As many who follow plant-based diets know, ideas for dishes often come from dishes that contain meat. This then means that we need to somehow substitute the meat with a vegan alternative, thus resulting in a dish that can be even better and more nutritious than the original! Naming the […]
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If you don’t think the words “vegetable” and “cake” go together, then we have a surprise for you today! Not one to settle for just that level of controversy, we also are throwing the word “polenta” in as well. Perhaps a different combination, but in the end delicious! So, if […]
If you live around the same latitude as us, summer days are coming to an end. The night has been falling earlier and earlier, things are getting colder, and the time has come to pick the last things from the garden and to prepare them for winter. To fight off […]
A little while ago, we had a guest here at Hungry Pumpkin: Martina from Brno in the Czech Republic. As we like to acquaint ourselves with other cultures (especially through food), we asked her what some traditional Czech dishes are, and she suggested bramboraky to us. If you type this […]
For today’s meal we decided to mix things up a bit and combine two different cultures into one yummy meal; from the East of the Mediterranean we borrowed a stuffed zucchini dish, while we took gazpacho from the West. Our decision for the gazpacho was a result of a happy […]
Stewed dishes with vegetables are popular in many parts of the world, and as you can imagine, every region has its own take on how to make such dishes. The most famous variants are moussaka from the eastern Mediterranean (Greece, Turkey, Egypt), and ratatouille from Provence in France. Lesser known […]