Cooked vegan meatballs
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Best vegan meatballs with rice and chickpeas

Many people who turn to veganism at first tend to consume all the vegan versions of meat and dairy products. And in general, the choice is even quite big nowadays for vegan burgers, vegan cheese etc. But before your hand reaches for the vegan burger at the shop, you should remind yourself that it’s processed food. And processed food is not good for our health. Being a vegan doesn’t mean just to cut out animal products from your daily menu. It also means to eat in a healthy and environmentally sustainable way. So, instead of consuming processed vegan burgers and meatballs, try to make them on your own… Read more

Crispy garlic Hasselback potatoes in closeup
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Crispy garlic Hasselback potatoes with Spicy roasted bell pepper dip

Many people think that potatoes can be used only as a side dish. Well, I – a woman that comes from a potato-eater kingdom – strongly disagree! Potatoes can be served also as a fantastic main dish. That means – without even feeling the need for an added piece of meat, fish or veggie burger. The secret how to make a really delicious potato dish is simple – use your creativity! Just like I did with these crispy garlic Hasselback potatoes with spicy roasted bell pepper dip… Read more

Šķīvis ar spageti makaroniem ar rukolas un zaļo zirnīšu mērci
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Healthy 10-minute vegan pasta dish with arugula and green peas

We all know those days when there’s nor wish neither time to cook something decent for lunch or dinner. In such moments most of us usually tend to eat some processed food that obviously is not good for our health. To help you keep your daily menu healthy even in moments when there’s no time for anything, I have a quick recipe for a delicious and creamy vegan pasta dish. For the creamy sauce you’ll need only 2 ingredients plus water and salt… Read more

Side Dish

Easy vegan Ratatouille

What is the first thing that you think about when you hear the word “ratatouille”? Well, if you like to watch cartoons, probably you’ve seen the world-famous cartoon with the same title, where this beautiful dish is prepared. Or, if you have never heard of the cartoon, maybe you simply know that this dish comes from France. No matter how informed you are about Ratatouille, it’s useful to know the following – even though this dish requires quite simple ingredients, its visual appearance and flavor instead give impression of an exquisite meal… Read more

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The best vegan spinach pesto

Who doesn’t know pesto, right? I mean, even if you haven’t tried it in your life, I’m still sure that you know that its main ingredient is one of the most delicious herbs in the world – basil. Unfortunately, apart from the fact how easy it is to prepare pesto at home, many people still tend to buy it in a food store. Maybe it’s for the fact that it’s not that easy to find fresh basil in every food store. Or maybe because the pine nuts usually are very expensive. Or maybe, if you are a vegan, you know that the original recipe of pesto includes cheese, so it’s not suitable for you. No matter what’s the reason why people tend to buy processed pesto, I have a great recipe for homemade pesto that tastes very much like the original one… Read more

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Crunchy vegan pasta with walnuts

After moving to Italy, I decided that I need to have a pasta dish that is very quick and easy to make, that contains simple ingredients (like bell peppers, mushrooms and zucchini in this case) and that at the same gives you that restaurant-type-of-food sensation. You want to know what’s my secret weapon? Well, if you read the title of the recipe, you already know – walnuts! Have you ever noticed how in restaurants many actually very simple dishes contain different types of nuts? Believe it or not, but the added nuts somehow can give you the impression that the food that you are eating is something exquisite. Even though it’s a simple dish with added nuts… Read more

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Creamy vegan potato leek soup

There’s nothing better than a tasty and warming soup during the winter season, when you have caught a bit of cold or when you just want to warm up your body from the inside. Even better, if the soup is very easy to make, if it doesn’t require a lot of time and has very few ingredients that can be found easily almost in every food store. In this case I’m talking about the potato leek soup. A soup that is quite popular and known for the fact that despite the few ingredients that it requires, it has a rich and pleasant flavor… Read more

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Vegan savoy cabbage rolls

The typical way how to make cabbage rolls is to fill them with meat and rice. For a vegan that’s definitely not an option, so I decided not only to make a recipe that includes stuffing that is suitable for vegans, but also to use a cabbage that I had never used before – the savoy cabbage. … Read more

Pildīta paprika ar kuskusu un pupiņām
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Stuffed bell peppers with couscous and beans

In my opinion vegetables are fantastic food products, because you can eat them raw, fry them, roast them, boil them, steam them etc. But there’s another thing that you can do with these precious jewels of nature – you can stuff them! In my opinion one of the most flavorful vegetables that you can stuff is bell pepper… Read more

Baklažānu un saulē kaltētu tomātu vegānu burgers
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Eggplant and sundried tomato vegan burger

For sure people who plan to adopt vegan lifestyle or have just started to eat vegan have thought at least once that they will need to say bye-bye to such things as burgers, pizzas, wraps etc. Keep calm, because it’s not true! Even as a vegan you can still have tasty burgers, juicy pizzas and other types of snacks that, most importantly, can also be good for your health… Read more