can make them up
for a few days and not have to worry about breakfast! yay!
They are also so
incredibly healthy! No nasty stuff in it and it's a really good way to
get fruit into your breakfast as well as protein and everyone knows the
oats are like the best superfood. What's not to like?
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| See? So healthy! |
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| Into the jars it goes! |
