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Healthy Cheesy Pasta!

Do you ever have cravings for creamy, gooey, cheesy pasta, but don't want to guilt?

Let’s enjoy a healthy, cheesy, low-calorie pasta dish!

Do you ever have cravings for creamy, gooey, cheesy pasta, but don’t want to guilt? I have a solution. I’ve created a light pasta dish with fresh tomato, peas and cheese! But there’s a secret ingredient. The super creamy factor, what is it? Quark. You can also use cottage cheese or low-fat greek yoghurt (but the sourness of yoghurt may not be…

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Chewy Matcha & Choc Chip Cookies

In the mood for something a little sweet and naughty?

Soft and gooey Salted Caramel Matcha mixed with melted marshmallows, drizzled on your choc chip cookies to create a gorgeous toffee glaze.

Let’s get cooking!

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Dairy-Free, Nectarine and Coconut Muesli

A tasty, healthy and dairy-free breakfast made with fresh nectarines and shredded coconut.

Hungry? Looking for dairy- free breakfast options? You’ve come to the right place!

Super fun, quick and nutritious breakfast made with fresh nectarine, shredded coconut and almond milk.

This was something I created one morning, with the sun shining outside my kitchen window. I thought to myself, “no, I don’t feel like eggs today, not toast… I’ll utilise these gorgeous, fresh  and sweet smelling…

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The Easiest, Healthy Burrito Recipe

This is the absolute easiest, healthy burrito recipe you will find.

This is the absolute easiest, healthy burrito recipe you will find. It’s a meal I often prepare for dinner. It’s full of vegetables, its low fat, can be made as vegetarian or vegan and super flavourful!

You might notice the background for my food photography has changed – I’m no longer in my beautiful Berlin apartment, I’ve moved to a lovely house in Melbourne, so welcome to my new (old) kitchen!…

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4 Ingredient Potato Salad (Dairy-Free)

4 Ingredient Potato Salad perfect for school lunches AND makes a quick, healthy dinner option.

This 4 Ingredient, Dairy-Free Potato Salad perfect for school lunches AND makes a quick, healthy dinner option. In my case, I made this ahead of time for my boyfriend’s lunch the next day!

Quick and easy tip: if you’re making this for lunches, mix everything together in the container you’re serving it in, no need to wash extra bowls!

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Energising Kiwi + Tea Muesli

Needing some breakfast inspiration? Are you looking for a healthy, energising muesli recipe?

Are you needing some breakfast inspiration? You’ve come to the right place. Are you looking for a healthy, energising muesli recipe? Read on!

I know, you’ve seen “tea” in the title and you’re wondering if and why I would put it in my breakfast, and not simply drink a cup of tea and eat normal muesli. Well for one, how boring would that be, to be normal? And two, this isn’t just any tea, it’s…

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Mixed Vegetable + Beef Easy Lunch

Enjoy a quick and easy, healthy vegetable, beef and rice dish. Super easy for weekly meal prep

Enjoy a quick and easy, healthy vegetable, beef and rice dish for lunch or dinner. Super easy for your weekly meal prep.

This is a fun little dish I created in my Berlin kitchen on one of the first sunny spring days of the season! I was craving some vegetables, and had some beef in the fridge about to expire so I thought I’d cook up a few servings to save for the week ahead!

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Vegan Zucchini Spaghetti with Homemade Tomato Sauce (without Spiral Slicer)

See Emmie's Vegan Zucchini Spaghetti with homemade Tomato Sauce WITHOUT using a Spiral Slicer.

Try out this healthy, low-calorie & gluten-free vegan Zucchini Spaghetti with homemade Tomato Sauce WITHOUT using a Spiral Slicer.

A Spiral Slicer is something we don’t all have in our kitchens, especially if you have no money like me and own zero kitchen utensils/ products – you just use what your housemates have. (I know, “omg the food blogger and recipe developer has no kitchen things” I’m…

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This is a summery cocktail for moments when you feel like a fancy drink, but don’t feel the need for alcohol! Try this for the fun, delicious flavour of a cocktail, and feel refreshed by strawberry tea notes and not have to deal with a hangover afterward!

