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Hummus threeway: Maple carrot hummus, classic hummus and guacahummus

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Since I am never allowed to treat or pay for food when I am at my parents' house (which I am thankful for, of course;)), I try to cook delicious meals for my parents as often as possible. My dad bought a lot of dried chickpeas, so I decided to make yummy hummus, but go a little fancier and make it a little special. And because I am the master of originally original blogposts which have been done so many times they are so unoriginal now that they almost become original again (but not really), here's my hummus trio (or threeway): Maple carrot hummus with Raz el hanout, classic hummus with parsley and a spicy hot hybrid of hummus and guacamole which I very originally called it guacahummus. I never used dried fresh chickpeas before, but I feel like they are a lot more delicious than the canned version. Anyway, all the recipes can be done with canned beans too, which is a lot more convenient, because cooking chickpeas takes about 60 to 75 minutes, provided that you soaked them...

"Bratapfel" oatmeal

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Yes, I know. There are already a gazillion easy awesome oatmeal recipes in the world wide web, but still, I want to show you how I make this beautiful and simple "Bratapfel" (German for roast apple) oatmeal. It is really not more efford than regular oatmeal with some cut fruit, but you're going to have to clean another pot. So, if you are okay with that extra efford, here comes my wonderful heart-warming winter oatmeal recipe with very yummy and soft roasted apples. As all oatmeal recipes, it is very customizable, too, by using different spices like gingerbread spices, a bag of chai tea, vanilla ... It probably works very well as an apple pie oatmeal with some pecans too. Yum, I am getting hungry again already ... But not because the oatmeal is not filling, which it is. (Sorry for the ugly photo, but seriously, are there pretty pictures of oatmeal?) Ingredients 100ml/ 35g/ 1/2 cup of instant oats water 1 1/2 semi-sweet apples (I used Jonagored) 1 tsp of...

Warm tofu salad

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If you want to have a special, tasty and fancy looking, but very easy to make dish, this might become your new go-to recipe. It is very simple but tastes delicious. Cold fresh salad with a warm topping is a nice treat. Tofu is one of the best vegan protein sources and brokkoli has so many valuable micronutrients like magnesium and potassium and tons of vitamins and of course a great flavour. If you take the right tofu for this recipe, you might even think about it as a chicken salad, but I am neither a fan nor in need of fake animal products and for me who loves tofu in any form, this is just a delicious and easy tofu recipe. It takes only 20 minutes to prepare completely, or you can marinade the tofu earlier and just roast it. The salad is great for lunch and for dinner, is low in carbs and high in protein and only has the good fats from olive oil. The ingredients are for one serving. Ingredients Marinated tofu: 100g of firm tofu 2 tbsp of olive oil 1 tbsp of dark soy s...

Quinoa beet stew

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Superfood beetroot! Beetroots are rich in fiber, calcium and iron (two of the most common "you're vegan? But where do you get your x from?"-nutrients) and beetroot juice actually helps preventing sore muscles when consumed after a workout. Apart from that, beets are absolutely delicious, I love their earthy rooty taste and they work surprisingly well in many different combinations. Also, their colour is just the most beautiful colour you can find in natural products!  Here's the recipe for this yummy beetroot stew with tricolore quinoa and black eyed beans. The combination of beets with quinoa is pretty nice because both the beet and the quinoa have a very strong, earthy flavour. When cooked though, it loses a bit of that strong flavour and you can enjoy the comforting warmth of the rooty vegetable with just a hint of the taste of earth (if you know a good synonym for thar word, pleeeease tell me!). I planned this dish as a one pot dish, so the quinoa cooked i...

Green and yellow dal

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It is getting colder and colder outside and what is better than a warm, spicy, comforting meal to fight the cold? Dal is a very easy lentil stew which is absolutely satisfying through its many different spices, creamy coconut milk and filling lentils. This recipe is inspired by the traditional Indian dish (obviously), but the red lentils only take about 10 minutes to cook and frozen spinach gives it a nice fresh twist, adds great flavour and nutritional value and also gives it a gorgeous colour. This recipe yields two generous portions and a portion has about 488 calories, 26g protein, 16g fiber, and only 5g (natural) sugar. Of course it is also packed with tons of micronutrients, the full nutritional info can be found here (I added it to an online food database and calorie tracker, but without the spices). The dish takes about 10 minutes to prepare (chopping vegetables and stuff) and 20 minutes to cook in a single pan. Ingredients 160g dried red lentils 2 medium sized on...

Starting a food blog.

Welcome! I am happy you stepped by! My name is Anna I am currently studying in Groningen, Nederland and I love cooking. Since I often try out new recipes and random creations from scratch and it always (well, almost always) looks yummy I figured it would be time to finally write down and share my recipes with the world. Of course, the easiest way for this is to start a food blog. It kinda adds a little more dimension to my creations then just proudly posting a picture with some hashtags on my instagram profile ;) I exclusively eat and cook vegan food and I always try to make healthy, vegetable and legume based, nutritional and yummy dishes. And although I have tendencies to indulge in a lot of crappy unhealthy food I am going to try to keep this food blog clean and guilt-free. You might ask yourself, why I am doing this, there are thousands of thousands vegan food blogs, more than enough that show recipes of healthy food and also enough simple student food blogs and yeah, I agre...