Irgendwas mit Essen : Swimsuit Competition

August 24, 2015

Juja’s Extra Healthy Sports Nutrition (6)

Finally, another recipe! It’s tempting to believe this is gonna be some kind of cake – no, it actually isn’t, I wouldn’t want to have this for tea. But this banana bread was with me at races and bike tours, it’s baked energy and that’s it. Oh yeah, last time I made it it even tasted halfway decent, but you shouldn’t bet on that. Depending on how the bananas are the result may be anything between sponge cake and dwarf bread…

Take:

4 bananas, mashed (The recipe said they should be a bit overripe. At my best go they were almost green. It might all be chance and nothing else.)
1 egg
3 tablespoons vegetable oil
1/2 cup of milk
75g sugar + 1 pack. vanilla sugar + a pinch of salt
150g wheat flour + 150g full grain wheat flour (don’t skip this because of “Yuck, too healthy” – it really improves the taste!) + 1 pack. baking powder
100g walnuts, chopped

Mix all liquid components, then add the flour mix, at the very and add the walnuts. Put inside a maximum sized loaf pan (it will be huge!) and bake 45 min at 180°C.

Stored cool and dry it will persist quite a while and can be taken e.g. on one-week bike rides (if the weather is sufficiently bad)…

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January 25, 2014

Juja’s Extra Healthy Sports Nutrition (5)

Happy 3rd birthday, Swimsuit Competition! Here comes the next part of our series “Cold and tasty noodle dishes” – this lovely noodle salad a.k.a. pesto rosso accompanied me at my first 24 hour swimming that went rather well (maybe because of the food, maybe not). The garlic is the catch – to drop it would be a terrible misdeed, but if you take a little too much, you might have a lot of room in the pool…

400g cocktail tomatoes, quartered
8 tablespoons olive oil
a handful of fresh basil, roughly chopped
100g grated Parmesan
100g pine nuts/sunflower seeds, roasted
salt, pepper, some oregano
1 clove of garlic (pressed – if you have problems with your opponents, take some more)
mix and let rest in the fridge (at least for half an hour, better 2-3 hours)
250g cooked noodles – mix (wonderfully tasty when warm, but equally nice when cold)

Enough for two hungry persons or one endurance competition. Treat with caution and consideration! (Who shares will have less enemies:)

June 13, 2013

Juja’s Extra Healthy Sports Nutrition (4)

The Sprint in Moritzburg is probably the only competition worldwide with workable starting times: after getting up. Quite some time, in fact. So we can’t rely on our breakfast alone, but we need another competition meal around lunchtime. Sports favorite: noodles. I’d only like them to taste of something (ideally, also when they’re cold). The most simple solution: Pesto! Unfortunately, almost ready-made version I’ve ever bought was ugly or at least quite suspicious. So now I did it myself – et voilà: the best pesto ever!

It’s probably impossible to do anything wrong about the measurements or anything else, I improvised around two different recipes and this is the result I liked best:

50g fresh basil (I took a little less and added some rucola instead because I like the tart flavour) – chop
about 50ml olive oil
50g pine nuts (you could take sunflower seeds instead to save money, but I think it’s worth it), roast. Add one half to the pesto, the other half is saved for decoration.
50g grated hard cheese (Parmesan or the like)
chop everything up in a blender, season with salt and (not too much) pepper

Good luck!