We continue our series, in which we will introduce you to another colleague with an interesting hobby.

Katarína Klemová, who works in the field of transformation of maintenance and production support, decided three years ago that she wanted to live a healthier life, maintain her weight and change her lifestyle overall. She discovered the magic of healthy recipes from one of the very famous book authors, who has been dealing with this issue for a long time and has started. At first, she followed only recipes, but today she experiments with tastes, colors and aromas herself. She is inspired by famous chefs, mainly by how they can present food on a plate, what non-traditional ingredients they can combine.

As her skills and experience grew, she found the courage and began to participate in various challenges and competitions. "I signed up for the Sweet Challenge of the Good Food magazine. The condition was to create a raw cake – as a healthy, sweet treat.  For the first time, I tried working with caramel, I used blanched pistachios, coffee beans and coffee macaroons to decorate.  They were the ones that gave me the most work. The first two attempts ended up in the trash, but I didn't give up, at night I studied everything possible about macaroons on the Internet, I got up early in the morning, tried again and suddenly – the macaroons were a success! My joy was even greater when I won this competition and received a luxury coffee machine as a prize," says Katarína.

Of course, the win moved her further and now she is trying it in the category of healthy vegetarian recipes. She prepared spinach balls with ricotta, with sautéed fresh sage in butter and they took it out again.  Last year, she won the prize of a well-known brand of plant-based milk and received a large and heavy box with 50 liters of this milk as a reward. She presented herself with several recipes, the blue pies filled with walnut cream looked (and apparently tasted) very interesting. She used dried flower powder as a dye.

What ingredients does she like to work with? "I like vegetables, especially beetroot, garlic, turmeric, oregano, ground cinnamon, fresh ginger, chili flakes, basil and coriander.  I also make various spice mixtures, various flavorings, or natural dyes myself. I don't use any food coloring in my desserts.  The dessert is perfectly colored red by beetroot powder, the green color is created from ground, dried leaves of young spinach..."

Katarína is not afraid to combine and create new flavors. At the birthday party, she surprised her guests with paella and also served roasted octopus in Hokkaido pumpkin.

Does he cook or bake to order? "No, I definitely don't earn extra money by cooking and baking, nor would I have time for it," she says, "but when someone from my family or colleagues asks me to prepare something interesting, I don't say no. The more complicated it sounds, the bigger the challenge it is for me, which I am happy to embark on."

We also wanted to know what her family thinks about this change in her diet. "Well, we cook in three ways. My husband cooks for himself, I cook for myself and for the third time I cook for our twins. They are boys, they are 14 years old. Sometimes we normally have to work out a time plan for who is in the kitchen at the stove when. However, I am extremely happy that when I cook or bake something healthy, I don't tell them what it is and the twins "catch on" and like it.  When food is healthy, it doesn't mean it can't be delicious. Quite the opposite."

Katarína also presents herself on social networks. She is very pleased with the great interest and the number of people who follow her cooking and baking. She is currently working on one big project that she doesn't want to and can't talk about yet, but she promised that when it comes out, it will be a "bomb" and she will definitely tell us more about it.

Tomorrow we celebrate Valentine's Day. And so we asked Katarína for a recipe that is unconventional, tasty and with which you will surely please your halves.

So here you go, try Bryndza roses.

Bryndza roses

Ingredients: 250 g bryndza, 100 g cane sugar (brown sugar), 100 g whipping cream, 50 g curd without lumps, or mascarpone, 250 g fresh strawberries, fresh mint leaves, lemon, rice paper, ice, sweetener for the preparation of "uncooked" strawberry ragout (for example, honey, to taste), vanilla sugar

Method: Let the sugar caramelize with a little water and prepare the caramel. When the water evaporates and the sugar melts, add a little butter and then add the bryndza, stirring constantly, to the still warm mixture. We can soften it with cottage cheese or mascarpone to taste.

Let it rest... Cool. Then move this base to any mold, or just let it sit and set in the refrigerator or in the freezer in the summer.

Uncooked strawberry ragout : clean the strawberries and cut them into smaller parts. Then add sweetener to taste, I used a little honey, lemon juice, finely chopped mint. Mix everything together to get an "uncooked ragout".

Melt the dark 70% chocolate over a water bath and prepare an ice bath. Pour the melted chocolate into a pastry bag and form various shapes into ice water, which gives you a "3D" chocolate.

Fry rice paper in hot oil... It's seconds. When the rice paper turns white, take it out, let it drip on the paper and dust it with vanilla sugar while still warm. We serve according to our imagination and our ideas.