Espresso & Oat Truffles

Little fancy snacks...

From Food Ease TV
Recipe: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A9XWWBuD8Ko

Easy Gluten-Free Irish Soda Bread

I had never had soda bread, so it looked like a must try. 

Unexpectedly tasty. If you don't have caraway seeds, use fennel seeds or powder (I only had powder), it seems to be an acceptable substitute.


From Elana's Pantry
Recipe: http://elanaspantry.com/irish-soda-bread/

Lentils and Roasted Pepper Hummus Bowl

When I saw this bowl, I thought to myself: my God, this is easy and so nutritious! There’s quinoa, greens, raw stuff… You can cook the items separately, store in the fridge and then toss them in a bowl when you have no time to cook. It worked for me 3 days in a row when I was really busy. So, even when you don’t have time to cook fresh things, there’s always time for a good meal!

I just got mad with myself because I bought fresh coriander and then totally forgot to add them to the bowl. But that happens to me all the time hehe

The hummus recipe I used is this one: http://www.inspiredtaste.net/22016/roasted-red-pepper-hummus-recipe/

From Reaching for Greens
Recipe: http://www.reachingforgreens.com/puy-lentil-and-roasted-red-pepper-hummus-bowl/

Avocado Toast with Roasted Chickpeas

It's just guacamole with some delicious, crunchy chickpeas!

Served with gluten-free toasts.
















Inspired by this recipe: http://kblog.lunchboxbunch.com/2015/08/avocado-toast-spiced-chickpeas.html

Lucuma Frosted Raw Chocolate Brownies

Raw brownies are simply incredible. They are also packed with nutrients and so easy to make!

I had some lucuma at home and needed to try them.

From Trinity's Conscious Kitchen
Recipe: http://www.trinityskitchen.com/loved-up-raw-chocolate-brownies/

Coconut Flour Banana Ginger Bars

Oh, the smell of cinnamon and ginger...

It's been so long since I last baked a banana cake! I missed it.

From Empowered Sustenance
Recipe: http://empoweredsustenance.com/banana-ginger-bars/

Ghanaian Red-Red

I love how red palm oil enriches this super nutritious recipe made with beans. AND paired it with my beloved plantains (baked)!!! I believe you can reduce the oil and put more water for a healthier version, but really: palm oil smells so good that I didn't changed a thing.

It yields a lot (I made half of this recipe and had dinner for 2 BIG servings). The recipe here is the complete -- will easily serve 4-5 people. Since I had no black eyes beans, I made it with the white ones. I also always use the pinch of coconut sugar, never EVER refined sugar.

TIP: Remember, palm oil STAINS. Use gloves and an apron, better safe than sorry.

From Taste of Slow
Recipe: http://tasteofslow.com/ghanaian-recipe-red-red/

Raw Vegan Cinnamon Coconut New York Style “Cheesecake”

So many delicious ingredients! Coconut, cinnamon, vanilla... Not to mention that cheesecake is my favorite dessert.


















From The Vegan 8
Recipe: http://thevegan8.com/2014/05/14/cinnamon-vanilla-new-york-style-cheesecake/

Spicy Roasted Potatoes with Tahini Cheddar Sauce

I have potatoes for dinner at least 4 times a week, so I'm always browsing for something new to do with them.

I simply love how they were spiced up with "real" and nutritious ingredients.

From Fragrant Vanilla Cake
Recipe: http://www.fragrantvanilla.com/spicy-roasted-potatoes-with-tahini-cheddar-sauce/

Quick Healthy Cookie Dough

Isn't that cool? A cookie dough that you can fix in less than 5 minutes! Healthy ingredients that create magic.

Made this for a cake, but you can use a million ways!

As a cake frosting... To dip cookies... To eat by itself... To mix with ice-cream...

Use raw or bitter choc-chips for a vegan version.

From Purely Twins
Recipe: http://purelytwins.com/2013/08/29/healthy-chocolate-chip-cookie-dough-dip-paleo-recipe/

Baked Plantains

The best to do when you have too many ripe plantains.

