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Spaghetti with kale, green peas and pancetta

February 7, 2020 By travellingoven 6 Comments

Can you guess what is the most popular blog post on Travelling oven so far? Well, pasta of course! More specifically the one for Tagliatelle pasta with black truffle sauce that is also probably the most simple recipe I have on the blog. Conclusion is that people like pasta and simple recipes so it was about time after 3 years to put another pasta recipe on the blog lol! 🙂 This time it’s Spaghetti with kale, green peas and pancetta, a dish that I love and make often when craving pasta, sometimes I use wholewheat and other times spelt spaghetti so that depends what you prefer of course.

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Winter smoothies

January 22, 2020 By travellingoven Leave a Comment

Are you a fan of smoothies? If yes, you’ll like these colourful winter smoothies! I have periods when I’m totally obsessed and crave them every day and then periods when I’m like ‘give me all the bread and butter and jam’ and not even thinking about smoothies lol! But that’s ok and we need to have variety as well as listen to our body and what we crave. So basically I eat only food I find tasty and satisfying and most of that is homemade, healthy, local and organic but some of it is not so healthy but still needed to make me happy! 😀

Yes, I eat lots of fruit and vegetables, healthy whole grains, organic chicken, fish etc but also rich chocolate cake, apple strudel, pasta and warm bread!! I believe balance is important and as long as we eat healthy most of the time, it’s totally fine to have ‘not healthy’ treats from time to time if that makes us happy. So ‘what’ we eat is important but also ‘ how much”. There is a difference in having a slice of homemade apple cake and enjoying every single bite to the fullest or devouring a box of store bought cookies.

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Lemon tart

January 10, 2020 By travellingoven Leave a Comment

Here is an amazing lemon tart for you but first things first! Happy 2020 everyone! I hope you started this new year with positive thoughts, good energy, optimism and as many happy little moments possible! That is something I believe in much more than in new year’s resolutions that sure maybe they motivate you for a while but also maybe they make you feel bad because you’re not sticking to them as you ‘should’.

Quite a few people asked me recently about my plans for this year and that got me thinking how I actually don’t have everything planned out and have always been more spontaneous kind of person guided by my instincts. Of course occasionally I plan a certain trip or travel in advance and I definitely know the direction in which I want my work to go but for most of the time I just let life happen and I prefer it that way. So yes, some things need to be planned and scheduled and organized in advance but then again, so many other things don’t have to be that way.

So, to conclude, I’m more thinking of a new year as a nice fresh start where I can try to make every day count. Still there will be great days and bad ones, joy and sorrow, smiles and tears, no matter what resolutions we make. I think we should all just try to do our best, be the way we are without comparing with others and believe that we are capable of doing many great things, maybe not all but many for sure. I hope this resonates with you and that I’m not just ‘talking’ to myself here lol! I simply couldn’t have my very first blog post this years without some of my personal thoughts and feelings, that’s just the way I roll! 😉

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Chocolate babka (chocolate brioche bread)

December 5, 2019 By travellingoven Leave a Comment

Can you believe it’s December already?! I’m still trying to switch from full Autumn mood into winter, some snow would help for sure so keeping my fingers crossed! 😀 What I love about this cold time of the year are all things cozy and I think the recipe I share today definitely falls in that category so I’m very excited to share it so you can taste if yourself…