Irgendwas mit Essen : Swimsuit Competition

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!

March 4, 2013

Juja’s Extra Healthy Sports Nutrition (3)

More sweeties that are called salad! More vitamins! My god am I a health junkie.

Take (for about 4 small bowls):

1 banana
2 kiwi fruits
2 small oranges
2 small apples
depending on sweetness of fruit: juice of up to 1/2 lemon + up to 1 pck. vanilla sugar
the most important thing, don’t skip this by any means: 1-2 tablespoons of peach liqueur
raisins! according to taste… so, many
if you want: some chopped dried apricots
also if you want: fancy extra fruit (mango, peach, persimmon… be careful with frozen raspberries, they color the whole thing pink!)

Skin and chip the fruit, mix all ingredients and leave it alone for about half an hour, then there’s the next sweet dessert waiting for you. Pro advice: buy a bigger pack of raisins next time.