Lunch
Easy and Healthy Lunch Recipes
In my lunch food blogs you will find my favorite Lunch recipes like; hummus and grilled vegetables, nori spring rolls, healthy poke bowl, pumpkin soup and a lot more. In my blogs I will pick a specific ingredient that I describe in more details. So what are the benefits of for example sweet potato, avocado or pumpkin. This way I learned more on vegetables and their advantages, but hope you will learn more on the ingredients we eat too. I try not to cook with pre-fabricated sauces and mixes. They contain a lot of added ingredients and E numbers.
Most of my recipes are simple, not with too many ingredients and mainly low in carbohydrates. This is better for my body weight and I feel more active eating less carbs. I normally make my dinner meals on Sunday and eat them for the coming days and put some in the freezer. This way I save time and I have always a good meal at hand for more busy times. But this is my way of cooking, perhaps you can use on recipe for your whole family at once. I just want to inspire you with my way off cooking and plating!
Recipes related to my Travel
A lot of my food recipes are inspired by my traveling around the world. I also do cooking classes to learn the local cuisine; for example Sri Lanka, Tel Aviv, Bali and Mexico. I must admit I’m not a professional cook, but love to be creative and cooking is a way to be creative in the kitchen. I hope you will be inspired by my recipes and my travel blogs at the same time. All recipes are, easy to make, mostly healthy and most important very delicious! Check my Instagram Mirja’s Inspirations to see more food and travel blog inspirations! See you there!
Easy Vegetable Tortilla
I don't make that much lunch dishes. I lunch at work were they offer a broad range of healthy options, so no need to bring my own salad. In the weekend I like to make a vegetable tortilla. This tortilla is without the traditional potatoes but with sweet potatoes! I...
Veggie Style Gado Gado
I love Gado Gado!! This Indonesian vegetable dish is inspired by my Balinese cooking class; which I did when I was there on holiday. I love Indonesian food soooo much!! Back home I made the Bumbu Bali paste recipe and used it for many dishes (check here). I used the...
Healthy Salmon or Tuna Poke Bowl!
I love Poke Bowls!! Poke is pronounced poh-keh and the word means to cut in Hawaiian. All the ingredients are cut in eatable portions and include raw fish marinated in soy sauce. I order a Poke Bowl now and then for lunch, but now it was time again to prepare one...
Fruity French Toast
Sunday morning again!! I'm into something new, healthy, fresh and filling. I looked in my fridge and found bread, eggs, milk and some red fruit. Oatmeal? No, something new French Toast; or in Holland we call them Wentelteefjes. This meal is actually not new at all;...
Chestnut-Mushroom Soup with Pancetta
As a tradition we organize a Christmas dinner every year the weekend before Christmas with five girlfriends including their partners. This year we decided to prepare the dinner ourselves instead of going out to a restaurant. That was a perfect decision; we all...
Nori Omelet Wrap with Salmon
I don't make lunches too often. During the week I have a salad for lunch at work, so pretty easy. In the weekends I normally go out with friends for a coffee and lunch at our local lunchrooms and cafeterias. But during the Christmas and New Year's I had to make myself...
Pumpkin Soup with Chicken and Goat Cheese
It's autumn and for me that means: Pumpkin Soup! I love to make soups, it's so easy to make, healthy and you have food for a couple of days. One hour in the kitchen and you have six meals; that is what I call efficient. You know I'm Dutch, but love the orange color of...
Creamy Avocado Bowl
Sunday morning; after a late great sunset surf session I woke up hungry! I used my creative mind to make myself a good and filling breakfast. I can tell you, with this avocado bowl you can endure for a couple of hours. You probably think avocado for breakfast, it must...
Simple Spring Rolls
In the summer you don't want to stand in the kitchen too long to prepare your food. This recipe for spring rolls is super easy, fresh and healthy at the same time. You can have the simple spring rolls for lunch or a light dinner. And you can prepare and take it with...
Lunch recipe: Hummus with grilled vegetables
I already made hummus before I even left to Tel Aviv, I love hummus!!!! This time I used the herbs that I bought at the Carmel Market to make this hummus with grilled vegetable. It is so easy but so tasty and healthy. I use spelt bread as a basis, but you can use any...
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