Category: recipes
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How to make homemade Tofu
This post is practical guide to making homemade tofu from scratch, exploring how different coagulants like vinegar, Nigari, and GDL affect flavour and texture. It shares lessons learned, tips for achieving smooth results, and the joy of creating tofu that tastes far better than store-bought.
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Easy Vegan Peanut Ginger Sauce Recipe
This recipe for peanut ginger sauce, from “Favourite recipes from the world – Unleash your vegan creativity,” is a simple yet popular dish. It includes peanut butter, soy sauce, vinegar, lemon juice, garlic, ginger, date caramel, coconut milk, and optional chili. The sauce pairs well with salads and spring rolls.
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Wild garlic pesto
The post features a recipe from the book “Favourite recipes from the world,” highlighting the seasonal ingredient wild garlic in Switzerland. It emphasises wild garlic’s health benefits, including antibacterial properties and essential vitamins and minerals.
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Vegan Cookbook
Dear readers I haven’t been very active here since a while. I promise to come back soon. Lots of blog entries are waiting to be published. Plus I still haven’t shared our experience from the Philippines and Lombok. Both of them contain very local experiences, two weddings, living on a private island thanks to Couchsurfing,…
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Vegan Catering
As some of you know, I started my first coding course in January. This is the result of my new hobby :) I finally finished my website for my catering and other food related things I have been doing. Wie einige von euch wissen, habe ich im Januar meinen ersten Codierungskurs begonnen. Das ist das…
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Coconut carrot soup with ginger
This is one of my favourite soups. It is sweet, spicy, and creamy. Turmeric contains compounds with health benefits (e.g. anti-inflammatory, antioxidant). The most important is curcumin. Curcumin is not well absorbed into the bloodstream. Black pepper, fat (fat soluble), and heat enhances the absorption / increases the bioavailability. Ingredients (4 people) 1 TSP virgin…
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Creamy Banana Oatmeal
This is my breakfast since years. It is very easy to prepare, nutritiously balanced, and filling until lunch time. Since it doesn’t require any plant-based milk and is very adaptable, it is easy to prepare almost everywhere in the world. The banana together with the nut butter make the oatmeal so delicious creamy. The pinch…
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Kimchi
Kimchi is spicy, fermented cabbage flavoured with garlic, ginger, and chillies which I learnt to love in Seoul. It is tasty with so many things like Tofu Scramble, Brown Rice, and Buddha Bowls. And it is very healthy because of gut bacteria (probiotics) that boost the immune system, reduce inflammation, and aid digestion. Kimchi is…
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Cacao Energy Balls
Those energy balls are great as a snack. Since they are high in fat they satisfy for a longer time. I also use this recipe to make a (raw) cake base. If you can’t find Medjool dates, use maple syrup. Other dates are not as sticky. Use sunflower seeds or tahini (sesame paste) if you…
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Ajvar
Ajvar is a delicious roasted bell pepper and eggplant spread that we discovered with delight on our trip in Southeast Europe. Grocery stores have countless varieties. The best Ajvar we ate in a family in Bosnia-Herzegovina. It is sweet, sour, salty, and can be made spicy. Ingredients (4 people) 3 large red bell peppers ½…
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