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Vegan Creamy Pumpkin Pasta

Vegan Creamy Pumpkin Pasta

Vegan Creamy Pumpkin Pasta I love this vegan creamy pumpkin pasta! This recipe creates a rich pasta sauce, which has the texture of a Mac and Cheese but is lighter on the stomach. This is so far our favourite pumpkin carving leftover recipe. The recipe 

Vegan Cashew Cheese Sprinkles

Vegan Cashew Cheese Sprinkles

Inspiration This recipe is inspired by some Goat cheese sprinkles that I recently had on my light meal with SAS airlines. These sprinkles were nothing like I’ve ever seen, crispy, couscous-like cheese? It made the salad exquisite. I searched in vain to see if I 

Asian aubergine noodle dish

Asian aubergine noodle dish

This is a super quick and tasty recipe I fell in love with. The aubergines are similar to sweet and sour or sticky beef. A great vegetarian/vegan meal with an Asian kick. The dish is paleo and gluten-free! Four simple steps 1. Cut the aubergines into a tick 

Easy Thai Pumpkin Soup

Easy Thai Pumpkin Soup

I am not a big fan of pumpkin, but buying one for pumpkin carving intrigued me to come up with an easy Thai pumpkin soup recipe. Pumpkin and Thai flavours turned out to be a great combination; now I might even buy pumpkin again just 

Vegan Ragu (Pasta Tomato Sauce)

Vegan Ragu (Pasta Tomato Sauce)

This recipe is another impromptu invention that I came up with while not knowing what to cook. I must say that my best dishes come through when I don’t know what to cook. I love utilising my pantry to the optimum to create new dishes. 

Easy Homemade Paleo Ketchup

Easy Homemade Paleo Ketchup

Traditionally, I have never been a fan of ketchup. However, this was probably biased by my dislike to processed foods. I must admit that having this healthy, Paleo, homemade ketchup around was a great companion to some barbeque dishes this summer. We did not only use it 

Vegan Chocolate Hazelnut Ice Cream

Vegan Chocolate Hazelnut Ice Cream

Every year I come up with a new ice-cream idea. Last year I had made this peanut butter ice cream, however, my boyfriend is not a big fan of peanut butter and turned down the idea for making it again quickly. I had also enjoyed 

Easy summer dessert

Easy summer dessert

I came across this recipe by skinnyms on Pinterest and immediately liked it because it can be done in 5 minutes.  My colleague made it for us and it was such a pretty dessert. Thus I decided to have my go at slightly modifying this 

What is Paleo?

What is Paleo?

Paleo I frequently mention the word Paleo in my recipes, and since this is not a common expression for us Maltese, I decided to write about what is Paleo and why it works for me.  Paleo is a type of diet, or as I’d like to call 

Stuffed Butternut Squash

Stuffed Butternut Squash

This was a very heart warming dinner which I had posted on my Facebook page. Due to its popularity, I am sharing the recipe here so that you can pin it, print it or save it! The dish is very versatile and can be easily turned 

Sweet Potato Fries

Sweet Potato Fries

This is a super easy sweet potato chips recipe that you can make any time instead of conventional chips. For this recipe I have used white sweet potatoes which are grown locally in Malta. They are cheaper than normal sweet potatoes and we prefer their 

Easy Broccoli and Cauliflower Bake

Easy Broccoli and Cauliflower Bake

You don’t need comfort dishes of baked pasta when you can have equally delicious baked vegetables. This meal is effortless to assemble and is pure comfort food, without giving you the guilt feeling and bloating effect. Now that the cold weather is kicking in, we 

Vegan Paleo Cheese Cake

Vegan Paleo Cheese Cake

This three layer cheesecake is quick to do and requires no baking. You would need to soak the cashews in advance, which is the only effort required :) For best results, soak the cashews in the morning if you wish to prepare the recipe in the 

Sweet Potato Brownies

Sweet Potato Brownies

Brownies are an all time favourtie. In my earlier cooking days I used to make these delicious super food brownies with oats, almonds, raisins, cinnamon, cacao and cayenne pepper. Now, whenever I make home made almond milk, I use the leftover almond meal to make these 

Vegan Peanut Butter Ice Cream

Vegan Peanut Butter Ice Cream

This is a very easy vegan and Paleo ice cream recipe which I remember by heart. I have come across the recipe on a magazine which was distributed with Times of Malta around three weeks ago. Being vegan and paleo, such recipe is ideal for everyone and