Ingredients (to taste):

Ripe plantains, cut in halves
Goat Cheese
Sesame seeds
Chives, chopped
Salt and Pepper
Olive oil

Directions:

Pre-heat oven at 180C. Peel plantains, cut them halves and put on a baking sheet.
Sprinkle salt and pepper (or any other seasoning of your choice). Drizzle some olive oil.

Bake for 30 minutes then flip them. Bake for another 10.

Remove from oven, make a cut lengthwise: add cheese, sesame seeds and chives.
Bake for another 10 minutes. Serve.

Bircher Müsli Mix

Mornings with no fuss. Enjoy this popular breakfast mix that will give you energy for the whole morning.






From The Candida Diet
Recipe: http://www.thecandidadiet.com/bircher-muesli/

Jackfruit Meat

Add this to sandwiches, soufflés, casseroles… There are endless possibilities! It looks

like shredded chicken, but tastes way better.

This recipe comes from a blogger friend Marli, who has a wonderful vegan blog in
Portuguese, Na Casa da Ma. She authorized me to translate her recipe here and share to
it with you all. Thanks, lovely Marli!

Ingredients:

1 can of green jackfruit or a papaya-size fresh jackfruit
1 big onion
Seasonings, to taste: pepper, paprika, garlic powder, zattar, mustard powder, curry,
safron
½ cup green olives
1 TBS tamari (gluten-free) or soy sauce
Parsley
Salt to taste (if using tamari, not too much)
1 TBS balsamic vinegar
1 tomato, finely chopped

Directions:

Rinse jackfruit well and add to a pan with water. Bring to a boil, then cover and cook
until softened (ca. 1 hour). Check the pan after 30 minutes and add more boiling water.
When cooked, let it cool and then shred jackfruit with a knife, like you would do with
chicken.


Sauté onion in a skillet. Then add seasonings, the shredded jackfruit, tamari, vinegar
and cook. Lastly add the tomato. When it looks almost ready, add chopped olives and
cook for another minute. Turn off the heat and add parsley.

From Na Casa da Ma
Recipe (in Portuguese): http://nacasadama.blogspot.com.br/2014/02/carne-de-jacaverde.
html

Gluten and soy-free plant-based meat

Finally a recipe of vegan meat that will make gluten-sentive people and soy haters happy.

AMAZING.

Check my subs:

BEEF BOUILLON > Veggie broth + liquid smoke
ROLLED OATS > Gluten-free oats (to make it gluten-free!)
SOY FLOUR > Rice flour (to make it soy-free!)
AMARANTH FLOUR > Chickpea flour
XANTHAN GUM > ground Psyllium Fiber
ARROWROOT POWDER > Tapioca starch

- Needed a little bit more rice flour when working on the dough.
- I also don't use foil, I wraped them in parchment paper to steam.

SERVED HERE CHOPPED
WITH PLANTAINS

From One Green Planet
Recipe: http://www.onegreenplanet.org/vegan-recipe/gluten-free-plant-based-meat/

Vegan Mexican Chocolate Sweet Potato Pudding

3 tablespoons of this will kill your cravings for sweets, I swear. I even had to put it back in the fridge because it was so satisfying!

From The Vegan 8
Recipe: http://thevegan8.com/2015/07/30/vegan-mexican-chocolate-sweet-potato-pudding/

Spicy Spaghetti Squash with Beans

Since pumpinks are there, I just couldn't resist trying again the only way I like them as a main dish: when it's spaghetti style.

From Whole Foods Market
Recipe: http://www.wholefoodsmarket.com/recipe/spicy-spaghetti-squash-black-beans

Super Protein Balls

Easier breakfast than this? I doubt there is any. Also great snack that kills your cravings immediately.

For the vanilla proteion powder, I used pure pea protein (no sugar or chemichals added) with some drops of vanilla.

From One Green Planet

Recipe: http://www.onegreenplanet.org/vegan-recipe/superpower-protein-balls/

Quinoa Sweet Potato Pizza Crust

This crust called my attention because it contained 2 of some ingredients I find hard to eat alone (because don't like them) but that I consider healthy. It was a shot in the dark... but it worked!!! That's one more proof that you can't go wrong with pizza. The quinoa does leave it's taste, but I enjoyed it with all the toppings.

