Believe it or not, this smoothie is DELICIOUS! you just have to give it a try!
There is nothing like homemade tomato sauce with whole wheat pasta and Parmesan cheese ...
Chop the garlic and saute them in a saucepan on low temperature while you chop the tomatoes. I usually add the laurel leaves now together with the garlic, just shortly before adding the tomatoes. Watch out don't let it burn. I mean, you can as well just throw it in once you have poured the tomato "juice". My idea of doing it before is to give some extra flavor to the oil
Bring the chopped tomatoes in a blender and add a little bit of water to help the machine, but don't add too much water, it should be pure tomatoes. Normally this recipe calls for no water at all. I left the skin of the tomatoes on, when you peal off the skin the tomatoes will be soft and juicy enough on itself and you won't need water. I have found it a lot more work to try to peal the skin off and I don;t always have the time to do it ... like in today's case!
Blend them well
Pour on the sauce pan and allow to boil
Add the oregano and stir
When the sauce has boiled and become darker, add the tomato paste and stir. Add salt and sugar and taste. Allow to cook again for a few seconds and you are done!
Serve with Parmesan cheese and enjoy ...
Aloe's properties are endless and the use that are given to its leaves today are just as endless as well. I like to use it to enrich my personal care products, hair care and soaps. I like to use it for homemade remedies as well. It is so good you can use it plain over your skin and experience the gigantic difference and feel how thankful your skin will be!
First thing, rinse it with some fresh water to remove any dirt from the garden. Cut off the edges, they are very pointy.
Next, cut the skin off. if you have a big leave, it will be easier, if you have a small one you can leave the skin on. It is your own preference.
Once you have it ready, start chopping ...
and chopping ...
and more chopping ... There will be some liquid as well, don't worry, try to keep it all together and keep on chopping until you have the consistency you want.
I made this one for the exclusive use of my hair care, so I was not trying really hard to chop it the finest possible. It will be sticky but you will love the softness it gives to your skin, and even you will immediately notice the change in your hair ... specially if you are expose to the sun very often!
For some reason my hair seems to enjoy more natural or enriched products then the regular products I buy in a store. I have curly hair, which needs lots of care, which might seem to be news to many of you with straight hair. 
My conditioner was 1/4 full, it seems as it was time to go and buy a new one. hmmmm. To be honest I rather stretch it by enriching it than buying something that promises something that would never do! This time, I decided to use aloe as the main ingredient. I got my homemade aloe gel and opened the fridge to see what else was there to use, think enrich, enrich, fat, moist, nutrients ...
1/4 full cream conditioner
Found some vitamin C, squeeze it with a spoon to mix better with the aloe gel
After you pour the squeezed vitamin C, add some vitamin E, I always buy the soft capsules, I like to enrich about anything with it and these ones are easy to pinch with a needle for different use
There you go, alone this mixture of aloe with vitamin C and E is powerful. You can use it on the skin or on your hair. It is RICH!. Aloe can be itchy on the skin and when you add vitamin C even more. I use this mixture to any weird thing I find on my kids skin. It kills it. I fought a bacteria on one of my daughter for months, I used anything the doctor told me, expensive creams, antibiotics, etc... the bacteria, kept on coming back. It was annoying. I began to put aloe on it and eventually aloe with vitamin C and it was gone.
another powerful ingredient for your hair is egg. Don't worry about the smell, the end result won't smell like egg at all. I also add some apple vinegar, which is said to make your hair shine!
I thought it was a bit to liquid, so I added 2 spoons of yogurt to thicken it a bit.
Mix well. Notice it is still liquid, but a little thicker then before. Remember we will add this mixture to the 1/4 full cream conditioner we bought in the store. Begin to add half of this mixture to it and mix well.
In my opinion the consistency was still good enough to add the rest of the mixture. Mix well
Yeah! now I have a full cream conditioner!. I used it already and my hair was thankful!
