Category: vegan
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Welcome to the 30 Plant Foods Challenge!
The challenge encourages consuming 30 different plant foods weekly for a month, promoting gut diversity. A varied diet nurtures beneficial gut bacteria, enhancing health via fibre and polyphenols. This supports metabolism, reduces inflammation, and connects gut health to mental well-being. Gradual fibre introduction is vital to avoid digestive issues.
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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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From Control to Freedom: My Healing Journey with Food
This blog post is a deeply personal reflection on my healing journey with food. From emotional eating and orthorexia to finding balance and food freedom. It explores how childhood influences, relationships, and self-discovery shaped my relationship with eating, and how compassion and knowledge helped me make peace with my body.
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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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Useful Things to Know Before Visiting Egypt
Ten years ago when I was in Egypt for the first time I stayed in an all-inclusive resort on the beach in Sharm El-Sheikh. It was nice for a short vacation, but I didn’t learn much from the culture. The culture in Egypt is fascinating because it is so different from mine. About 90% of…
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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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