Note: I'd recommend rinsing well and soaking the quinoa for at least 8 hours before starting this recipe to reduce bitterness.

From I Love Me Some Greens
Recipe: http://www.ilovemesomegreens.com/gluten-free-quinoa-sweet-potato-pizza-crust

Cookie Dough Cinammon Cake

This cake was a big surprise. I didn't want at all to roll the dough as they did in the original (specially because my batter was too sticky -- it is always a matter of flour mix) and then I made a layered cake.

Marvellous!!! I used a small spring pan and started with a layer of batter, then the cookie dough, then the batter again. Sprinkled the cinammon sugar and there it was :)

Had to bake for 45 minutes to reach desired consistency. EXTREMELY tasty.

From Purely Twins
Recipe: http://purelytwins.com/2014/01/08/yeastfree-cookie-dough-cinnamon-rolls-cookie-dough-frosting/

How To Make Easy Kimchi

I was dying to try this, but I've always dreaded that cabbage smell... I was really afraid my house was going to be smelly forever, but it didn't :)

 

This kimchi is so easy that you should be heading to the market right now to make some for your family.

TIP: SERVE WITH RICE

3 days fermenting in a canning jar with a lid worked fine for me. No bad smell (it was closed!). Just a super tasty and healthy food that stores well in the fridge for a month.

From The Kitchn

Recipe: http://www.thekitchn.com/how-to-make-easy-kimchi-at-home-189390

Garlic Parmesan Chickpea Snack

Made it vegan with vegan parmesan! There are endless ways of enjoying chickpeas as a snack...








From Sugar Free Mom
Recipe: http://www.sugarfreemom.com/recipes/garlic-parmesean-roasted-chickpea-snack-recipe/

Healthy Oreo Cake

A sugar-free, egg-free, dairy-free and gluten-free cake that is delicious? Yes.

The frosting I chose was the "3 ingredient coconut frosting".

GO for it!!! :) Again a recipe saved by plantains!

NOTES:

1 - I didn't double the recipe because it would be just too much for the week. The recipe is for 1 layer of cake, which I cut in half before adding the frosting.

2- I used pea protein of an organic and vegan brand. It is 100% pea with 80% protein (http://www.raabvitalfood.de/shop/de/bio-erbsen-protein-pulver-300g.html). If you don't have pure/100% vegan protein powder -- and please talk to a nutritionist or to your doctor before buying it -- I would say oat flour might also work, but I didn't try, can't guarantee the same results.

From Purely Twins
Recipe: http://purelytwins.com/2014/09/02/11-ingredient-oreo-cake-grain-egg-and-sugar-free/

Best Vegan and Fat-free Mushroom Gravy

The best gravy I've cooked so far. I made it gluten-free using tapioca for the wheat flour and there's not one drop of oil in it; vegan & totally fat-free.


My subs:

white wine > rice vinegar
soy sauce > tamari
whole wheat flour > tapioca flour
Kitchen Bouquet > molasses



From Brand New Vegan
Recipe: http://www.brandnewvegan.com/recipes/vegan-mushroom-gravy/

Baked Buffalo Tofu Bites

You like it spicy? Me too! Having my "tofu dose" of the month ;)

My subs:

breadcrumbs > tapioca flour (gluten-free)
flour > buckwheat flour (gluten-free)

Ignored the dressing and served with vegan mayo ;)

From Making Time for Health
Recipe: http://www.makingthymeforhealth.com/2014/09/09/baked-buffalo-tofu-bites/

Pumpkin Maple Cornbread

The smell of autumn with the cozyness of cornbread! Thumbs up a thousand times.

Personal note: Made it gluten-free with a mix of tapioca and millet flours for the whole wheat flour. Depending on your flours, it can get a little bit on the dry side. I would highly recommend serving it with some nice coffee or topped with ice-cream.














From Veggie Inspired
Recipe: http://www.veggieinspiredjourney.com/2014/10/11/pumpkin-maple-cornbread/