The other day we were invited to a garden grill. We were told to bring something. Ok, what to bring, what not to bring became the question. I thought for about an hour, opened the fridge, close the fridge, open it again and again, no idea!. It was then, when I was remained about a carrot spread/salad from my dear friend Sarah. I didn't have her recipe but I had a slightly idea of how to do it. The truth is, it became something totally different, still exciting though, and I LIKE it. She did end up giving me the recipe, but it was already too late, I was already coming back with an empty bowl, which could only mean that everyone enjoyed it just as much
In a large bowl, shred together the carrots and the apple. Leave the skin on if you like. Chop the onions and the garlic. Mix together.
add the chopped spinach and the walnuts. Mix together.
On a separate small bowl, add the oil, the balsamic vinegar, the apple sauce and the
Mix well
Add the oil mixture to the carrot mixture and stir until it is well spread.
You can have just like that, and it is already delicious. I like to serve it with some chunks of feta cheese.
Another idea is to mix it together with any left over macaroni or rice to make a new pasta or rice salad. I had left over macaroni from yesterday, it was good!
This is like the Caribbean dream vacation breakfast, packed with fresh ripe fruits, some cinnamon for extra taste and yogurt!! yumm!
Gather all the fruits you want to use, chop them in nice comfortable biting pieces. Bring them together in a large bowl, sprinkle some cinnamon and mix. You can put as much cinnamon as you like.
Add some oats. The oats allow you to use any fruit without the yogurt going curd. It seals the fruit.
Mix together
Add some yogurt, enough to hold the whole mixture together evenly
Mix
Sprinkle some more cinnamon on top and some whole almonds as decoration. It gives a nice touch!
For those of you who had been to Spain, you might recognize this potato egg cake served on a nice and crunchy french baguette. It is always one of the options in any Tapas restaurant all throughout Spain. Spanish people like to cook with saffron. This plate, is made with saffron, famous paellas are also seasoned with saffron. It is a spice very rich in flavor. 
I used 3 of these potatoes. It can be any potato, if there is one sort you like more in particular, feel free to use that one!
I let the potatoes cool down. Most of the time I cooked them in the morning and set them aside until it's time for cooking ... Once they have cooled down they are really easy to cut in pieces, when they are still hot they fall apart. Place the cut potatoes in a round cake form. Previously oiled, with butter or spray, whichever you like best.
On a saucepan, saute some onions until they are transparent, don't let them burn otherwise they won't look so pretty inside the mix
On a large bowl, place your eggs and some salt and some pepper, it is easier to add the seasoning now so the eggs will absorb it well. Mix in the onions and stir.
Add the egg-onion mixture on top of the potatoes. Spread it thoroughly.
I found a gigantic Red Pepper the other day in the supermarket, It was so beautiful. I normally never use a whole pepper for any meal, while my husband always does. This time I thought ok, here we will have pepper for a couple of meals!. To my surprise I ended up using the whole of the largest pepper we have ever bought!
I cut the top of the pepper, I was trying to get some inspiration, what am I going to do with this beauty?!
It really was beautiful! I cleared the seeds away and thought, hmmm stuffed pepper! sounds good. I had recently done stuffed pumpkin, it turned out really good, so this time I wanted to do something different. I decided not to cook the vegetables inside ...
I gathered onion, zucchini, apple (most of the food we buy has some sort of sweetener in it, and I really enjoy a sweet point on my food, but as I can not use sugar I am using apples on everything), carrot, dates, spinach, walnuts. Chopped it all and mixed it together in a large bowl.
it needs some PARMESAN cheese, by now you might have notice, we do like Parmesan cheese over here!
and some black pepper. I think I didn't have to necessarily upload this picture, but I thought it was cool and I really like it!
Fill the pepper with the vegetable mix, put the top on top!
I had way more vegetable mix then what I needed so I decide it to roasted together with the pepper on the same foil.
into the oven ...
Yumm!
by now you might have realized that I forgot something ... hmmm ... salt!
