Today is my 200th post for 2013! I don't know why, but reaching my 200th post makes the finish line seem so much closer. I had a look through my photos from the year and I was so overwhelmed by all the good memories. Even though making sure I have something new to do everyday can become quite stressful, I don't regret starting this project. So, for my 200th post, my good friend Nhi and I decided to make another recipe from the Cheap Clean Eats series on the Blogilates website. Today we made the Healthy Cheeseburger recipe. The original Blogilates recipe makes beef patties, so we decided to make a vegan and non-vegan version.
I bought some extra firm tofu to make the burger patties, but I recommend using firm silken tofu so that the ingredients can bind together.
We kinda just winged it for this recipe, but the burgers actually turned out so delicious. We seasoned our burger patties with a store bought Middle Eastern spice blend and it tasted great with the flavour of the mushrooms and sauce. This is definitely the most guilt-free burger I have ever eaten, and the flavour did not let us down. A note to all you people who are keen to try this recipe: it's very very messy. There will be sauce and juice from the mushrooms everywhere, so maybe just eat this with people who don't mind the mess.
Looking very deshellved after cooking, but we were so happy with how these burgers turned out :)
I follow the Blogilates super star Cassey Ho on Instagram and I saw a post of her a while back for healthy ice cream sandwiches. My friend Ruth made these the other day and when I Googled the recipe and found out that you only need two ingredients I figured how could I not make these? The recipe is so dead easy and these are indeed very healthy. Hop onto the Blogilates website to view the recipe along with other awesome Blogilates related stuff.
Dice banana into coins and freeze for a few hours or overnight
Place dried oats into a food processor and grind into oat flour
Pour oat flour into a bowl and mash with other banana with hands until a dough forms
Make 4 cookies and place in oven for 15 min at 350F (or 180C)
Cool cookies completely
Take frozen banana coins and put them into the food processor and
blend for 1-2 min until it forms a cream! (It’s like magic!)
Scoop ice cream onto cookie, sandwich it…
**I made my cookies chocolate by adding 1 teaspoon cocoa powder. Make sure you use bigger bananas if you are going to add cocoa powder or else the dough won't stick and will just crumble.
