Healthy gluten-free subtly sweet zucchini quick bread that doesn’t use refined sugar or oil. Having just finished my fermented buckwheat bread the day before and craving for some baked grains, I decided to make a quick bread using baking powder. Also experience to make gluten-free zucchini bread. As it definitely […]
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Gut-Friendly Oat Yogurt for Breakfast
Gut-friendly fermented oat yogurt that makes an excellent healthy and delicious breakfast or afternoon snack. I have always liked fermented foods like sauerkraut, cucumbers and other vegetables, but only recently I started experimenting with grains. I have fermented buckwheat and millet so far (millet has yet to become a post […]
Cauliflower-Pumpkin Curry
Who wouldn’t like a nice and spicy curry? Lately, curry has become one of my favourite foods, which I prepare from all possible and impossible ingredients and serve with whole grain pasta, rice, raw buckwheat or quinoa. You can really let your imagination fly with curries! Please let me know […]
Raw Buckwheat Ricotta
The simple plain ricotta was actually one of my first experiments with raw buckwheat and I was really amazed how much it resembled “the real thing”. It is great for breakfast, snack or dessert being totally dairy-free. For me raw buckwheat is one of the greatest findings since discovering plant-based […]
Plant-Based Flourless Kale-Mushroom Pizza
Healthy and delicious plant-based and flourless kale-mushroom pizza on cauliflower-chickpea base. I know I missed the international vegan pizza day, but this was because I was finishing eCornell’s course on Plant-Based Nutrition – a pretty good excuse I think 🙂 All the same, I managed to prepare a pizza my […]
Ricotta-Biscuit Tart (Plant-Based)
This vegan ricotta biscuit tart is a wonderfully healthy way to celebrate festivities like Midsummer’s Day or for July 4. I got the idea for this ricotta-biscuit tart when my 4-year-old and his mates at kindergarten prepared the classic version of the tart with dairy and white-flour-sugar biscuits for Mother’s […]
Homemade Almond Milk
Instead of buying overpriced nut milk with unwanted additives, make your own healthy homemade almond milk. I hear so much people complaining how expensive it is to buy almond milk or hazelnut milk or any nut milk. My answer always is simple – do not buy it. Instead, prepare homemade […]
How to Make Oil-Free White Bean Salad Dressing
Learn how easy and quick it is to make plant-based oil-free white bean dressing to top your salads or Buddha bowls. You’ll need a blender and less than 10 minutes of your time. When I adopted whole foods’ diet, the hardest part was to find substitution to the oil I […]
How to Make Gluten-Free Vegan Rhubarb Muffins [Sugar-Free]
These vegan rhubarb muffins make a perfect breakfast or a lean snack to enjoy in the afternoon with tea. Besides being quick and easy to make, they are also oil-free, sugar-free, dairy-free, gluten-free (if you use gluten-free oat flour). The reasons I love those vegan rhubarb muffins so much: extremely […]
Strawberry Marble Cheese Cake
I wanted something festive and yet a bit lighter for my 35th birthday, so I decided to make my Heavenly Cashew Cheese Cake without the chocolate icing and use strawberries instead. I made some other small changes here and there – used peanuts instead of walnuts in the crust, and […]
Chocolaty Berry Muffins, Sugar-Free
Muffins are definitely one of my favorite comfort foods. When I think of muffins I imagine a nice quite afternoon with freshly baked muffin and a bit of high quality speciality coffee I buy from Gourmet Coffee. This time I combines Chocolaty Berry Muffins. Usually I make totally oil-free muffins, […]
Peanut Butter-Beet-Bean Brownie with Cashew Cream
More than a year ago I could not have imagined putting beans into a brownie. As I was in search for a oil-free brownie I came across of this recipe using beans and was quite sceptic at first. However, after trying it out it became one of my favorite sweet […]