Here’s Emmie’s quick and easy virgin fruity cocktail infused with Bluebird Teaco’s Strawberry Lemonade tea.

Sliced apple, cold brew tea and your virgin cocktail.

Serves: 4 glasses Time: 5 minutes to create + 5 – 20 hours for your cold brew tea.

What you will need:

2x Strawberry Lemonade teabags

1 red apple

Tropical juice

Tonic water

What to do:

Brew the Strawberry Lemonade tea: Place two teabags in a jug/ bowl/ cold brew tea bottle with up to 600ml water and let sit in the fridge for at least 5 hours, or overnight for best results.

Take one glass: Pour 3 parts tea, two parts juice and one part tonic water to add a little bit of fizz.

Cut apple into thin slices and place in to your drink.

Stir everything together with a long spoon and add cubed ice if desired.

Enjoy a refreshing drink this summer!

Enjoy a refreshing drink this summer!

Enjoy a refreshing drink this summer!

Enjoy a refreshing summer mocktail in the sun!

Emmie’s Top Tips: If you really feel like a touch of alcohol in this – I recommend one shot of gin per glass! Hendrix gin is my favourite.

Here's Emmie's quick and easy virgin fruity cocktail infused with Bluebird Teaco tea. This is a summery cocktail for moments when you feel like a fancy drink, but don't feel the need for alcohol!

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Charlottenburg Chicken Salad

Eat With Emmie makes a filling and healthy chicken salad! See here for the recipe!

Here’s Emmie’s super simple and healthy, chicken salad.

I’ve named this salad after the suburb I lived in while I was abroad, in Berlin for 16 months. I made this salad for my boyfriend and I countless times – knowing it was nutritious and flavourful, and not to mention easy to make after a days work.

Without further ado, let’s get cooking!

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Burrito-Style Nourish Bowl

A Burrito-Style Nourish Bowl bursting with natural flavour and nutrients.

A Burrito-Style Nourish Bowl bursting with natural flavour and nutrients PLUS you’ll feel comforted by its warmth and heartiness. There’s just something about avocado and kidney beans!

Enjoy this filling, nourishing burrito bowl today!

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Egg-Free, Gluten-Free Pork Rissoles & Veg

Try my hearty, egg-free, gluten-free pork rissoles and colourful veggies for dinner tonight!

Try my hearty, egg-free, gluten-free pork rissoles and colourful vegetables for dinner tonight! Ideal for those following a gluten-free or egg-free diet.

As a child, I remember watching my mum and dad making rissoles with bread crumbs or tiny pieces of fresh bread. This helps the rissole stay together (along with the one or two eggs added to the mixture) so when I first moved out of home, this is…

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Are you looking for a hearty, warming and healthy breakfast? Look no further. Discover Emmie’s tasty, Tomato, Egg & Balsamic Breakfast recipe! Learn her connection to the dish, and the way she makes it in her Berlin kitchen.

Egg on my fork, yum!

Oil in a pan, super creative.

Sunny-side up!

My first introduction to a Shakshuka dish similar to this tomato and egg breakfast, was when I was 18 and an aupair for a family in Brisbane, Australia…

After taking the two boys to school, I came home to find my host-mum in the kitchen. This was quite a surprising sight because she rarely went out of her way to cook something – either I cooked or she made her kids toasts for dinner. She was actually a great cook, and I have 3 or 4 recipe bases I learned from her, when she had enough motivation to cook for us.

She made this dish a little differently to the way I do, but what she showed me was a dish based on tomato and baked beans, with egg added in and some incredibly tasty, chopped chorizo sausage. She threw it all into a small baking dish, then into the oven for 15 minutes and what came out was, honestly, the tastiest breakfast I had ever eaten.

The second time I ate a similar dish was on a recent weekend trip to Szczecin in Poland. We found a cute breakfast place that sold a baked tomato and egg dish, served with feldsalat (leafy greens) cherry tomatoes and balsamic, along with two freshly baked hunks of Ciabatta bread. An almost salivating worthy memory.

So naturally I held these food memories close and have now made it again, in a re-vamped, oven-free method. I don’t have an oven, otherwise I would have baked it, but I’m very impressed with how this turned out. So impressed I’ve eaten it 3 days in a row now.

