Hello there!

Thanks for stopping by . Give Me Bananas is new blog about food, health and all the good things in life.

Now, I realise that there are many food/health blogs out there but I just felt like adding my contribution to that great community. My blog will be about the little things that make me happy and cheer me up every single day (& quite often that is food, hehe). We need to send some positive vibes into the world!

I really want people, especially women, to see who they really are. We tend to focus too much on what’s apparently bad.. Big thighs, huge nose and oh that strange earlobe! Well, we only have the body that’s given to us so it’s a waste of time and energy to try to change that (except for super rich people who like plastic surgery).
Yes, we aren’t flawless but that’s a good thing! And honestly: Who wants to be perfect all the time? That would be so exhausting . We should enjoy being “only” human and appreciate the way we are.

Health blogs have been a huge support and motivation for me. Realising that I’m not the only one with self-doubt and a background with disordered eating helped me a lot with focussing on the good things in life.
I really hope that this blog might help you a little bit as well. I don’t expect it to change your life drastically (at least not right now, haha) but I’d be happy if you’d simply continue reading and join me on my journey to.. well.. where? A better self? Well you know what I mean..

Feel free to also e-mail me! –>givemebananas@gmail.com

Ok. Now on to something else:

 

Two weeks ago my boyfriend and I decided to start a new tradition. And yes, it’s allowed to be called a tradition, even if it’s such a young one.
We are both really busy people and kind of missed some She&Him time (or at least I did, not sure about him ). So we decided to turn Wednesday evenings into a run-cook-bake triathlon.

This is the plan: We first go on a 10km run and talk about the important things in life (”gosh, the runner that just passed us sweats like hell!”), take a shower, cook dinner, bake a bread and watch a film or something else. Yesterday was a little different though:
I had an extremely busy day at work and almost fell asleep when we went groceries shopping. Bad sign. I love grocery shopping! Produce makes me happy . So we decided to skip running (which is only allowed once a month – that’s our newly designed rule) and cook dinner.

(Ikea’s moose pasta is so funny. We used “normal” pasta but they have WW too! yay!)

 

Moose pasta with mushroom-tomato-arugula sauce

Serves 3

Ingredients:

- cooked Ikea’s moose pasta (or any other pasta )
- 1 onion, diced
- 4 tomatoes, roughly diced
- 2 tbsp creme fraiche
- as many mushrooms as you want
- 50g (2 handfuls) arugula, roughly chopped
- 2 tbsp olive oil
- salt and pepper
- white cooking wine
- 2 gloves garlic, diced

Directions:

1. Sautée onions for a bout 1-2 min in olive oil. Add quartered mushrooms and let it cook for 5 minutes, stirring occasionally until onions and mushrooms are soft.

2. Reduce heat and add white wine (It really depends on how much you like white wine, I’m sure you can decide for yourself if you want to drown everything in wine or only add 1/4 cup). Let it simmer a bit and add garlic and tomatoes.

3. Continue simmering and add salt and pepper for seasoning. Stir in creme fraiche.

4. Add arugula right before the end (don’t let it cook) and serve it over pasta.

 

Yum!
I prefer whole wheat pasta and never cook with creme fraiche but one has to please the boyfriend plus it was a very nice treat .

However, our mission in the kitchen wasn’t finished yet (are you already tired of reading? )

We went out for dinner on saturday night and were served with chili bread. It was clear that we had to make our own:

mmm and it was gooood!

I really encourage you to make room for She&Him evenings too (ok I have to admit that I totally stole that name from Zooey Deschanel’s band).

1) Working out? Check!
2) cooking and eating delicious food? Check!
3) Having a good time? Check!
4) Spending time with your significant other? Check!

(But to be honest: I’m quite lucky.. The BF enjoys running and cooking. Maybe your partner will start to like these things too when you can make them creative and fun. Trying doesn’t hurt )

Thumbs up!

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