For today’s lunch, we added a bit of Asian flair, preparing a soup with tofu and broccoli as our main course and a quinoa salad to accompany it. We even ended the meal with a special dessert: homemade banana and avocado ice cream! Many of you probably use broccoli on […]
Today we delve into the world of the pomegranate. In many languages, the word for this fruit also contains the word for “an apple,” for example in German (Granatapfel) and Italian (melograno). It is also less obviously referenced this way in many cases, for example, the English name; the beginning […]
For today’s lunch, we decided to make a meal with a Russian twist. This culinary adventure began with an appetizer consisting of sourdough buckwheat pancakes, also known as blini. We followed this up with our main course, a vegetable stew with beets that is known as borscht. Borscht is one […]
Today we started our meal with a fairly common dish: asparagus cream soup. We followed this up with something completely new, however, a polenta dish with an onion and olive sauce. We finished the meal with an asparagus and brown bean salad, which is also a bit of an unusual […]
Do you find yourself having difficulty finding time to prepare lunch? Or maybe you want a nutritious food for the following day for a picnic or a hike? Either way, we’ve got your back! Today we’re bringing you our recipe for vegetable pockets! Ideal as a meal or a finger […]
We have had quite a few readers ask us about arsenic in rice and if it is a problem. Well, the answer is both yes and no! To break it down further, however, we need to take a deeper dive into the topic. Arsenic is one of the most toxic […]
Falafel is a traditional dish from the Middle East that is usually prepared by frying a dense sort of batter made from ground chickpeas, onions, oil, and spices that are rolled into balls. Sometimes other beans or legumes would be used in place of chickpeas. Parsley and cumin are the […]
If you are stuck in quarantine with way too much time on our hands, what better time to bring a new recipe into your kitchen? In our case, it was banana bread! Surely we have all found ourselves in the situation where we have bananas that have ripened too much […]
Sweet potato is a term that is often ambiguously used to refer to a range of tuberous vegetables. Recently when we wrote about Jerusalem artichoke (theory and recipes), some readers asked us if it was the same as sweet potato. It turns out that some people do refer to Jerusalem […]