If you’re ready to taste one of my favourite, easy and warming breakfasts, read on for the recipe!

Bubbling away contentedly in the pan. Ready in a minute!

Tomato, Egg and Balsamic Breakfast Recipe

  Makes 1 serving Time: 10 minutes total timeWhat you will need:

2 eggs

1/2 can of Chopped Tomatoes OR 2 fresh Roma Tomatoes, diced.

1 teaspoon Extra Virgin Olive Oil

Handful of your favourite green leaves – Spinach, Feldsalat, Lettuce, Kale, etc. 

1/2 teaspoon each of Salt and Pepper.  

1 Tablespoon of Balsamic Vinegar.

Heat a small, non-stick fry pan approx. 12-15cm wide, to high or 9 on your stove top. 

Pour in your olive oil and wait for it to warm (wave your hand just above the oil to feel heat, if there is some, it’s time to add tomatoes!). Throw in your tinned or fresh tomatoes, and cook for 2-3 minutes, or until the mix starts to bubble. Crack open your eggs and add them in, no scrambling, just straight in and let them sit for 10 minutes. Turn your heat down to 7 or between mid and high on your stove top. We don’t want to turn anything, but we do want them to bubble away steadily. 

Tear up your salad leaves in preparation. Set aside. 

Find a plate-bowl, yes thats a real thing, a plate thats deep enough to hold your tasty breakfast without it dribbling off the edge.

Gently tilt your pan to allow the dish to slide out and onto your plate, for best presentation, OR you can take a spatular and wriggle it out if it gets stuck. If both fail, you can mush it up and pour on to your plate-bowl – all options taste the same.

Add on your greens, and pour your balsamic vinegar over everything, even the eggs.

Serve with your morning coffee, sit by a window and enjoy your healthy start to the day!

  Tasty! You have the option to serve with some fresh bread and some parsley sprinkled on top!

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Rome is an exact image of all the typical European elements, painted in our minds as children. It’s the sunshine, fine wine, the variety of new and tasty foods. It’s the attractive foreign men and women, the deep history and the pretty buildings.

I’m sat in my bedroom again, thinking about my time living in Europe, in Berlin to be precise. There’s a blog post about Berlin too, if you click here. It’s a little poetic and reflective story.

I’m remembering Rome in particular today. Thinking of our week spent sharing an apartment with somewhere between 3 and 6 different local Italians. They kept wandering in and out so we don’t actually know who lived there and who didn’t besides 2 of them. Our host and her housemate, who are lovely people with big smiles, bright eyes and an endless passion for Rome’s history. Oh, and their gorgeous black and white dog.

From here, we were lucky enough to have an incredible view over rooftops and church spires and domes. A sea of red roofs, white, green and then the gorgeous blue sky. We could climb up to the top of this building, with the dog by our side, of course, and see for miles on end.

Cobble-stone streets greeted me after stepping out of the main train station. The clop clop of hard shoes tapping onto the hard street with every step in the beating rhythm of Rome’s heart. Traffic noise, sirens of emergency vehicles as the sped past, the babble of the Italian language as it rolled from red lips, weaving into eager ears.

Looking up I was always faced with blue sky and the occasional white, fluffy cloud. Dusty coloured buildings from a modern time, contrasting with the ancient ruins rising up from warm ground. Green, grassy parks scattered about, and heavy, leafy trees leaning over roads as we walked along the river to the city centre.

Stumbling into the centre we found cheesy pizza and cheap wine by the Colosseo, tasty hot coffee in a local cafe, and of course, gelato. The Forum blew my mind, as did Villa Adriana just outside of Rome, and the Appia Antica Trail which we rode by bike through the rain and discovered archeological sites.

We watched the sun set slowly and magically in the Vatican, walked through the narrow pathways of Trastevere and threw coins over our shoulders together at the famous Trevi Fountain.

Rome was exactly what I had imaged, and oh so much more.

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Comment below what your favourite city in the world is, and how it stole your heart! 

Rome stole my heart Rome is an exact image of all the typical European elements, painted in our minds as children.

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I wrote a story in a Berlin cafe

I wrote a story in a Berlin cafe... So there in the coffee shop I sat, alone. I was armed with paper, a pen and a coffee. Oh, and a little courage.

