We woke up early and headed over to Gjusta Bakery for an early breakfast. Its been raining, a well needed drizzle and time to dig deep in the closet for the winter gear. I like it!

Hm.. what should i eat today? The options are many here and the last thing on the counter that caught my eye was homemade granola and a bowl of raspberry compote, one bowl of roasted quince vanilla and one with roasted crab apples. I picked all three of them with yoghurt and granola.

Let’s try!

Mmm…tasty! Gjusta Bakery, A Gjelina and G.T.A combined european stye bakery/marketplace. Sunset Ave, Venice.

All gone!

And here is a rainbow quinoa porridge with oats (i think) and the raspberry compote with nut mylk. Also very tasty!

And a real rainbow! #happysaturday

A brand new bakery from the Gjelina guys is finally opened only 5 minutes walk from my house. What a dream to have a little bit of Gjelina and G.T.A so close to me. This place is gorgeous with a huge open kitchen, a coffee bar and lots of homemade pastries and bread, G.T.A style salads, frittatas, pies and all the things that they do so well. I’m a huge fan of whatever Travis Lett is doing… he really gets it. Thank you for making another street in Venice bloom!

Gjusta Bakery 320 Sunset Ave, Venice

Saturday night and It’s only me and Olive. I am enjoying some quiet time outside with a bubbly kombucha.  Justin took off to the mountains yesterday for a breather. He really needed to go for a ride up to the wilderness together with all his gear for the weekend. He loves it.

In the mean time I’m enjoying this box of goods. The other day I used some of the apples to make a maple, cinnamon compote on top of a chia pudding.

I made a chia pudding with 1 cup coconut milk, 4 tbsp chia seeds and some raw honey to sweeten a little. Let it sit in the fridge until its thicken. In the mean time cut 3 apples in peaces, throw them in a pot together with 1/3 cup water , 1 tsp pure vanilla extract, 1 tbsp and cinnamon or more if you like.  Bring it to a boil and let it simmer for a good 15-20 minutes. Then mash some of the apple peaces with a fork. I like the compote to be a little chunky. When the apples are soft let it cool before serving it on top of the chia pudding. Simple and delicious… and healthy!