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Creamy Vegan Spaghetti Carbonara

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I really often prepare this delicious Creamy Spaghetti Carbonara when I need a fast dish with keeps me full for longer. It’s make within 15 minutes.

You can use whipping cream instead of cashew nuts. I prefer cashew nuts because they contains more healthy fatty acids than dairy products. To make it more healthy use spelt spaghetti or whole grain. We used these kind of spaghettis for a long time but decided to use normal ones because they taste much better for us. Sure they aren’t that healthy but sometimes it’s ok to eat not “perfect” food. My vision is to keep a good balance between healthy food and unhealthy food. I don’t like to forbid me something I really love (like semolina spaghetti for example). Life is to enjoy every single minute and for me the enjoyment rank first. I hope my English is ok, sometimes I’m not sure to explain right.

Spring is coming here in Germany and my herb garden will be ready soon to pick up all these fresh herbs for my kitchen. It is such a great feeling to cultivate the own herbs. I started with herbs because that is my first garden in my life. We moved to our house three years ago and I wrote a long list for my garden design. I was full enthusiastic! Then I noticed the pile of work and decided to learn slow how to build up a perfect “kitchen garden”. I don’t want to stress myself to much.

Beside parsley you find smoked tofu in this creamy Spaghetti Carbonara. Smoked tofu is one of my favorite ingredients. It is spicy, aromatic and super easy to prepare and use in the kitchen. You can eat smoked tofu raw on bread or in salads. Or you can fry it to get a “bacon” flavor in your meals. Don’t understand me wrong, I’m a vegetarian to the core but I love adding a smoked taste. I don’t miss anything since I change my diet to a vegetarian diet. To change was one of my best decisions in my life.

This recipe is vegan because I often eat vegan meals. I made a full vegan week last week and it wasn’t really difficult for me. I was curious how I feel after and during this week.
I feel good and free of any body complaints. I’m sure vegan works very well for the body. My body feel happy about this well-tolerated diet, I noticed that.
But I wouldn’t become a full vegan at the moment. I love eating real cheese and a real pizza from time to time. So let’s see what the future brings to me.

RECIPE
CREAMY VEGAN SPAGHETTI CARBONARA

Serve 4

200g Cashew Nuts
400ml Water
Salt and Pepper

2 Zucchini
1 red Onion
200g smoked Tofu
10 stalks Parsley
1 tbsp Coconut oil

250g Spaghetti

Preparation:

  1. Grind the Cashew Nuts
  2. Chop the parsley
  3. Chop the zucchini and smoked tofu in cubes
  4. Chop the onion
  5. Fry the onion and the vegetables with the smoked tofu for 5 minutes in coconut oil
  6. Set aside in a separate bowl
  7. Add 1/3 of the water in the pan until boil
  8. Stir in 1/3 of the cashew nuts until the sauce get a bit thick
  9. Add water and cashew nuts little by little until you get a creamy Sauce
  10. Season with salt and pepper and spread fresh parsley in
  11. Add the fried vegetables and set keep it warm
  12. Cook the Spaghetti
  13. Serve with fresh parsley

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Green Antioxidant Smoothie-Bowl

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Always when I see green Bowls I decided to eat more greens. This delicious Green Antioxidant Smoothie-Bowl is a new start for me to eat more green during the week. My hubby always say he don’t like to eat this “Hulk” bowl because of the color? Hey Man! What’s wrong with that color? Green stays for live, for freshness, for healthiness. I love to look at my bowl and I really get mouthwatering. Because I always mix up sweet fruits and healthy greens my green bowls become a sweet flavor and they are really delicious. You can easily hide greens in every smoothie you drink and you will not taste it when you don’t add too much. But you will get the healthy benefit.

In the spring and summer time it is so easy to get into the garden or wherever you want outside and pick up some dandelion. Enible wild herbs can be used very easily in your smoothie. Enible wild herbs have very special health benefits you don’t find in any other green. Dandelion is great to get B complex vitamins, trace minerals, organic sodium, and even some vitamin D too. We often have Vitamin-D shortage because we are not outside enough to get Vitamin-D from the sun and there are less food ingredients contains Vitamin-D. Dandelion also contains protein, more than spinach. It has been eaten for thousands of years as a food and was used for skin problems, blood disorders and depression. You can use dandelion optional in this bowl if you like to try it out but also eat the bowl without.

Furthermore I add some spinach leaves, because Spinach is one of my favorite greens to add into a smoothie bowl because the taste is not that strong it almost every mixer can mix it. You can use frozen or fresh spinach. Spinach is an excellent source of vitamins like Vitamin-K or Vitamin-A. Vitamin K is very important for maintaining bone health and it is difficult to find vegetables which are richer in vitamin K than spinach.