A dear friend of mine, here in Berlin, has inspired me to take myself out on a coffee date, alone – just me and myself, and to write something, anything… Today I went to a little coffee shop nearby and sat for 45 minutes, totally relaxed and super proud of myself for getting there and doing that. It had been a long time since I had taken myself on a date, actually never while in Berlin. I chose…

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It’s not until you’re in the hairdresser’s chair, in front of that mirror with your black front cape on, that you realise how ugly you really are…

Kidding, you’re all beautiful. But really those lights in the hairdresser salons do nobody any favours.

This is just one downfall of using a proper hairdresser to cut your hair. Other than the usual:

Hairdresser: “There, all done. What do you think?”

Me: “Looks great, just what I wanted”… *Thinks it’s hideous what have I done to my head I cannot go out in public what happened here*

Hairdresser: “Great, see you next time”

Me: “Yep, see you then!” …*Thinks I’m never coming back again. Comes back next month for same thing*. 

Anyway! How do we solve this? Cut it yourself.

Really, my actual reason for cutting my own hair is because I live in Berlin and I’m too afraid to go in and try and explain what I want done in another language. As you can imagine, I could go in with my long hair and come out with a pixie cut. I can imagine myself pointing to show length I want off… and they’d cut everything TO that length, not that length OFF. Know what I mean? I wouldn’t suit the pixie cut. As I’ve mentioned before, I do over think things. HOWEVER I’m not ready to throw away my efforts in growing my hair out.

And as well, it’s expensive and I have no money.

It began with me snipping the split ends myself. That went well. So I did it again when the time came. Good again. I’m a pro, I think to myself. Probably shouldn’t have praised myself too much over that.

Then came layering the front. I angled the scissors and snippedy snippedy I went. Not bad! Worked pretty well. Didn’t look like I had seriously fucked up. Here’s a pic of the self snipped hair…

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So once this had started to grow out again, and the ends were getting so split it looked like little trees were sprouting branches (see pic below for example), I thought, I should go get my hair done. But I ended up on youtube instead.

This is real hair. This is what happens to the ends. EEWWW

What do I stumble upon once on youtube? “How to cut your own bangs”!! So, you guessed it. I just went ahead and did another home job.

Now, I wouldn���t recommend jumping into cutting your own fringe without having dabbled in the split ends trimming, because it’s hard to ruin that. It’s VERY EASY TO CUT YOUR BANGS TOO SHORT.

Never fear though, I think I did okay. In fact I cut them too long, so I’ve been trimming tiny bits every day since because they’re literally in my eyes I’m so afraid of it being too short and looking fucking terrible. Keep in mind some faces REALLY suit short fringes. I’m sure my face is not one of those however! HAVE A LOOK!

Not bad! For a first go at fringe cutting. I’m sure my hairdresser friends will disagree… I’m super happy with it. Although I do look like a cute mushroom sometimes. Oh well.

If I had a hairdryer or curler to shape this, I think it’d be a liiiiittle better…

Mushroom human.

Overall, happy Emma! Here are two brilliant links to help you cut your own too!

Haley Blais’ Drunken Bangs is where it all started for me… Check it out. Key word “drunken” makes this all the better.

Cutting My Bangs was the next thing I watched… She’s good for making it real, yes it’s scary, but she goes very slowly.

Than I messaged Jeff (the boooyfriend) and said will you be angry if I do this? He said no, only if he could play playstation before coming back from work. Deal. He came home later, and I had cut ma bangsss!

Stay tuned for more funny, sad, love-filled and crazy stories of my life. Me. A 20 year old girl in 2016, in Berlin. 

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See you in the next post… 

  Cutting my own hair?? It's not until you're in the hairdresser's chair, in front of that mirror with your black front cape on, that you realise how ugly you really are...

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Death by Postman Delivery?

Death by Postman Delivery?

Death by the postman! Or so I thought was going to happen about 2 minutes ago… So I’m sitting here in our bedroom, the rain is coming down in that very continuous, beautifully sounding way that indicates it’s settled for the week. I’m researching tips for our trip to Rome coming up in two and a half weeks, working away on the laptop with a warm beverage beside me. The doorbell rings, the one from…