10 Super Foods You Need In Your Pantry

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When you are thinking about stocking your pantry, you need to think about including some super foods that are not only delicious but healthy and filled with lots of necessary nutrients that we need on a daily basis. Super food generally refers to foods that have the added benefit of offering maximum nutritional benefits yet with for minimal calories. These great foods are packed with minerals, antioxidants and vitamins. Among the super foods include, fruits and vegetables, nuts, seeds, yoghurt, chocolate, fish, beans. The best part about having super foods in your pantry is that you can grab them any time since most like nuts and seeds keep for  long time. You can eat the super foods individually or you can mix and match them to create a delicious meal that will be filling build or even protect the body from infections. Most of these super foods are readily available at the local market, or even in the frozen section like fish.

Coconut Peanut Butter Pancakes

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I love peanut and if I could I would eat it every other day. Whether it's whole roasted peanuts or smooth peanut butter, I just love this stuff! Reminds me of when we were young back in the 80's when peanut butter was a new thing and it was a reserve of the "wadosi" (rich folk), we would really envy those kids who came with bread slices smeared withe the peanut butter while we had plain toasts, seems ridiculous but when you are a kid in kindergarten you always think that the other kids have better lunches or tea break snacks. Then came this advert for the skippy peanut butter, we would always sing along to it and really bug mum about buying 'skippy peanut butter'. Well she gave in and bought us the peanut butter, what? You'd think we had won the lottery! Needless to say, after that it was a regular addition to our breakfast and we thoroughly enjoyed making the other kids jealous and even bribing them with 'if you don't let me in the game, I won't give you my skippy peanut butter bread', nice memories hehehe. To bring back those memories, I though I would make peanut butter pancakes and add more deliciousness by adding coconut. Those two flavours just work wonders on your pallet.

Eggless Chocolate Rock Muffins

A simple yet delicious chocolate treat as a desert or snack. Mom used to make them for birthdays or even holidays. She used to make them plain and sometimes add cinnamon. I remember how we used to go sit in the kitchen watching mum bake. For me I loved licking the batter from the bowl, I would tell mum not to clean the bowl as I would do it for her, only to sit on the floor and lick the cake batter! Brings back so many many memories. Today I chose to make them chocolate muffins, after all chocolate should be part of everyone'd diet, don't you think?  I love muffins because they are big fluffy delicious and totally filling. I love how they look like they are pouring over the muffin tin while baking, totally satisfying and therapeutic! The almost shapeless imperfection of the muffin is what gives it that distinct. I have always made these muffins with eggs but I wanted to see how they would taste without eggs. Didn't miss the eggs whatsoever! The chocolate muffins turned out soft, crumbly yet fluffy and delicious!

Funfetti Sunday Brunch Pancakes

Happy Sunday Funday Lovelies! We are already halfway the first month of 2019 and it's exciting to  see how fast the days are going! I love Sundays! It is just one of those lazy days that you want breakfast in bed with some soothing music and yummy scents coming from the kitchen. Dreams are valid yo! If you are single like me, then you will just have to give yourself that breakfast in bed and enjoy it all by thyself, which is fun most times, especially when you have made yourself this decadent obsessively good apple cinnamon french toast and you absolutely  DO NOT want to share! Today I just woke up with a craving for some pancakes, I have several pancake recipes that you can find all over the blog, I needed something different. And since I was feeling festive and saw some rainbow sprinkles staring at me in the kitchen, I knew what I had to do. These funfetti pancakes are fluffy, pillowy and exciting to bite into! We all want to get fluffy pancakes so here are a few tips I have learnt in making pancakes. To get fluffy pancakes include baking powder or baking soda in pancake batter since this will create essential bubbles that are crucial in giving you that fluffy feel.  Eggs enable the batter to rise since they provide the pancakes with structure while butter not only adds flavor but give the pancakes moisture and a smooth richness. Do not over mix your pancake batter if you want fluffy pancakes and let you batter rest before using, you can even refrigerate for a few minutes before cooking. The best way to ensure your pancakes are fluffy is not using too much heat, since they will burn yet the middle in raw, if too low the pancakes will end up being tough and rubbery.