As you know I love to add superfoods in my smoothie bowls. So I pimp up my smoothie with more green healthiness I use “Detox Blend” from boostyourself. Detox is a powerful superfood blend designed to give your body the perfect combination of nature’s most nourishing, cleansing and potent superfoods. Great for healthy weight loss and rich in essential nutrients and vitamins. This is a super-easy way to supercharge your health. You find the following superfoods in this blend: camu-camu, spirulina, chlorella, wheatgrass and barley grass. High concentrations of living chlorophyll, vitamin C and plant-based protein helping to boost your natural metabolism and to aid weight loss, while cleansing your body of toxins and providing a vast array of vital vitamins, minerals & important antioxidants.

I use dates in all my smoothies as a natural sweetener. Normally 2 are enough to get a sweet taste but you can you use more when you like it more sweet. The banana also gives a natural sweetness. Ripe banana are the really best to add in a smoothie.

Recipe
Green Antioxidant Smoothie-Bowl

Serve 1

250ml almond milk
1 frozen banana
2 dates
some spinach leafs

Optional:
some dandelion leafs
1 tsp Detox Superfood Blend (from boostyourself)

Topping:
Coconut Flakes
Fresh Blueberries
Almond Butter

Preparation:

  1. Place all Smoothie Ingredients in your Blender and mix until smooth
  2. Top with fruits or dried berries and yoghurt.

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Apple Protein Pancakes with Cashew Creme

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I really see tons of pancakes every day on cheap nba jerseys social media and I get always Diet so jealous about it. I really decided to make some soon. Always when I see them. My list is too long. After making my Acai ice cream I found the time to make pancakes. They taste so fresh with some cashew cream. cheap nfl jerseys Perfect breakfast after my weekend workout because I also add some pea protein from Proteinworld. You can also prepare them without adding extra protein. But it’s really good to pimp them up with extra power for your muscles.

I love to start my weekend days with a Yoga Workout or a big Jogging Round. Depends on the weather or my mood. Haha. Sometimes I don’t like to make sports so I only wholesale jerseys prepare a tasty breakfast and eat it. I use Almond Flour because it is gluten free. Almond Flour is a very healthy alternative to other flour. Almond flour is highly nutritious and easy to use. Eggplant-Feta-Sandwich Almond flour is high in protein, low in carbohydrates and low in sugars. Perfect Marketing for healthy pancakes. Yeah!

I try to eat different fruits during the week. Sure I have also my favorite fruits but it is exiting to discover new ones from time to cheap nba jerseys time. I IGLAKóW couldn’t live without banana because it’s the best fruit to add into smoothies or muffins. Apples is my favorite fruit to eat together with self-made nut butter. If you have a strong blender you can easily make your own nut butter. It is so much better than bought one. I and tried out the bought ones but I don’t like them. So I Storage decided to buy a Vitamix to prepare Kale Smoothies (My old mixer wasn’t that strong) and nut butter. I made my first nut butter 3 weeks ago and know I make a big jar every week. It is so easy. Only add nuts to your mixer and mix until it gets creamy. That’s all! Amazing, right ;o).

Back to the pancakes. As you can see in the recipe I use coconut sugar. It is the best you can use as an option to unhealthy sweetener like raffinated sugar of agave syrup. In that case – cheap mlb jerseys Happy Pancake Frying!

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RECIPE
APPLE PROTEIN PANCAKES WITH CASHEW CREAM

10 Pancakes

100g Almond Flour
100g Spelt Flour
2 organic eggs
1 Apples
Coconut oil for frying
250ml Almond Milk (or any other milk you prefer)
1 tsp baking powder
1 tsp ground vanilla
1 tbsp coconut sugar
Pinch of Salt

Optional:
1 tbsp pea Protein

Cashew Cream:
150g Cashew Nuts (soaked for 2-12 hours)
1 tsp ground vanilla

Preparation

  1. Wisk all ingredients together in a large bowl
  2. Heat up 1 tbsp coconut oil over medium heat
  3. When 10 the pan is hot add 2 tbsp dough in the pan a fry 4 minutes each side until golden

Cashew Creme

  1. Mix up the trainer soaked cashew nuts with vanilla until its creamy

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Eggplant-Feta-Sandwich with Parsley Mayonaise

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In love. In Love. In Love. With my new Skeppshults grill pan! Since years I want to buy this pan and know I am the happy owner of this amazing cast iron grill pan.
This pan is made from virgin iron ore and without harmful chemicals. You can easily put the pan in the oven to keep your food warm. I decided to use this grill pan because I read a lot of positive experiences about it.

I received this pan on Friday. Sure it is a bit heavy but also so stable. I love how the pan laying in my hand. I was so happy and can’t wait to start on Saturday with a recipe I had in my mind. Look at these grill pattern. You only get those grill pattern with a grill or a grill pan. It’s beautiful, isn’t it? Again in Love.

