Penne Pesto

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Ingredients: 

2 cups basil leaves 

1/2 cup pine nuts 

2 Tbsp olive oil 

1 garlic clove 

tomatoes 

penne 

Instructions: 

Preheat the oven to 180 C and bake tomatoes cut in halves fro 15 minutes. 

Cook pasta according to package instructions. 

Blend basil, pine nuts, olive oil, garlic and salt. 

Toss the pesto with the penne and garnish with tomatoes.

Georgian Lobio

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Lobio (Georgian: ლობიო), is a popular dish made with kidney beans and usually eaten with Mchadi and marinaded vegetables . The Georgian word ‘lobio’ means ‘beans’. 

Ingredients : 

400 g of dried red kidney beans 

100 grams of onions 

50 grams of fresh green basil 

2 cloves of garlic cilantro 

70 grams of olive oil 

50 g tomato paste 

Preparation: 

Soak beans in cold water for two hours prior to cooking. 
Drain water and add beans and salt to a deep pot containing 1.5 liters of water. 
Cook on a medium heat until the beans are tender. 
Chop the fresh basil, cilantro and onions. 
Add fresh basil, onions, garlic, black pepper and a pinch of salt to a mortar. 
Add tomato paste. Grind the ingredients with a pestle. 
Fry the chopped onions in a pan of hot oil. 
Drain the water from the cooked kidney beans but keep 200 milliliters in a separate jug to use later. 
Add the ingredients that were crushed in a mortar, together with fried onions and the oil they were fried in. 
Add the 200 milliliters of bean water (saved when draining the beans). 
Transfer the ingredients to a pot and cook on a medium heat for 4-5 minutes, stirring occasionally. 
Enjoy your lobio!

Vegan Tomato Cream Soup

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Ingredients:

• 3 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil
• 1 medium yellow onion, diced
• 1 medium carrot, grated
• 2 cans whole peeled tomatoes in juice
• 1 celery stalk , diced
• ½ teaspoon sea salt, more or less to taste
• ½ to 1 cup water 
• bay leaves

Instructions:

1. Pour olive oil into a large pot and heat over medium heat.
2. Add in diced onion. Cook for 3-5 minutes until tender.
3. Add the grated carrot and cook for another 2 minutes.
4. Add in the tomatoes, water and celery.
5. Bring the mixture to a boil. Reduce heat, cover, and allow the mixture to simmer for 25 minutes.
6. Turn off heat and purée mixture with blender for 5 minutes.
7. Add salt to taste. Simmer on low heat for additional 10 minutes.
8. Turn off the heat and add 2 bay leaves.

Selected Short Cartoons

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Lazy Pumpkin Soup

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Today I am sharing the easiest and the laziest recipe for pumpkin soup. To be honest, I wasn't even planning on cooking one, until I realized how much pulp is wasted after you juice a pumpkin. In order to cook this pumpkin cream soup we will need:

Simple Gazpacho

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I've been dying to share this one with you! It's a life saver during this unbearable summer heat. The recipe is simple: it only requires washing, peeling and cutting the ingredients. Leave the rest for your blender! 

Lentil Mushroom Pie

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In the beginning, I thought that the pie was so simple, that I was even ashamed to post the recipe on the blog, but since you, guys asked for it I started working on the post itself (when the pie was long gone). First, I wanted to create a “Veganism for Dummies” section to somehow justify the simplicity of meals I post these days, but when I started describing the process I realized that this one was only easy because I had a puff pastry in my freezer made by my mom when she was here. So I called her and asked how exactly this thing can be made and it turns out there might have been a science on puff pastry, some sort of puff pastrianism as the process of making vegan puff pastry is complicated and time consuming. My advice is whenever you feel like doing puff pastry, make a lot of it and store it in the freezer. So let’s go!

 

Mint Watermelon Salad

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When your daily meal plan is nothing but watermelon you can make it a bit more diverse by making a mint watermelon salad.

