When you freeze your smoothies you may find some ice crystals in your ice cream. This is because there is not a lot of fat in the composition. However, this can be fixed by adding a diary product, especially yogurt.

After a week spent in a delicious location like Sicily is difficult to come back and cook something that will beat the flavours of the previous holiday. There is however something that I haven't eat so much in this last escape of mine, and this was of course soup. I've done soups before of many colors but not white. And, as I had a big celery in my fridge the idea came straight forward.
I then put my hand on a very old book from 1985, full of traditional Romanian recipes. Of course I changed it a bit (like I always do) but the result was surprisingly tastier than the expected one. I was expecting a fade taste but it wasn't like that at all.

This is a bread with a new interesting combination of ingredients: organic whole wheat, durum and barley malt. This time I have used the liquid barley malt and not the powder one. The difference is in smell and taste. While the powder malt smells like coffee, the liquid one smells and taste like caramel. Imagine what this brings to your bread... a light sweet flavor and a dark color. As this bread contains a lot of whole wheat flour, I was not expecting that it would raise that much so I have added some gluten powder to give it a kick to make bubbles. It worked and in the end I have baked a nicely aerated bread that I am proud of.

Simple, quick, healthy, delicious.

A quick soup, full of vegetables with spicy accents. Healthy and full of vitamins. Take it with a slice or two of sourdough bread and with a secret ingredient ...

I have to be honest and recognise that when I was a child I simply hated any additional herbs in my food. With time, this has changed and more specifically when I arrived in Belgium where the supermarket food didn't have the same smell and taste as the one picked from my grandmother's garden. I turned then to herbs to increase the taste and flavor. Step by step, I learned to recognise all herbs and their translation in French. Although not a herb, I remember that in my process of learning the translations in French, the most funny was the celery (root). I was used with a celery full of dirt, no bigger than an apple and with a strong smell. I went several times to the supermarket and couldn't recognise it. I spotted a root vegetable, big as a cabbage, white and very clean and with almost no smell. To be sure, I made a photo and send it to my mother to confirm. I also checked the wiki as I thought maybe it was another specie. But no, it was the Belgian supermarket celery.
Coming back to my herbs identification, there was one that I didn't find it at all. I had its strong smell and taste in my mind but it was impossible to buy it here. One day, a friend brought me a small pot with some little plants. Immediately, I have recognised it and he confirmed that he had brought the seeds from Romania. It was lovage, and this was the herb that I was talking about. I took great care of it, I have planted in the greenhouse but unfortunately, when I have left in a 2 week holiday, the plant has died. Since then, I had in mind to bring this plant from Romania myself. My mother gave me some plants, root included and I have transported back to my house. I planted them in pots and let them in my greenhouse. Now, they are well raised and I had the great pleasure to use them for the first time with a soup. Here they are. Lovage. My secret ingredient for seasoning.

I made this cake in a hurry, but with a double special occasion, for my dear husband. Being a cake for a men, I stayed out of any pink layer and put more accent on green.

Here it is, my second raw vegan cake. It could not stop to impress me how easy and healthy these kind of cakes are.

I'm in the mood of a healthy and delicious soup. This has oriental influences and the addition of the coconut milk makes it fantastic.  I am simply in love with this easy and amazing recipe! It is so tasty... I simply cannot stop eating it ...

To increase the variation of fruity sorbets you can add a magic ingredient that will make your ice cream smoother and creamy. This ingredient is  coconut milk. Just try it and you'll see the difference!

A quick and delicious recipe for muffins with chocolate and berries.

Do you like the carrot juice? I simply love it, but what do you do with the pulp that  remains after the extraction of the juice? Please do not tell me that you are throwing it away! You may at least put it in the compost. Or, I have a better idea, use it in a cake. I made before a bread with the same carrot pupl, do you remember? Look at it here. But now it is not about a bread, is about a cake, again with no sugar. Carrots are sweet and to add more sweetness I have used 100ml of maple syrup. You can use also honey if you prefer.
This cake is perfect to have it with you as a snack during the day in the office. My daughter asked for a piece every day for her snack at kindergarten.