Toasted bread

My hubby and me love to eat toasted bread with cheese or avocado. During the week we often eat fresh toasted bread. On the weekend we spend more time in the kitchen to prepare those savory meals. We also arrange our own food beautiful on the table to enjoy it. One reason why I use my favorite tableware from broste.

We use spelt Pita Bread for these Sandwich which we bought.

We often eat eggplants. Eggplants curries or grilled on bread. They are so delicious and so easy to prepare.

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Eggplant-Feta-Sandwich with Parsley Mayonaise
 
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Recipe type: Main
Ingredients
  • ½ bunch of parsley
  • ¼ bunch of dill
  • 3 tbsp mayonaise
  • 5 tsbp yoghurt
  • 1 eggplant
  • salt and pepper
  • 1 garlic glove
  • 200g Feta cheese
  • 100g mini chard
  • 4 Pita breads
  • 1 tbsp coconut oil
Instructions
  1. Chop Parley and Dill
  2. Mix the parsley and dill together with the mayonaise and yoghurt
  3. Add salt and pepper
  4. Wash the eggplant and cut in 8 sclices
  5. Rub the eggplant with salt and set aside for 20 minutes
  6. Press the garlic glove
  7. Crumble Feta cheese
  8. Rinse the Eggplants
  9. Rub the Eggplants with the garlic and plant öl
  10. Wash the mini chard
  11. Cut Pita bread in halfs
  12. Grill the eggplant on a grill pan over medium heat for 1-2 minutes each side
  13. Grill the Pita (or toast it)
  14. Start to add mini chard on the grilled Pita, add Mayonnaise, grilled Eggplant and crumbeled Feat cheese.
  15. Enjoy!

Mr. and Mrs. Chickpea Burger

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A healthy chickpea Burger

I love to introduce you two of our absolutely new best friends. Mr. and Mrs. Chickpea Burger! We met each other 4 weeks ago and decided to continue a close relationship for the rest of our life. Both are so delicious, easy to prepare and ready to enjoy a wonderful evening together with friends or your hubby. Both are really sociable comrades.

Vegetarian or vegan Burger are one of the meals we prepare very often. We made our own natural potato fries and can experiment with different sauces and vegetables. Sometimes we bake our own buns and sometimes we buy ready toasties. You can easily use the Toaster to roast them and warm them up! Depends on the time we have. The potato fries are so easy to prepare. I recommend to bake them with peanut oil because of the light peanut flavor. Season with Salt and Pepper – Ready!

Mashed Avocado and Peanut Sauce

Mashed Avocado and Peanut Sauce (I used this one from earthyandy) works very good to this healthy crispy chickpea patties. The peanut sauce was a left-over from my rainbow rice rolls we made. We are really surprised it works so good with this burger. So we decided to save this recipe until the rest of our life. That’s the reason you find it here ;).

The patties are made from chickpeas, tahini and spring onions. The cumin gives the special flavor. Oh, I really love cumin. I could eat it in every meal. For frying I often use coconut oil. Take care you use good high quality organic oil. There are a lot of differences between the different brands.

Mr. and Mrs. Chickpea Burger
 
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Recipe type: Burger
Ingredients
  • 6 patties
  • 800g chickpeas, canned
  • 100g spelt flour
  • 2 tbsp tahini paste
  • 1 organic egg (if you prefer vegan use 1 chia egg)
  • 2 tsp ground cumin
  • 2 tbsp coconut oil
  • 150g natural yoghurt
  • Salt and Pepper
  • 6 spring onions, chopped
  • To serve
  • 6 Toasties or buns
  • salad leaves
  • fried onions
  • 1 Tomatoe
  • red cabbage, chopped
  • spicy peanut sauce
  • I used this one from earthyandy
  • Avocado mash
  • I easily mash 2 Avocado with salt and pepper
  • Potato Fries
  • I cut potatoes and add peanut oil and bake them 15-20 minutes on 200C until they are golden
Instructions
  1. Prepare all ingredients you need for the serving!
  2. Chop the spring onions in small slices
  3. Mix 400g (HALF!) of the chickpeas together with spelt flour, tahini paste, egg, cumin, yoghurt and salt and pepper
  4. Add the chopped spring onions and other half of the chickpeas. Mix carefully. Add flour when the dough is to liquid.
  5. Head up 1 tbsp coconut oil in a pan and fry the patties for about 5 min each side until they are golden. I use my hands to form them immediately I add them to the pan.
  6. Serve on buns or toasties with Avocado Mash, Tomato, Salads, fried onions and peanut sauce. I start with a salad leave.
  7. Enjoy!

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