Did anyone else miss a nice Chinese dish during the lockdown? This recipe from Carolines book A happy healthy you, personally solved this for me. The zingy salad base of rocket, carrot and red pepper strips in an exotic lime and sesame oil dressing is light and delicious, making the perfect companion to the…
Eating for Menopause
Eating for menopause I ve been wanting to write a post for this important topic, which sooner or later will touch all of us women, and is very close to home since due to the chemotherapies I had the last years I unfortunately got into premature menopause (otherwise called premature ovarian failure) at 39 years…
Mastiha pannacota with passion fruit
This sweet will become one of my favourites. Being light and refreshing, mastic blends incredibly well with the special, exotic flavour of the passion fruit. While I enjoy mastic’s flavour very much, I don’t use it as often in my recipes and I promise you that this will change, as it is both particularly tasty…
Courgette lasagna with vegan ricotta cheese
This recipe is inspired by a very dear school memory, “Yola Pizza”: Yola is a friend of my mother’s best friend, Alexandra, who, for some reason I cannot understand, called her lasagne pizza. Every time I went to Alexandra’s house after school, I asked her mom to make Yola pizza! I’m sure Mrs. Yola’s recipe…
Mastiha pannacota
This sweet will become one of my favourites. Being light and refreshing, mastic blends incredibly well with the special, exotic flavour of the passion fruit. While I enjoy mastic’s flavour very much, I don’t use it as often in my recipes and I promise you that this will change, as it is both particularly tasty…
Tofu with an almond butter miso paste on a bed of sautéed veggies
Tofu is an especially nutritional food that I wanted to consume more often but sadly I don’t have many ideas on how to add it in my life… You see, we don’t really have tofu in my village. Tofu is a product of soy milk, and the way it’s made seems identical to that…