From my childhood I used to know kale only as a stew with a lot of mustard. Until a few years ago when I decided to go vegan over night. Since then, my horizon of well-known foods and preparation methods…
When I started this blog a few years ago, I was stubbornly stating that I don’t like soups… What can I say? Times are changing! January with its unmistakably gray weather is the perfect time for soups. Soups warm up,…
Watch out, chocolate bomb coming in! I had two sweet potatoes sitting in my kitchen, which I had to turn into something. I was thinking of something sweet… If you like sweet potatoes, you’ll love this chocolate cake. If you…
Baked apple cake has always been in my family since I was a child. We liked it so much that it was a regular treat on our coffee table. Last week, I remembered it again and decided to bake a…
On weeknights dinner has to be on the table in no time. Because when I come home from work starving, there is not much time left until I clean out the fridge. So instead of snacking all evening I do…
[Advertising: Affiliate Links] Looks like an accident? The first Tarte Tatin indeed was… The story is told, that the sisters Tatin dropped an apple cake and put it back in the dish upside-down, covered with more pastry and baked again.…
[Advertising: Affiliate Links] It’s cherry season! I love sweet cherries. Especially the dark, almost black ones, that remind me of my childhood with smudgy mouths and “dirty” fingers. I used the birthday of my sisters to turn some cherries into…
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Yesterday, my sisters celebrated their birthday and had a garden party. I brought this Mediterranean potato salad with white beans, grilled vegetables and pesto for the barbecue. I prepared the vegetables at home in my contact grill. Because with so…
Sounds strange? It is: strangely good! A salad made from things that had to be made into a meal or being trashed. I had four pears in my veggie box this week and four more the week before. I didn’t…
[Advertising: Affiliate Links] I am usually not that big of a fan of quiches and tarts, but when I brought two beautiful and thick stalks leek home from grocery shopping, I wanted to make something else but soup. Something “to…
[Advertising: Affiliate Links] There’s a thing with vegan lemon cake… Without eggs and with the acid of the lemon juice the raising agents tend to “go off” before baking, leaving the cake dense or collapse while cooling. You might want…
Out of curiosity, I bought a pack of vegan mascarpone a couple of months ago and had it in the fridge, since then. Now, that it was overdue for two month, I finally turned it into a tiramisu. The combination…
[Advertising: Affiliate Links] I found an eggplant in the depth of my fridge which was past due. Is there anything better to do with such an eggplant than a delicious caponata? I could take a bath in this delicious, sweet…
Doesn’t this salad has beautiful colors in it? And it is not only pleasure to the eyes. Baked sweet potato and beetroot, cooked beluga lentils and fried king oyster mushrooms combine to make a delicious salad. The dressing is a…