Ukrainian Sweet "Sausage" Recipe

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In Ukraine we have a lot of these weird recipes, where we create a sweet version of the salty meal/product. I was really trying to remember more of them to give you a proper idea of what I am talking about here, but unfortunately the results google search provided me with are too much of a cliche and definitely not vegan; it's like when you google "Ukrainian dishes" on the web - you might think that all we eat is meat, lard and sometimes offal stuffed with meat, and offal stuffed with lard or even both. In reality, we eat pretty much the same things, you guys eat on a daily basis and a lot of Ukrainians are going vegan these days.

Curried Hummus

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When you're vegan you eat a lot of hummus and at some point you start experimenting. This week I tried to combine both things I love: curry and hummus, and I enjoyed the result.

Chia Walnut Bliss Balls

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I have been experimenting a lot with energy balls and these ones are my favorites so far. The recipe is as simple as always. You will need to combine all the ingredients in a blender. So don't be lazy, get up and prepare this nice snack which can be stock in freezer for a very long time.

Lunch Box: Beet Patties with Buckwheat and Black Bean Salad

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Homemade is the best. Not only homemade, but your own homemade creation will be the healthiest and the tastiest for you, and no chef can cook it better than you. So why pay a lot for healthy foods which might turn not so tasty and even not so healthy (as we all have a different understanding of"healthy"). Don't be lazy, dedicate up to 1 hour daily to cook meals and take them with you. Seriously, it's killing two birds with one (oh! wait...what? we don't do that! what is the vegan for this proverb?)... So you lose calories while cooking and you can cook low calorie meals when you're the one in charge.

Today I am starting to share the contents of my lunch boxes along with recipes, calorie intake and all the vitamins and minerals you should look for when going on a vegan diet. Hope you will find this helpful.

"Live long, die young" Smoothie

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The original name I gave to this one was "Longevity", but then I changed my mind, because I can. So meet my new find - a super healthy and easy-to-make green smoothie. We all love these green ones, as green is linked to "healthy" in our minds, and this one is not an exception: it is packed with protein due to the presence of spirulina and it contains a lot of vitamin C and A, iron and copper, one ripe banana makes it sweet and I guess chlorella adds +1 to "healthy" as well. 

Broccoli Soup with Green Peas

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I have tried to pack this one with as much protein as I could so I have added peas to broccoli and topped everything with sunflower seeds. Enjoy the recipe! :)

Чтобы увеличить содержание белка в этому супе к брокколи я добавила горошек и семечки подсолнечника. Приятного аппетита!

Easy Bean Patties

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Today I am sharing a very simple bean patty recipe. You don't need much time or any difficult-to-find ingredients to cook these. As usual these ones are packed with plant protein and greens! Enjoy! 

Сегодня я делюсь с Вами очень простым рецептом Фасолевых Котлет. Вам  понадобится совсем немного времени для их приготовления и плюс этого рецепта в том, что все ингредиенты легкодоступны. Ну и конечно же эти котлеты содержат огромное количество растительного белка и зелени. Приятного аппетита!

Avocado Pumpkin Seed Salad

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Everyone knows that tomatoes and avocados are meant to be together. If you add some pumpkin seeds and lettuce you will get everyday salad option.

Carrot Cake Smoothie with Cinnamon Granola

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Today I am sharing my favorite winter smoothie recipe. I am a big fan of carrot cake, I simply adore it for its aroma, but unfortunately there is no way you can eat it every day and still stay in shape that is why I have created this healthy alternative.

Comfort Food can be Healthy

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Sorry, everyone, I haven't been posting for a while as I am on a business trip in Skopje (Macedonia) and I don't have much time to cook and post. With all the stresses I find it difficult to resist comfort food cravings, that is why I have spent 1 hour this morning preparing these wonderful bliss balls, which will save me from eating "junk". 

Cauliflower Alfredo Soup

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Today I am sharing a simple cauliflower soup recipe.

Сегодня я делюсь с Вами очередным простым рецептом супа, основой которого стала цветная капуста. 

Raspberry Banana Smoothie Bowl

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Breakfast is one of my favorite meals and smoothie bowl is one of my favorite breakfasts. Smoothie bowl is even better than regular smoothie most of us are used to, but you can add nuts and Goji to it, which will make it even more nutritious and B-E-A-T-I-F-U-L! :)