Healthy Banana Bread

Sugar-free Oil-free Vegan Banana bread is an absolute favorite of mine. The goal for this recipe was to create a delicious, but still healthy banana bread which can be enjoyed as breakfast, desert or snack. It is free of refined sugar, oil and butter. Sweetness is added by the bananas (chose very ripe one’s) and…

Veggie Curry with Cashews

This curry dish is super easy to make and an ideal comfort food for cold weather. The variety of vegetables creates a delicious taste and contains high amounts of vitamins and minerals! Roasted cashews not only taste really good but add healthy fats and proteins to this dish. The curry is great to be served…

Carrot Lentil Dahl

The colder the weather gets the more I enjoy warm, hearty and creamy meals for lunch and sometimes even for dinner. Dahl is a traditionell Indian dish mainly consisting of legumes cooked until they reach a very smooth texture. By adding coconut cream, the Dahl becomes creamier and vegetables, spices and even fruits add delicious…

Quinoa-Pumpkin Salad

As the pumpkin season just started, here is a recipe to a hearty salad with a lot of flavor! Squash, especially red kuri squash, also known as Hokkaido squash, is one of my favorite vegetable as it has a wonderful texture, tastes really delicious and contains heaps of vitamin b1, b2, b6, vitamin c, vitamin…

Summer Apricot Balls

These little sweet and sticky balls are made out of dried fruit, oats and nuts. The consistency and taste reminds me of the raw cookie dough I used to eat as a child during baking. Depending on the dried fruits used, the taste of the balls varies and the pineapple-apricot-combination literally tastes like summer. The…

Chickpea Salad

This recipe creates a delicious, light and cold salad – perfect for a lunch or dinner on warm summer days! Chickpeas are the hearty and filling base of this salad, the cucumber creates a light feeling, the mixed salad adds extra vitamins and the dried tomatoes an interesting extra flavor! Ingredients for 2: 500 g…

Banana Ice Cream

Who does not love ice cream? In summer and winter and to be honest just always! 😄 Original ice cream mainly consists of heavy cream and sugar, which is not very healthy. Banana ice cream is just made out of frozen bananas and a splash of milk or yoghurt. It is often also referred to…

Quick Pasta

This recipe is a more tasty and still healthier twist on the typical student -meal: white pasta with tomato sauce!It literally takes like 15 minutes and is perfect for midweek dinners or simple lunches.As I explain in this article chickpea pasta is a great substitute for regular pasta adding more proteins, vitamins and fiber to…

Breakfast Smoothie

Usually I’m not a fan of having a smoothie for breakfast and do not think it is a very healthy way to start the day as I explain in this article.Recently I got my wisdom teeth removed and I could not eat anything solid for a week so I created a sweet and filling breakfast…

Huckleberry Bakery & Café

Huckleberry Café is a well deserved famous restaurant in Santa Monica and one of my favorite breakfast / brunch / lunch spots. It is quite well known for its delicious pastries, salads and cooked breakfasts and therefore always pretty crowded on the weekends, but during the week you are likely to get a table.Be sure…