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Dear friends! Our blog has been moved to a new platform and we are no longer going to post here. We will be more than happy if you continue to be a part of it and visit us sometimes at cupofmoka.pl We are still perfecting our new space and working on making all the previous photos look good again (most of them lost their good quality while being transferred to the new platform). Hope to see you all there. Have a great day!!!

What's for dinner - Spaghetti with zucchini, basil pumpkin pesto and tomato salsa

As a breastfeeding mom I need to eat healthy. Cooking only for myself has always been a pain in the neck but when I have somebody to feed it’s enough for me to feel motivated. I’ve always loved cooking for Kamil, mainly because he loves everything I cook, literally, he’s such a sweetheart, even when something is really terrible he’ll go all ‘mmm’ and ‘aaaah’. I love him. Lara hasn’t really tasted my cooking yet but she’s a happy little monkey and being on mama’s milk only diet has served her well. I must say our eating habits are generally way better now. We try to care about what we eat so that first of all we’re all healthy and also because we want Lara to have good eating habits from the start. 

I found this recipe on my new favourite blog the other day, the girl is crazy, she cooks such amazing food that I want to try it all out. And here is what we cooked last night only with a few small changes. It’s no longer gluten free but still very, very tasty and healthy. 

Ingredients:

Spaghetti pasta

2 medium zucchinis

2 ripe tomatoes

For the pesto:

big bunch of fresh basil

1/3 cup pumpkin seeds

1/4 cup good quality olive oil

 3tbsp grated parmesan

s&p

For tomato salsa:

2 ripe tomatoes, peeled

2tbsp good quality olive oil

salt

Instructions:

Cook pasta al dente. Julianne zucchinis until you reach the seeds inside. Fry zucchinis on a tbsp of olive oil for max 1 minute, set aside. In a blender place roughly chopped basil, roasted pumpkin seeds, minced garlic and parmesan. Blend well and add olive oil, salt and pepper. If it’s too thick add more olive oil or a drop of water. Chop tomatos and mix with olive oil and salt. 

Mix all the ingredients in a big bowl and serve with pumpkin seeds, pieces of parmesan and drizzle with olive oil. 

Vegan pumpkin pancakes

Believe it or not these babies were a total improvisation when I opened the fridge this morning and there was almost nothing inside, except for pumpkin which I had baked yesterday and a carton of rice milk. Fortunately google can help you with everything so with a cup of coffee I sat down searching for breakfast ideas including pumpkin. Last time I made pancakes I promised I’d never do them again (burnt pan, stink etc., etc.) but since we literally had nothing else to eat we decided to give it another try. They were vegan because not a single egg was to be found anywhere near the kitchen and to my surprise you really don’t need eggs in your pancakes. Honey which we used instead of maple syrup isn’t very vegan but you can skip it.  So here is what you need for super delicious vegan pumpkin american style breakfast pancakes. 

1 cup flour

1tbsp potato flour

1 cup rice or soy milk

1tsp baking powder

pinch of salt

1tsp apple cider vinegar

1,5tsp sugar

3tbsp pumpkin puree

cinnamon (optional)

1tbsp coconut or regular oil

Sieve all the ingredients until smooth and fry until golden on both sides. I didn’t use any oil for frying but feel free to do so. 

Serve with maple syrup or honey and jam.

Enjoy!

Lately

We’ve been having so much fun enjoying probably the last days of warm weather. We’ve been going out a lot, eating some really good food (we’re trying out food from all the new food trucks around the city), meeting with friends and working. We need to wrap up all the photo shoots for our website and hopefully we’ll have all the shots by the time winter comes and freezes our butts off. 

But inbetween photoshoots and all the other things we’re busy being madly in love with our precious girl. Lara is such an adorable little person, she smiles almost all the time and her good mood and joy are always a good start to the day. 

Here are a few rather random photos we took while visiting my parents a few weeks ago and some more we took while out and about here in Krakow. 

Life lately

Life lately…has been good, really good. What can I say, I love being a mother and my little family of four is more than I could ever have asked for. Our little girl is simply the coolest kid on earth and she even motivated us to move our asses and do stuff, I mean really do them this time. We are about to launch a new website and will post it here so you’ll have a chance to see what we’ve been working on. In the meantime here is a few snapshots so that it’s not only about me bragging. 

yet another lovely trip with roxy and michal, walking your dog it way more fun when it’s in places like this

someone left his pants just lying there in the forest

in case i forgot to mention…baby wraps are the best

and hot tea from a flask is the best

working hard on those muscles

but boy it’s so exhausting

she loves to read inbetween naps

these two are going to be best friends, i’m sure

little morning get together with my dearest friend Gosia

 and testing new wraps with my bestie lara

i’ve been working hard on my autumn wardrobe

and going to kamil’s birthday dinner last week

Hope your life lately was also pretty damn good. 

Have a great week!

Wednesday is the new Saturday

It’s so good to have a freelance job, you can have weekend in the middle of a week. And that is exactly what we did. We have friends who have a lovely house near Cracow so every time there is a chance we ruthlessly invite ourselves for dinner, or just to hang out or to hang out and then have dinner or…lets face it, it’s the coolest when we visit and stay for almost two days. It was a blast, we had sushi, played board games (while both babies slept, aren’t they angels?), listened to music and played with our girls. Me and Magda had our babies only four months apart so basically we had our girls at the same time. It is wonderful to see them both hang out in one crib, they’ll surely have a great reminder when they are our age and good friends. 

waiting to be served

that’s how you’re treated at our friends’ house, coffee IN bed 

Kamil does not look creepy at all in this picture and he does not look as if he was strangling Matylda either

Everything turned out ok and there were no victims

chilling out while grown ups prepare breakfast

…and one hell of a breakfast it was

now time for a stroll

…along old train tracks

…with all four of our babies

i love carrying Lara in the wrap

mommies and their babies

gathering some wood for the fireplace, there is nothing you can’t do while carrying your baby in a wrap

some seriously tired doggies, they were close to being friends for a short while

and last but not least…