Recipes

A very quick and easy recipe. You need a bit of patience when waiting for the ingredients to set, but this won’t be the case if you want to take it to go. This recipe should not take more than 5-6 minutes, with around 2-3 minutes of preparation time.  Ingredients: 60-70 g chia seeds (around 5-6 medium spoons if you do not have a scale) 200 ml veg …

Another recipe from the quick, cheap, and (I hope) tasty series. This is a main course, suitable for vegans and for those who want to have a detox period: it is a rice salad with dried fruits, having different variations. For preparation, it will take a bit more than the hummus (5-10 minutes), but you should be able to do it in under 30 minutes, wi …

A very quick, easy, and cheap recipe. You will end up with around 300g, but if there are more people double the quantities. The secret to making hummus, just like any other smoothed dish, is having a good quality blender. I have been using for some time a blender with 22000 rotation that can also crush ice. I have also another one with heating opti …

Below you will find an alternative to cooking tofu. Otherwise, if you are not vegan, I believe that the classic scrambled eggs are easier to make and tastier.   Time of preparation : around 10 minutes Ingredients: 100 g Tofu (from a block that usually has 200g, so half) 1 teaspoon of coconut oil Half an onion or green onion, finely chopped Half …

If you are vegan or just having a detox period, the following recipe can be a surprise for the ones you are cooking for. Don’t stop reading just yet, because it truly is a dessert. Even if it’s not a quick recipe, I am publishing it because it is tasty and unique amongst the more classic desserts. Ingredients: 400g red kidney beans (or any black or r …

10 minutes to prepare, 15 minutes to cook) This is a traditional Romanian recipe. It is so traditional that in fact these days if you ask people on the street what is “papanasi” 99% will tell you a kind of donut with sour cream and confiture. Because this is how it is sold by the restaurants. But traditional recipe is different. These days my wife ma …

10-15 minutes to prepare, 30 minutes to cook) This is a dish “stolen” from Greek taverns, pretty flexible as ingredients range, so can be easily adapted to each one taste. Not too rich in calories, with plenty of vitamins, minerals and antioxidants. Eggplants are a very balanced source of potassium, magnesium, manganese, vitamin K and C, folic acid a …

(10-15 minutes prepare, 15 minutes cook)  This is a recipe found in a vegetarian recipes book (1000 Vegetarian Recipes around the world) which our 16   daughter loves to prepare for us since more than 1 year.  While it is a balanced dish from nutritional perspective, I would advise you to avoid preparin …